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How is the amount of child support determined?
How is the amount of child support determined?
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so the family code in texas
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has some formulas that they give you a
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pretty good idea of how much support
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the parent who’s ordered to pay support
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is going to be paying it’ll give you a
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percentage uh for example if you have
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one child before the court one child who
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is going to be receiving support uh the
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percentage is 20 percent if you have two
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kids in front of the court that’s 25
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and that can be applied to um
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a maximum of 9 200
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the first 9 200 a month that you make so
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anything above that is typically not
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involved in child support calculations
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but anything
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at or below that number is gonna you’re
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gonna apply percentage to
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and what that does is it gives it gives
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parties and litigation a pretty good
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idea of what the child support number is
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and it kind of helps um
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helps them know that that’s not
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always something you have to fight over
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Austin, TX family law attorney Kayvon Rashidi explains how is the amount of child support is determined.
