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 {
  "state": "Alabama",
  "category": "combined-ceiling",
  "annual_ceiling": 360000,
  "basis": "gross",
  "period_as_stated": "$30,000.00/month",
  "model": "income shares",
  "citation": "$30,000/month combined adjusted gross income, confirmed by direct extraction of the last row of the official schedule ta",
  "source_file": "data/fifty-state/final-rows-2026-09-03.json (cap field, verified fifty-state run)",
  "confidence": "high",
  "note": null,
  "brattle_fig34": null
 },
 {
  "state": "Alaska",
  "category": "obligor-cap",
  "annual_ceiling": 138000,
  "basis": "net",
  "period_as_stated": "$138,000/year adjusted annual income (per parent)",
  "model": "percentage of obligor income",
  "citation": "Paragraph (a) does not apply to the extent that the parent has an adjusted annual income of over $138,000.",
  "source_file": "data/extracted/fifty-state/Alaska/Alaska_Rule90.3_child_support_awards.pdf.txt (line 118); confirmed in Alaska_Rule90.3_commentary.pdf.txt and Alaska_DR-310_how_to_calculate_child_support_2023-09.pdf.txt",
  "confidence": "high",
  "note": "Alaska is not income-shares; the $138,000 'high income' limit under Civil Rule 90.3(c)(2) caps each PARENT's own adjusted annual income used in the percentage-of-obligor formula, not a combined figure. Cap text in final-rows-2026-09-03.json was cut off before the number.",
  "brattle_fig34": null
 },
 {
  "state": "Arizona",
  "category": "combined-ceiling",
  "annual_ceiling": 360000,
  "basis": "gross",
  "period_as_stated": "$30,000.00/month",
  "model": "income shares",
  "citation": "$30,000/month combined adjusted income. Verbatim, § III.A.1.c: \"If the Combined Adjusted Child Support Income of the par",
  "source_file": "data/fifty-state/final-rows-2026-09-03.json (cap field, verified fifty-state run)",
  "confidence": "high",
  "note": null,
  "brattle_fig34": null
 },
 {
  "state": "Arkansas",
  "category": "combined-ceiling",
  "annual_ceiling": 360000,
  "basis": "gross",
  "period_as_stated": "$30,000.00/month",
  "model": "income shares",
  "citation": "$30,000.00 per month ($360,000.00 per year). Verbatim: \"These Guidelines provide calculated amounts of child support for",
  "source_file": "data/fifty-state/final-rows-2026-09-03.json (cap field, verified fifty-state run)",
  "confidence": "medium",
  "note": null,
  "brattle_fig34": null
 },
 {
  "state": "California",
  "category": "no-ceiling",
  "annual_ceiling": null,
  "basis": "net",
  "period_as_stated": null,
  "model": "other",
  "citation": "No stated cap — this is an open-ended algebraic formula, not a bounded table. Fam. Code §4055(b)(3) K-table's top bracke",
  "source_file": "data/fifty-state/final-rows-2026-09-03.json (cap field)",
  "confidence": "high",
  "note": "No stated combined- or obligor-income figure at which the schedule stops; other model. See cap field (may be truncated) for the mechanism.",
  "brattle_fig34": null
 },
 {
  "state": "Colorado",
  "category": "combined-ceiling",
  "annual_ceiling": 480000,
  "basis": "gross",
  "period_as_stated": "$40,000/month combined adjusted gross income (HB25-1159, eff. 3/1/2026)",
  "model": "income shares",
  "citation": "The updated Guidelines schedule considers combined parental incomes through $40,000 gross per month.",
  "source_file": "data/extracted/fifty-state/Colorado/Colorado_ChildSupportCommission_QuadrennialReview_2023.pdf.txt (line 842)",
  "confidence": "high",
  "note": "Raised from $30,000/mo by HB25-1159; confirmed via the Child Support Commission's own Quadrennial Review. Cap text in final-rows-2026-09-03.json was truncated mid-number (\"...$48\").",
  "brattle_fig34": null
 },
 {
  "state": "Connecticut",
  "category": "combined-ceiling",
  "annual_ceiling": 312000,
  "basis": "net",
  "period_as_stated": "$6,000.00/week",
  "model": "income shares",
