Marriage of Huang and Pabianova CA2/2

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

I. Facts

A. Marriage and dissolution Fang Huang (husband) and Marie Pabianova (wife) married in January 2010. They separated in October 2014, and the judgment of dissolution ending their marriage was entered in January 2018. They have two children—Cole (born in 2010) and Angelica (born in 2012). In their stipulated judgment of dissolution, wife and husband agreed to joint legal and physical custody of the children. They also agreed that husband would pay child support to wife of (1) $886 per month, plus (2) 10.5 percent of any income

2 he receives over his base salary of $14,219 per month, which includes (a) “bonus income,” (b) income earned from the sale of stock obtained through his “[e]mployee [s]tock [p]urchase [p]lan” and (c) income earned from sales of his incentive stock option shares. B. Failure to pay child support on additional income earned in 2018 and 2019 In June 2018, husband sold $25,357.12 of the stock he had obtained through his employee stock purchase plan. Although the terms of the stipulated judgment obligated husband to pay 10.5 percent of that amount—which came to $3,461.25 with unpaid interest—as child support,…