Child Support If You Make $750 a Week in Colorado
This page assumes the paying parent has zero overnights and the recipient has all 365, and because Colorado credits every overnight, that assumption is the whole story.
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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 Colorado 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 | $627.00 | $955.00 | $1,154.00 |
| $2,000 a month | $599.86 | $905.05 | $1,085.81 |
| $4,000 a month | $516.41 | $773.72 | $920.31 |
| $6,000 a month | $453.95 | $676.00 | $798.97 |
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.
The overnight split is the baseline
Colorado has no custody-type selector on its worksheet. After HB25-1159, the calculation expresses the parenting arrangement through overnights: every overnight with the paying parent earns a credit under a per-overnight table, starting with the very first one. There is no threshold you have to cross before a credit appears.
This page family therefore fixes the baseline at zero overnights for the paying parent and all 365 with the recipient, which is the sole-custody equivalent. It is the common starting point for a paying, non-custodial parent, and it is the most conservative assumption, because any real overnight count would produce a different, usually lower, obligation.
How the credit changes once overnights begin
Every row in the table below uses zero payer overnights, so the numbers show the obligation with no parenting-time credit at all. The other parent income still moves the result at this income level, which is why the four rows differ, but the overnight side is held constant.
A reader with real overnights should not read the zero-overnight column as their own estimate. Even one night starts the credit, and the per-overnight table applies continuously from there.
What this estimate includes
- The 0/365 overnight split this page family fixes for Colorado
- The full HB25-1159 schedule with linear interpolation between rows
- Results for 1, 2, or 3 children across four other-parent incomes
What it leaves out
- Any parenting-time credit, since the baseline holds overnights at zero
- Shared physical care scenarios with one or more payer overnights
- Child care and health insurance add-ons
Worth knowing
The per-overnight credit is unusual nationally. Most states use a banded adjustment or a custody-type selector, but Colorado assigns a credit continuously by overnight, which is why the baseline count matters so much on every Colorado page.
Because the credit starts at the first overnight, there is no safe small number of overnights a reader can add without changing the result. This page keeps the baseline at zero and leaves real counts to the full calculator.
Frequently asked questions
Why does this page fix overnights at zero?
Colorado expresses custody through overnights rather than an arrangement type, and the most common paying-parent case is no court-ordered overnights. This page family uses that as the fixed baseline and discloses it so the numbers are not mistaken for a shared-care estimate.
How much does one overnight change the result?
Under HB25-1159 every overnight earns a credit through a per-overnight table, beginning with the first. The exact effect depends on the overnight count and income, which is why the full calculator is the right tool for a real case.
Does the result respond to the other parent income at $750 a week?
Yes. At this income the four other-parent rows differ, unlike the $500 page where the self-support reserve holds them level. The payer obligation runs from $627 down to $455.81 for one child as the other parent income rises.
What is the schedule range after the 2026 rewrite?
HB25-1159 extended the Colorado schedule to $40,000 a month and uses linear interpolation between rows, so the schedule covers this income and well beyond it without a jump between listed rows.
Is zero overnights the same as sole custody?
Functionally, yes. With no overnights with the payer, the recipient holds the children all year, which is the sole-custody arrangement. Colorado just has no named custody selector, so the overnight split carries the meaning.
Where can I run my actual overnight count?
The full Colorado child support calculator on this site accepts overnights, and the Colorado Judicial Branch electronic worksheet linked in the sources applies the same per-overnight table.
About the numbers on this page
Every figure in the table above comes from running the real Colorado child support engine on this site, the same engine and data pack behind the full Colorado 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 Colorado 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.