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#there is another very good reason why the child is unable to live independently from their parents.
Normally, a parent pays the exact amount of child support the Guidelines ' tables say should be paid. A parent can pay a smaller amount in a limited number of circumstances, including if: the parent is a stepparent to the children; the children's time is shared almost equally between the parents; one or more children live with each parent; the child is over the age of majority; or, paying the amount required by the Guidelines would cause serious financial hardship to a parent.
The basic amount of child support is intended to cover most of the children's expenses. Some expenses, called ''special or extraordinary expenses'', are not covered in this basic amount. Typically, special or extraordinary expenses are expenses like daycare and orthodontics — the big, important expenses that most but not all children have. Where the children have special or extraordinary expenses, their parents usually contribute to the cost of those expenses in proportion to their incomes. For example, if one parent earns $30,000 per year and the other earns $20,000, the first parent would have to pay 60% of an extraordinary expense and the other would have to pay 40%.