AllLaw State Child-Support Guideline Scraper
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AllLaw State Child-Support Guideline Scraper
Scrapes AllLaw.com child-support guideline pages for 49 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 49 US states and Washington D.C. (AllLaw publishes no Vermont page). 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 returns a structured record for each state's guidelines.
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 (opening ~1200 chars of the guideline article) |
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 49 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: 49 states + DC) |
Notes
- Fast, low-cost runs.
- The actor discovers all 50 jurisdiction URLs from the hub page automatically. Set
maxItemsto 50 to get all states. - Guideline model detection uses keyword analysis of the full article text. About a tenth of states return an empty
guideline_modelif the page does not explicitly name the formula. - Last-updated dates come from each article's published modification date — most pages were updated in 2024.
