One unified screen for every custody scenario.
Traxler's Child Support Calculator is a simple, easy-to-use program that calculates child support pursuant to the 2024 South Carolina DSS Child Support Guidelines.
Its accuracy and user friendliness have made it the software of choice among the South Carolina Family Court judges.
Traxler's Child Support Calculator operates from a single, unified screen — whether you're calculating support for sole custody, split custody, or shared parenting. You can easily toggle between custody types, number of children, and more, all without leaving the main screen.
The Calculator gives you a choice of how to treat the child care tax credit and applies federal limits automatically — no manual lookup required. It includes:
- The flat 27% child care tax credit
- Or an estimated actual credit based on the parent's income and exemptions
- Recognition of the IRS limit on child care expense eligibility
- A single screen for sole, split, and shared-parenting calculations
- Toggling of custody type and number of children without leaving the main screen
- Calculations precise enough for the bench, simple enough for daily practice
A quiet fixture on the bench, and on the desk.
For more than two decades, Traxler's Child Support Calculator has been a fixture on the desks of South Carolina Family Court judges and the practitioners who appear before them.
Its quiet reliability and precision are its greatest virtue: the same calculation, performed the same way, every time — producing a number both sides can examine, question, and ultimately accept.
That consistency and accuracy matter. In the cramped minutes between hearings, no one wants to second-guess whether a credit was applied correctly or a custody arrangement was modeled the right way. The Calculator handles those choices on a single screen, with the guideline math already built in, so the practitioner can focus on the argument and the judge can focus on the family.