Child Support If You Make $750 a Week in Alabama
The Rule 32 schedule has a column structure worth knowing: it stops at six children, and that top column doubles as the floor for any larger family.
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Guideline child support scenarios at $750 a week
The paying parent earns $750 a week ($3,250.00 a month) in every cell below. The other parent's monthly income changes across rows, and the number of children changes across columns; both genuinely change the result.Every figure is computed with the real Alabama guideline engine, the same one behind the full calculator, not a lookup table built for this page.
| Other parent's income | 1 child | 2 children | 3 children |
|---|---|---|---|
| No reported income | $592.00 | $897.00 | $1,080.00 |
| $2,000 a month | $501.43 | $752.14 | $894.52 |
| $4,000 a month | $427.21 | $632.07 | $742.34 |
| $6,000 a month | $385.43 | $570.24 | $668.62 |
Every dollar figure is a monthly amount, the presumptive guideline result before add-ons like child care or health insurance and before any court deviation. "Not available" means the engine behind this site declined to compute that specific combination rather than guess; the reason is shown next to it.
Why the schedule stops at six children
The Rule 32 basic obligation schedule is a published table with one column per number of children, and the published columns end at six. When a case has more than six children, Alabama uses the six-child column as a floor for the obligation rather than inventing a higher column, because no higher published column exists. The rule simply does not provide one.
At $750 a week the paying parent brings $3,250 a month to the combined total. The three columns in the table below, for 1, 2, and 3 children, sit well inside that published range, so every cell uses a real schedule row. With no reported income from the other parent, the numbers run from $592 a month for one child to $1,080 a month for three.
How the column structure shows up in the table
Every row below keeps the same $750-a-week gross pay for the paying parent and changes only the other parent income across rows and the child count across columns. Because the payer income alone is $3,250 a month, the combined income never approaches the edge of the published schedule at this level, so no cell needs the six-child floor. The floor is a rule for larger families, not for anything this page shows.
What this estimate includes
- The Rule 32 schedule lookup for combined income in the published 1-to-3-child columns
- The proportional split of the obligation between the two parents
- The honest note that the six-child floor exists but is not reached here
What it leaves out
- Cases with six or more children, where the six-child column would act as the floor
- Child care and health insurance add-ons ordered separately
- Court-ordered deviations from the schedule amount
Worth knowing
The six-child column serving as a floor is a structural feature of Rule 32: the rule chose to publish a bounded set of columns and reuse the largest one rather than extrapolate. This page explains that structure because it is the most distinctive part of Alabama own guideline.
A parent with more than six children in the case would want the full calculator, which applies the same schedule and shows the floor behavior for a larger family.
Frequently asked questions
Why does the Rule 32 schedule stop at six children?
The published table only has columns for one through six children. For a case with more than six, Alabama uses the six-child column as a floor, because the rule does not publish a higher column to look up.
Does the six-child floor affect the table on this page?
No. This page only shows 1, 2, and 3 children, all of which have their own published columns. The floor would only matter in a case with six or more children, which is not what this table displays.
How does the number change between the child-count columns?
Each column is a separate schedule lookup at the same combined income. At $750 a week with no other-parent income, one child produces $592 a month, two children $897, and three children $1,080, showing the step between columns.
What does the other parent income do to these numbers?
It genuinely changes them. Rule 32 combines both parents adjusted gross incomes, finds the obligation for that combined total, then splits it by each parent share. That is why the figures fall as the other-parent row rises in the table.
Is $3,250 a month a high income under Rule 32?
It is well within the ordinary schedule range. The schedule extends far above this level, and every cell here is a normal schedule lookup rather than a floor or cap result.
Where does the six-child column come from?
It is part of the Rule 32 schedule adopted with the current guidelines, which the Alabama engine on this site reads directly. The same schedule backs the full Alabama child support calculator.
About the numbers on this page
Every figure in the table above comes from running the real Alabama child support engine on this site, the same engine and data pack behind the full Alabama child support calculator. Nothing on this page is a separate estimate or a reimplementation of the math. See the sources below for the statutes and official worksheets behind the Alabama guideline.
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Changelog: page first published as part of the child support by income series. Material changes are dated in the update log.