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Child Support Obligation The minimum amount of child support is $60 per month. The court can use its judicial discretion to determine child support obligations if the parents' gross income exceed the uppermost levels of the guideline table.

Criminal Charges/Nonsupport Failure to pay child support amounts to a crime in Kentucky. Many people are surprised to know that their failure to regularly pay their support can result in felony charges.

New Income Maximums The new changes to child support law increase the maximum combined monthly adjusted parental gross income utilized for calculating child support. Previously the chart stopped at $15,000 monthly, which is $180,000 per year. The new chart goes up to $30,000 monthly, or $360,000 per year.

Child support is intended to make both households as equal as possible. So even if it is joint custody, if one parent makes significantly more income than the other, they may have to pay child support.

In Kentucky, no law requires a parent to continue paying child support while their child is in college. In Kentucky, the obligation to pay child support ends when the child reaches the age of majority, which, in Kentucky, is age 18.

For Kentucky child support orders, the child support order ends when the child turns 18, unless he or she is still enrolled in high school, in which case child support would continue through the school year in which the child turns 19.

If the parent obligated to pay support has gone 6 months without paying, or is behind more than $1,000, the County Attorney may file flagrant nonsupport charges, which is a Class D Felony punishable from 1 to 5 years in prison and up to a $10,000 fine.

The court estimates that the cost of raising one child is $1,000 a month. The non-custodial parent's income is 66.6% of the parent's total combined income. Therefore, the non-custodial parent pays $666 per month in child support, or 66.6% of the total child support obligation.