Legal Question in Family Law in Tennessee

Re: Child Support from parent with lower income

Under Tennessee law, it makes no difference how much the custodial parent makes (or or much the parent having the child most of the time makes in shared parenting cases). Child support is based on the the income (earnings and any other source) of the non-custodial parent. If that parent's income increases encough that child support set under the guidelines would increase by 15%, then the child support is supposed to go up.

But if the parents actually have a shared parenting or joint custody arrangement in which both parents have the child much more than the roughly 78 days contemplated by normal visitation here, you can get the support figure moved down, and in some rare cases where both parents have the child about the same amount of time, then the support might be waived entirely.

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Regarding child support during the summer -- that simply depends on what you two agree in the MDA. Tennessee Courts will allow a suspension of support at such times, and sometimes will reverse the direction of child support during that period.