Legal Question in Family Law in California

You can go to department of child support service (DCSS) website to find a free calculator, which allows you to play around with different scenarios. The court uses dissomaster, which is a different program but the calculation is about the same.

I find the Dept. of Child Support Services web calculator to be at best a good rough estimate, but if that is all you need, then it's fine. As with any computer program, however, it is "garbage-in-garbage-out" meaning it is only as accurate as the inputs, and there are a LOT of inputs that go into a support calculation.