  "citation": "$6,000/week combined NET income is the top of the published schedule (extended in the 2026 revision from the prior $4,00",
  "source_file": "data/fifty-state/final-rows-2026-09-03.json (cap field, verified fifty-state run)",
  "confidence": "high",
  "note": " Basis corrected to net 2026-09-06: the citation itself says combined NET income.",
  "brattle_fig34": 144000
 },
 {
  "state": "Delaware",
  "category": "no-ceiling",
  "annual_ceiling": null,
  "basis": "net",
  "period_as_stated": null,
  "model": "Melson",
  "citation": "No capped income schedule exists to report a ceiling for. The closest analog is a per-PARENT (not combined) threshold th",
  "source_file": "data/fifty-state/final-rows-2026-09-03.json (cap field)",
  "confidence": "high",
  "note": "No stated combined- or obligor-income figure at which the schedule stops; Melson model. See cap field (may be truncated) for the mechanism.",
  "brattle_fig34": null
 },
 {
  "state": "District of Columbia",
  "category": "combined-ceiling",
  "annual_ceiling": 240000,
  "basis": "gross",
  "period_as_stated": "$240,000.00/year",
  "model": "income shares",
  "citation": "$240,000/year. §16-916.01(h) (verbatim): \"The guideline shall not apply presumptively in cases where the parents' combin",
  "source_file": "data/fifty-state/final-rows-2026-09-03.json (cap field, verified fifty-state run)",
  "confidence": "medium",
  "note": null,
  "brattle_fig34": 240000
 },
 {
  "state": "Florida",
  "category": "combined-ceiling",
  "annual_ceiling": 120000,
  "basis": "net",
  "period_as_stated": "$10,000.00/month",
  "model": "income shares",
  "citation": "$10,000.00/month combined net income is the last row of the published schedule (row: \"10000.00 1437 2228 2795 3148 3432 ",
  "source_file": "data/fifty-state/final-rows-2026-09-03.json (cap field, verified fifty-state run)",
  "confidence": "high",
  "note": null,
  "brattle_fig34": null
 },
 {
  "state": "Georgia",
  "category": "combined-ceiling",
  "annual_ceiling": 480000,
  "basis": "gross",
  "period_as_stated": "$40,000.00/month",
  "model": "income shares",
  "citation": "$40,000.00 per month combined adjusted gross income (raised from $30,000/mo by SB 454, effective for the table itself Ju",
  "source_file": "data/fifty-state/final-rows-2026-09-03.json (cap field, verified fifty-state run)",
  "confidence": "medium",
  "note": null,
  "brattle_fig34": null
 },
 {
  "state": "Hawaii",
  "category": "no-ceiling",
  "annual_ceiling": null,
  "basis": "net",
  "period_as_stated": null,
  "model": "Melson",
  "citation": "No stated schedule cap in the ordinary sense (no income-shares matrix to top out). §II.A.1, Line 2 instructions (verbati",
  "source_file": "data/fifty-state/final-rows-2026-09-03.json (cap field)",
  "confidence": "high",
  "note": "No stated combined- or obligor-income figure at which the schedule stops; Melson model. See cap field (may be truncated) for the mechanism.",
  "brattle_fig34": null
 },
 {
  "state": "Idaho",
  "category": "combined-ceiling",
  "annual_ceiling": 440000,
  "basis": "gross",
  "period_as_stated": "$440,000/year combined Guidelines Income ($36,666.67/month)",
  "model": "income shares",
  "citation": "$440,000 combined Guidelines Income per year ($36,666.67/month). Rule 120(i)(7): \"Income over $440,000. The Guideline In",
  "source_file": "data/fifty-state/final-rows-2026-09-03.json (cap field, verified fifty-state run)",
  "confidence": "high",
  "note": null,
  "brattle_fig34": null
 },
 {
  "state": "Illinois",
  "category": "combined-ceiling",
  "annual_ceiling": 328499.88,
  "basis": "net",
  "period_as_stated": "$27,374.99/month",
  "model": "income shares",
  "citation": "$27,374.99/month combined NET income is the top of the last bracket (\"27325.00 - 27374.99\") in the 2026 Illinois \"Income",
