Child Support Modification

Official form page for FL-390, the notice of motion and motion used to ask the court to change a child, spousal, domestic partner or family support order through the simplified procedure, explaining the other forms…

Annual gross income for the guideline formula is INCOME FROM WHATEVER SOURCE DERIVED, less the subdivision (c) exclusions. Employee and self-employment benefits count only in the court's discretion.

A modification or termination order may be made retroactive to the filing of the notice of motion or order to show cause, or any later date;

California child support is a STATUTORY ALGEBRAIC FORMULA applied to the parties' net disposable incomes and the approximate percentage of time each parent has primary physical responsibility.

Text (operative September 1, 2024): the court shall order as additional support employment- or training-related childcare costs actually incurred and reasonable uninsured health care costs, and may order costs for…

Official form page for FL-342, the attachment that states the court's child support orders and is attached to findings and orders after hearing, judgments and other orders, with the current effective date shown on the…

Subject to the listed exceptions, a support order may be modified or terminated at any time as the court determines necessary, but not as to amounts that accrued before the filing of the notice of motion or order to…

Except as against a governmental agency, an order modifying, terminating or setting aside a support order may include an award of attorney's fees and court costs to the prevailing party.

Subject to Division 9, the father and mother of a minor child have an equal responsibility to support the child in the manner suitable to the child's circumstances. Read it with section 3901 on the duration of the duty.

Where an order provides support until a stated contingency (minority, marriage or emancipation, death, or another specified event), the obligation terminates when it occurs;

Connecticut rule that when a child support obligor is institutionalized or incarcerated, the Superior Court or a family support magistrate sets or modifies current support on proper motion based on the obligor's present…

Connecticut rule that when the Probate Court or the Superior Court changes or transfers guardianship or custody of a child who is the subject of an existing support order and makes no finding on that order, the custody…

Official Connecticut guidelines worksheet (CCSG-1, citing C.G.S. § 46b-215a and Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies § 46b-215a-6), which computes each parent's net weekly income from gross income less the listed…

The Commission that issues and updates the guidelines. Confirm you are applying the current edition rather than a remembered one.

Support is determined by the CHILD SUPPORT GUIDELINES, with a rebuttable presumption that the guideline amount is correct and written findings required to deviate.

Connecticut text that a family support magistrate may alter or set aside any support order a family support magistrate issued, at any time, and any support order the Superior Court issued, upon referral by the Superior…

Modification on a substantial change of circumstances, UNLESS the decree or agreement precludes it, and the section also addresses cohabitation as a basis to modify alimony.

Official Connecticut Superior Court form for a motion to modify, citing C.G.S. §§ 46b-84 and 46b-86 and the Practice Book.

Connecticut rule that, notwithstanding the child support guidelines, where an obligor is an hourly wage earner who worked less than forty-five hours per week when the support order was established, additional income…

Both parents' obligation to maintain a minor child according to their abilities, and the order for health insurance coverage. The section also addresses support for a child over 18 still in secondary school.

Delaware text on enforcing a support order: after notice and a hearing on a rule to show cause the Family Court may hold a defendant in contempt and attach income, subject to the limits on commitment it states;

Delaware text on support orders: the Family Court may order periodic or lump-sum support, medical support and fees, and subsection (c) requires the parties to notify each other of changes that may materially affect the…

Modification on a real and substantial change of circumstances, and TERMINATION OF ALIMONY on the death of either party, the recipient's remarriage, or the recipient's COHABITATION, unless the agreement provides…

Delaware text requiring the Division of Child Support Services, within 2 business days after a newly hired employee is entered in the State Directory of New Hires, to send the employer a notice to withhold the…

Delaware text that the duty to support a child under 18 rests primarily and equally on both parents, that a stepparent or cohabitant may owe the child's minimum needs while the child lives with them, and that both…

Delaware list of what the court considers in setting support: the parties' and children's health, relative economic condition, financial circumstances, income including wages, and earning capacity;

Delaware rule that a current child support order terminates by operation of law when all children under it reach 18, or for a child still in high school on graduation or age 19, whichever comes first, and also…

The guideline applies presumptively in establishment and modification cases, unless combined adjusted gross income exceeds $240,000, and subsection (b) requires the judicial officer, in every action for divorce or…

Carries the three appendices the guideline runs on: Appendix I, the Schedule of Basic Child Support Obligations keyed to combined adjusted gross income and number of children and starting at the $12,382…

