Child Support If You Make $2,000 a Week in Kentucky
Kentucky publishes its schedule up to a combined $30,000 a month, and this page's highest combined figure, about $14,666.67, does not come close to testing that edge.
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Guideline child support scenarios at $2000 a week
The paying parent earns $2000 a week ($8,666.67 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 Kentucky 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 | $1,026.00 | $1,456.00 | $1,740.00 |
| $2,000 a month | $930.31 | $1,294.31 | $1,552.69 |
| $4,000 a month | $886.74 | $1,229.53 | $1,473.11 |
| $6,000 a month | $836.14 | $1,150.50 | $1,383.91 |
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.
Where $2,000 a week actually sits on the Kentucky schedule
KRS 403.212 tables run in $100 steps up to a combined monthly adjusted gross income of $30,000. Nothing published above that figure exists as a row; a judge handling a case that high has to work from the statute directly rather than a printed number, which Kentucky treats as an exercise of judicial discretion.
$2,000 a week converts to $8,666.67 a month for the paying parent. Add the richest other-parent scenario this page tests, $6,000 a month, and the combined figure lands near $14,666.67, not even half of the $30,000 ceiling. Every one of the twelve results below is a genuine row lookup, never a judgment call standing in for a missing row.
What stays a real lookup, and what would not
The payer figure holds steady at $2,000 a week across every row; only the other parent's income moves, from nothing up to $6,000 a month. None of those four combinations gets anywhere near the $30,000 schedule ceiling, so nothing here substitutes judicial discretion for a missing table row.
What this estimate includes
- A genuine KRS 403.212 row lookup for every combined figure this page tests
- Each parent's proportional share of that row's obligation
- A direct comparison to the $30,000 point where the printed schedule ends
What it leaves out
- Judicial discretion above $30,000 a month combined, not reached here
- The shared-parenting credit bands, which need court-ordered parenting days
- Add-ons such as child care and health insurance
Worth knowing
Kentucky's above-schedule treatment is judicial discretion guided by the statute, not a formula, which is why this page names the $30,000 line without pretending to compute past it.
None of the five weekly incomes in this series for Kentucky, up to this page's $2,000, push the combined figure anywhere near $30,000 a month; a genuinely high-earning household would need the full calculator and, likely, a court's own analysis.
Frequently asked questions
How far is $2,000 a week from the Kentucky schedule ceiling?
Not close. The richest row this page reaches combines the payer's $8,666.67 a month with a $6,000 other-parent income, about $14,666.67 total, less than half of Kentucky's $30,000 published ceiling.
What happens once combined income passes $30,000 a month?
The printed KRS 403.212 rows stop. A court handling that case works from the statute's underlying principles directly, an exercise of discretion rather than a table lookup, and this page does not attempt to reproduce it.
Why does the number change across the other-parent rows?
Each row changes the combined monthly income, which selects a different schedule row and changes the payer share of the total. Both effects move the figure across the table.
Is the payer the majority earner at this income?
In this table, yes. The payer brings $8,666.67 a month, and the highest other-parent scenario is $6,000, so the payer share stays above half in every row.
Does the minimum order matter at this income?
No. The schedule results sit far above the statutory floor, so the minimum order does not bind anywhere in the table.
How is the $8,666.67 monthly figure derived?
$2,000 a week times 52 weeks divided by 12 months equals $8,666.67 a month. This page feeds that monthly gross figure to the Kentucky engine, which runs the schedule.
About the numbers on this page
Every figure in the table above comes from running the real Kentucky child support engine on this site, the same engine and data pack behind the full Kentucky 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 Kentucky 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.