  "source_file": "data/fifty-state/final-rows-2026-09-03.json (cap field, verified fifty-state run)",
  "confidence": "medium",
  "note": null,
  "brattle_fig34": null
 },
 {
  "state": "Indiana",
  "category": "combined-ceiling",
  "annual_ceiling": 478400,
  "basis": "gross",
  "period_as_stated": "$9,200.00/week",
  "model": "income shares",
  "citation": "$9,200/wk Combined Weekly Adjusted Income (verified by direct PDF extraction of the schedule's final page). Above that: ",
  "source_file": "data/fifty-state/final-rows-2026-09-03.json (cap field, verified fifty-state run)",
  "confidence": "medium",
  "note": null,
  "brattle_fig34": null
 },
 {
  "state": "Iowa",
  "category": "combined-ceiling",
  "annual_ceiling": 360000,
  "basis": "net",
  "period_as_stated": "$30,000/month combined adjusted net monthly income",
  "model": "income shares",
  "citation": "$30,000 combined (or, in Area A/B low-income cases, individual) adjusted net monthly income is the top of the published ",
  "source_file": "data/fifty-state/final-rows-2026-09-03.json (cap field, verified fifty-state run)",
  "confidence": "high",
  "note": null,
  "brattle_fig34": null
 },
 {
  "state": "Kansas",
  "category": "combined-ceiling",
  "annual_ceiling": 216000,
  "basis": "gross",
  "period_as_stated": "$18,000.00/month",
  "model": "income shares",
  "citation": "$18,000 per month combined gross income, for EVERY family-size table (One through Three Child Families schedules all top",
  "source_file": "data/fifty-state/final-rows-2026-09-03.json (cap field, verified fifty-state run)",
  "confidence": "high",
  "note": null,
  "brattle_fig34": null
 },
 {
  "state": "Kentucky",
  "category": "combined-ceiling",
  "annual_ceiling": 360000,
  "basis": "gross",
  "period_as_stated": "$30,000.00/month",
  "model": "income shares",
  "citation": "$30,000 per month combined monthly adjusted parental gross income (KRS 403.212(9), last row of the table: \"30,000 2,003 ",
  "source_file": "data/fifty-state/final-rows-2026-09-03.json (cap field, verified fifty-state run)",
  "confidence": "high",
  "note": null,
  "brattle_fig34": null
 },
 {
  "state": "Louisiana",
  "category": "combined-ceiling",
  "annual_ceiling": 600000,
  "basis": "gross",
  "period_as_stated": "$50,000.00/month",
  "model": "income shares",
  "citation": "$50,000.00/month combined adjusted gross income is the last row of the table (raw curl, R.S. 9:315.19: row \"50000\" → 1 c",
  "source_file": "data/fifty-state/final-rows-2026-09-03.json (cap field, verified fifty-state run)",
  "confidence": "high",
  "note": null,
  "brattle_fig34": null
 },
 {
  "state": "Maine",
  "category": "combined-ceiling",
  "annual_ceiling": 400000,
  "basis": "gross",
  "period_as_stated": "$400,000.00/year",
  "model": "income shares",
  "citation": "$400,000/year combined gross (last row of the official table, extracted directly: \"400000   620  457  357  299  263  238",
  "source_file": "data/fifty-state/final-rows-2026-09-03.json (cap field, verified fifty-state run)",
  "confidence": "high",
  "note": null,
  "brattle_fig34": null
 },
 {
  "state": "Maryland",
  "category": "combined-ceiling",
  "annual_ceiling": 360000,
  "basis": "gross",
  "period_as_stated": "$30,000.00/month",
  "model": "income shares",
  "citation": "$30,000/month combined adjusted actual income is the top row (verified from the live statute text, § 12-204(e), fetched ",
  "source_file": "data/fifty-state/final-rows-2026-09-03.json (cap field, verified fifty-state run)",
  "confidence": "high",
  "note": null,
  "brattle_fig34": null
 },
 {
  "state": "Massachusetts",
  "category": "combined-ceiling",
  "annual_ceiling": 450000,
  "basis": "gross",
  "period_as_stated": "$450,000.00/year",
  "model": "income shares",
  "citation": "$450,000/yr combined available income = $8,654/wk (Line 3d cap). Verbatim, Section II.C.2: \"These guidelines are calcula",
