Marriage of Lewis CA3

FACTS AND HISTORY OF THE PROCEEDINGS

During their marriage, Father and Mother had two children, A.L. and T.L. A.L., born in 2012, is the couple’s biological daughter. T.L., born in 2018, was adopted by the couple. In connection with T.L.’s adoption, the couple made an agreement with the Yuba County Health & Human Services Department, whereby the couple received $1,000 per month as “an adoption assistance benefit for [T.L.],” who “me[t] the definition of a special needs adoption” and therefore was eligible to receive a “federally funded subsidy” meant to “encourage the adoption of special needs children.” During divorce proceedings that began in 2020, Mother asked the trial court to order Father to pay basic child support, in addition to one-half of employment-related childcare costs, and one-half of all uninsured healthcare costs. In the first “income and expense declaration” that Mother filed in the trial court, she represented that she earned $6,270 per month in wages, and that her average monthly childcare expenses were $1,600, and that average monthly health care costs not paid by insurance amounted to $100. In his “income and expense declaration,” Father represented…