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Friday, April 30, 2004

Indiana Law - Online Child Support Calculators

In a press release this morning titled "Judiciary Launches Online Child Support Calculators," the Indiana Supreme Court reports that:

In a highly collaborative effort, the Indiana Supreme Court has created three new electronic tools that will make calculating child support obligations easier and faster, Chief Justice Randall T. Shepard announced today.

“These tools will assist judges, attorneys, and citizens around the state make accurate calculations of child support in domestic relations cases that follow the Indiana Child Support Guidelines,” said Chief Justice Shepard.

These three calculators, which generate the required child support court forms, include:

  • an online, interactive Step-by-Step Calculator complete with instructions, definitions, and references to the Guidelines;
  • an online, interactive Practitioners’ Calculator specifically designed for members of the justice community with experience calculating child support; and
  • a Downloadable Calculator for Microsoft Excel™ for use on computers without an Internet connection by members of the justice community with experience calculating child support.
The calculators are the product of collaboration between the Division of State Court Administration, the Indiana Judicial Center, the Judicial Conference of Indiana Domestic Relations Committee, the Indiana Supreme Court Judicial Technology and Automation Committee (JTAC), and the Marion Superior Court. Technical development of the online calculators was completed by eGov Strategies of Indianapolis. JTAC staff members completed the technical development of the downloadable calculator.

“The greatest benefit of these calculators is their ease of use,” said St. Joseph Superior Court Judge Michael Scopelitis, who chairs of the Domestic Relations Committee. “Not only do the calculators simplify the process of determining support obligations in compliance with the Child Support Guidelines, but using each calculator should be intuitive for their respective audiences.”

Check out the three calculators here.

Posted by Marcia Oddi on April 30, 2004 09:25 AM
Posted to Indiana Law