The affidavit must be completed using monthly income and expense amounts. If you are paid
or your bills are due on a schedule which is not monthly, you must convert those amounts.
Hints are provided below for making these conversions.
Hourly - If you are paid by the hour, you may convert your income to monthly as
follows:
Hourly amount
x
Hours worked per week
=
Weekly amount
Weekly amount
x
52 Weeks per year
=
Yearly amount
Yearly amount
÷
12 Months per year
=
Monthly Amount
Daily - If you are paid by the day, you may convert your income to monthly as follows:
Daily amount
x
Days worked per week
=
Weekly amount
Weekly amount
x
52 Weeks per year
=
Yearly amount
Yearly amount
÷
12 Months per year
=
Monthly Amount
Weekly - If you are paid by the week, you may convert your income to monthly as
follows:
Weekly amount
x
52 Weeks per year
=
Yearly amount
Yearly amount
÷
12 Months per year
=
Monthly Amount
Bi-weekly - If you are paid every two weeks, you may convert your income to monthly
as follows:
Bi-weekly amount
x
26
=
Yearly amount
Yearly amount
÷
12 Months per year
=
Monthly Amount
Semi-monthly - If you are paid twice per month, you may convert your income to
monthly as follows:
Semi-monthly amount x
2
=
Monthly Amount
Expenses may be converted in the same manner.
Remember, a person who is NOT an attorney is called a nonlawyer. If a nonlawyer helps you fill
out these forms, that person must give you a copy of a Disclosure from Nonlawyer, Florida
Family Law Rules of Procedure Form 12.900(a), before he or she helps you. A nonlawyer
helping you fill out these forms also must put his or her name, address, and telephone number
on the bottom of the last page of every form he or she helps you complete.
Instructions to Florida Family Law Rules of Procedure Form 12.902(b), Family Law Financial Affidavit (Short Form)
(10/11)