As any parent can tell you, raising a child is expensive. Between housing, educational and extracurricular fees, groceries, and other expenses, child-related costs can constitute a large share of a parent’s monthly bills. When married parents divorce or unmarried parents have a child together, one parent is typically ordered to make child support payments to the other. In Wisconsin, the amount of financial support a parent provides via child support is determined by several different factors.
Wisconsin Child Support Laws
Generally, the parent who spends more time directly caring for the child is the recipient of child support and the other parent is the payer. The amount of child support that a parent pays is typically determined by statutory formulas. In Wisconsin, a parent’s child support obligation is determined by multiplying his or her income by a certain percentage:
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