How Do You Allocate Disposable Income Across Multiple Child Support Orders?
When you receive multiple child support orders for an employee and the employee does not have enough allowable disposable income to satisfy all the orders you must pay some of each order. Most states use one of two methods: • Divide disposable pay by the number of orders to distribute it equally • Pro-rate disposable earnings across the orders by determining the percentage of the total each order represent The first method is self explanatory. This article explains the second method of pro-rating allowable disposable income to multiple child support orders based on the relative percentage of each order to the total amount of all orders.
