In California, can income be imputed to custodial AND non-custodial parents alike in making child support determinations?

I am a California attorney with a decent background in Family Law and would like to know if income can be inputed to custodial and non-custodial parents in making child support determinations. My ex, who is the custodial parent for child support purposes, was recently laid off from her job at a corporate law firm and is thinking of taking a much lower paying job that affords her more personal time. I know that if I, as the non-custodial parent, were to do that, that my actual earning potential can be imputed to me and I wanted to confirm that the same standard applies to custodial parents. Thank you.
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Richard Forrest Gould-Saltman

Richard Forrest Gould-Saltman

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There's nothing which theoretically precludes imputation of income to either parent, BUT if there's been an industry-wide down-sizing such that the higher-paying jobs simply aren't available any more, it's less likely that a court will impute the higher income, where the parent hasn't voluntarily quit the higher-paid job..
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