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}}Often referred to as just "the Guidelines," the federal [http://canlii.ca/t/80mh Child Support Guidelines], is a federal regulation, adopted by all of the provinces except Quebec, that describes the rules that the courts must apply when making an order for child support.
The most important feature of the Guidelines is the child support tables that fix the amount of support payments according to the annual income of the person paying support, the ''payor'', the province the payor lives in, and the number of children support is to be paid for. The Guidelines cover pretty much every issue involved in calculating the amount of child support, including determining income, paying for children's special expenses and extraordinary expenses, figuring out the amount of support payable when the parents have the children for an almost equal amount of time, and figuring out the amount payable when one or more of the children have their primary home with each parent.