Florida guideline calculations, deviations, modifications, and enforcement — handled with clarity and care, by the attorney you actually hired.
Florida child support starts with a statutory guideline worksheet — combined net incomes, the number of overnights with each parent, health insurance, daycare, and a handful of other inputs. We help you gather accurate numbers and pay stubs so the calculation reflects reality, not a best-case or worst-case version of it.
Support isn’t an abstraction — it’s school clothes, sports, summer camp, or a doctor’s visit on a Tuesday afternoon. We make sure the order accounts for time-sharing schedules, extracurriculars, uncovered medical costs, and the things every parent quietly worries about. The goal is a number both households can actually live with.
Whether you’re paying or receiving support, the goal is the same: an arrangement you can build a future on. We also handle modifications and enforcement when life changes — retirement, remarriage, job loss, or a substantial change in circumstances — so your order keeps pace with reality.
A few of the things parents ask before reaching out.
Florida uses an income-shares model. Both parents’ net incomes are combined, a basic obligation is set by statute, and each parent’s share is calculated proportionally — adjusted for overnights, health insurance, and childcare costs. The result is the presumptive guideline amount.
Yes. Courts can deviate from the guideline by up to 5% without special findings and more than 5% with written justification — for things like extraordinary medical needs, special education, significant assets, or shared parenting arrangements that don’t fit the standard formula.
Generally until the child turns 18, or 19 if still in high school and reasonably expected to graduate. Support can extend longer for a dependent adult child with a qualifying disability that began before age 18.
There are real enforcement tools — income deduction orders, contempt proceedings, driver’s license and professional license suspension, tax refund interception, and judgments for arrears with interest. We pursue what fits your situation and what’s most likely to actually work.
Yes, when there’s been a substantial change in circumstances that is material, involuntary, and permanent — typically a change resulting in at least a 15% or $50 difference in the guideline amount, whichever is greater. Job loss, a significant raise, or a major change in time-sharing all qualify.
Always. Your matter will not be handed off to a junior associate or paralegal. You hired the attorney, so you get the attorney — every call, every signature, every step.
Share a few details and Gabrielle will reach out personally — usually within one business day.
Palm Beach County, Florida
(561) 345-3516
