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Maine follows the "Income Shares Model," which means that a judge will determine support by calculating how much each parent spent on the child while living together as a family. This number is then divided ing to each parent's income to come up with a final support amount.

Maine judges must consider the child's custodial preference whenever the child is old enough to have a meaningful opinion. There is no set age when the court will consider the child's opinion; the judge decides whether the child is "old enough" on a case-by-case basis.

The court uses the lower amount in those cases. Very low income cases: If your annual gross income is below $16,800 (the lowest figure on the chart), then your support obligation is capped at 10% of your income. Sometimes courts increase this, based on what they think your potential earnings could be.

It is important to keep in mind that child support is a legal obligation of parents, and canceling a petition for child support may have significant consequences for both parents and the child involved. Therefore, it is important to carefully consider the implications of canceling the petition before taking any action.

If it has been 3 years or longer since the order was issued or modified, the court or hearing officer shall review the order without requiring proof or showing of a change of circumstances and shall modify the order if the amount of the child support award under the order differs from the amount that would be awarded ...

You can withdraw your petition. However, given that the court is already entering orders, you will both need to sign a ``Stipulated Motion to Dismiss'' and file it along with a proposed order dismissing the case. The court should then grant the stipulation and dismiss the case.

DSER will help you to modify your case when necessary, and will go to court as a representative of the Department when the parent who owes you child support is habitually behind or "in arrears." DSER may ask a Court to force the other parent to seek work, or, in very extreme cases, to send him or her to jail for ...

Typically you can do this either by contacting the child support enforcement agency and having the order terminated through administrative channels, or by filing a motion directly with the court that issued the original order.

A judge cannot simply add the new spouse's income to the parent's income and then use the child support formula to calculate a new child support amount but may treat the additional income as part of the parent's overall household income.