Child Support If You Make $500 a Week in Maine
Maine prices support as a weekly per-child amount drawn from an annual-income table, and at $500 a week the payer sits near the low end of that structure.
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Guideline child support scenarios at $500 a week
The paying parent earns $500 a week ($2,166.67 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 Maine 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 | $407.33 | $615.33 | $637.00 |
| $2,000 a month | $383.07 | $576.85 | $696.28 |
| $4,000 a month | $345.61 | $523.75 | $625.76 |
| $6,000 a month | $296.61 | $443.77 | $527.69 |
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.
A big table that returns weekly amounts
Maine publishes a 2023 child support table with 673 annual-income rows running through $400,000, and the table expresses the result as a weekly per-child amount rather than a monthly one. The calculation finds the row for the parents combined annual income, reads the per-child figure, and that is the weekly support for each child.
At $500 a week, $2,166.67 a month gross, the payer is near the bottom of that large structure. The table below shows the resulting weekly amounts for one, two, and three children across the four other-parent income scenarios.
Reading weekly amounts from an annual table
Every figure in the table below is a weekly per-child amount, not a monthly one, which is a Maine-specific way of presenting support. The annual-income rows are combined parental income, and the per-child amount comes from the 2023 table.
The fixed baseline on this page is primary care. Maine also has a substantially-equal-care path with a separate offset, and that path is not exercised here.
What this estimate includes
- The 2023 Maine support table with weekly per-child amounts
- A lookup across combined annual income from both parents
- Results for 1, 2, or 3 children across four other-parent incomes
What it leaves out
- The substantially-equal-care offset, not used at the primary baseline
- The self-support protection, which applies at lower incomes
- Child care and health insurance add-ons
Worth knowing
The weekly-per-child presentation is the single most distinctive thing about Maine on this site. A reader comparing to monthly figures elsewhere should convert or keep the units in mind.
The table goes to $400,000 in annual income, so no income level in this series comes close to its top, and every cell below computes without a ceiling concern.
Frequently asked questions
Does Maine really return a weekly amount?
Yes. The 2023 table expresses support as a weekly per-child amount based on combined annual parental income, which is different from the monthly figures most states present.
How large is the Maine table?
It has 673 annual-income rows and runs through $400,000 in combined annual income, an unusually broad range that leaves room for almost any real income level.
What is the fixed baseline on this page?
Primary care, meaning the children reside primarily with the recipient. Maine also provides for substantially-equal care with a 1.5 times offset, which this page family does not exercise.
Does the other parent income matter at $500 a week?
Yes. For one child the weekly amount falls from $407.33 to $296.61 as the other parent income rises from none to $6,000 a month, and the other child-count columns move similarly.
Why does the three-child amount sometimes stay close to two children?
The table returns a weekly per-child amount, but the obligation can be shaped by the income-shares split and the self-support protection, so the columns do not always scale linearly at every income.
Where can I check the table directly?
The 2023 Maine support table is linked in the sources for this page, and the full Maine child support calculator on this site applies it with combined income.
About the numbers on this page
Every figure in the table above comes from running the real Maine child support engine on this site, the same engine and data pack behind the full Maine 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 Maine 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.