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If you are in the midst of the divorce proceeding, you can verify the income stated on your wife's financial affidavit by serving her with a request to produce her paystubs, bank statements, and/or tax returns.  You can also verify her income by subpoenaing her payroll records from her employer.  However, you are entitled to rely upon her income she placed on her financial affidavit, absent her amending her financial affidavit or otherwise presenting contrary evidence.  Even if she is presently earning minimum wage, it may be only a temporary situation.  After all, she must have had a basis for her to put down $1000 a week in the first place.  In such a case, it might be possible to use a more realistic income level for her in the guidelines computation. 

Presumably your $5,000 was for property division. I could not advise you without knowing what order the court made about support, which is a separate matter.

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