2024-2025 Child Support Guidelines Review
2023 guidelines, forms, and information
Below you will find the 2023 Child Support Guidelines, which are applied to all child support orders and judgments to be used by the justices of the Trial Court. These guidelines are effective July 31, 2023.
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2021 guidelines, forms, and information
Below you will find the 2021 Child Support Guidelines, which are applied to all child support orders and judgments to be used by the justices of the Trial Court. These forms are effective October 4, 2021. In addition, you can find a worksheet for calculating child support, and a chart of per child calculations based on income.
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2020-2021 Child Support Guidelines review
2018 guidelines, forms, and information
Below you will find the 2018 Child Support Guidelines effective June 15, 2018 until October 4, 2021, which are applied to all child support orders and judgments to be used by the justices of the Trial Court. In addition, you can find a worksheet for calculating child support, and a memo describing the changes.
Additional Resources
- 2018 Child Support Guidelines
- 2018 Child support guidelines worksheet (CJD 304)
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Open PDF file, 142.41 KB, 2018 Child Support Guidelines (English, PDF 142.41 KB)
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Open PDF file, 148.44 KB, Memo regarding amendments to Child Support Guidelines (English, PDF 148.44 KB)
2017 guidelines, forms, and information
Below you will find the 2017 Child Support Guidelines, which are applied to all child support orders and judgments to be used by the justices of the Trial Court. These forms are effective September 15, 2017 until June 14, 2018. In addition, you can find a worksheet and instructions for calculating child support, a chart of per child calculations based on income, and a form for post-secondary education child support.
Additional Resources
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Open PDF file, 267.19 KB, 2017 Child Support Guidelines (English, PDF 267.19 KB)
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Open PDF file, 42.62 KB, 2017 Child Support Guidelines worksheet (English, PDF 42.62 KB)
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Open PDF file, 75.79 KB, 2017 Child Support Guidelines chart (English, PDF 75.79 KB)
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Open PDF file, 58.71 KB, Report of the Task Force for the 2016-2017 Child Support Guidelines (English, PDF 58.71 KB)
2013 Child Support Guidelines and reports
Below you'll find the 2013 Child Support Guidelines, Child Support Guidelines worksheet, a chart of per child calculations based on income, and 2 reports prepared as resources to inform the Child Support Guidelines.
Additional Resources
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Open PDF file, 194.75 KB, 2013 Child Support Guidelines (English, PDF 194.75 KB)
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Open PDF file, 1.6 MB, 2013 Child Support Guidelines Worksheet (English, PDF 1.6 MB)
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Open PDF file, 275.41 KB, 2013 Child Support Guidelines chart (English, PDF 275.41 KB)
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Open PDF file, 6.35 MB, 2012 Report of the Child Support Guidelines Task Force (English, PDF 6.35 MB)
Ebook information
These guidelines are also available as an ebook:
- Massachusetts Child Support Guidelines (ebook)
- For instructions on how to download and install this ebook, see Download and install ebooks from the Trial Court Law Libraries.
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| Last updated: | July 19, 2023 |
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