Subsection (b) is the enforcement keystone: an award of alimony, child support or maintenance is a money judgment that becomes absolute, vested and executable as each installment comes due, so arrears need no separate…

This is the District's health-insurance and medical-support section: subsection (c-1) requires every support order to carry terms for each child's medical expenses whether or not insurance is available, (c-2) requires…

All support orders are immediately enforceable by withholding unless the court finds good cause not to require it or the parties agree in writing to an alternative method of payment;

Where a notice or order to withhold is served, the withholding is for the periodic support obligation plus an amount equal to 25% of that obligation toward overdue support, plus other costs or fees the support order…

Official Florida Supreme Court approved family law form for a supplemental petition to modify a court-ordered child support obligation, whose instructions state that the court can change a child support order if it…

Official Florida family law form, the child support guidelines worksheet (06/25), whose instructions say it should be completed whenever child support is requested and should accompany the financial affidavit, and that…

Section 61.13 governs child support and parenting plans. The 2026 comparison changes the history citation only; apply the operative requirements and exceptions to the actual facts.

Modification and enforcement of support and alimony, including on a substantial change of circumstances and on the supportive-relationship ground the section provides. The route for both enforcement and change.

Support is set by the GUIDELINES SCHEDULE in this section, with a presumption that the guideline amount is correct and written findings required to vary by more than five per cent.

Official Florida family law financial affidavit (short form, 10/21), whose instructions direct its use in a family law case requiring a financial affidavit when the party's individual gross income is under $50,000 a…

Official Florida family law financial affidavit (long form, 06/25), whose instructions direct its use in a family law case requiring a financial affidavit when the party's individual gross income is $50,000 or more a…

The court may order one party to pay the other's fees and costs based on need and ability to pay. The claim that keeps a lower-earning spouse in the case; plead it.

Florida text removing the disability of nonage for persons 18 or older, while allowing a court to require support for a dependent person beyond 18 where the dependency results from a mental or physical incapacity that…

Official Maryland circuit court form (Rev. 10/2025) for a motion to modify child support or a counterclaim to a motion to modify or a contempt petition: usable only if more than 30 days have passed since the last order,…

Official Maryland financial statement for cases where guideline child support is the only support issue: the parent's monthly income before taxes, other child support and alimony paid or received, and for the children…

Maryland text on the period of a child support award: support on an initial pendente lite pleading runs from filing unless inequitable, the court may award support from the filing of any other pleading requesting it…

Maryland modification rule: the court may modify a child support award after a motion for modification is filed and on a showing of a material change of circumstance, may not modify retroactively before the date the…

Maryland child support guidelines definitions: actual income (with the listed inclusions and exclusions and the self-employment rule), income as actual income or potential income where the parent is voluntarily…

The basic obligation comes from the schedule in subsection (e) and is divided between the parents in proportion to their adjusted actual incomes;

Maryland rule (effective October 1, 2025) for a motion to modify child support under Family Law § 12-104 filed more than 30 days after a Maryland order establishing or modifying support: the motion must be substantially…

Official Maryland Worksheet A (Rev. 07/2026) for primary physical custody: monthly actual income with adjustments for preexisting support, alimony and the multifamily adjustment, each parent's percentage share, the…

Official Maryland Worksheet B (Rev. 07/2026) for shared physical custody: it multiplies the basic obligation by 1.5, allocates it by overnights (stopping if either parent has less than 25%), applies the shared physical…

Maryland rule on guideline worksheets: in an action to establish or modify child support each party must file a worksheet (Worksheet A for primary physical custody, Worksheet B for shared physical custody) no later than…

Where parents of minor children live apart without being divorced, the probate court may on complaint make and revise judgments for the children's care, custody, education and maintenance, applying the child support…

The court's authority over custody, support and maintenance of children, including support past eighteen for a child principally dependent and enrolled in an educational programme, to the section's age limits.

