When advising clients, legal professionals and mediators are often required to perform two distinct calculations: one for the current and  prospective (future) support, and another for the complete retroactive assessment spanning prior months or years. While other software only handle the prospective calculations and attempts to manage retroactivity simply by changing the year, this is entirely inadequate for multi-year or partial-year retroactive and arrears calculations as it forces practitioners to rely on tedious, error-prone manual spreadsheets. The true complexity lies in spanning multiple prior tax years and accounting for mid-year legislative changes, such as the new support tables introduced in October, 2025.  New tables may critically complicate retroactive and arrears calculations because accurate totals require blending older, varied rates with the current rates across all affected periods.

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With ChildView, you benefit from advanced features and calculation precision that address both time frames, and the assurance of true data control, so you can dedicate your time to your practice, not to calculations.
 

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🎯 Calculation Precision and Advanced Features

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• Flexible Section 3 Child Support: ChildView can calculate the table amount of child support for complex and varying parenting arrangements. Incorporating varying parenting arrangements will result in a different annual total for the section 3 table amount, which means, depending on the circumstances, your client could be paying more or less child support.

• Accurate Section 7 and Spousal Support: : In section 7 child support and spousal support calculations, ChildView calculates all government benefits, including one-time payments, addresses the benefits cycle by utilizing blended benefit calculations, and provides the option to use the base taxation years to ensure precise calculations.

• Advanced Life Insurance tool to secure support obligations: Accurate child support calculations are just the beginning. Our powerful and flexible life insurance calculator goes further, estimating the minimum life insurance coverage necessary to secure a party's child and spousal support obligations.

• Comprehensive Retroactive/Arrears Child Support: ChildView handles retroactive or past-due child support calculations for multiple years, with options to include partial payments, interest, and create payment arrangements.

• Transparent Gross-Up Calculations: ChildView provides neutral gross-up calculations based on the party’s actual resources, with full disclosure and detailed reports.

 

📝 Integrated Tools for Efficiency and Transparency​

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• Detailed Disclosure and Export Capabilities: ChildView ensures complete transparency by providing full disclosure and detailed breakdowns of most calculations. Users may export reports to PDF or (where appropriate) Excel for customized analysis.

• Family Court Forms: Take control of your family law court forms. Instantly access, pre-populate, and edit forms for Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Nova Scotia, Saskatchewan, and Ontario, and more provinces and territories are being added. Our intuitive, built-in forms editor and the ability to export multiple forms to both .docx and .pdf formats means you can complete an entire file in a fraction of the time, all without ever opening a separate program.

• Next-level financial tools that offer innovative analysis, what-if scenarios, cash position, and detailed reports.​​​​

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🛡️ Complete control over client-sensitive information. 

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• You define the data security perimeter. By choosing secure, local or private network storage, your client's sensitive records remain locked down on your firm’s chosen storage device,  protected from cloud breaches and unauthorized third-party access.