Our Naperville child support attorneys explain recent laws that impact child support payments in the following companion article.
Under the new "income shares" model of child support, a parent's child support obligation is determined based on his or her "net income" relative to the net income of the other parent. In "shared parenting" situations (i.e., each parent has custody of the child for at least 146 overnights per year), the amount of time that each parent spends with the child is also a factor in determining the child support obligation.