Family Law Child-Support Document Processing

What it extracts

14 extraction fields

Matter Summary and Recommended Order

The one-look front page - filing county and state, filing type, number of children, custody arrangement, combined adjusted gross income, presumptive obligation, recommended monthly amount and obligor, and review flags - so a reviewer can orient before the detail.

Case and Filing Identification

The matter and court - case or docket number, court, county, governing state, document type, party roles present, and filing date - the identifiers that key every downstream worksheet and order.

Filing Type

The category of child-support action - establishment, modification up or down, enforcement or contempt, arrears determination, or interstate (UIFSA) - which governs the applicable procedure, worksheet, and standard of review.

Parties and Custody

The parties by role and the custody arrangement - custodial versus non-custodial or obligor parent, sole versus shared custody, the overnights basis or worksheet type, and the number of children - which determines which guideline worksheet applies. No personal names extracted.

Children Subject to the Order

The children covered by the order, one row each, by reference label and age (never name or date of birth), whether subject to this order, and any special-needs circumstance - the count drives the guideline schedule amount.

Monthly Gross Income and Imputation

Each parent's monthly gross income from all sources and the combined total, the income sources counted, whether potential income was imputed and on what basis, and the verification source - the starting point of the income-shares calculation.

Income Adjustments and Adjusted Gross Income

The guideline deductions - pre-existing child support paid and responsibility for other children - applied to reach each parent's monthly adjusted gross income and the combined adjusted gross income.

Additional Child-Rearing Expenses

The add-on expenses the income-shares model apportions - work-related child care, the children's portion of the health-insurance premium, and extraordinary expenses - plus what each parent pays directly and the combined total.

Child Support Guideline Worksheet

The income-shares guideline worksheet line by line - combined adjusted gross income, each parent's percentage share, the schedule basic obligation, the add-on expenses, the total obligation, each parent's share, the custody or overnight adjustment, and the recommended presumptive order.

Support Order Terms and Arrears

The operative order terms - obligor and obligee by role, monthly amount, effective date, payment method, medical-support responsibility, uninsured-medical and child-care allocation, any arrears or retroactive support and its basis, and any deviation from the guideline with its reason.

Financial Affidavit Assets and Property

The assets and property disclosed in the financial affidavit, one row each, by type, description, value, and owner by role - supplementary context (and equitable-distribution support in a combined matter), not part of the support amount.

Key Dates and Deadlines

The dates that drive the matter - filing, service, response deadline, hearing, order effective date, income-verification date, and any review or modification-eligible date - so nothing is missed.

Required Documents Checklist

The intake checklist confirming the file is complete - financial affidavit, income verification, tax returns, health-insurance and child-care proof, prior order, and the worksheet - each marked Present, Partial, or Not provided.

Guideline Worksheet Consistency Check

The quality gate - does adjusted gross income foot, do income shares total 100%, does the combined obligation and each parent's share foot, does the recommended order match the guideline or a stated deviation, was a self-support-reserve or imputed-income issue handled, and are arrears not retroactively reduced - each flagged Pass, Needs review, or Fail.

Where it fits

What it needs

What it produces

Review model

A family-law attorney or supervising paralegal reviews the income determination, the guideline worksheet, any imputed-income or deviation, and the arrears math before the calculation drives a proposed order; the work product is a preliminary calculation and document review, not legal advice, and personal identifiers (SSNs, dates of birth, full names) are deliberately not extracted.

Who uses it

Volume fit

Grounded in

• 45 CFR 302.56 (State guidelines for setting child support orders; rebuttable presumption)verified as of 2026-07-22
• 45 CFR 303.31 (Securing and enforcing medical support obligations)verified as of 2026-07-22
• Bradley Amendment, 42 U.S.C. 666(a)(9)(C) (child-support arrears not subject to retroactive modification)verified as of 2026-07-22
• Uniform Interstate Family Support Act (UIFSA), enacted in all states (see 42 U.S.C. 666(f))verified as of 2026-07-22
• State child-support guidelines and support schedule (state-specific; most states use the income-shares model)verified as of 2026-07-22

Changelog

• July 2026