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00:00:04 Child support in the state of Illinois is calculated per statute under what’s called the income shares model. What they do or what a judge is assigned to do if a case would come before them is put a calculation together that would factor in each party’s gross income. So they’ll look at the petitioner’s income and what that party earns for the year and the respondent’s income and they put those two amounts together and that produces a figure to work off of alongside how many overnights each parent has. In the state of Illinois, if
00:00:37 each parent has at least 146 overnights, they’re considered to be joint in parenting. That is only 40% of the year, but as far as Illinois statutes concerned, um as long as you have over 146 overnights, you are an equal parent. And that is going to be a huge factor in in trying to figure out what that child support number is at the end of the day.