Child Support If You Make $2,000 a Week in Louisiana
Louisiana top schedule row is not a ceiling. It is a floor a court can go above, and this page shows how far $2,000 a week actually sits from it.
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Guideline child support scenarios at $2000 a week
The paying parent earns $2000 a week ($8,666.67 a month) in every cell below. The other parent's monthly income changes across rows, and the number of children changes across columns; both genuinely change the result.Every figure is computed with the real Louisiana guideline engine, the same one behind the full calculator, not a lookup table built for this page.
| Other parent's income | 1 child | 2 children | 3 children |
|---|---|---|---|
| No reported income | $1,252.00 | $1,902.33 | $2,295.00 |
| $2,000 a month | $1,167.56 | $1,758.25 | $2,102.21 |
| $4,000 a month | $1,082.42 | $1,634.12 | $1,957.98 |
| $6,000 a month | $1,032.91 | $1,543.06 | $1,829.65 |
Every dollar figure is a monthly amount, the presumptive guideline result before add-ons like child care or health insurance and before any court deviation. "Not available" means the engine behind this site declined to compute that specific combination rather than guess; the reason is shown next to it.
A floor, not a ceiling, at the top of the schedule
Most schedule-based states treat their top income row as a soft ceiling. Louisiana does the opposite above $50,000 in combined monthly income: R.S. 9:315.13(C) says the award is discretionary in the child best interest but "in no event" less than the highest schedule amount, making that top-row figure a presumptive floor a court can exceed, never a cap that limits support.
At $2,000 a week, the paying parent contributes about $8,667 a month. Even combined with the highest other-parent scenario on this page, $6,000 a month, combined income reaches roughly $14,667, well under the $50,000 top of the schedule. Every row in the table below uses a real, transcribed or extrapolated schedule figure, not the floor rule.
What the floor rule would mean if reached
None of the four other-parent scenarios in the table below push combined income anywhere near $50,000 a month, so every figure is a direct or extrapolated schedule lookup. Above that line, a court could order the top-row amount or more, based on the child best interest, but never less, a genuinely different structure from a hard ceiling.
What this estimate includes
- The full 2025 R.S. 9:315.19 schedule for combined income
- Worksheet A's income-share allocation for 1, 2, or 3 children
- Statutory extrapolation between adjacent schedule rows
What it leaves out
- The above-schedule presumptive floor rule, not reached at this income
- Net child care, health insurance, and extraordinary expense add-ons
- Court deviations from the guideline amount
Worth knowing
The presumptive-floor design reflects a specific policy choice: Louisiana lawmakers wanted to guarantee that very high earners could not argue for less support than the schedule top row simply because their exact income falls outside the transcribed range.
A parent and other party combined income above $50,000 a month is a genuinely different legal situation from the incomes on this page, one where the schedule stops being the primary tool and a court best-interest finding takes over as the operative standard.
Frequently asked questions
Does the $50,000 top row apply at $2,000 a week?
No. Even paired with the highest other-parent scenario on this page, combined income reaches only about $14,667 a month, far under the $50,000 point where Louisiana schedule tops out. Every figure in the table above comes from a real row within the schedule range.
What happens above $50,000 in combined income?
R.S. 9:315.13(C) makes the award discretionary in the best interest of the child, but never less than the highest schedule amount. That top-row figure works as a presumptive floor, meaning a court can order more but is not permitted to order less.
How is that different from a ceiling?
A ceiling caps what a court can award; Louisiana top row does the reverse, setting a minimum that cannot be undercut. States that treat their top row as a true ceiling would limit an order at that figure; Louisiana explicitly does not.
Does the other parent income still matter at this level?
Yes. Each of the four rows in the table computes a different combined income figure and a different income-share split, so the other parent income changes the result meaningfully even though the paying parent side stays fixed at $2,000 a week throughout.
Is this income level close to any other schedule feature?
No. It sits comfortably above the $1,050 floor where the below-floor gap applies and well below the $50,000 top row where the presumptive-floor rule kicks in, so the table computes cleanly from the standard schedule across all four scenarios.
Where can I check combined income closer to $50,000?
The full Louisiana child support calculator on this site runs the same 2025 schedule and applies the presumptive-floor rule automatically for combined incomes above the top row, which this page does not reach.
About the numbers on this page
Every figure in the table above comes from running the real Louisiana child support engine on this site, the same engine and data pack behind the full Louisiana child support calculator. Nothing on this page is a separate estimate or a reimplementation of the math. See the sources below for the statutes and official worksheets behind the Louisiana guideline.
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Changelog: page first published as part of the child support by income series. Material changes are dated in the update log.