Press Release  Trial Court Issues New Child Support Guidelines

BOSTON, MA — Trial Court Chief Justice Heidi E. Brieger today announced the promulgation of the 2025 Child Support Guidelines, effective December 1, 2025, based on a comprehensive review by the 2024-2025 Child Support Guidelines Task Force, which must review the Guidelines every four years.

The Task Force was chaired by the Hon. Katherine Field (Ret.) and Denise M. Fitzgerald, Esq., Chief Legal Counsel for the Probate and Family Court, with assistance from The Brattle Group, led by Mark Sarro, Ph.D., with Shastri Sandy, Ph.D., M.B.A, and Christine Polek, Ph.D. 

Trial Court judges use the Child Support Guidelines to set and modify orders for child support.

“I appreciate the work that the Task Force did in reviewing the Child Support Guidelines and in considering how their application affects families in Massachusetts,” said Trial Court Chief Justice Brieger.

The 2025 Child Support Guidelines include commentary addressing the revisions to the 2023 Child Support Guidelines. The 2025 Child Support Guidelines Worksheet was revised to make it consistent with the 2025 Child Support Guidelines. Users of the Child Support Guidelines Worksheet are strongly encouraged to use the electronic version of the Worksheet for easier completion. The only official electronic version of the guidelines and the Child Support Guidelines Worksheet are the versions found at Child Support Guidelines | Mass.gov.

In accordance with the Trial Court’s past practice of publishing a Child Support Guidelines Chart that calculates the dollar orders at incremental income amounts, a Child Support Guidelines Chart for the 2025 Child Support Guidelines is posted at 2025 Child Support Guidelines Chart. 

Additional information on the quadrennial review of the Child Support Guidelines can be found at Child Support Guidelines | Mass.gov.

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