Northern Mariana Islands Child Support Guidelines – 2026
How child support is calculated in the Commonwealth, effective April 6, 2020. Eleven Guidelines and the Schedule they operate on. Guideline 3 sets the presumptions the court applies; Guideline 4 governs sole physical custody and is the long one — what counts as gross income and what is excluded, potential income for a parent voluntarily unemployed or underemployed, imputed income from in-kind benefits, the deductions that produce adjusted gross income, and then the calculation itself: locate the combined adjusted gross income on Schedule A, read across to the column for the number of children, and apply the corresponding percentage. Guideline 5 does the same for shared physical custody. The rest cover gifts in lieu of money, medical insurance, review and modification, the findings a court must make, pre-existing awards, and the appendix. Schedule A is published here too: 237 income bands of $50 from zero to $14,999.99, each with a percentage and a dollar amount for one through ten children. Under Guideline 11 the Judiciary may amend the appendix without Supreme Court order.
Browse all 12 rules of the 2026 edition below. Each rule includes the full text, a plain-English summary, committee notes, amendment history, and cross-references to related rules. Use the search box to find rules by keyword or number.