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Louisiana Child Support Calculator | AllLaw

The calculator below will estimate your monthly child support payment based on Louisiana's child support guidelines.

Disclaimer: Please remember that these calculators are for informational and educational purposes only.

Louisiana Child Support Calculator

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When you have completed the form, click on the calculate button to get an estimate of the amount of child support that the non-custodial parent will have to pay to the custodial parent in Louisiana.

Louisiana Child Support

In Louisiana, child support cases are generally divided into three categories: intake, collections, or parent locate. Through Support Enforcement Services (SES), a division of the Office of Family Support, you can receive assistance in locating a non-custodial parent, ordering a paternity test, establishing a child support order, and enforcing child support orders. Following is a breakdown of some of the services that SES offers:

Locating non-custodial parents
In order to establish a child support order, the SES must know the whereabouts of the non-custodial parent. The SES can help locate a missing parent and/or obtain past due child support through many different resources. These include:

  • The Federal Parent Locator Service: this database provides information on parents receiving social security benefits, veteran's pensions, and those working for the Federal government.
  • Electronic Parent Locator Network: this resource pools information that makes it possible to search for absent parents throughout the United States.
  • U.S. Treasury Department: for a fee – and if you are eligible – you can obtain a full service Internal Revenue Service collection which can help you collect past due child support.

Establishing a support order
Children are legally entitled to financial support from both parents. The courts set the guidelines for determining how much money is required from the non-custodial parent to support his or her child/ren. These guidelines depend on a number of different factors, including:

  • Number of children in the household
  • The income of both parents
  • Child care costs
  • Cost of health insurance
  • A provision for miscellaneous expenses

Enforcing a child support order
SES can help enforce support orders if the non-custodial parent is not meeting his or her financial obligations. By income assignment, intercepting state and federal tax refunds and lottery winnings, suspending licenses and registration, denying passports, and requesting a contempt of court charge, the SES can penalize—and attempt to collect payment from—delinquent non-custodial parents.

Child Support Schedule | Louisiana Department of Children & Family Services

Child Support Schedule Updates - 2021

The Louisiana Child Support Schedule was updated on January 1, 2021, in accordance with Federal and State law that requires the State’s Child Support Guidelines to be reviewed every four years. The next quadrennial review is due 60 days before the regular session begins in 2024.

In addition, there were changes to the guidelines including a change to the guideline calculation surrounding childcare costs. Your child support order may be eligible for a modification.


2020 Louisiana Child Support Review Committee Report - Explanation of Revisions

The committee thoroughly reviewed various sources of recent data on child-rearing expenditures, various methods for adjusting national data to be more appropriate for Louisiana’s cost of living, and the appropriate self-support reserve.  The committee consists of 11 members that meet every four years to revise the guidelines. 

The child support guideline schedule was mandated during the Regular Session of the 2016 Louisiana Legislature.

Note: The schedule defined support amounts up to $40,000 of combined monthly adjusted gross income.  For cases with combined monthly adjusted gross income above $40,000, the child support obligation should be determined on a case-by-case basis.

Additional schedule information:

  • The amounts set forth in the schedule in R.S. 9:315.19 presume that the custodial or domiciliary party has the right to claim the federal and state tax dependency deductions and any earned income credit. However, the claiming of dependents for federal and state income tax purposes shall be as provided in Subsection B of the state statute.
  • The non-domiciliary party whose child support obligation equals or exceeds fifty percent of the total child support obligation shall be entitled to claim the federal and state tax dependency deductions if, after a contradictory motion, the judge finds both of the following:
    • (a) No arrearages are owed by the obligor.
    • (b) The right to claim the dependency deductions or, in the case of multiple children, a part thereof, would substantially benefit the non-domiciliary party without significantly harming the domiciliary party.
  • The child support order shall:
    • (a) Specify the years in which the party is entitled to claim such deductions.
    • (b) Require the domiciliary party to timely execute all forms required by the Internal Revenue Service authorizing the non-domiciliary party to claim such deductions.
  • The party who receives the benefit of the exemption for such tax year shall not be considered as having received payment of a thing not due if the dependency deduction allocation is not maintained by the taxing authorities.

Read Good in Bed - Jennifer Weiner - Page 49

– But you're going to... – She didn't finish.

“Looks like it,” I replied, voicing this thought for the first time.

- Oh Kenny! The mother's voice was a mixture of admiration and horror. Excitement at the prospect of becoming a grandmother (unlike me, my mother could not miss a single stroller). Horror, because no mother wants her daughter to be in such a situation.

But that's where I ended up. I saw it quite clearly at that very moment in the locker room. It's going to be like this: I'm going to have this baby, with or without Bruce, with or without a broken heart. Moreover, I felt that this was my destiny, and my life should develop in this direction. I just wished that whoever planned this would come up with an idea or two about how I could support myself and the baby. But, since God was not going to speak to me, it seemed that there was no one to do this but me.

Mother got up and hugged me, which was somehow indecent, considering that we were both still wet from the pool, and the towel did not fit on her. But I didn't care. It's nice, you know, when your native arms hug you.

- Are you not angry? I asked.

- No, no! Why should I be angry?

“Because… well… things didn’t turn out the way I wanted…” For a moment, I pressed my cheek against her shoulder.

“The usual thing,” she replied. “This never goes the way you want it to. Do you think I wanted to give birth to you and Lucy in Louisiana, a million miles from my family, with these horrible army doctors and cockroaches the size of my thumb...

