- Child support is not optional
- Child support cannot be waived
- Children are entitled to support

- Variation from the rule is allowed only in very rare circumstances.
- Just because you might agree to vary does not mean the court will approve or accept your agreement.

- Court booklet, How to Calculate Child Support Under Civil Rule 90.3, DR-310
- The Alaska Court System website
- In the Alaska Rules of Court book

Rule 90.3 discusses the different calculations you use depending on your parenting plan.

Primary Custody

To figure out the child support for a primary custody arrangement, do the following calculation:

• Gross income Deductions = Adjusted Income (AI)
• AI x Percentage (see below) = Child Support

  1 kid: 20%	3 kids: 33%
  2 kids: 27%	More kids: 3% for each

  • If your AI is less than the federal poverty guidelines, your support amount may be $50/month which is the minimum amount allowed. If the calculation results in a support amount below $50.00, the support amount will be $50.00 a month. However, if the calculation results in an amount over $50.00 a month, that will be your child support amount.
    
  • If your AI is over $100,000, you may be eligible to use the cap. Rule 90.3 says that the portion of an adjusted annual income over $100,000 will not be used in calculating the child support amount, unless the other parent presents evidence showing the higher income should be used.

To figure out the child support for a shared custody arrangement, use the Shared Custody Child Support Calculation worksheet, DR-306 PDF | Fill-In PDF

To figure out the child support for a divided custody arrangement, use the Divided Custody Child Support Calculation worksheet, DR-307 PDF | Fill-In PDF

- income for tax purposes DOES NOT EQUAL income for child support purposes
- deductions for tax purposes DO NOT EQUAL deductions for child support purposes

- wages, disability, SSDI or unemployment
- employer in-kind benefits such as meals, housing or transportation
- non-taxable benefits such as military allowances for quarters, rations, COLA and specialty pay

- income from need based public benefit programs like ATAP, TANF or SSI
- one-time, lump sum payments

- The CSSD Child Support Calculator may be able to help you calculate this IF you are filing as an individual, have no dependents and take the standard deduction, and you are doing a primary custody calculation.

- Collect
- Enforce

- Establish
- Review (by request, not more than once every 3 years)

- To modify a court order only

- To modify an administrative order or court order

- a 15% change in the amount of child support ordered (this means that when you calculate support based on the non-custodial parents current income now, it is 15% more or less than the current support order)
- Change in parenting plan that affects formula

• Once a year you can ask the other parent in writing to provide documents such as tax returns and pay stubs showing their income for the prior calendar year.
• Within 30 days of the written request, the other parent must provide the documents to you.
• You must also provide the other parent with documentation of your annual income for the same period that you are asking for their income information.
  
• Do NOT file the written request in court. It is just between the parties.
• You can only request the other parent's income information once a year. However, within a court case you can request this information through the discovery process.

The court often orders the person who owes child support to apply for their own PFD. You can ask the PFD Office if someone has applied by calling:

- Include the Attorney General on the certificate of service
- Make an extra set of copies

Look at your case number to determine which office is handling your case:

The U.S. Department of State's Office of Children's Issues has a web page addressing international child support enforcement.