Child support · IN
Indiana child support calculator
The Guideline Schedules for Weekly Support Payments and the Parenting Time Table of the Indiana Child Support Guidelines, applied to two weekly incomes.
Rules read on official Indiana pages on · Checked by Radif Partners · How we calculate
- Model
- Income shares
- Income counted
- Adjusted gross
- Shared parenting
- No fixed formula
- 1 child, $5,000 / $3,000
- $718
- a month, rules of January 1, 2024
Indiana counts child support by the week. A noncustodial parent with $1,200 of weekly adjusted income and a custodial parent at $800 owe, between them, a Basic Child Support Obligation of $411 a week for two children, and the noncustodial share comes to about $247 a week, or $1,069 a month, before child care, insurance and parenting time. The figures come from the Guideline Schedules for Weekly Support Payments revised for January 1, 2024, which run in $10 steps from $100 to $9,200 of combined weekly income and cover up to eight children. Parenting time is not a threshold here: a table of overnights starting at 52 turns each band into a credit built from transferred and duplicated costs, so 98 overnights cut the same order to $182 a week. Above $9,200 a week, the schedule prints a percentage per number of children instead of rows.
Guideline child support in Indiana, per month
$718
$8,613 a year · $166 a week, the period of the IN table
| Combined adjusted income (monthly equivalent) | $8,000 |
| Combined weekly adjusted income | $1,846 |
| Basic Child Support Obligation, weekly schedule, 1 child | $265 |
| Noncustodial parent’s share of income | 62.5% |
| Weekly support | $166 |
Estimate under the Indiana guideline as published, from the incomes you enter. Deviations, imputed income, other children and the judge's findings can change the order. How this is calculated.
Why the Hoosier numbers are weekly
Indiana courts set support in dollars per week, and every line of the Child Support Obligation Worksheet is weekly. Paychecks paid twice a month or once a month have to be converted first: multiply a monthly figure by twelve and divide by fifty-two. The calculator above takes monthly amounts like the other states and does that conversion for you, then shows the weekly order next to its monthly equivalent. The 2024 schedules rose at every income level after the review found that intact families spend more on children than the old table assumed; Guideline 1 ties the change to child-spending estimates drawn from the 2013 to 2019 Consumer Expenditure Survey.
Between two rows, Guideline 3D says to round to the nearest amount, so a combined $2,004 reads the same line as $2,000. Below $100 a week there is no schedule line and no fixed minimum: Guideline 2 asks the court to protect a subsistence level and allows a $0.00 order where it fits.
The Parenting Time Table
Guideline 6 replaced the old flat visitation credit with Table PT. Each band of annual overnights gives two fractions of the Basic Child Support Obligation: a TOTAL share (spending that moves with the child, plus the duplicated part) and a DUPLICATED share (housing and other costs both homes carry). The credit equals the obligation times TOTAL, minus the obligation times DUPLICATED times the noncustodial parent's percentage of income. That last term is why a well-paid noncustodial parent gets a smaller credit than a modest earner with the same schedule.
| Overnights a year | TOTAL / DUPLICATED | Weekly support, two children |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | no credit | $246.60 |
| 52 | 0.063 / 0.011 | $223.42 |
| 98 | 0.253 / 0.158 | $181.58 |
| 130 | 0.518 / 0.394 | $130.86 |
| 181 | 0.682 / 0.505 | $90.83 |
The Guideline 6 commentary notes that the standard Parenting Time Guidelines, without turning midweek evenings into overnights, produce roughly 96 to 100 nights; that is the band most Indiana families land in. Equal time means 181 to 183 overnights, and then the court picks which parent carries the controlled expenses (clothing, school fees, ordinary medical bills) and gives the credit to the other one. The credit is not automatic, and a parent who skips scheduled time can lose it.
Very high incomes
The schedule stops at $9,200 a week and prints a percentage per number of children in its footer, from 8.1% for one child to 20.4% for eight. The footer does not say whether that rate applies to the whole combined income or only to the excess; applied to the whole income it reproduces the last row almost exactly, so that is how the calculator reads it. For $12,000 a week of combined income and three children, the obligation would be $1,572 a week. A judge can treat such incomes differently. Neighbors handle the same question in their own way: see Illinois, Ohio or Kentucky.
