Generally, the amount of child support in California is determined by: NUMBER OF CHILDREN Number of minor children of this relationship (until age18 and graduated from high school if self-supporting, or until age 19 while still in high school). TIME SHARE PERCENTAGE Approximate percentage of time that each parent has primary physical responsibility for each minor child of this relationship. GROSS INCOME Commissions, salaries, royalties, wages, bonuses, rents, dividends, pensions, interest, trust income, annuities, workers’ compensation benefits, unemployment... 

A California domestic partnership is a legal relationship available to same-sex couples, and to certain opposite-sex couples in which at least one party is at least 62 years of age. It affords the couple virtually all of the same substantive legal benefits and privileges, and imposes upon the couple all of the same legal obligations and duties, that California law affords to and imposes upon a married couple. Enacted in 1999, the domestic partnership registry was the first of its kind in the United States created by a legislature without court intervention....