Child Support If You Make $750 a Week in Maine
Maine offers a primary-care path and a substantially-equal-care path, and this page always runs the primary one, which is the assumption to understand first.
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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 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 | $589.33 | $892.67 | $1,079.00 |
| $2,000 a month | $552.60 | $831.59 | $997.90 |
| $4,000 a month | $472.03 | $707.08 | $839.17 |
| $6,000 a month | $414.13 | $615.10 | $726.24 |
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.
Primary care is the fixed path
Maine calculates support along two paths. The primary-care path applies when the children reside primarily with the recipient, and the substantially-equal-care path applies when the children spend essentially equal time with both parents, carrying a separate 1.5 times offset under the support statutes.
This page family fixes the primary-care path on every Maine page, the common case for a paying, non-custodial parent. It is disclosed because a genuinely equal-care case would run the other path and could produce a meaningfully different weekly amount.
When the equal-care path would apply
Every row in the table below is computed on the primary-care path. The weekly amounts fall as the other parent income rises, which is the income-shares response at work within that path.
A parent with essentially equal time would need the substantially-equal-care calculation, which applies the 1.5 times offset and is not what this page shows. The full Maine calculator can run that path.
What this estimate includes
- The primary-care path and its weekly amounts
- The income-shares response across four other-parent incomes
- Results for 1, 2, or 3 children at the fixed primary baseline
What it leaves out
- The substantially-equal-care path and its 1.5 times offset
- The self-support protection, which applies at lower incomes
- Child care and health insurance add-ons
Worth knowing
The 1.5 times offset is a distinctive Maine feature that does not appear in most states. Naming it matters because a reader with equal time would otherwise assume this page covers their case.
Because the table returns weekly amounts, the primary-care numbers here are directly comparable across the four other-parent rows without any monthly conversion.
Frequently asked questions
What is the primary-care baseline?
It assumes the children reside primarily with the recipient parent. Maine also has a substantially-equal-care path for essentially equal time, and this page family always runs the primary path.
How does the equal-care path differ?
The substantially-equal-care path applies a separate 1.5 times offset under the Maine support statutes, and it is not exercised on this page. A genuinely equal-care case needs the full calculator.
Does the other parent income change the result at $750 a week?
Yes. For one child the weekly amount falls from $589.33 to $414.13 as the other parent income rises from none to $6,000 a month, with the two and three-child columns moving similarly.
Are these weekly amounts or monthly?
Weekly. Maine expresses its table results as a weekly per-child amount, so the figures in the table below are weekly, not monthly.
Why is primary care the common case?
The most frequent setup has the paying parent without primary physical custody, which is exactly what the primary-care path models. That is why this page family uses it as the default.
Where can I run the equal-care path?
The full Maine child support calculator on this site accepts the care arrangement, and the Maine statutes linked in the sources describe the substantially-equal-care offset.
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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