context: This interpretation accords with Washington case law. Where our courts have found a parent to be voluntarily unemployed, the parent has been employable.
citation_a.signal: no signal
citation_a.parenthetical: where the obligor was qualified to be an accountant but chose not to practice his profession and where he depleted his assets due to his alcoholism, the court found the condition to amount to voluntary unemployment
citation_a.sentence: Lambert v. Lambert, supra (where the obligor quit a paying job to pursue his failing business, the court found him to be voluntarily unemployed); Carstens v. Carstens, 10 Wn. App. 964, 965, 521 P.2d 241 (1974) (where the obligor was qualified to be an accountant but chose not to practice his profession and where he depleted his assets due to his alcoholism, the court found the condition to amount to voluntary unemployment).
citation_b.signal: see also
citation_b.identifier: 26 Wn. App. 108, 110-11
citation_b.parenthetical: where parent held a position yielding a very low salary given his education and business background, the court could consider loans and gifts in setting child support
citation_b.sentence: See also In re Marriage of Curran, 26 Wn. App. 108, 110-11, 611 P.2d 1350 (1980) (where parent held a position yielding a very low salary given his education and business background, the court could consider loans and gifts in setting child support).