Massachusetts Child Support Guidelines issued by the Chief Justice of the Trial Court, effective December 1, 2025, presumptively applicable to every order establishing or modifying child support and requiring a…

Massachusetts rule that each child support installment becomes a judgment by operation of law when due and is not subject to retroactive modification except for a period while a complaint for modification is pending,…

Official Massachusetts chart of weekly support amounts for one child under 18 under the 2025 guidelines, keyed to available income from the Child Support Guidelines Worksheet: where available income falls between two…

Massachusetts text for children of unmarried parents: the court has continuing jurisdiction on complaint to modify judgments of support, custody or visitation, and support orders shall be modified if the existing order…

Official Massachusetts Probate and Family Court complaint for modification (CJ-D 104, 1/22/2020 revision), in which the plaintiff identifies the parties' residences and the judgment to be modified and alleges either…

New Jersey text requiring any order or judgment that includes child support to state which party is responsible for maintaining health care coverage for the child and the terms and conditions of that coverage, with the…

Each child support payment or installment becomes a judgment by operation of law on the date it falls due and is entitled to full faith and credit, and support may be modified only prospectively, except as to payments…

At least once every three years, unless the State has an automated cost-of-living adjustment program, the parties to a Title IV-D support order must be told of their right to request a review under the State IV-D…

Unless a court order, judgment or court-approved preexisting agreement provides otherwise, current child support and medical support terminate by operation of law, without a court order, when the child marries, dies or…

New Jersey text requiring every complaint, notice or pleading for the entry or modification of a support order, and every order that includes child support, to carry a written notice to the obligor that the child…

New Jersey text on how income withholding is carried out for support payable through the Probation Division: the Division mails a notice of immediate withholding to the obligor's payor;

Pending or after a matrimonial judgment the court may order alimony, maintenance and child support as the circumstances render fit, reasonable and just, require security including trusts for reasonably foreseeable…

Text, parallel to Family Court Act § 413-a for Supreme Court orders: a party to a child support order for a child receiving public assistance or child support enforcement services may request a support collection unit…

A party to an order for a child receiving public assistance or child support enforcement services may ask the support collection unit to review it for a cost of living adjustment, which is made if the summed annual…

A child support order under article four takes effect as of the earlier of the filing of the petition or, where the children receive public assistance, the date their eligibility became effective;

A separation agreement or a decree of separation or divorce does not eliminate or diminish either parent's duty of child support under § 413;

DRL 240 includes custody and the Child Support Standards Act. Subdivision (1-b)(h) prescribes nonwaivable advisement and presumptively-correct-obligation recitals for the covered agreements or stipulations presented for…

Child Support Standards Act text in the Family Court Act: parents of a child under twenty-one are chargeable with support, the court applies the basic child support obligation and the stated percentages, and paragraph…

The commissioner publishes a child support standards chart each year, by April first and within forty-five days after the federal poverty guideline, showing the poverty income guideline for a single person, the…

Section 236 contains Parts A and B with distinct applicability. Part B covers automatic orders, agreements and equitable distribution;

In all Family Court support proceedings both parties must disclose their finances, which may not be waived;

Text naming who may start an article four support proceeding: a spouse, child or relative in need, a social services official where authorized, and listed persons on behalf of a dependent;

Official Supreme Court of Ohio uniform domestic relations and juvenile form, approved under Civil Rule 84 and Juvenile Rule 46, for a motion to change child support, cash medical support, health insurance…

Ohio definitions for chapter 3119, including child support order, obligor and obligee, gross income, and income, which for a parent who is unemployed or underemployed is gross income plus potential income;

Ohio child support is computed under the statutory worksheet and schedule, with a rebuttable presumption that the calculated amount is correct. The number comes from the current schedule and the parties' figures;

Ohio text requiring the director of job and family services to adopt rules governing child support guideline worksheets and instructions, to adopt standard worksheet forms that must be used in all courts and child…

Ohio text providing that where the parents' combined annual income exceeds the maximum on the basic child support schedule, the court or agency determines the obligation case by case, considering the needs and standard…

Ohio text requiring the court, when an obligor or obligee asks it to modify a child support order, to recalculate support under the schedule and the applicable worksheet;

Ohio text listing the reasons a child support order should terminate through the administrative process, including the child reaching majority without continuing full-time high school attendance where the order so…

Ohio text directing the director of job and family services to create, by rule, a basic child support schedule based on the parents' combined annual income and a self-sufficiency reserve, to be used by all courts and…

Ohio text providing that a duty of support under a court child support order continues beyond the child's eighteenth birthday only for a child who is mentally or physically disabled and incapable of self-support under…

Official Supreme Court of Ohio uniform domestic relations affidavit, approved under Civil Rule 84, used to make complete disclosure of income, expenses and money owed for determining child and spousal support;

Rule prescribing the support forms: subdivision (f) sets the petition for modification of an existing support order, reciting the order (attached), the relief sought (increase, decrease, modification, termination,…

Rule: a petition to modify or terminate a support order must specifically aver the material and substantial change in circumstances it rests on, and a new guideline amount from revised guidelines or newly identified…

Rule on monthly gross and net income: gross income is ordinarily at least a six-month average and includes the sources 23 Pa.C.S. § 4302 lists;

Support is set by the STATEWIDE GUIDELINE adopted by the Supreme Court by general rule, based on reasonable needs and the obligor's ability to pay, with a rebuttable presumption that the guideline amount is correct.

