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It's finally happened - the Missouri Supreme Court has corrected Line 5 in a way that is comprehensible.  The Child Support Assistant 2017 has been updated accordingly. The new version number is 8.11.  This version completely implements the June 30, 2017 Form 14 update. **IMPORTANT **   You MUST update your Child Support Assistant installation to be sure your Form 14s are being correctly calculated with regard to the Line 5 caveat!  Do not continue to use Version 8.01 (the January 28th, 2017 version) or earlier versions. You should be using 8.11. Click here to go to the download page where you can...

If you're using The Child Support Assistant's features to their fullest, whether in Missouri mode or Kansas mode, you'll frequently use the ability to duplicate your Worksheet Window (up to eight times) to quickly create multiple scenarios for a given case, such as multiple possibilities for each party's income, using the "Custody to Petitioner / Custody to Respondent" tabs to create different scenarios for which parent pays support to the other, split (MO) or divided (KS) custody, and differing possibilities for calculating the Missouri Line 11 custody credit or the Kansas Parenting Time Adjustment. To keep track of all those scenarios,...

There is a new 2017 version posted on the Download Latest Version page.  It is numbered as Version 8.01.  There is a change to the way that the new low income calculation on (Missouri mode) Line 5 is calculated. I have been having some discussions with Judge Dennis Smith of St. Louis County Circuit Court, and we both think we did not interpret the new Line 5 directions correctly initially. Therefore, both The Form 14 Assistant and Judge Smith's PDF Form 14 have been changed to a new calculation method that we think is the correct interpretation of the new...

The Child Support Assistant 2017 is now available for download! Your existing license key will continue to work with the new version, so update today. If you don't already have a license, download anyway and e-mail us for a free trial license. Our users love our software and you will too.  Click here to go to the download page. The Missouri side now features the new 2017 Form 14, mandatory for use as of July 1, 2017, and optional for use before that. The 2014 Form 14 is also still supported by the 2017 update. The Kansas side features an update...

Effective September 1, 2016, the Kansas Supreme Court replaced the prior Administrative Order 284 with a new A.O. 287, updating the Kansas Child Support Guidelines. However, the only change made was to correct a typographical error in the Equal Parenting Time Worksheet on page 90, in which the percentages shown on the EPT Worksheet did not match the percentages shown in the directions for calculating the Equal Parenting Time Formula.  No update to The Kansas Support Assistant is required, however, because our expert programmer/attorney/website designer/marketing person/chief bottle washer, when programming the changes to update the software to A.O. 284, noticed...