AllLaw State Child-Support Guideline Scraper
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AllLaw State Child-Support Guideline Scraper
Scrapes AllLaw.com child-support guideline pages for all 50 US states and DC. Returns guideline model (income shares, percentage of income, or Melson formula), narrative summary, calculator inputs, factors considered, statutory references, and last-updated date per state.
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Scrapes AllLaw.com child-support guideline pages for all 50 US states and Washington D.C. Returns the guideline model (income shares, percentage of income, or Melson formula), a narrative summary, calculator inputs, factors considered, statutory references, and the last-updated date — one record per state.
What it does
AllLaw publishes a canonical consumer reference for child-support guidelines in every US jurisdiction. Each state page contains:
- The computational model used (income shares vs percentage of income vs Melson formula)
- A narrative explanation of how support is calculated
- The inputs the state calculator collects (number of children, parenting time, income amounts, healthcare costs, etc.)
- Factors the court considers when setting or modifying support
- Statutory citations where present
The actor crawls the hub page at /calculators/childsupport/ to discover all state URLs, then fetches each state's detail page and extracts structured data from the server-rendered HTML and embedded JSON-LD Article blocks.
Output
Each output record contains:
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
state | string | US state name (e.g. California, Texas, Washington D.C.) |
url | string | Canonical source URL |
guideline_model | string | Income shares / Percentage of income / Melson formula |
guideline_summary | string | Narrative summary (first ~1200 chars of article body) |
calculator_inputs | array | Field labels the state calculator collects |
factors_considered | array | Factors the court considers (income, healthcare, custody, etc.) |
statutory_references | array | Cited statutes and rule numbers where present |
last_updated | string | ISO-8601 date the article was last modified |
scrapedAt | string | ISO-8601 timestamp when the record was scraped |
Use cases
- Family-law SaaS and legal research tools — structured per-state guideline model for support estimator tooling
- LLM fine-tuning and RAG pipelines — state-specific child-support computation rules as structured context
- Policy research — compare guideline models, income thresholds, and factors across all 50 states + DC
- Fintech alimony/support estimators — drop-in dataset for child-support calculators
Input
| Parameter | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
maxItems | integer | 10 | Maximum number of state pages to scrape (max 50: all 50 states + DC) |
Notes
- The site is server-rendered HTML with no Cloudflare protection — no proxy is required.
- The actor discovers all 50 state URLs from the hub page automatically. Set
maxItemsto 50 to get all states. - Guideline model detection uses keyword analysis of the full article text. A small number of states may return an empty
guideline_modelif the page does not explicitly name the formula. - Last-updated dates come from JSON-LD
dateModifiedmetadata — most pages were updated in 2024.