My example — the case that started this
What one night is actually worth.
This is the calculation that started all of this: Florida, three children, and the question nobody could answer for me in plain numbers. Move the slider and watch where the line actually is. Then run your own figures in the calculator below.
Move the slider. This runs the real Fla. Stat. § 61.30 guideline math, including the § 61.30(11)(b) gross-up.
Estimate only — not a court calculation.
At 52 nights — every other weekend — you are below the 20% threshold. Florida does not count your time at all down here.
Estimate only — not a court calculation.
Example figures: three children, $11,666 and $3,500 monthly net income. Your own numbers will differ.
That is the background. Here is the part you can use tonight — what your state’s own guideline actually produces, before anyone tells you what it produces.
Run your own figuresRun your own numbers
The example above is mine. This one is yours.
Pick your state, put in your own figures, then move the slider. All 51 jurisdictions run their real published guideline schedule, transcribed from the statute and checked row by row. Every one of them was read from the primary source and checked row by row before it shipped — and where a state’s own published table has an error in it, we kept the error and said so, rather than quietly correcting the law.
How to read this
- Put your own figures in the boxes. “You” is the parent running this — on this site, the father. Incomes are monthly, after tax. Current overnights starts at your state’s minimum where it has one, and at 72 where it has none; change it to what your order gives you now.
- Move the slider to the overnights you are asking for. It starts at your current overnights. The big figure is what your state’s own guideline produces at that night count, and the difference beside it is measured from what you have now. Estimate only — not a court calculation.
- Read the table underneath. It runs the same figures at every night count that matters in your state, so you can see where the line actually is — and where more time changes nothing at all.
It opens on a common shape of case: two children, a father at 72 overnights, $6,500 against $3,500. Nothing here is anyone’s real case.
Estimates only, from the published guideline formula — not a court calculation and not legal advice. Guideline figures change by legislative session; check your state’s official calculator before you rely on a number.
If your income is low, this figure may be too high
The estimate above runs your state’s published schedule. It does not yet apply this protection, so a father near the bottom of the income range will see a number larger than the guideline actually allows. We would rather say that here than let you walk into a hearing with it. Check the rule cited above, or ask the clerk for your state’s low-income worksheet, before you rely on this number.
Difference vs 52 nights · every other weekend
Same as every other weekend
Same arithmetic as the example above, run on the figures you entered. Guideline estimates only — not a court calculation and not legal advice.
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The free one gives you a number. Pro shows you what moves it.
The calculator above answers one question: what does the guideline say today. That is the question you ask once. Every question after it is a comparison — what happens if I get the schedule I am asking for, what happens if she goes back to full time, what is the order I am already under actually costing me against the guideline. Pro keeps all of them on one screen and hands you the arithmetic on paper.
| Scenario | Overnights | Your income | Other parent | Support / month | vs. your order |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The order you are undersigned three years ago | 80 | $74,000 | $58,000 | $1,240 | — |
| Guideline, today's numberssame schedule, current incomes | 80 | $74,000 | $58,000 | $1,086 | −$154 |
| The schedule you are asking forweek-on week-off, alternating holidays | 146 | $74,000 | $58,000 | $742 | −$498 |
| If she returns to full timethe change she has said is coming | 146 | $74,000 | $72,000 | $611 | −$629 |
The order is above guideline by
$1,848a year
On the same schedule you already have. Nothing has to change for this one to be true.
The schedule you are asking for is worth
$5,976a year
Which is the number to have in your head when someone suggests you give up two overnights to keep the peace.
Scenarios saved on this case
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They stay put. Open them next month, next mediation, or the day something changes and you need to know whether it was enough.
Estimate only — not a court calculation.
Save scenarios
Stop re-typing the same case.
Name a scenario, save it, come back to it. The free calculator forgets everything the moment you close the tab, which is fine for one number and useless for a negotiation that runs nine months.
Compare orders
See the gap, not just the number.
Put the order you are under next to what the guideline produces today. Most men have never seen those two figures side by side, and the difference is usually the whole reason they are reading this page.
Export for mediation
One page you can hand across the table.
Every scenario, every input, and the statute and schedule the figures came from, on a single sheet with the citation printed at the foot. You are not asking anyone to take your word for it.
The figures above are invented and shown only to demonstrate the layout. Pro runs on the same state guideline data as the free calculator, with the statute, schedule and rule text behind every line.
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