No support for an emancipated child, and the parents' marital status makes no difference to a child support order. Emancipation is fact-driven; do not assume turning 18 settles it.

Basic child support schedule: amounts spent on children of intact families by combined monthly net income and number of children, which sets the basic child support obligation computed with the Rule 1910.16-4 formula…

Rule: the trier-of-fact calculates the obligor's share of basic child support, from the schedule or the Rule 1910.16-3.1 formula, and any spousal support or alimony pendente lite using the subdivision (1) formula (Parts…

Rule: where an obligor's basic child support obligations total 50% or less of monthly net income there is no deviation on the ground of a new family, and where they exceed 50% the trier-of-fact may reduce them…

Definitions for the support chapter, including income, which includes compensation for services such as wages, salaries, bonuses, fees, compensation in kind and commissions, income derived from business, gains from…

Married persons are liable for each other's support according to ability, and parents are liable for unemancipated children 18 OR YOUNGER.

Findings in the support order are required for specified timely requests or a variance from percentage guidelines. The obligee-resource finding is required only if that evidence was offered.

Texas text allowing a court to modify a child support order if the circumstances of the child or an affected person have materially and substantially changed since the order's rendition or the signing of a mediated or…

Texas text setting out the computation for an obligor with children in more than one household: determine the support if all children the obligor must support lived in one household, compute a credit for the children…

Texas text providing that, unless otherwise agreed in writing or expressly provided in the order, a child support order terminates on the child's marriage, removal of the child's disabilities, the child's death, a…

Texas text providing that gross income should, whenever feasible, be computed on an annual basis and then recalculated to an average monthly figure, and that the Title IV-D agency must annually promulgate tax charts to…

Texas text providing that a periodic child support payment set by the guidelines in effect at the time of the hearing is presumed reasonable and an order conforming to the guidelines is presumed to be in the child's…

Written support agreements remain subject to the child’s best interest. Support terms included in the order have judgment remedies, including contempt, and are not enforceable as a contract under this section.

Texas text stating that a court with continuing, exclusive jurisdiction may modify an order providing for conservatorship, support, or possession of and access to a child. Read it with section 156.101 on grounds.

Texas text providing that an increase in the obligee's needs, standard of living or lifestyle since the existing order was rendered does not warrant an increase in the obligor's child support obligation.

Sets the rebuttable-presumption schedule of basic child support obligations by combined monthly gross income and number of children, plus the sole, split and shared custody formulas in subsection G, health care…

Official Virginia general district and juvenile and domestic relations district court form (10/23) for a motion to change, amend or modify an existing order: it identifies the order and its terms, the requested changes…

Official Virginia child support guidelines worksheet under § 20-108.2 for sole custody: monthly gross income, adjustments for spousal and other child support, deductions, available and combined income, the basic…

Official Virginia child support guidelines worksheet for split custody under § 20-108.2, with instructions limiting split custody to cases where each parent has physical custody of at least one of the parents' children;

Official Virginia child support guidelines worksheet for shared custody under § 20-108.2: combined income, the guideline table amount multiplied for shared support, each parent's custody days and share, each party's…

There is a rebuttable presumption that the § 20-108.2 guideline amount is correct, and rebutting it requires written findings in the order identifying the statutory deviation factors relied on.

Every order directing child support, and every spousal support order where there are minor children, including orders confirming separation agreements, must carry a long list of mandatory notices: income withholding,…

Virginia text on juvenile and domestic relations district court dispositions in custody, visitation and support cases, including the requirement that parties to a contested custody, visitation or support petition show…

Official Virginia notice under § 20-60.3 listing the information a party must give the judge at a support hearing, beginning with gross income as the statute defines it (with the listed exclusions for public assistance,…

Custody and visitation, including support and maintenance of the children, must be adjudicated promptly and ahead of other issues in either circuit or district court, with pendente lite relief available under § 20-103…