Note: This blog post was initially released January 1st, 2024 and will be continually updated throughout 2024. See the date above for last revision.
The Kansas Supreme Court has released the 2024 Kansas Child Support Guidelines! The Kansas Child Support Guidelines are updated every 4 years pursuant to Federal Law 45 C.F.R. § 302.56. Updates usually involve adopting the contracted economist's updated child support tables and making language revisions to certain sections of the guidelines. La...
]]>We have released our new Kansas Child Support calculator tool (version 24.0.0) supporting the latest 2024 Child Support Guidelines. This new version incorporates all the guidelines revisions such as child support tables, updated Federal and Kansas tax factors, updated poverty guidelines per the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and updated Cost of Living Differential (COLD) adjustment factors per the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA).
All Kansas child support calculations from...
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]]>Congratulations are in order! Another school year in the books! It's now time to relax and have fun.
For some, it's a time to go shopping for a new school car, buy new sports equipment, maybe attend summer camps, etc. It's not uncommon for parenting time schedules to adjust during the summer months or even parenting roles to switch. The Kansas Child Support Guidelines contain provisions for many of these situations. Our software provides contextual links to relevant sections of the guidel...
]]>We have released the latest version (23.0.0) of our Kansas Child Support Calculator for 2023!
We've incorporated the latest Regional Price Parities (RPP) data released by the Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS) to support Cost of Living Differential calculations. The RPP data is used when one of the parents earns income from another state. Foreign state income is converted to "Kansas dollars" using regional cost of living factors. Using this feature of our Kansas Child Support Calculator i...
]]>The '22-'23 school season has arrived! As parents, we're left wondering if we should be excited, anxious, sad to see our little ones growing so fast, or a little of everything. Please be assured that everything will work out fine. Children are more creative, adaptive, and resilient than we ever imagined. They are also highly impressionable. So, if you're feeling anxiety or sadness about your child starting back to school, put that in your pocket and try to focus on being excited for your ch...
]]>Welcome 2022! We have released our latest version, 22.0.0 of the Kansas child support calculator. This latest version incorporates the latest tax adjustments and Regional Price Parities (RPP) data released by the BLS. The update procedure is identical to previous releases. Please check out our Youtube video, to see how to update your worksheet to the latest version.
]]>Today we released eFamilyTools v21.2.0! This release provides some important updates to child support calculations. Most updates target the tax adjustment sections. Federal tax brackets and child tax credits have been updated to the latest IRS tax guidance for 2021. Additionally, we've incorporated the latest poverty guidelines provided by the US Dept. of Health and Human Services. This update increases the self support reserve by $10 monthly.
These changes may affect your child support worksh...
]]>The Multiple Family Adjustment (MFA) in the Kansas Child Support Guidelines provides a reduction in child support payment in certain circumstances.
The MFA first appeared in the child support guidelines in 1990 as a single sentence. While the 2020 guidelines now provide a few paragraphs describing the MFA, the intent, use, and calculation of the adjustment remains the same.
The MFA method directs a non-residential parent to lookup the per-child child support amount from the table representi...
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]]>The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis released updated Regional Price Parities data in December 2020. The updates refer to economic data collected in 2019. To compare the previous data to the latest release, we've prepared a chart (below). The values are indexed against Kansas cost of living. Values less than 1.0 indicate a cost of living higher than Kansas, thus the income of the parent is reduced (multipled by the presented factor) to account for the higher cost of living. For values grea...
]]>On January 25, 2020 we released our 2020 Kansas child support calculator supporting AO 307, which typically remains effective for 4 years (2020 - 2024). Click Here to view our video tutorial which provides tips on how to update your child support worksheet to the newest version. If you've not yet reviewed the latest 2020 child support guidelines you can click HERE to review them. This blog will be updated over the coming days with more information about the changes to the 2020 guidelines...
]]>Your time is almost up!!! On Saturday August 10 at 5PM the survey to solicit public comment to the child support guidelines will be closed. This is your chance to make your voice heard by the committee and others. The committee is supposed to redact your name and any personal information prior to release of the survey results to the public. To take the online survey and provide your opinions, click here.
We’ve spent countless hours over the past month reviewing the guidelines changes. W...
]]>We will revisit this blog soon, but for now, here are some helpful links to help you get starting reviewing the 2020 Kansas Child Support Guidelines. If you'd like to submit your opinions on the proposed changes to the committee, you have about 3 weeks left! Please bear in mind that comments made on the survey (names will be redacted) will become viewable by others as the survey results are published later in the fall.
]]>Many are surprised to learn that the Kansas Child Support Guidelines require parties to notify each other of changes in their child support obligations. If a party fails to provide notification of such a change to the opposing party, the opposing party could request the court assess sanctions and adjust child support payments accordingly. But, how do you know if your child support obligation has changed?
The Kansas Child Support Guidelines Advisory Committee is the State entity responsible...
]]>The chart below is based on the state-by-state child suport comparison study conducted by Dr. Jane Venohr with the Center for Policy Research. Dr. Venohr's data was published in a JAAML article, as referenced in the chart. I've plotted the data against a regression curve to illustrate a general trend. From that trend, it's noted that, at a similar cost of living, KS sets itself apart from its peers as one of the highest child support states. At 28% above the regression line, KS earns the bro...
]]>If you use the Google Chrome browser on any device and have had trouble downloading our PDF legal forms, please read this helpful tip!
The Chrome browser (currently at version 72) presents a unique problem for some of our users. When the user clicks the download button.
You recieve an error notification such as the one below.
The reason for this is because eFamilyTools intentionally deletes your legal forms from our servers immediately after creation. This keeps our users safe from...
]]>The eFamilyTools Kansas child support calculator version 19.0.0 utilizes the latest (2019) tax law. In 2018 the Federal Government passed the Federal Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA). This tax code revision made numerous and substantive changes to nearly all of the tax calculations. The 2019 tax code is a further update to the TCJA. Below is a summary of the tax factors that have changed. Our software incorporates all of these factors in the determination of the income tax and child care adjust...
]]>We are pleased to announce that our new 2019 Kansas Child Support Calculator (version 19.0.0) has been released! This new version makes several updates and incorporates several bug fixes. The most notable change is the new tax calculations which apply the 2019 tax law. Another important change is the new “Case Summary” sheet which automatically prints when you print your child support worksheet. The Case Summary is a very important and long overdue upgrade and we’re pleased to release it....
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