“At least you had a husband,” I reminded him. – And the house... and plans for the future...

Mother patted me on the shoulder.

Husbands and houses come and go. As for plans for the future... we'll think of something.

She asked the most important question when we, after drying our hair and getting dressed, got into the car to go home.

- As I understand it, the father is Bruce?

I pressed my cheek against the cold glass.

- Exactly.

- And you didn't get back together?

- No. It happened so... - How could I explain to my mother when and how it happened?

“Don't worry,” she interrupted my attempts to find an explanation for my decision to give myself to Bruce in order to at least slightly relieve his pain. We drove past the industrial area, past the Vegetables and Fruits store, over the top of the hill, heading for the house. Everything looked painfully familiar, because I went here a million times, one might say, all my childhood. I swam with my mother on Saturdays, and we always came home together, watching sleeping towns wake up, and at home we were waiting for freshly squeezed orange juice, warm bagels and breakfast, which we ate as a family, the five of us.

Much, however, has changed. Trees are taller, houses are shabbier. Traffic lights flashed at several of the most dangerous intersections. There are also new houses that didn't exist when I was in high school. But, sitting next to my mother, I seemed to have returned to the past, I felt so good and calm. I could even imagine that Tanya remained with a woman who threatened to kill either her or herself, and did not appear in her mother's life ... and my father did not leave us ... and I did not become pregnant.

- Are you going to tell Bruce? she finally asked.

- I don't know. We don't really talk to him. And I think... well, I'm even sure if I tell him, he will try to dissuade me, and I don't want to dissuade. I paused, thinking. “And it seems to me… I mean, if I were in his place, in his position… perhaps the burden would be too heavy for him. The child...

– Do you need him in your life? the mother asked.

- It's different. Bruce has made it clear enough that he doesn't want to be in my life. And now the question is, does he want to be ... - I hesitated, for the first time these words were given oh how hard. “...in our child's life.

- Well, he won't get away with it. He will have to pay child support.

- Yeah. “I imagined myself taking Bruce to court and telling the judge and jury where and under what circumstances we conceived our baby.

The mother went on talking: about mutual aid funds, about a TV talk show about how working mothers secretly set up video cameras and found that nannies neglected the interests of babies and, instead of caring for them, watched soap operas and called Honduras, I immediately thought of Maxie ranting about my financial future.

“Okay,” I agreed with my mother. My muscles ached pleasantly after swimming, and my eyelids were bulging over my eyes. “No nannies from Honduras.

– Perhaps Lucy can help. Mother looked at me as we stopped at a red light. Have you already gone to the gynecologist?

- Not yet. - I yawned again.

- Kenny... - There followed a lecture about proper nutrition, about doing special exercises during pregnancy, about the fact that vitamin E capsules prevent stretching of the abdominal muscles. I closed my eyes, lulled by her voice and the sound of tires on the pavement, and was practically asleep as we turned into the driveway. Mother had to shake me to wake me up, calling me by name, saying that we were at home.

It's amazing that she let me go to Philadelphia that evening. But I left with ten pounds of turkey, mashed potatoes and pie in the trunk, and promised that I would arrange a visit to the gynecologist in the morning. My mother promised to visit me as soon as possible.

“Be sure to buckle up,” she punished me when I put the squealing Nifkin into the cage.

- I always buckle up.

- Call me as soon as you know the expected due date.

- I'll call! Promise!

- That's good. My mother reached out her hand and stroked my cheek. - I'm proud of you.

I wanted to ask why. What have I done that anyone could be proud of? Getting away from a guy who no longer wants to have anything to do with you is not a feat that you can take credit for. A single mother looks good on the cinema screen, but as far as I know from my divorced colleagues, in real life this is a continuous concern, not a reason for pride.

But I didn't ask. She just started the engine and pulled out of the driveway and onto the street, waving goodbye to her mother.

Things looked different in Philadelphia. Maybe because I looked at everything with different eyes. Going upstairs, I noticed a huge number of Budweiser cans in the trash can in front of the apartment on the second floor, I heard piercing laughter (they were showing another situation comedy) escaping from under the door. On the street, a burglar alarm of a car went off, glass shattered somewhere nearby. The usual noise background, which I hardly noticed before, but now I had to notice ... because I was responsible for another creature.

My apartment on the third floor was covered with a thin layer of dust accumulated over five days, the air was stale. “This is not suitable for a child,” I thought, opening the windows, lighting a vanilla-scented candle, and taking up the brush.

I fed and watered Nifkin. Swept the floor. She sorted the dirty laundry, preparing it for tomorrow's wash, took the dishes out of the dishwasher, put the food brought from her mother in the refrigerator, rinsed it and hung up the bathing suit to dry. I was halfway through the list of things I should have bought: skimmed milk, apples, and other tasty and healthy things, when it dawned on me that I hadn't checked my answering machine to see if anyone had called me...if Bruce had called. I understood that this was unlikely, but I believed that I should have at least a shadow of hope left.

And when it turned out that Bruce had not called, I felt sad, but this sadness had nothing to do with that sharp, heart-rending pain, the feeling that I would die if he stopped loving me, which I experienced that evening, which spent with Maxi in New York.

“He loved me,” I whispered to the swept room. “He loved me, and now he doesn't love me, but it's not the end of the world.

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