(1)Purpose. The purpose of the guidelines is to provide for the best interests of the children by recognizing the duty of both parents to provide adequate support for their children in proportion to their respective incomes. While the guidelines cannot take into account the specific facts of individual cases, they will normally provide reasonable support.(2)Low-income adjustment. The basic support obligation amounts have been adjusted in the shaded area of the schedule for low-income obligated (noncustodial) parents. The objective of the adjustment is to strike a balance between adequately supporting the obligated parent's children and allowing the obligated parent to live at least at a subsistence level. The adjustment is based on the following: (1) requiring a support order no matter how little the obligated parent's income is,(2) increasing the support amount for more children,(3) maintaining an incentive to work for the obligated parent, and (4) gradually phasing out the adjustment with increased income.a. In accordance with this objective, except as provided in (b), only the obligated parent's adjusted net income is used for incomes less than $1,101 in Area A of the shaded area of the schedule. When the obligated parent's adjusted net income is $1,101 or more but is in Area B of the shaded area of the schedule, the guideline amount of support is the lesser of the support calculated using only the obligated parent's adjusted net income as compared to the support calculated using the combined adjusted net incomes of both parents. The combined adjusted net incomes of both parents are used in the remaining (nonshaded) Area C of the schedule.b. In cases of joint (equally shared) physical care, the low-income adjustment is not applicable, and the parents' combined adjusted net incomes as shown in the shaded area of the schedule are used.Court Order November 9, 2001, effective 2/15/2002; 3/9/2009, effective 7/1/2009; 5/9/2013, effective 7/1/2013; court order September 3, 2021, effective 1/1/2022.