In a recent Ohio case, the court ruled that the policy adopted by some Ohio courts in the calculation of spousal support in domestic relations cases termed “double dipping” was not appropriate and that any technique that used the “double dipping” calculation was not to be utilized in the future. The practice of “double dipping” applies to any business owner, including ownership of a dental or medical practice. The “double dip” occurs when the future income stream from the business is also used to determine the present value of the business for division of property, and that same future income stream is used again to determine the income of the business owner when calculating spousal support. For example, take a dentist or physician who is incorporated, has a salary of $250,000, and corporate profit is reflected on his/her K-1 of $300,000. In this example, when calculating spousal support only the base salary of $250,000 should be used as income to the payor and not the additional $300,000 reflected on the K-1, if the income reflected on that K-1 was also used to determine the present value of the practice and the value of the practice was already divided as a part of the property division. Double dipping has a huge impact on the amount of spousal support that the payor could be required to pay.