Wisconsin Child Support
Wisconsin child support payments are calculated on the basis of the guidelines in the Child Support Percentage of Income Standard. You can check out how child support is calculated with these guidelines by having a look at this post about NYC child support.
The Wisconsin child support program, run by the Wisconsin Bureau of Child Support, can provide a lot of help with your child support requirements whether you are the custodial or non custodial parent.
The Wisconsin child support program can help you with
1. Establishing paternity (legal fatherhood)
2. Finding a missing parent
3. Contacting the employer of the non custodial, paying parent to ensure collection of child support from his/her wages
4. Helping with attempting to have a child support order changed
5. Ensuring that a child support is enforced
6. Providing information about child support payments made and received
7. Supplying interpreters of child support information and many other tasks surrounding the collection and payment of child support.
You can apply for case management services at your local child support agency and this application is free. If you are in any aid or benefit program you can access these child support services automatically.
Most child support payments (75%) are collected at source, from the employer for example. To do this the child support agency that is assisting you will send a withholding notice on the employer and this notice is binding on the employer.
Withholding notices can also be served in relation to unemployment insurance and social security disability insurance benefits.
You must advise the Wisconsin child support agency if you move home and change address. If the paying parent does not pay for one month then the other parent can go to the Wisconsin child support agency who will go to court to seek an enforcement of the child support order.
The website of the Wisconsin Department of Children and Families is very helpful and provides extensive information about all issues surrounding Wisconsin child support and services.
It is easy to navigate and explains in plain English how payments are made and recorded, the methods of payment, how child support amounts are arrived at in court, how to change a support order and provides good worksheets and a child support calculator to allow you estimate your child support payments.
Wisconsin Child Support Calculations and Forms
The website also provides great child support forms and worksheets to help you calculate child support in Wisconsin and the calculators which are in spreadsheet format include child support calculators for high income earners, serial family cases, split placement and many other child support forms.
It will also provide you with great information about how to determine the income figures you need to use when estimating your child support payments and how and when the court will choose between your gross income, your ability or potential to earn, how much income is available for child support and imputed income derived from assets such as property, life insurance and other non liquid assets.
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