  "source_file": "data/fifty-state/final-rows-2026-09-03.json (cap field, verified fifty-state run)",
  "confidence": "high",
  "note": null,
  "brattle_fig34": 450000
 },
 {
  "state": "Michigan",
  "category": "combined-ceiling",
  "annual_ceiling": 214459,
  "basis": "net",
  "period_as_stated": "$17,871.57/month net family income (top of the General Care Support Table, all family sizes)",
  "model": "income shares",
  "citation": "Normally, when a family’s net monthly income exceeds the highest income level in General Care Support Tables, support will be determined using listed figures for the correct number of children. However, when a family’s income greatly exceeds the highest income level, the court may exercise discretion as permitted by 2025 MCSF 3.02(E).",
  "source_file": "data/extracted/fifty-state/Michigan/Michigan_MCSF_2025_Supplement.pdf.txt (lines 103-126)",
  "confidence": "high",
  "note": "$17,871.57/mo is the same top breakpoint across every family-size table (One Child through at least Three), not specific to 3 children as the truncated cap field implied. Above it the same marginal-percentage formula nominally continues ('+11.29% over $17,871.57') but the court has discretion once income 'greatly exceeds' this level — structurally similar to Massachusetts's presumptive/discretionary line.",
  "brattle_fig34": null
 },
 {
  "state": "Minnesota",
  "category": "combined-ceiling",
  "annual_ceiling": 240000,
  "basis": "gross",
  "period_as_stated": "$20,000.00/month",
  "model": "income shares",
  "citation": "$20,000/month combined PICS (= $240,000/yr). § 518A.35 Subd. 1(e): \"For combined parental incomes for determining child ",
  "source_file": "data/fifty-state/final-rows-2026-09-03.json (cap field, verified fifty-state run)",
  "confidence": "high",
  "note": null,
  "brattle_fig34": null
 },
 {
  "state": "Mississippi",
  "category": "obligor-cap",
  "annual_ceiling": 100000,
  "basis": "gross",
  "period_as_stated": "$100,000/year adjusted gross income (NCP/obligor)",
  "model": "percentage of obligor income",
  "citation": "In cases in which the adjusted gross income is more than $100,000 or less than $10,000 per year, the court must make a written finding in the record as to whether or not the application of the guidelines is reasonable.",
  "source_file": "data/extracted/fifty-state/Mississippi/Mississippi_Child_Support_Policy_Manual.pdf.txt (line 6905)",
  "confidence": "medium",
  "note": "Not a hard formula stop: Mississippi's percentage-of-obligor-income formula is not itself bounded above $100,000/yr; this is the threshold above which a written reasonableness finding is required, functioning as the closest analog to a presumptive ceiling. Cap text in final-rows-2026-09-03.json was cut off before any number.",
  "brattle_fig34": null
 },
 {
  "state": "Missouri",
  "category": "combined-ceiling",
  "annual_ceiling": 480000,
  "basis": "gross",
  "period_as_stated": "$40,000.00/month",
  "model": "income shares",
  "citation": "$40,000/month combined adjusted gross income is the top row of the 2026 schedule (verbatim last data row: \"40000 3332 49",
  "source_file": "data/fifty-state/final-rows-2026-09-03.json (cap field, verified fifty-state run)",
  "confidence": "high",
  "note": null,
  "brattle_fig34": null
 },
 {
  "state": "Montana",
  "category": "no-ceiling",
  "annual_ceiling": null,
  "basis": "net",
  "period_as_stated": null,
  "model": "Melson",
  "citation": "No combined-income schedule/bracket exists at all in Montana's model, so there is no stated maximum and no \"above the to",
  "source_file": "data/fifty-state/final-rows-2026-09-03.json (cap field)",
  "confidence": "high",
  "note": "No stated combined- or obligor-income figure at which the schedule stops; Melson model. See cap field (may be truncated) for the mechanism.",
  "brattle_fig34": null
