Child Support If You Make $500 a Week in Louisiana
Louisiana used to guarantee a small minimum order at any income. That guarantee is gone, and this page explains what replaced it.
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Guideline child support scenarios at $500 a week
The paying parent earns $500 a week ($2,166.67 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 | $432.33 | $663.67 | $808.67 |
| $2,000 a month | $410.28 | $629.03 | $765.09 |
| $4,000 a month | $374.31 | $571.65 | $692.98 |
| $6,000 a month | $324.74 | $495.68 | $600.65 |
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.
No more guaranteed minimum order
Until the end of 2024, Louisiana set a flat $100 minimum child support order under the old R.S. 9:315.14, no matter how low combined income was. Acts 2024, No. 448 removed that minimum effective January 1, 2025. Below the schedule floor of $1,050 in combined monthly income, there is now no statutory guideline number at all; a court sets support from actual income and ability to pay case by case under R.S. 9:315.13(A).
At $500 a week, the paying parent alone contributes about $2,167 a month, which clears the $1,050 floor on its own. Combined with any of the other-parent scenarios in the table below, every row computes a real schedule figure rather than hitting the below-floor gap. That gap becomes relevant mainly for lower weekly incomes than this one.
Why every row below still shows a number
Because $500 a week alone already clears the $1,050 schedule floor, adding any other-parent income on top only pushes combined income higher, never back down toward that below-floor gap. Every row in the table computes a real schedule figure. A lower weekly income than this one, especially paired with an other parent reporting no income, is where the below-floor gap becomes visible on this site.
What this estimate includes
- The full R.S. 9:315.19 schedule, all 980 official rows, for combined income at or above $1,050
- Worksheet A, the nondomiciliary parent share of the total obligation
- Statutory extrapolation between adjacent schedule rows where an income falls between them
What it leaves out
- The below-floor scenario, which has no statutory guideline number as of January 1, 2025
- Child care, health insurance, and extraordinary expense add-ons
- Split and shared custody worksheets
Worth knowing
The removal of the minimum order is a genuinely unusual move nationally. Most states, including several others on this site, keep some small floor order regardless of income; Louisiana chose the opposite, leaving very-low-income cases entirely to judicial discretion rather than a guaranteed dollar figure.
The current schedule replaced an older one that had not been updated in years. Acts 2024, No. 86 rewrote the entire R.S. 9:315.19 table effective January 1, 2025, alongside the minimum-order repeal, so both changes landed on the same date.
Frequently asked questions
Is there still a minimum child support order in Louisiana?
No. Acts 2024, No. 448 removed the former flat $100 minimum order effective January 1, 2025. Below the $1,050 combined income schedule floor, Louisiana has no statutory guideline number; a court decides based on actual income and ability to pay under R.S. 9:315.13(A).
Does $500 a week fall below the schedule floor?
Not on its own. At about $2,167 a month, the paying parent income alone already clears the $1,050 combined income floor, so every scenario in the table above computes a real schedule figure rather than hitting the below-floor gap.
When would the below-floor gap actually show up?
At a lower weekly income than shown on this page, especially combined with an other parent reporting no income, where the resulting combined total stays under $1,050 a month. That combination has no statutory guideline figure to show.
Why did Louisiana remove the old minimum order?
Acts 2024, No. 448 eliminated the prior R.S. 9:315.14 minimum as part of the broader 2024 overhaul of the state child support schedule, which also rewrote the schedule itself effective the same date, January 1, 2025.
What worksheet does this page use?
Worksheet A, where one parent is the domiciliary parent and the other, the nondomiciliary parent, is expected to pay support. Louisiana also has Worksheet B for shared custody with approximately equal time, and a split custody variant for children divided between the two households.
Does the current schedule still have the full 980 official rows?
Yes. The 2025 rewrite runs from $1,050 to $50,000 a month in $50 steps, and the pack behind this site has transcribed the complete schedule, cross-checked against 26 anchor points from the official published table.
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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