DMR.6.6.010 Actions for Child Support

(a) In a proceeding for divorce, legal separation, paternity of child, or support, the Court may order either or both parents owing a duty of support to a child, born to or adopted by the parents, to pay an amount reasonable and necessary for support, without regard to marital misconduct, after considering all relevant factors.

(b) Relevant factors include but are not limited to:

(1) The financial resources and needs of the child.

(2) The financial resources and needs of the custodial parent.

(3) The financial resources and needs of the non-custodial parent.

(4) The standard of living the child would have enjoyed had the marriage not been dissolved.

(5) The physical and emotional condition of the child, and the child's educational needs.

(6) Excessive and abnormal expenditures, destruction, concealment, or fraudulent disposition of community joint tenancy or other property held in common.

(7) The tax consequences of such payments to each parent.