 },
 {
  "state": "Nebraska",
  "category": "combined-ceiling",
  "annual_ceiling": 240000,
  "basis": "net",
  "period_as_stated": "$20,000.00/month",
  "model": "income shares",
  "citation": "$20,000 monthly (combined NET income) — Table 1's last row is \"20000 2282 3220 3732 4169 4586 4985\". Above it, §4-203(C)",
  "source_file": "data/fifty-state/final-rows-2026-09-03.json (cap field, verified fifty-state run)",
  "confidence": "high",
  "note": null,
  "brattle_fig34": null
 },
 {
  "state": "Nevada",
  "category": "obligor-cap",
  "annual_ceiling": 72000,
  "basis": "gross",
  "period_as_stated": "$6,000/month gross monthly income (per parent)",
  "model": "percentage of obligor income",
  "citation": "I believe the other parent makes $_______________ per month (this is “Gross Monthly Income”) *If this number is more than $6000, STOP. This worksheet will not apply.",
  "source_file": "data/extracted/fifty-state/Nevada/Nevada_Child_Support_Worksheet_2026.pdf.txt",
  "confidence": "medium",
  "note": "Nevada applies the percentage formula to each parent's OWN gross monthly income (not combined). Above $6,000/mo per parent, the basic worksheet does not apply and a separate 'presumptive maximum' dollar-per-child schedule (updated annually, NAC 425.140) governs instead — not a hard cap on the order itself. Cap text in final-rows-2026-09-03.json was cut off before any number.",
  "brattle_fig34": null
 },
 {
  "state": "New Hampshire",
  "category": "combined-ceiling",
  "annual_ceiling": 373068,
  "basis": "gross",
  "period_as_stated": "$31,089/month combined Adjusted Gross Income (last bracket, 2026 table)",
  "model": "hybrid",
  "citation": "31080 - 31089 31,084.50 7,807.65 1,533.74 21,743.12 19.000% $4,131.19 26.000% $5,653.21 31.000% $6,740.37 33.500% $7,283.94",
  "source_file": "data/extracted/fifty-state/New_Hampshire/New_Hampshire_guidelines_2026_book.pdf.txt (line 5352)",
  "confidence": "medium",
  "note": "Table brackets are denominated in combined GROSS income (converted internally to net via the state's own tax-withholding columns before the percentage is applied) — not purely 'net' as final-rows-2026-09-03.json's income_basis field states for New Hampshire generally. Reported here as gross to match how the $31,089 ceiling itself is expressed.",
  "brattle_fig34": 187200
 },
 {
  "state": "New Jersey",
  "category": "combined-ceiling",
  "annual_ceiling": 187200,
  "basis": "net",
  "period_as_stated": "$3,600/week combined net income (Appendix IX-F, revised eff. 9/1/2025)",
  "model": "income shares",
  "citation": "DO NOT EXTRAPOLATE THIS SCHEDULE BEYOND $3,600 COMBINED WEEKLY NET INCOME.",
  "source_file": "data/extracted/fifty-state/New_Jersey/New_Jersey_App9F_schedule_of_awards_2025.pdf.txt (lines 512-520)",
  "confidence": "high",
  "note": "This is a genuine 2025 revision, LOWER than Brattle Figure 34's $208,000 (based on the pre-revision Appendix IX-F table). Per task instructions, the profile's newer figure is used; Brattle's is recorded separately.",
  "brattle_fig34": 208000
 },
 {
  "state": "New Mexico",
  "category": "combined-ceiling",
  "annual_ceiling": 480000,
  "basis": "gross",
  "period_as_stated": "$40,000/month combined gross income (last discrete row: $39,951-$40,000)",
  "model": "income shares",
  "citation": "39,951  40,000 2956 4341 5058 5650 6214 6755 [last discrete row]; Income over $40,000 or more [uses the $40,000 figure]",
  "source_file": "data/extracted/fifty-state/New_Mexico/NM_2024_Guidelines_and_Schedule.pdf.txt (lines 1258, 1261, 1268)",
  "confidence": "high",
  "note": "Cap text in final-rows-2026-09-03.json gave the last discrete row's dollar amounts but the unit (monthly) was cut off before it appeared; confirmed monthly from the schedule PDF and the review report ('$40,000/mo').",
  "brattle_fig34": null
 },
 {
  "state": "New York",
