New Jersey Child Support Calculation Preparation Worksheet

NEW JERSEY CHILD SUPPORT CALCULATION PREPARATION WORKSHEET

Do not file this document as an Appendix IX worksheet. Transfer verified inputs to the current official worksheet and retain the completed official calculation with the court papers.

1. CASE AND WORKSHEET CONTROL

Court / county: [________________________________]

Docket number: [________________________________]

Proceeding: ☐ Establish support ☐ Modify support ☐ Divorce ☐ FD matter ☐ Other: [____]

Existing support order date: [__/__/____] ☐ None

Current Appendix IX worksheet selected by counsel or the court: [________________________________]

Current line-instruction version checked on: [__/__/____]

Official worksheet source URL or court-provided form: [________________________________]

Prepared by: [________________________________]

Reviewed by: [________________________________]

☐ The selected worksheet and line instructions came from the current New Jersey Judiciary rules or court materials.

☐ The official worksheet, not this preparation sheet, will be filed or submitted when required.

2. CHILDREN AND EXISTING ORDERS

Other children or dependents relevant to the official calculation: [________________________________]

Prior support obligations or credits shown in the official instructions: [________________________________]

Government, disability, survivor, or other child-related benefit requiring review: [________________________________]

3. PARENTING ARRANGEMENT INPUTS

Do not select a worksheet or adjustment from a custody label alone. Record the actual order and the precise inputs the current official instructions require.

Worksheet-selection explanation under the current official instructions: [________________________________]

4. INCOME RECORD

Use the income definitions, averaging periods, exclusions, and imputation rules in the current Appendix IX materials. This table inventories evidence; it does not declare that every listed receipt is included or excluded.

Income averaging method and period: [________________________________]

Seasonal, fluctuating, cash, foreign, deferred, or difficult-to-value income issue: [________________________________]

Imputation requested: ☐ No ☐ Parent A ☐ Parent B

Evidence and current-authority analysis for imputation: [________________________________]

5. DEDUCTION AND ADJUSTMENT RECORD

List every proposed deduction or adjustment exactly as the current official instructions label it. Do not add a deduction merely because it appears on a pay stub or in an older worksheet.

Rejected or disputed proposed deduction and reason: [________________________________]

6. CHILD-RELATED COST INPUTS

Tax credit, subsidy, reimbursement, insurance, scholarship, grant, or third-party payment reviewed: [________________________________]

7. OFFICIAL WORKSHEET TRANSFER LOG

Complete the current official worksheet first, then copy only its final results here for quality control.

☐ Arithmetic was checked independently.

☐ Weekly, monthly, annual, and pay-period units were not mixed.

☐ Each input can be traced to a dated source record.

☐ The official worksheet is attached to the case file or proposed order when required.

8. DEVIATION AND COURT-ORDER RECORD

This worksheet does not supply a universal deviation list or select a result. Use the current Appendix IX considerations and identify the evidence, calculation, requested finding, and proposed order language.

Presumptive result from official worksheet: $[____] per [____]

Deviation requested: ☐ No ☐ Increase ☐ Decrease ☐ Other treatment

Current Appendix IX provision or consideration relied upon: [________________________________]

Evidence supporting the request: [________________________________]

Requested amount: $[____] per [____]

Difference from presumptive result: $[____]

Proposed finding or explanation for the court: [________________________________]

9. PAYMENT, DURATION, REVIEW, AND MODIFICATION

Do not use this preparation sheet to select an emancipation age, college endpoint, cost-of-living adjustment, withholding route, enforcement remedy, or modification trigger.

The prior template's generic age-19/age-23 choices, fixed income cap, automatic 20-percent modification trigger, and hand-built arithmetic are not retained. Counsel must use the current order, law, forms, and Appendix IX materials for each issue.

10. CIS AND SOURCE-DOCUMENT CHECKLIST

CN 10482 calls for specified attachments and an applicable Appendix IX worksheet. Confirm the current form and case requirements before filing.

☐ Current CIS, if required

☐ Most recent federal and state tax returns with schedules

☐ W-2, 1099, K-1, and other income statements

☐ Three most recent pay stubs and additional records needed for variable income

☐ Bonus, commission, business, and benefit records

☐ Existing custody, parenting-time, support, and domestic-violence orders

☐ Child-care invoices and payment records

☐ Health-insurance premium and coverage records

☐ Medical, education, special-needs, and extraordinary-expense records

☐ Current official Appendix IX worksheet and line instructions

☐ Proposed order or judgment terms reviewed by counsel

11. REVIEW RECORD

Input cutoff date: [__/__/____]

Official worksheet completed on: [__/__/____]

Later income or expense change requiring update: [________________________________]

Unresolved factual dispute: [________________________________]

Unresolved legal or worksheet question: [________________________________]

Counsel or court direction: [________________________________]

This preparation sheet is complete only when every figure transferred to the official worksheet can be traced to a source and every disputed input is identified.