Child Support Enforcement (CSE)

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Child Support Guidelines (Effective July 1, 2011)

The North Dakota Department of Human Services has established child support guidelines to be used by courts in determining the amount a parent should be expected to contribute toward the support of a child. These guidelines apply in any action in North Dakota in which a child support obligation is being established or changed.

Note: Amended guidelines (effective July 1, 2011) will replace the previous guidelines (effective through June 30, 2011). Both amended and previous guidelines are available below. A document that shows the changes made to the previous guidelines, resulting in the amended guidelines, is also available. On this document, deleted text is shown by strike-through and new text is underscored.

• Amended Child Support Guidelines: N.D. Admin. Code ch. 75-02-04.1 (effective July 1, 2011) (2.68mb pdf)
• Annotated Child Support Guidelines (annotations through December 2012) (8.91mb pdf)
• Previous Child Support Guidelines: N.D. Admin. Code ch. 75-02-04.1 (effective through June 30, 2011) (2.63mb pdf)
• Previous Child Support Guidelines with Changes Shown (2.63mb pdf)
• Fact Sheet Amendments (93.35kb pdf)

Calculator

Child Support has developed a calculator that will calculate child support based on the guidelines. Go to calculator (64 kb pdf)

Forms

Child Support Enforcement has developed forms that can be used to assist in calculating a child support obligation under the amended guidelines.

• Financial Affidavit (child support determination) (1.23mb pdf)
• Instructions for Child Support Guidelines Worksheet (68.1kb pdf)
• Worksheet (200kb pdf)
• Schedule A: Imputed Income (246kb pdf)
• Schedule B: Self-Employment Income (327kb pdf)
• Schedule C: Multiple Families (165kb pdf)
• Schedule D: Adjustment for Parenting Time (78kb pdf)
• Schedule E: Foster Care (N.D. Admin. Code 75-02-04.1-11) (184kb pdf)
• Schedule 1: Hypothetical Federal and State Income Tax (N.D. Admin. Code 75-02-04.1-01(7)(a) and (b)) (119kb pdf)
• Schedule 2: Health Insurance (N.D. Admin. Code 75-02-04.1-01(7)(d)) (112kb pdf)

Resources

• Child Support Guidelines Frequently Asked Questions
• Employment and Wages by Occupation Report
  Job Service North Dakota has a report that is useful when imputing income to an obligor who is unemployed or underemployed. The report, Employment and Wages by Occupation, has wage information by region and select cities for hundreds of occupations. The report is available at the following link: https://www.ndworkforceintelligence.com/admin/gsipub/htmlarea/uploads/lmi_empwagesocc2012.pdf

 

 

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