Editorial and corrections policy

People open these calculators before a mediation, a hearing, a call with an adjuster or a meeting with an executor. A wrong percentage or a stale weekly maximum can push someone to accept too little or ask for too much. This page says where every figure comes from and what happens when one is wrong.

Who is responsible

Content and calculations: Radif Partners, contact@usfamilycalc.com.

Sources we use

• state codes and court rules on the legislature's or the judiciary's own site, for guideline formulas, alimony caps, waiting periods, creditor deadlines and statutory probate fees;
• child support schedules as adopted by each state's supreme court, judicial council or child support agency;
• fee schedules of the state courts, or of the clerk of the most populous county where fees are set locally;
• bulletins of each state's workers' compensation board or labor department for the weekly maximum and minimum of the benefit year;
• federal texts (U.S. Code, Code of Federal Regulations, IRS publications) for the rules that apply in every state.

Sources we refuse for a figure

Law firm blogs, legal directories, news articles and other calculators may point us to a text; they never supply a number. When one disagrees with the official text, the official text wins and the data file keeps its address. When a state has not yet published its 2026 figure, the page says so and uses the latest official one, with its date.

Review cycle

Each state is re-read at least every 12 months, and whenever a scheduled change is known: a new child support table, the January or July workers' comp rate, a statutory index of small-estate limits.

Corrections

1. We check the report against the official text.
2. We fix the data file or the engine and add a test for that case.
3. The page shows its new reading date.

Independence

No law firm, mediator, insurer or lead-generation company pays to appear on the site, and the calculators never ask for your contact details. If that ever changed, it would be written next to the link.

See also the method page. Policy version: 2026-10-08.