Tennessee has a set of guidelines that

are based on the number of days you have

each parent has a child during the

calendar year that has to be calculated

based on the parenting schedule and then

you factor in the gross income of each

parent there are a few other variables

the cost of health insurance who is

paying for it the cost of child care but

we have what’s called a child support

worksheet and when you plug all those

numbers in and you hit a button on the

computer it spits out a dollar amount

per month now that is not carved in

stone but uh that is presumed to be the

correct amount of child support the

number of children is a variable as well

one child two CH children three children

Etc if a parent thinks that there should

be more child support than that that

parent has the burden of proof to show

why and and why it’s needed it’s very

rare that a variance is very large or

very small except for the ex other than

the worksheet amount you’ll have other

things like private school tuition uh

activities Palm for a child that kind of

thing and if the parents income allows

it then the courts certainly have the

discretion to order those items to be

paid by one parent or on a a percentage

by one parent and percentage by the

other parent