Child Support If You Make $1,000 a Week in Tennessee
Tennessee schedule has child-specific self-support bands, and at $1,000 a week the payer has mostly cleared them, so the table responds fully to income.
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Guideline child support scenarios at $1000 a week
The paying parent earns $1000 a week ($4,333.33 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 Tennessee 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 | $929.83 | $1,282.98 | $1,463.71 |
| $2,000 a month | $753.35 | $1,016.13 | $1,139.79 |
| $4,000 a month | $630.67 | $843.36 | $940.44 |
| $6,000 a month | $589.38 | $785.34 | $870.61 |
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 self-support bands in the background
Tennessee schedule includes child-specific shaded self-support bands that protect a low-income paying parent. Each child count has its own band, and when the payer income falls inside one, the obligation is shaped by the band rather than the ordinary combined-income math.
At $1,000 a week, $4,333.33 a month, the payer sits above the strongest part of those bands, so the table responds fully to the other parent income. For one child the obligation falls from $929.83 to $589.38 as that income rises from none to $6,000 a month.
Reading the schedule above the bands
Every cell below is the schedule result at the zero-overnight baseline, with the payer above the strongest self-support band territory. The other parent income moves the result across all four rows.
The bands would matter more at lower incomes, which is why the $500 Tennessee page in this series shows a different shape than this one.
What this estimate includes
- The schedule response with the self-support bands mostly cleared
- The zero-overnight baseline with no overnight adjustment
- Results for 1, 2, or 3 children across four other-parent incomes
What it leaves out
- The low-time increase below 68 overnights
- The variable-multiplier credit from 92 overnights
- Child care and health insurance add-ons
Worth knowing
The child-specific bands are a distinctive Tennessee detail, and naming them explains why the lowest-income Tennessee pages behave differently from this one.
At this income the bands have largely cleared, so the page reads like a conventional income-shares grid at the zero-overnight baseline.
Frequently asked questions
What are the child-specific self-support bands?
They are shaded bands in the Tennessee schedule, one per child count, that protect a low-income paying parent by shaping the obligation when the payer income falls inside them.
Do they affect this page?
Only lightly. At $4,333.33 a month the payer sits above the strongest part of the bands, so the schedule responds fully to the other parent income rather than being held by a band.
Does the other parent income change the result at $1,000 a week?
Yes. For one child the obligation falls from $929.83 to $589.38 as the other parent income rises from none to $6,000 a month, with the two and three-child columns moving more.
Is the zero-overnight baseline still fixed?
Yes. The payer is held at zero overnights, so the overnight-based adjustments are not applied, and the movement you see is the schedule response alone.
Is every cell computed at this income?
Yes. The combined incomes on this page fall within the schedule, so each cell is a normal lookup with no refusal.
Where can I see the bands?
The Tennessee guidelines linked in the sources publish the shaded schedule, and the full Tennessee child support calculator applies the bands at any income.
About the numbers on this page
Every figure in the table above comes from running the real Tennessee child support engine on this site, the same engine and data pack behind the full Tennessee 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 Tennessee 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.