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The support standard is seventeen percent (17%) of the NCP’s income. This standard suggests that each parent is contributing seventeen percent (17%) of their income or thirty four percent (34%) of their combined household income. My wife and I have two children in our house and one that I pay child support for and we still don’t pay thirty four percent of our income on children.

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I'm getting frustrated trying to understand your math. Try this with some simple numbers to make it easy. Say parent A makes $10 and pays 20 percent($2)of his income for child support. Parent B also makes $10 and pays 20 percent($2)of her income for child support. The $4 they pay together is not 40 percent of their combined income of $20. It is 20 percent.