Free estimate · Vermont
Vermont Child Support Calculator
A free estimate under Vermont's guidelines, with the math shown line by line.
- Guideline model
- Income shares based on combined available income
- Effective
- 2024-01-02
Enter the official worksheet amount before the additional-dependent adjustment.
Use the worksheet amounts after child-care subsidies and tax credits.
This is an estimate for information only — not legal advice, and not a court calculation. Judges can and do deviate from guideline amounts. For the number a court would use, see Vermont Title 15, chapter 11.
This number is a snapshot. Child support depends on parenting time, and parenting time drifts — swapped weekends, changed holidays, summer schedules. Vireo keeps the custody calendar, messages and shared expenses in one timestamped record, so what actually happened is never a matter of memory.
See what Vireo tracks →How Vermont calculates child support
Convert both parents' gross income to available income, combine available income, find intact-family expenditures for the number of children, add child care and extraordinary expenses, allocate the total support obligation by available-income share, and determine the transfer under the sole, shared, or split custody worksheet. Shared custody uses its separate tax table and partial-shared-cost table.
How income is counted: Each parent's gross income is converted to available income using the official tax-conversion table, then adjusted for self-employment, spousal support, existing child support actually paid, children's health premiums, additional dependents, and other statutory items. Means-tested assistance is excluded. The self-support reserve is 120% of the federal poverty guideline for one person and changes with the federal guideline.
Source: Title 15, Chapter 11, including sections 653-659 · Effective 2024-01-02
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