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Revised
Ohio Child Support Guidelines
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One Hundred Plus
You're in good company when you purchase our Revised Ohio Child Support
Guidelines (WROCSG) program. More than 100 County Courts and Government
Agencies use WROCSG—included are Domestic Relations Courts,
Juvenile Courts, Probate Courts, Child Support Enforcement Agencies, Department
of Human Services, Department of Job & Family Services, Prosecutor's Offices,
Appellate Courts, Law Libraries and Universities throughout Ohio.
Support Scheduler
One significant change we made was to overhaul the old arrearage calculator.
We don't even call it the arrearage calculator anymore because it does a whole
lot more than simply calculate arrearages. We call it the Support Scheduler. Its
purpose is to track support due dates and payment dates so as to provide a full
and detailed rendering of the child support account. Calculating arrearages is a
snap because utility buttons on the Scheduler permit you to enter the terms of a
support order and any number of modifications so that literally hundreds of
transactions can be entered in one step. For example, if an obligor was ordered
to make $400 payments monthly starting August 15, 1989, you could simply enter
those terms using the Support Order utility and the program would instantly
provide you with a complete account that details each and every payment,
together with a running balance. Let's further suppose that the obligor started
making payments in the beginning but stopped making payments after July 1997.
We've included another utility called the Payment Series that will allow you to
enter the starting and ending dates of the obligor's consecutive payments in
order to itemize and calculate a running balance on a payment-by-payment basis.
Interested in Interest?
WROCSG calculates interest on arrearages automatically.
Furthermore, the entire child support account can be printed so that each
payment due date, each payment, and each item of accrued interest is clearly set
forth in a straightforward, easy-to-understand arrangement. We've definitely
elevated the calculation of arrearages and interest to new levels of
sophistication.
Feature/Benefits
- With WROCSG you'll be using the exact same program used by
your local Domestic Relations Court.
- You'll always be up-to-date on the latest law and programming changes
because WROCSG has the ability to download upgrades from the
Internet anytime, from anywhere.
- The familiar look and feel of WROCSG will have you working
like a pro the first time you run the program—no learning curve, no training
classes.
- One mouse click lets you switch among the three statutory table lookup
methods.
- WROCSG automatically handles the calculation of minimum
support orders for combined incomes in excess of $150,000.
- Choose between the statutory worksheet printout or the compact, but
detailed, abbreviated worksheet.
- Easily perform program modifications like annually changing federal income
tax dependency exemption on line 8 of the worksheet—without paying annual
subscription or update fees.
- Extensive help information and relevant statutory cites are available at
the click of a button.
- WROCSG runs in all 32-bit Windows operating systems (i.e.,
Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows 98 and Windows 95).
- Accomodates percentage rate or flat fee processing
charges (poundage).
- No menus and dialog boxes for data entry; make your
entries right on the form.
- Income Annualizer calculates annual
income from a party's latest pay stub; just push a button,
enter the date and year-to-date income—WROCSG
does the rest.
- A Local Tax Calculator automatically
calculates municipal income taxes from a party's gross income,
or lets you enter the appropriate income and tax rates.
- A Shared Parenting Prorator prorates the
obligor's annual child support obligation based on the time of
possession.
- Pop-up menus for starting new files, loading files from disk,
saving files to disk, printing worksheets and calculating
arrearages.
- A tool bar with speed buttons provides one click execution of
common operations.
- Dynamic hint balloons appear when the mouse
cursor rests in an area of the worksheet, providing instant help
about what to enter or what you can do.
- Abbreviated worksheets let you enter all
your information without scrolling through an entire worksheet,
and gives you access to all the features of the full-length form
by double-clicking on hot spots.
- The Artificial Intelligence feature performs
detailed error checking and gives extended error messages to
warn you when minimum support orders are appropriate, when child
care expenses exceed the federal child care credit maximums, or
when you make a mistake (i.e., entering only one child in
a split custody worksheet), and a lot more.
- Delete File Command lets you do disk drive housekeeping
without exiting the program.
- A versatile Support Scheduler that performs up to two
modifications of the original order with printing capabilities.
- Performs the Line 8—minor child adjustment less federal tax
exemption—automatically.
- Performs the 5.6% self-employment adjustment
or lets you enter your own marginal amount.
- Automates the annual child care adjustment by
calculating and deducting the mandatory tax credit.
- User-permissible changes in the federal tax exemption
for Line 8 don't require a software upgrade.
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