Child Support If You Make $1,500 a Week in Rhode Island
Rhode Island has a ratio-scaling rule for income above its $40,000 table top, and at $1,500 a week no scenario on this page reaches it.
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Guideline child support scenarios at $1500 a week
The paying parent earns $1500 a week ($6,500.00 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 Rhode Island 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 | $1,070.00 | $1,611.00 | $1,927.00 |
| $2,000 a month | $940.19 | $1,431.32 | $1,726.61 |
| $4,000 a month | $852.36 | $1,268.33 | $1,526.45 |
| $6,000 a month | $802.36 | $1,216.28 | $1,461.20 |
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 $40,000 boundary stays out of reach
The AO 2023-02 table runs through $40,000 a month in combined income, and Rhode Island provides ratio scaling for obligations above that point. At $1,500 a week the payer brings $6,500 a month, and with the top other-parent scenario the combined figure reaches about $12,500, far below the boundary.
That is why every cell in the table below is a standard table lookup with no ratio-scaling step. The boundary is worth naming so a reader with a much larger combined income knows it exists.
Reading the table below the scaling boundary
Every cell below is a standard AO 2023-02 lookup, so the table is directly comparable across all four other-parent rows and all three child counts. The payer income is fixed down each column, and the movement comes from the other parent income and the child count.
The ratio-scaling rule applies only above the $40,000 table top, which no scenario on this page reaches.
What this estimate includes
- Standard AO 2023-02 table results for every combination shown
- Confirmation that no cell reaches the $40,000 boundary
- Results for 1, 2, or 3 children across four other-parent incomes
What it leaves out
- The ratio-scaling step for income above the table top
- The shared-placement offset under AO 2018-01
- Child care and health insurance add-ons
Worth knowing
The $40,000 boundary is the highest single threshold on the Rhode Island page, and naming it helps a reader understand why this page never scales.
At $1,500 a week the table reads as a clean income-shares grid, with the ratio-scaling step held entirely out of reach.
Frequently asked questions
Does ratio scaling apply at $1,500 a week?
No. Ratio scaling is for combined income above the $40,000 table top, and the highest combined income on this page is about $12,500, far below it.
How does the ratio scaling work?
For combined income above the table, Rhode Island scales the obligation using a ratio, rather than refusing or stopping at the top row. It is a defined step that this page does not trigger.
Does the other parent income change the result at $1,500 a week?
Yes. For one child the obligation falls from $1,070 to $802.36 as the other parent income rises from none to $6,000 a month, with the two and three-child columns moving more.
Is the primary-arrangement baseline still fixed?
Yes. The shared-placement offset under AO 2018-01 is not applied, so the table result is the complete picture.
Is every cell computed at this income?
Yes. The combined incomes on this page fall within the AO 2023-02 table, so each cell is a normal lookup with no refusal.
Where can I see the scaling rule?
The AO 2023-02 order linked in the sources describes the above-table scaling, and the full Rhode Island calculator applies it to larger combined incomes.
About the numbers on this page
Every figure in the table above comes from running the real Rhode Island child support engine on this site, the same engine and data pack behind the full Rhode Island 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 Rhode Island 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.