(a) After satisfying the parents’ own and the children’s primary needs, the Standard of Living Adjustment (SOLA) allows each child to share in each parent’s economic well being to simulate what the child would have enjoyed if the parents lived as a single family unit. SOLA is determined by subtracting each parent’s Primary Support Obligation from their respective Net Available Income and multiplying the result by a designated percentage based upon the number of children of the union:
1
12%;
2
17%;
3
21%;
Each additional child
2%.
(b) If either or both parents’ Net Available Income for the SOLA exceeds $15,000, then each parent’s Net Available Income for the SOLA will be reduced by 20% of their combined excess.
Del. Fam. Ct. R. Civ. P. 504
Amended January 28, 2015, eff. April 20, 2015; amended November 8, 2018, effective February 1, 2019.
