Hello. Me and my wife are trying to negotiate updated child support out of court. In the calculation there is a deduction for the person carrying healthcare (medical, dental, vision). I calculated my deduction by taking the full amount I am paying, dividing it by six, then multiplying that amount by four (the number of children I am paying support for) to come to an amount. My wife is taking the amount I would pay as a single adult and subtracting that amount from the total I am paying. She is then dividing that amount by five and multiplying the result by four to come to a deduction amount. Which is correct?
Your way is the correct way to calculate the medical insurance credit for child support assuming your policy covers 6 people, 4 of which are minor children.
The NC Child Support Guidelines state that when children are covered by a family policy, then “the total cost of the premium is divided by the total number of persons covered by the policy and then multiplied by the number of covered children for whom support is being determined.”
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