The Indiana guideline this calculator applies
| Rule | Indiana |
|---|---|
| Model | Income shares, combined weekly adjusted income schedule (Indiana Child Support Rules and Guidelines) |
| Income counted | Adjusted gross income: gross income minus the deductions the guideline allows. |
| Official schedule | $100 to $9,200 of combined income a week, 911 rows |
| Shared parenting | No overnight formula in the calculator (see the rule below) |
| In force since | January 1, 2024 |
Monthly support for one paying parent, the other parent without income
| Paying parent’s monthly income | 1 child | 2 children | 3 children | 4 children |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $2,000 | $342 | $442 | $494 | $555 |
| $3,000 | $550 | $776 | $884 | $962 |
| $4,000 | $724 | $1,088 | $1,356 | $1,499 |
| $5,000 | $880 | $1,322 | $1,651 | $1,855 |
| $6,000 | $1,001 | $1,504 | $1,876 | $2,110 |
| $8,000 | $1,148 | $1,725 | $2,154 | $2,422 |
| $10,000 | $1,283 | $1,924 | $2,405 | $2,704 |
| $12,500 | $1,491 | $2,236 | $2,795 | $3,146 |
| $15,000 | $1,677 | $2,518 | $3,146 | $3,536 |
| $20,000 | $2,058 | $2,929 | $3,475 | $3,896 |
How the amount is set. For combined weekly adjusted income falling between amounts shown in the schedule, basic child support amounts should be rounded to the nearest amount (Guideline 3D). source
Income. Weekly gross income is actual weekly gross income if employed to full capacity, potential income if unemployed or underemployed, plus in-kind benefits; it includes salaries, wages, bonuses, overtime, dividends, pensions, Social Security, workers' compensation, unemployment, gifts, inheritance, prizes and maintenance received, and excludes means-tested assistance (TANF, SSI, food stamps) (Guideline 3A). Weekly adjusted income deducts an adjustment for subsequent-born children, prior-born child support orders, support actually paid for prior-born children without an order, and maintenance paid (Guideline 3C).
Above the table. The schedule's footer reads 'Percentage of Support if Combined Income Greater than $9,200': 8.1%, 11.4%, 13.1%, 14.7%, 16.2%, 17.6%, 19.0%, 20.4% for 1 to 8 children. The footer does not say whether the percentage applies to total income or to the excess over $9,200 (see uncertain).
Parenting time. Parenting Time Table (Table PT, Guideline 6 Commentary) gives TOTAL and DUPLICATED fractions of the Basic Child Support Obligation by annual overnights with the noncustodial parent, starting at 52 overnights. Credit = BCSO x TOTAL - BCSO x DUPLICATED x noncustodial parent's percentage share of combined weekly adjusted income (formula reproduced from the official Guideline 6 example: $850/$600 weekly incomes, 3 children, gives $28.95, $134.94 and $206.95 at 56, 120 and 180 overnights). Equal parenting time is 181 to 183 overnights; the court assigns controlled expenses to one parent and gives the credit to the other. The credit is not automatic (Guideline 6).
Child care and health care. work-related child care added to the basic obligation (Line 4A), shared by income share, payer credited (Guideline 3E, 3G) weekly cost of the child(ren)'s health insurance premium added (Line 4B), shared by income share, payer credited (Guideline 3E, 3G) Work-related child care and the weekly cost of the children's health insurance premiums are added to the Basic Child Support Obligation, prorated by income share, and the parent who pays them receives a credit on Line 7 (Guidelines 3E and 3G).
Low incomes. No numeric self-support reserve or minimum order: for combined weekly adjusted income under $100 support is set case by case, and for very low incomes the court considers the obligor's income and living expenses so as not to deny a means of self-support at a minimum subsistence level; a numeric amount (possibly $0.00) is ordered (Guideline 2 and Commentary).
When support ends. Guideline 4 Commentary refers to the support duty ending when a child reaches nineteen (19) or is emancipated (Ind. Code § 31-16-6-6); an in-gross order for several children does not drop automatically when the oldest turns 19. source
The state also runs its own official child support calculator; use it, or the court's worksheet, for a filing.
Worth knowing in Indiana
- Indiana's schedule is weekly, not monthly, and runs from $100 to $9,200 of combined weekly adjusted income in $10 steps for up to eight children. source
- The 2024 revision changed the weekly support schedule at all income levels after the 2023 guideline review found intact-family spending on children significantly larger than the old schedule (Guideline 1 Commentary). source
- A support order may be modified if the amount ordered at least 12 months earlier differs from the current guideline amount by more than 20%, or on a substantial and continuing change of circumstances (Guideline 4). source
- Temporary maintenance should not exceed 35% of the obligor's weekly adjusted income, and temporary maintenance plus child support should not exceed 50% (Guideline 2). source
- The guidelines were developed by the Judicial Administration Committee of the Judicial Conference of Indiana and adopted by the Indiana Supreme Court (Support Rule 1; Guideline 1). source