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→How is the amount of child support calculated?
Child support is determined by the [[Child Support Guidelines]], which you read about in the [[Child Support]] chapter of this resource. Most of the time, child support is easy to figure out: you just look up the amount payable in the tables attached to the ''Guidelines'' based on the income of the ''payor'', the person paying child support, and the number of children support is being paid for. Calculating child support can get more complicated when:
#a child is 19 or older;,#the payor has an income of more than $150,000 per year;,#the payor is a stepparent;,#the payor is self-employed or has other sources of income that can be complicated to figure out;,#one or more children live mostly with each spouse;,
#the spouses share the children’s time equally or almost equally; or,
#the payment of the table amount would cause "undue hardship" to either the payor or the spouse receiving child support, the ''recipient''.