For the first time in many, many years, the Kentucky legislature is making significant modifications to the child support statutes by way of House Bill 404. A lot of the adjustments to the Kentucky statutes have been needed for a very long time, as inflation and cost of living increased, without a corresponding transformation in the rules.

The changes include an update to the child support guidelines table (which has not been edited in many years) and a self-support reserve; additional guidance about imputing income to a parent, and language about how to calculate child support taking the timesharing schedule into account (such as equal timeshare, but also less than 50/50 but more than traditional every other weekend), among many others. Some provisions take effect in July, 2021, and others in 2022.

Consider speaking with a family law attorney to run the numbers and perform calculations with the new charts to determine if the changes the legislature put in place will affect your case.