  "category": "combined-ceiling",
  "annual_ceiling": 193000,
  "basis": "gross",
  "period_as_stated": "$193,000.00/year",
  "model": "other",
  "citation": "Combined parental income cap = $193,000/year, effective March 1, 2026 through February 28, 2028 (up from $183,000 for th",
  "source_file": "data/fifty-state/final-rows-2026-09-03.json (cap field, verified fifty-state run)",
  "confidence": "medium",
  "note": null,
  "brattle_fig34": 183000
 },
 {
  "state": "North Carolina",
  "category": "combined-ceiling",
  "annual_ceiling": 480000,
  "basis": "gross",
  "period_as_stated": "$40,000.00/month",
  "model": "income shares",
  "citation": "$40,000/month ($480,000/year) is the top of the published table (last row: combined AGI $40,000 → $5,554/mo for three ch",
  "source_file": "data/fifty-state/final-rows-2026-09-03.json (cap field, verified fifty-state run)",
  "confidence": "high",
  "note": null,
  "brattle_fig34": null
 },
 {
  "state": "North Dakota",
  "category": "obligor-cap",
  "annual_ceiling": 300000,
  "basis": "net",
  "period_as_stated": "$25,000/month net income (obligor)",
  "model": "percentage of obligor income",
  "citation": "the increased ability of an obligor, with a monthly net income which exceeds twenty-five thousand dollars, to provide additional child support based on demonstrated needs of the child",
  "source_file": "data/extracted/fifty-state/North_Dakota/North_Dakota_schedule_with_percentages.pdf.txt (last row, $25,000) and North_Dakota_guidelines_annotated_through_2024-08-23.pdf.txt (line 2183)",
  "confidence": "high",
  "note": "Table applies to the OBLIGOR's own monthly net income (percentage-of-obligor model), not combined. Above $25,000/mo the guideline text names this figure as an upward-deviation factor. Cap text in final-rows-2026-09-03.json was cut off before the final number.",
  "brattle_fig34": null
 },
 {
  "state": "Ohio",
  "category": "combined-ceiling",
  "annual_ceiling": 336000,
  "basis": "gross",
  "period_as_stated": "$336,000/year combined gross income",
  "model": "income shares",
  "citation": "$336,000 [last row of the Basic Child Support Schedule table, one through six children]",
  "source_file": "data/extracted/fifty-state/Ohio/Ohio_JFS07767_Basic_Child_Support_Schedule.pdf.txt (line 746, JFS 07767 Rev. 6/2023)",
  "confidence": "high",
  "note": "Cap text in final-rows-2026-09-03.json was cut off entirely before any number; completed by reading the official schedule's last tabulated row directly.",
  "brattle_fig34": null
 },
 {
  "state": "Oklahoma",
  "category": "combined-ceiling",
  "annual_ceiling": 180000,
  "basis": "gross",
  "period_as_stated": "$15,000.00/month combined gross (AGI) income",
  "model": "income shares",
  "citation": "$15,000.00 combined gross (AGI) monthly income. 43 O.S. §119.B (verbatim): \"If combined gross monthly income exceeds Fif",
  "source_file": "data/fifty-state/final-rows-2026-09-03.json (cap field, verified fifty-state run)",
  "confidence": "high",
  "note": null,
  "brattle_fig34": null
 },
 {
  "state": "Oregon",
  "category": "combined-ceiling",
  "annual_ceiling": 360000,
  "basis": "gross",
  "period_as_stated": "$30,000.00/month",
  "model": "income shares",
  "citation": "$30,000/month combined adjusted gross income. OAR 137-050-0725(3), verbatim: \"If the combined adjusted gross income of t",
  "source_file": "data/fifty-state/final-rows-2026-09-03.json (cap field, verified fifty-state run)",
  "confidence": "high",
  "note": null,
  "brattle_fig34": null
 },
 {
  "state": "Pennsylvania",
  "category": "combined-ceiling",
  "annual_ceiling": 360000,
  "basis": "net",
  "period_as_stated": "$30,000.00/month",
  "model": "income shares",
  "citation": "$30,000/mo combined net income (bottom of table starts at $1,300/mo; top row is $30,000/mo, three-children value $5,803)",
