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Professional Edition - Arrears Calculator 

  • The Arrears Calculator is included in the Professional Edition.

Product Benefits:

  • Enable you to tell a client how much child support is owed after a period of non-payment.
     
  • Enable you to show a party, attorney, or court exactly how the calculation was made.

Product Features:

  • "Quick Arrears" calculator does a one-screen calculation in the "simple" case of non-payment for a period of time.
     
  • "Full Arrears calculator handles occasional payments, some regular payments, changes in the obligation amount, changes in interest rates, changes in calculation methods.
     
  • Allows obligation payment frequencies to be specified as annual, bi-annual, monthly, first-and-fifteenth, bi-weekly, and weekly.
     
  • Allows the interest rate cycle (how frequently the interest is calculated) to be specified as annual, bi-annual, monthly, first-and-fifteenth, bi-weekly, and weekly.
     
  • Allows the computation method (how interest is calculated) to be simple using end-of-cycle balance, simple using average balance, compound using end-of-cycle balance, compound using average balance, and compounded daily.
     
  • Allows the frequency of regular payments actually made to be annual, bi-annual, monthly, first-and-fifteenth, bi-weekly, and weekly.
     
  • Allows the specification that payments are to go first toward interest, then toward principal, or vice versa.
     
  • Allows a grace period before interest starts accruing.
     
  • Allows entry of "maximum" principle amounts on each obligation. This is useful for obligations that are set to cover specific expenditures.
     
  • Allows an "interest adjustment" on an obligation-by-obligation basis. This is useful because some states have higher rates for certain obligations than for others.
     
  • Allows interest rates to change on dates you specify.
     
  • Allows as many different obligations, payments, periods, interest rates, etc. as you need.
     
  • Includes many states' interest rates built in.
     
  • Allows you to save your state's interest rates as the default.
     
  • Detailed audit trail shows, period by period, obligation by obligation, each arrears calculation.

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