Rebuttable presumption of employment at minimum wage

Except as provided in § 25-7-6.26 , it is presumed for the purposes of determination of child support that a parent is capable of being employed a minimum of one thousand eight hundred twenty hours per year, and the parent's child support obligation must be calculated at a rate not less than one thousand eight hundred twenty hours at the state minimum wage. Source: SL 1989, ch 220 , § 4; SL 2009, ch 130 , § 3; SL 2017, ch 111 , § 2; SL 2022, ch 81 , § 1. Effective July 1, 2026