  "source_file": "data/fifty-state/final-rows-2026-09-03.json (cap field, verified fifty-state run)",
  "confidence": "high",
  "note": null,
  "brattle_fig34": null
 },
 {
  "state": "Rhode Island",
  "category": "combined-ceiling",
  "annual_ceiling": 480000,
  "basis": "gross",
  "period_as_stated": "$40,000.00/month",
  "model": "income shares",
  "citation": "$40,000/month combined income is the top of the table. Last row, verbatim (One/Two/Three/Four/Five/Six Children): \"40000",
  "source_file": "data/fifty-state/final-rows-2026-09-03.json (cap field, verified fifty-state run)",
  "confidence": "medium",
  "note": null,
  "brattle_fig34": 373068
 },
 {
  "state": "South Carolina",
  "category": "combined-ceiling",
  "annual_ceiling": 480000,
  "basis": "gross",
  "period_as_stated": "$40,000.00/month",
  "model": "income shares",
  "citation": "\"$40,000 per month, or $480,000 per year\" — the schedule table itself is printed in full up to that figure (last row: \"4",
  "source_file": "data/fifty-state/final-rows-2026-09-03.json (cap field, verified fifty-state run)",
  "confidence": "high",
  "note": null,
  "brattle_fig34": null
 },
 {
  "state": "South Dakota",
  "category": "combined-ceiling",
  "annual_ceiling": 360000,
  "basis": "net",
  "period_as_stated": "$30,000.00/month",
  "model": "income shares",
  "citation": "$30,000/mo combined net income. Verbatim, from the official calculator's own disclaimer page (dss.sd.gov/childsupport/se",
  "source_file": "data/fifty-state/final-rows-2026-09-03.json (cap field, verified fifty-state run)",
  "confidence": "medium",
  "note": null,
  "brattle_fig34": null
 },
 {
  "state": "Tennessee",
  "category": "combined-ceiling",
  "annual_ceiling": 339000,
  "basis": "gross",
  "period_as_stated": "$28,250.00/month",
  "model": "income shares",
  "citation": "$28,250.00/month combined AGI is the last tabulated row. Above it, Rule 1240-02-04-.09 gives an explicit continuing extr",
  "source_file": "data/fifty-state/final-rows-2026-09-03.json (cap field, verified fifty-state run)",
  "confidence": "high",
  "note": null,
  "brattle_fig34": null
 },
 {
  "state": "Texas",
  "category": "obligor-cap",
  "annual_ceiling": 140400,
  "basis": "net",
  "period_as_stated": "$11,700/month net resources (obligor), adjusted 8/15/2025",
  "model": "percentage of obligor income",
  "citation": "On August 15, 2025, the Title IV-D agency adjusted the “Cap” from $9,200 to $11,700.",
  "source_file": "data/extracted/fifty-state/Texas/Texas_OAG_Guidelines_Review_2025.pdf.txt (lines 770, 857)",
  "confidence": "high",
  "note": "Texas has no combined-income schedule; the percentage guideline applies solely to the OBLIGOR's own monthly net resources, capped at $11,700/mo since 8/15/2025 (was $9,200 2019–2025). Equivalent to ~$188,310/yr gross for a typical single filer per the OAG's own worked example. Cap text in final-rows-2026-09-03.json was cut off before the number.",
  "brattle_fig34": null
 },
 {
  "state": "Utah",
  "category": "combined-ceiling",
  "annual_ceiling": 1200000,
  "basis": "gross",
  "period_as_stated": "$100,000/month combined adjusted gross income",
  "model": "income shares",
  "citation": "If the combined adjusted gross income exceeds the highest level specified in the base [combined child support obligation table]",
  "source_file": "data/extracted/fifty-state/Utah/Utah_Code_81-6-304_Table_current_2024-09-01.pdf.txt (last row, line 270) and Utah_Code_Title81_Ch6_full_2024-09-01.pdf.txt (line 549)",
  "confidence": "high",
  "note": "Table's own header labels this 'Combined Monthly Adjusted Gross Income,' last bracket $98,001–$100,000. Cap text in final-rows-2026-09-03.json was cut off before the final table row was reached.",
  "brattle_fig34": null
 },
 {
  "state": "Vermont",
  "category": "combined-ceiling",
  "annual_ceiling": 360300,
  "basis": "other",
