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Ability to pay under federal law, the highest joint-custody support in the nation, and a calculator for any two incomes.
- Sign the petition
Ask the Chief Justice, the Governor and the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services to correct the guidelines now.
- Findings
Federal law, hardship test, child care, parenting-time credit,
fifty jurisdictions, each its own page.
- Federal law
Federal law requires child support to be based on what a parent can actually pay.
- Cost of living
Every place that costs more to live in than Massachusetts orders less
at equal parenting time.
- Shared-parenting formula
More states price joint custody with the cross-credit than with any other formula, and
Massachusetts does not use it.
- Support after 18
After a child turns 18, support can run to 23 and goes to the other parent, even while the
child is at college.
- Fifty-one jurisdictions
The same family's order under every state's guidelines, with
Massachusetts first at equal parenting time.
- Recommendations
What federal law should require of every state, then the twelve
changes the Massachusetts Worksheet needs.
- Exhibits
Every chart on the site, starting with the income pairs against the
federal limit on wage withholding (E29-E31), CSV linked beside each.
- The model
The worksheet, tax and extension models, six test suites, the
XFA harness, and commands to reproduce every number.
- The data
Six datasets behind the model, each rated for confidence.
- Documents
The comments to the Chief Justice as a PDF, and the figures appendix.
- Credits
The four refundable tax credits the model leaves out by default,
one income, one source each.
- Contact
Report an error, a broken link, or a question — a mailto link,
no form.
- About
Who built this, the disclosure, what isn't claimed.
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