Virginia Child Support Calculator 2026

SB 805 rewrote the schedule of basic support obligations effective July 1, 2025, the first re-base since 2014. Every row changed, and the ceiling rose from $35,000 to $42,500 of combined monthly gross income. Above the new ceiling, courts add a set percentage of the extra income, from 2.6 percent for one child to 5 percent for six. Existing orders do not change on their own; a parent has to seek modification.

Gross. Section 20-108.2(C) counts income from almost all sources before taxes, including wages, bonuses, self-employment, pensions, capital gains, and spousal support received. The statute then allows a few specific deductions, such as reasonable business expenses, half of self-employment tax, and spousal support paid under an order or written agreement.

More than 90 days a year. At 91 days or more with the lesser-time parent, the shared custody formula applies: the schedule amount is multiplied by 1.4 and split by both custody time and income, with the two obligations offset. At exactly 90 days or fewer, the sole custody formula applies. Virginia counts days, defined as 24-hour periods, and gives a half day to each parent for shorter overnight stretches.

It can, because of the 1.4 multiplier, and the statute plans for that. If a party shows the sole custody calculation produces a lower figure than the shared custody one, the lower sole figure becomes the order. This calculator runs that comparison automatically and tells you when the fallback applies.

No. Virginia publishes court worksheets instead: DC-637 for sole custody, DC-638 for split custody, and DC-640 for shared custody, all from the Office of the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court of Virginia. The Division of Child Support Enforcement uses the same statutory math. This page exists to run those numbers with the steps and citations shown.

The presumptive minimum is $68 a month, tied to the lowest band of the schedule, combined income of $0 to $350. It is not absolute: an obligor at or below 150 percent of the federal poverty level can present evidence of no ability to pay, and the court may then order less, as long as the custodial household can still meet basic needs.

The schedule stops and a formula continues. The court takes the $42,500-row amount and adds a percentage of the income above the ceiling: 2.6 percent for one child, 3.4 for two, 3.8 for three, 4.2 for four, 4.6 for five, and 5 percent for six. Before SB 805 this treatment started at $35,000, which is why older calculators understate high-income cases.

Yes, in a specific way. Spousal support paid under a court order or written agreement is deducted from the payer’s gross income, and spousal support received is counted in the recipient’s gross income. That shifts the income shares before the schedule lookup. This calculator has a field for it.