Child Support If You Make $750 a Week in Maryland
Most states interpolate between schedule rows. Maryland rounds up instead, and that choice can matter more than it sounds.
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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 Maryland 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 | $924.00 | $1,356.00 | $1,639.00 |
| $2,000 a month | $690.86 | $988.62 | $1,184.24 |
| $4,000 a month | $515.07 | $734.72 | $880.86 |
| $6,000 a month | $472.57 | $660.89 | $793.00 |
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.
Rounding up, not averaging
Section 12-204(c) of the Maryland Family Law Article says the basic obligation is set by extrapolating an income that falls between two schedule rows "to the next higher amount." That is a genuinely different rule from interpolation, which most income-shares states use to estimate a value between two published rows. Maryland always lands on the higher figure, never something in between.
At $750 a week, gross pay is about $3,250 a month. Combined with the other parent income in a given table row, the resulting figure may not land exactly on one of the schedule officially published rows, in which case Maryland round-up rule determines which printed dollar amount actually applies.
Why this rule can overstate a figure
This site data pack transcribes a subset of the official 577-row Maryland schedule. When an income lands between two rows this site has transcribed, and the true next official row sits somewhere in between, the round-up lands on this site next transcribed row instead of the true nearest one, which can overstate the basic obligation slightly. The table flags that possibility rather than hiding it.
What this estimate includes
- The § 12-204(e) schedule with the round-up-to-next-row lookup rule
- Worksheet A's income-share allocation for 1, 2, or 3 children
- Asterisked self-support reserve cells where they apply
What it leaves out
- The exact official row when this site has not transcribed every intervening $50 increment
- Child care and health insurance add-ons
- Court deviations from the guideline amount
Worth knowing
The round-up rule is written directly into the statute, not a judicial gloss on it. Section 12-204(c) uses the word "extrapolate" but defines it explicitly as moving to the next higher amount, leaving no ambiguity about direction.
A parent whose income sits just above a published row, even by a small margin, should expect the next row up to apply, not the row they are closest to below. That is a meaningfully different experience from a state that smooths between rows.
Frequently asked questions
Does Maryland interpolate between schedule rows like other states?
No. Section 12-204(c) specifically extrapolates an income between two rows "to the next higher amount," which means rounding up to the higher published figure rather than estimating a value in between the two, the more common approach elsewhere.
Why does that matter for the numbers on this page?
It means Maryland guideline figures tend to run slightly higher than a smoothly interpolated schedule would produce, since every income that does not land exactly on a published row gets pushed up to the next one rather than split the difference.
Could the table below overstate the real Maryland figure?
It is possible in a narrow way: this site has transcribed a subset of the official 577-row schedule, and where an income round-up lands on this site next transcribed row rather than the true official next row, the result can run slightly high. The full 577-row schedule and the Maryland DHS calculator carry every intervening row exactly.
What worksheet applies here?
Worksheet A, form CC-DR-034, for primary physical custody, the standard starting point before considering a shared custody arrangement.
Does the round-up rule ever help the paying parent?
Not directly; it consistently rounds toward the higher figure rather than a lower one. Any offsetting effect would come from other parts of the worksheet, such as deductions for preexisting support or add-ons paid directly, not from the round-up rule itself.
Where is the exact official schedule published?
Md. Code, Fam. Law § 12-204(e) contains the full schedule text, and the Maryland Department of Human Services publishes an online guidelines calculator that applies every row exactly, both linked in the sources for this page.
About the numbers on this page
Every figure in the table above comes from running the real Maryland child support engine on this site, the same engine and data pack behind the full Maryland 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 Maryland 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.