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[quote=Anonymous]I have a 4yo child with a man I never married. We've lived together for nine years and own everything together. We are splitting amicably and agree on how to divide all our assets. We also agree that he will get the child every other weekend and alternating holidays - we actually both think that we would spend holidays all together, at least for now, because we all get along well even if we no longer want to be together romantically. I haven't broached the idea of child support yet, but have run the numbers through the DC calculator and was going to propose that he pay the result. If he agrees to that, do we need to get any sort of third party involved or any formal child support order? Or can we just keep this civil between the two of us? I'd like to do the latter (and only bring in third parties if a problem arises down the road) but need to know if there are pitfalls I'm not thinking through.

Also, does anyone have any experience with calculating child support when joint income is above $240,000? That's as high as the DC calculator goes, and I'm not sure if that's the max support I would get or if I should be entitled to more. (I'm actually happy with the result of the calculator but don't want to short-change my child.)[/quote]

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