Child Support Calculator For Texas In Washington
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How Child Support Is Calculated in Washington Step 1: Determine the Combined Monthly Net Income. Step 2: Find the Basic Support Obligation. Step 3: Calculate Each Parent's Share of Income. Step 4: Determine the Paying Parent's Support Obligation.
Washington has removed the age brackets and child support is now the same amount (for the basic support) regardless of the child's age. Now, parents with children younger than twelve years old, will be able to receive more support than before even if their divorce case was finalized before January 1, 2019.
The court figures out each parent's income based on the information in your worksheets. It adds together the parents' incomes. Then it finds the support amount in the Schedule that applies to the number and ages of your children. This is the “basic support obligation.”
All income and resources of each parent's household shall be disclosed and considered by the court when the court determines the child support obligation of each parent. Only the income of the parents of the children whose support is at issue shall be calculated for purposes of calculating the basic support obligation.
When the parents' combined monthly net income is below $1,000, or when the paying parent's monthly net income is below the self support reserve of 125% of the federal poverty guideline for one person, then DCS sets support at the presumptive minimum obligation of $50 per month per child.
A parent's support obligation for all biological and legal children may not exceed 45% of his or her monthly net income.
Texas child support laws provide the following Guideline calculations: one child= 20% of Net Monthly Income (discussed further below); two children = 25% of Net Monthly Income; three children = 30% of Net Monthly Income; four children = 35% of Net Monthly Income; five children = 40% of Net Monthly Income; and six ...