  "period_as_stated": "$30,024.99/month combined “available income”",
  "model": "income shares",
  "citation": "29975.00 - 30024.99 3687 5550 6361 7106 7816 8496 [last row of the official table]",
  "source_file": "data/fifty-state/final-rows-2026-09-03.json (Vermont cap field)",
  "confidence": "high",
  "note": "Vermont's statutory quantity is 'available income' — gross converted to an after-tax-like figure via the state's own tax tables (structurally similar to Massachusetts's own 'available income' term, though MA's is gross-based and Vermont's is not). Matches Brattle Figure 34's $360,300 almost exactly.",
  "brattle_fig34": 360300
 },
 {
  "state": "Virginia",
  "category": "combined-ceiling",
  "annual_ceiling": 510000,
  "basis": "gross",
  "period_as_stated": "$42,500.00/month",
  "model": "income shares",
  "citation": "$42,500/month combined gross income is the last row of the published schedule (Va. Code § 20-108.2(B)). At $42,500, the ",
  "source_file": "data/fifty-state/final-rows-2026-09-03.json (cap field, verified fifty-state run)",
  "confidence": "high",
  "note": null,
  "brattle_fig34": null
 },
 {
  "state": "Washington",
  "category": "combined-ceiling",
  "annual_ceiling": 600000,
  "basis": "net",
  "period_as_stated": "$50,000/month combined net income (RCW 26.19.020, eff. 1/1/2026)",
  "model": "income shares",
  "citation": "$50,000 combined monthly net income (RCW 26.19.020, current text effective January 1, 2026, per 2025 c 272 s 14). Verbat",
  "source_file": "data/fifty-state/final-rows-2026-09-03.json (cap field, verified fifty-state run)",
  "confidence": "high",
  "note": "Raised from the $480,000/yr figure in Brattle Figure 34 (based on the pre-2026 statute) by 2025 c 272 s 14, effective January 1, 2026. Per task instructions the profile's newer figure is used here; Brattle's is recorded separately.",
  "brattle_fig34": 480000
 },
 {
  "state": "West Virginia",
  "category": "combined-ceiling",
  "annual_ceiling": 420000,
  "basis": "gross",
  "period_as_stated": "$35,000.00/month",
  "model": "income shares",
  "citation": "$35,000/mo combined (adjusted) gross income — final table row is \"35000 2527 3719 4342 4850 5335 5799.\" Above that: §48-",
  "source_file": "data/fifty-state/final-rows-2026-09-03.json (cap field, verified fifty-state run)",
  "confidence": "high",
  "note": null,
  "brattle_fig34": null
 },
 {
  "state": "Wisconsin",
  "category": "no-ceiling",
  "annual_ceiling": null,
  "basis": "gross",
  "period_as_stated": null,
  "model": "percentage of obligor income",
  "citation": "There is no combined-income cap and no point at which the schedule \"ends\" — percentages apply to the payer's own income ",
  "source_file": "data/fifty-state/final-rows-2026-09-03.json (cap field)",
  "confidence": "high",
  "note": "No stated combined- or obligor-income figure at which the schedule stops; percentage of obligor income model. See cap field (may be truncated) for the mechanism.",
  "brattle_fig34": null
 },
 {
  "state": "Wyoming",
  "category": "combined-ceiling",
  "annual_ceiling": 180000,
  "basis": "net",
  "period_as_stated": "$15,000/month combined net income (last tabulated breakpoint)",
  "model": "income shares",
  "citation": "$15,000.00      14.4       $2,157.00 + 10.3% of anything over $15,000.00",
  "source_file": "data/extracted/fifty-state/Wyoming/Wyoming_worksheet_CSMP-11_net-income-calc_2025.pdf.txt (line 23) and Wyoming_statutes_title20_2026.pdf.txt",
  "confidence": "medium",
  "note": "$15,000/mo is the last DISCRETE breakpoint in every family-size table, but Wyoming's own formula continues above it by statute ('+X% of anything over $15,000') with no further stated stop — unlike states with a hard table top followed by pure judicial discretion. Treat this ceiling as the point the formula changes shape, not a true maximum.",
  "brattle_fig34": null
 }
]