Do you know why many child support orders are incorrectly calculated?
First, child support is based primarily on two things (depends on where you live though):
- How much the parents make
- How much time each parent gets (timeshare percentage or overnight percentage)
It’s easy to figure out how much money each parent makes. You just ask the employers. The tricky part of the formula that gets messed up is the time-share percentage / overnight percentage.
The reason being is that custody schedules can be complicated. A typical schedule can look like this:
- 1st, 3rd, and alternating 5th weekends;
- Tuesday night with the parent who has the weekend, Wednesday night with the parent who doesn’t;
- Alternating weeks during summer and winter break;
- Ten or so holidays that each gets swapped even/odd, and each has their own times for drop-off and pick-up;
- And, special events and birthdays that are swapped every other year.
Without software to accurately compute all of those times, courts, mediators, and even attorneys usually just short-hand guess at it.
But plugging an estimated time-share / overnight percentage into the child support formula can make the child support order incorrect.
That’s why you need Custody X Change in order to use your state’s child support software.
With Custody X Change, you just put all that scheduling information into the software, choose your dates, and the software computes the percentages precisely and accurately.
And it goes one step further than just computing the numbers. It lets you see which small tweaks to the schedule can make a large impact to timeshare. This can help lower your child support, or help you get the fair money to raise your child.
The trial version of the Custody X Change software will let you input your schedule and it will show your plan’s percentages. Please try it out.