Vermont child support calculator

Vermont states the income-shares idea unusually plainly. Its table is not called a schedule of obligations but a Table of Intact Family Expenditures on Children — a record of what a family at that income actually spends on its children while living together. The parents’ available income is combined, the table gives the spending figure, and each parent is responsible for the share matching their contribution to the combined income. The noncustodial parent pays their share; the custodial parent is presumed to spend theirs directly.

The Table of Intact Family Expenditures on Children is published by the Office of Child Support and was last revised 1 February 2024. It is indexed by combined monthly available income in $50 bands — the first is $625.00–$674.99 — running up to $30,024.99, for one to six children. Because the bands are ranges rather than points there is no rounding rule to apply: an income falls in exactly one band.

Qualified child care — work- or education-related, annualised and divided by twelve, excluding subsidies and tax credits — plus extraordinary medical and educational expenses are added to the basic obligation to give the combined family expenditures, which is what gets split by income share. Vermont then runs a separate ability-to-pay step: if the paying parent’s available income is below the self-support reserve, or paying the guideline amount would push it below, the court may deviate. Vermont deliberately keeps that figure out of the guideline packet because it changes during the year; the Office of Child Support publishes the current one on its calculator page, so this calculator does not apply it.

Vermont runs shared custody on a different worksheet with its own table rather than adjusting this one, so the two cannot be mixed. This calculator performs the sole and split custody calculation. A court may also deviate from the guideline amount where it finds the statutory grounds — including the ability-to-pay step above.

It combines both parents’ available income, reads the guideline table, adds child care and extraordinary expenses, and splits the total by income share. It does not compute available income from your pay stubs, run the shared-custody worksheet, apply the self-support-reserve ability-to-pay step, or apply a deviation the court may order. For a figure you can file, use the Office of Child Support’s own calculator or consult an attorney.