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Section 55B - Child Support (Assessment) Act 1989 - Working out income percentages — Zoe

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#### 55B Working out income percentages Work out each parent’s income percentage for a child for a day in a child support period using the formula (worked out to 2 decimal places, rounding up if the third decimal place is 5 or more): ![Start formula start fraction Parent's child support income for the child for the day over Parents' combined child support income for the child for the day end fraction end formula](image.014.png)

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