Practical legal and financial guides written by the Revival Cooperative research team. Built to help parents and practitioners understand state child support guidelines, court financial disclosures, and shared custody rules.
How multi-state child support orders are enforced, modified, and collected under UIFSA, FFCCSOA (28 U.S.C. § 1738B), and the 2007 Hague Convention.
A 50-state statutory guide to when child support terminates (Age 18, 19, or 21), high school graduation extensions, adult disabled child support, and which states compel parents to pay for college.
How US family courts calculate child support when parental earnings exceed state statutory caps ($9,200/mo in Texas, $183,000/yr in New York, $400,000/yr in Massachusetts), balancing affluent lifestyle sharing against disguised alimony.
How federal and state Title IV-D enforcement remedies operate: Income Withholding Orders (IWO), IRS tax refund intercepts, passport revocation at $2,500 arrears, license suspensions, and contempt proceedings.
Why family courts reject IRS Schedule C taxable income for self-employed parents, how judges 'add back' depreciation and personal business write-offs, and how retained corporate earnings are audited.
A complete statutory guide to mandatory child support add-ons: how courts calculate incremental health insurance credits, pro-rata daycare shares, and the $250/year uninsured medical threshold.
When and how parents can legally petition to increase or decrease court-ordered child support, including the 15%/20% statutory variance thresholds, involuntary job loss rules, and the Bradley Amendment.
A practical breakdown of statutory spousal maintenance formulas in New York, California, Massachusetts, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Texas—and how alimony orders directly alter child support worksheets.
A practical guide to completing mandatory family court financial statements (Form FL-150, CJD-301, Statement of Net Worth). What documents to gather, calculation math, and common filing traps.
How family courts treat parents who are voluntarily unemployed or underemployed, how judges calculate earning capacity using wage records and vocational experts, and statutory defenses.
Why equal 50/50 physical custody rarely eliminates child support, how states calculate dual-household overhead, and how shared parenting cross-credit multipliers work in practice.
Understand the critical legal, financial, and tax distinctions between child support and alimony, how the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) changed deductibility, and how spousal maintenance impacts child support formulas.
Alimonify provides free, 100% client-side statutory child support calculators for 14 major US jurisdictions—including 50/50 custody offsets, allowable tax deductions, and official court worksheet previews—plus a complete 50-state statutory reference directory.