In the case of Cesar Tamayo v .Paula Arroyo The Rhode Island Supreme Court reaffirmed the Rhode Island Child Support Guidelines by defining that a parents income for “child support purposes” includes:
“[I]ncludes, but is not limited to, income from salaries, wages, commissions, bonuses, dividends, severance pay,pensions, interest, trust income, annuities, capital gains, social security benefits, worker’s compensation benefits, unemployment insurance benefits, disability insurancebenefits, gifts, prizes, and alimony or maintenancereceived, and all other forms of earned [or] unearnedincome. Specifically excluded are benefits received from means-tested public assistance programs * * *.” FamilyCourt Administrative Order 87-2, IV.B.1. (Emphases added.)“The child-support guidelines provide an expansive definition of income, providing a nonexhaustive list of types of income and ending with a catchall provision for all other forms of income, whether earned or unearned. The only types of income excluded are “benefits received from means-tested public assistance programs.” Id.
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