Child Support If You Make $750 a Week in Louisiana
Louisiana rewrote its entire schedule in 2025. This page walks through what changed and which worksheet applies at $750 a week.
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Guideline child support scenarios at $750 a week
The paying parent earns $750 a week ($3,250.00 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 | $627.00 | $962.00 | $1,172.00 |
| $2,000 a month | $599.86 | $916.81 | $1,112.43 |
| $4,000 a month | $513.72 | $780.45 | $940.93 |
| $6,000 a month | $453.95 | $686.54 | $824.62 |
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 schedule rewritten from scratch in 2025
Acts 2024, No. 86 replaced the entire Louisiana child support schedule effective January 1, 2025, running from $1,050 to $50,000 a month in combined income, in $50 steps. That is a full rewrite, not an inflation update to the old table, and the source data pack behind this site transcribes all 980 official rows rather than a partial sample.
At $750 a week, gross pay is about $3,250 a month. Louisiana has three worksheets depending on custody: Worksheet A when one parent is the domiciliary parent, Worksheet B for shared custody with approximately equal time, and a split custody version when the children are divided between households. This page uses Worksheet A, the most common starting point.
How the three worksheets differ
Worksheet A, used on this page, gives the nondomiciliary parent income share of the total obligation, adjusted for any add-ons each parent pays directly. Worksheet B multiplies the basic obligation by 1.5 for shared custody, then cross-multiplies each parent theoretical share by the time the children spend with the other party, capped at what the paying parent would owe under Worksheet A. The split custody version runs one theoretical Worksheet A calculation per household and nets the two against each other.
What this estimate includes
- The full 2025 R.S. 9:315.19 schedule, all 980 rows
- Worksheet A's income-share allocation for 1, 2, or 3 children
- Statutory extrapolation between adjacent schedule rows
What it leaves out
- Worksheet B and the split custody worksheet, which use different math entirely
- Net child care, health insurance, and extraordinary expense add-ons
- Court deviations from the guideline amount
Worth knowing
The 980-row schedule replaced a table that many practitioners considered outdated. Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services also publishes an official Child Support Estimator online that uses the same 2025 schedule this page relies on.
Choosing the wrong worksheet is a common real-world mistake. A family close to the 50/50 line should check whether their actual custody arrangement meets the "approximately equal time" standard for Worksheet B before assuming Worksheet A, shown here, is the right one for their case.
Frequently asked questions
What changed in the 2025 Louisiana schedule rewrite?
Acts 2024, No. 86 replaced the entire R.S. 9:315.19 table effective January 1, 2025, extending it from $1,050 to $50,000 in combined monthly income in $50 steps. It is a full replacement of the prior schedule, not a partial inflation adjustment.
Which worksheet does this page use?
Worksheet A, where one parent is designated the domiciliary parent and the other, the nondomiciliary parent, pays support based on their share of combined income. It is the standard worksheet for cases without shared or split custody.
When does Worksheet B apply instead?
When custody is shared with approximately equal time between the parents, R.S. 9:315.9 uses Worksheet B, which multiplies the basic obligation by 1.5 and cross-multiplies each parent theoretical share by the other party time percentage, generally producing a different total than Worksheet A.
What is the split custody worksheet for?
It applies under R.S. 9:315.10 when each parent is the domiciliary parent of at least one child from the same case. Each parent theoretical Worksheet A obligation is calculated for the children in the other household, and the parent owing more pays the difference.
How does Louisiana handle incomes that fall between schedule rows?
R.S. 9:315.13(B) expressly requires extrapolation, meaning linear interpolation, between the two adjacent official schedule amounts. That is a statutory rule, not an approximation this site invented, and it applies to every income that does not land exactly on one of the 980 published rows.
Does the schedule cover incomes this high?
Yes, easily. $750 a week combined with any of the other-parent scenarios on this page stays well within the $1,050 to $50,000 range the 2025 schedule covers, so every figure in the table comes from a real, transcribed or extrapolated row.
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.