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Child support lookup for Saskatoon.
Use Justice Canada's official child support lookup and read the context that can affect its use. This page does not calculate your legal obligation.
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Official child support lookup
Find the table amount through Justice Canada
This page does not calculate support. Use Justice Canada's 2025 lookup for a base table amount from October 1, 2025 onward. Choose the paying parent's province of residence, income and number of children. Living in Saskatchewan does not always mean the Saskatchewan table applies.
Open the official 2025 child support lookup
The table amount is only part of the analysis. Identify the actual parenting arrangement and care roles before deciding who pays. Higher income alone does not identify the paying parent. Shared parenting requires a review of both table amounts, increased parenting costs and the family's circumstances. Special expenses are considered separately; an expense share is not automatically an extra support payment.
How Child Support Actually Works in Saskatchewan
Child support in Saskatchewan is set under the Federal Child Support Guidelines. The table amount is standardised, which is what makes it predictable. What varies is the income the table is applied to, and the parenting arrangement it is applied in.
The Basic Principle
Child support is calculated based on the paying parent's income and the number of children. The "table amount" is the baseline, but the actual amount can be adjusted based on parenting time, special expenses, and other factors.
Key Components
Table Amount: The base amount from the guidelines based on gross annual income and number of children.
Section 7 Expenses: Eligible special or extraordinary expenses are assessed separately, including necessity, reasonableness, contributions by the child, and applicable subsidies or tax benefits. Each parent's share of the net expense is separate from any support transfer.
Parenting Arrangements: The amount varies significantly based on whether one parent has primary care or both parents share parenting time roughly equally.
Parenting Arrangement Comparison
| Arrangement | Description | How Support Calculates |
|---|---|---|
| Primary Care | One parent has more than 60% of parenting time | Start with the table amount for the parent with less parenting time. Income alone does not identify the paying parent |
| Shared Parenting | Each parent has the child 40%+ of the time | Both parents' table amounts are worked out and the difference between them is the starting point, often called the set-off. It is a starting point, not the end of the analysis |
| Split Parenting | Different children live primarily with different parents | Each parent's table obligation is worked out for the children in the other parent's majority care. Section 8 uses the difference between those obligations. Read section 8 |
A worked example. If Parent A's table amount is $1,000 a month and Parent B's is $400, the set-off figure is $600. Where each parent has the child at least 40 percent of the time, those two table amounts are an important starting point. The analysis can also take account of the increased costs of running two households for the child, and of the conditions, means, needs and other circumstances of each parent and of the child. The difference alone does not decide the final payment. Read section 9.
Common Mistakes Parents Make With Child Support
The official lookup provides a base amount. Care arrangements, eligible expenses and other circumstances may require a fuller analysis.
Child support is based on "gross income from all sources": employment, self-employment, investment income, rental income, bonuses, and more. Many parents underestimate their true income.
Childcare costs alone can easily exceed $400-800/month. Do not overlook them. On some files they add more than the table amount itself.
Once each parent reaches 40 percent, a different analysis applies. Assuming it is still primary care can put the number a long way out. Count and record the actual overnights.
Table amounts move with income, so when income changes and nobody revisits the number, one parent quietly overpays or underpays, sometimes for years. Most agreements build in an annual exchange of income information for exactly this reason.
If the paying parent earns significantly less than the recipient, or has other dependents, courts can reduce amounts. But you must argue this with evidence.
Frequently Asked Questions About Child Support
Can child support be changed after it's set?
Usually, yes. Child support can be revisited when circumstances change in a way that matters: a change in income, a real shift in parenting time, or a change in special expenses. There is no fixed percentage that automatically triggers a change, though a sizeable income swing is the most common reason people revisit it. Many families update it by agreement. Where there is a court order, changing it normally means going back to the court.
What counts as "gross income" for child support?
Gross income includes: employment income (before deductions), self-employment income, bonuses, overtime, investment income, rental income, trust distributions, pension income, employment insurance, and workers' compensation. It does NOT include child support received for other children or social assistance.
Does the paying parent get a deduction for supporting other children?
Possibly, but not automatically. Where a paying parent supports other children, an undue hardship claim can reduce the amount. It has to be argued with evidence, and it also involves comparing both households' standards of living, so it succeeds less often than people expect.
What happens if income goes up significantly?
The other parent can ask for it to be revisited. A promotion or a larger bonus raises the income the table is applied to. An inheritance is treated differently: the capital itself is generally not income, though income it generates can be. If your income drops, you can ask for a reduction. Either way, document the change and tell the other parent rather than adjusting on your own.
Do I have to prove I'm actually spending child support money on the child?
No. Child support is a transfer of money; the receiving parent is trusted to spend it on the child's living expenses (housing, food, clothing, schooling, etc.). You don't need receipts or accounting, but child support must be used for the child's benefit.
What if the paying parent doesn't pay?
Saskatchewan runs a maintenance enforcement program that collects support under a registered agreement or court order, using tools such as garnishing wages and intercepting tax refunds. If payments stop, the first step is making sure your agreement or order is registered for enforcement, then getting advice on your options. Peace can review whether agreed support filing or Maintenance Enforcement Office coordination fits its licensed scope. Disputed enforcement or courtroom representation may require a lawyer.
Does child support continue after age 18?
Often it ends around the time a child turns 18 and finishes high school, but that is not automatic. Support continues while a child is still a dependant, and full-time post-secondary study is the usual reason it does. How long it runs, and how the costs get shared, depends on the child's circumstances, both parents' means, and what your agreement or order says. There is no fixed cut-off age.
Read the child support guide now
Justice Canada's guide explains income, parenting arrangements and special expenses. It is available online without an email request.
Read the official child support guideWant this checked against your actual situation?
A real child support term needs someone who has seen your full financial picture and the actual parenting arrangement. We provide fixed-fee independent legal advice for one party, and the other party should get their own advice from another family law professional. For an interspousal property agreement under section 38 of The Family Property Act, each spouse must make the required acknowledgment before a lawyer who does not represent the other spouse and has not taken the other spouse's acknowledgment. Peace can advise and draft within its licensed scope; we coordinate the required separate lawyers for those acknowledgments.
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