§576E-15 - Guidelines to be followed.

§576E-15  Guidelines to be followed. 
When an administrative order establishes or modifies the amount of child
support required to be paid by a party, the guidelines established under
section 576D-7 shall be applied, except when exceptional circumstances warrant
departure.  The most current guidelines shall be used to calculate the amount
of the child support obligation. [L 1988, c 154, pt of §2; am L 1990, c 176,
§21; am L 1991, c 216, §3; am L 1994, c 105, §14]

Case Notes

  Father’s due process rights not violated by child support
enforcement agency when it did not notify father prior to administrative
hearing that the issue was to increase father’s child support obligation where,
given that father was aware that the purpose of the hearing was the modification
of father’s child support obligation and that, absent exceptional
circumstances, the hearings officer would be bound by the amount calculated by
the child support guidelines worksheet, this information was sufficient notice
to father that child support amount may be reduced or increased.  108 H. 202,
118 P.3d 1145.

  Whether net income earned by an adult-student-son or daughter
is "exceptional circumstance", discussed.  86 H. 368 (App.), 949 P.2d
208.