Audit a Child Support Payment Record — Free
Paste the payments made and the amount ordered, and read the arrears or credit with every month accounted for.
The proof surface
Child support balances drift through part payments, agency deductions and in-kind purchases. A monthly reconciliation is the version an agency or a court can act on.
Why the flat version breaks
Counting in-kind as cash
A uniform or a school trip is not a payment against the order, and treating it as one hides the arrears that an agency will still record.
Ignoring agency deductions
Fees deducted from a payment reduce what reaches the receiving parent, and the difference quietly accumulates.
Reconciling once
Part payments and combined months recur; a reconciliation done once is out of date within a quarter.
How to work the payment register
One line per month with what was paid and any note about part payments or in-kind items.
The monthly amount ordered becomes the rule on every line.
The running balance rules at the foot, with shortfalls printed per month.
Give the agency or the other parent the reconciliation with the largest gaps named.
What the register replaces
| Question | Before | On the register |
|---|---|---|
| What is the balance | add months in my head | ordered against paid on every month |
| Which months are short | 'a few I think' | shortfall printed per month line |
| What to send the agency | a summary email | the statement with the two largest gaps named |
In-kind payments are noted as your own line and excluded from the cash reconciliation; the register does not decide how an agency treats them.
Run it on the samples, right here
FIRST-LOAD
Data note: Everything runs in this browser tab on the payment register: your payment records stays on this device, nothing is uploaded, and the reading is rebuilt only when you press run.
Go deeper: the companion app files the same reading as a bound register page
The article demo above runs without limits. The companion app keeps a local history, exports the rows as CSV, prints the ready-to-mail packet, and holds your drafts on this device — one free run, then $ 9 one-time for the layer that keeps filing.
The register and the running balance are free. The paid layer prints the reconciliation statement for the agency.
Open the payment record audit companionBoundary
This payment register works only on the payment records and the order you paste you paste. It does not decide what is owed in law, does not enforce an order, and does not interpret an agency's rules. The figures describe what you supplied, not what is true in the world. Confirm anything you plan to act on with the child support agency, or a family lawyer where enforcement is needed before you rely on it.
What this is built on
- Every figure comes from the payment records and the order you paste you paste; nothing is looked up, scraped or asserted as verified.
- Method: each month is compared with the ordered amount; the running balance is the sum of the differences
- Sample values are labelled samples — illustrative by design, not your data and not a quotation of any organisation's policy.
Before: the reader guessed at the balance. After: they can see a $1,860 shortfall across eleven months with the two largest months named.