Still, the formula applies to individuals earning up to
$524,000 a year and looks primarily at salary. The law is silent on how judges
should address factors more common with wealthier couples, such as fluctuating
annual bonuses, savings accounts and mortgage payments.
It is "just pure redistribution of wealth brought down
to the family level," said Timothy Tippins, a former president of the New
York state chapter of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers and now an
adjunct professor at Albany Law School. "They've dropped any pretense of
predicating the award on the actual needs or circumstances of the
parties."
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