Child support helps ensure that children have funds available for their upbringing. Child support payments continue until the child turns eighteen years old, or nineteen if still attending high school. Most people believe child support amounts are a calculated formula. This is not correct. Nevada statutes do provide formulas for child support base levels. However, the amounts of these base child support payments can be adjusted under certain circumstances. Our Board Certified Las Vegas child custody attorneys are familiar with the circumstances that can affect child support amounts.
Other Child Support Factors
Base child support amounts are available for adjustment. Items such as day care, medical insurance, private school tuition, extracurricular school activities, necessary health-related costs, and other child expenses are considerations for adjusting the base child support amounts. Our child support attorneys understand how these other factors can change the calculated base amounts. Proper evaluation of these factors may change the total amount of child support.
Child Custody Type
The child custody type is the first factor when calculating base amounts. In cases where one parent has primary physical custody, the payment amounts are based on the income of the non-custodial parent. If physical custody is jointly shared, child support payments are based on the difference of parents’ incomes.
Child Support Payments
Base child support amounts are currently calculated as follows:
Percentage of Gross Monthly Income From $0 to $6,000
| One Child | 16% | |
| Two Children | 22% | |
| Three Children | 26% | |
| Four Children | 28% | |
| For each additional child add | +2% |
Plus Percentage of Gross Monthly Income From $6,001 to $10,000
| One Child | 8% | |
| Two Children | 11% | |
| Three Children | 13% | |
| Four Children | 14% | |
| For each additional child add | +1% |
Plus Percentage of Gross Monthly Income From $10,001 and Above
| One Child | 4% | |
| Two Children | 6% | |
| Three Children | 6% | |
| Four Children | 7% | |
| For each additional child add | +0.5% |
