A new child support calculator—designed for use by judges, court staff, attorneys, and other practitioners familiar with the Child Support Guidelines—is now available on the Indiana Courts website.  The calculator for parents was launched on January 1, 2010, and was the first of a new series of calculators based on the 2010 Guidelines.  Both calculators have been developed with guidance from the Domestic Relations Committee.  The child support calculator website was visited over 80,000 times during the first quarter of 2010.

The new Calculator for Practitioners was designed to meet the needs of busy courts, legal professionals, and social workers.  Some features include:

• Two keyboard-friendly pages of data entry: Children information is entered into a table on the first page, and all other information is entered on page two.  Users can tab through from field to field for most of the inputs.

• Calculate support for cases with third party custody: The number of overnights need not total 365 as in the Calculator for Parents.  In these cases, both parents are assigned an obligation on Line 8 of the Child Support Obligation Worksheet.

• Get all forms in one document: The calculator generates only the forms that are required based on the information entered, and now you can open, print, and save all forms in one document, called the All Forms Package (available on the summary page).

• Open a saved calculation in either calculator: If you have previously used the Calculator for Parents to create forms, and you saved those calculations, you can open them in the Calculator for Practitioners using the transaction number assigned when you saved.

To access the new Calculator for Practitioners go to: https://mycourts.in.gov/csc/Practitioners