{"id":694,"date":"2012-05-30T12:11:52","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T17:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=694"},"modified":"2012-05-30T12:11:52","modified_gmt":"2012-05-30T17:11:52","slug":"means-test-expenses-household-size","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=694","title":{"rendered":"Means Test&#8211; Expenses&#8211; Household Size"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">In determining &#8220;household size&#8221; for the purpose of calculating the debtors&#8217; allowable expenses under the means test, two courts adopted the &#8220;economic unit&#8221; approach, rather than either the &#8220;heads on bed&#8221; approach or the dependency test of the IRS. See <em>In re Gaboury, <\/em>2011 WL 5833972, and <em>In re Johnson<\/em>, 2011 WL 5902883. Another court employed the &#8220;dependent&#8221; approach. See <em>In re Coates, <\/em>2011 WL 5419676.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In determining &#8220;household size&#8221; for the purpose of calculating the debtors&#8217; allowable expenses under the means test, two courts adopted the &#8220;economic unit&#8221; approach, rather than either the &#8220;heads on bed&#8221; approach or the dependency test of the IRS. See &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=694\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[83,82,81,80],"class_list":["post-694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-dependent","tag-economic-unit","tag-heads-on-bed","tag-household-size"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=694"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":696,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions\/696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}