Baker, J.
R.B. (Father) appeals the order of the trial court granting him legal custody of his children and ordering that parenting time be equally shared with K.S. (Mother). The order further specified that Father is to pay to Mother child support in the amount of $876 per week. Father argues that this award is clearly erroneous. Finding that the amount of child support was determined in accordance with the Indiana Child Support Guidelines and finding no other error, we affirm.
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The trial court used a child support worksheet submitted by Mother to calculate child support. [Footnote omitted.] The worksheet showed a great disparity between the parents’ weekly incomes. Mother’s share amounted to only 2.6% of the parents’ total weekly income. This percentage was applied to the parents’ total child support obligation to determine Mother’s share of child support, which came to $43.94 per week. Mother would ordinarily have paid this amount to Father. But because she was to have the children for 181 to 183 days out of the year, she received a parenting time credit of $1,019.48 per week. The parenting time credit thus exceeded Mother’s weekly child support obligation by $975.54, meaning that Father would now pay weekly child support to Mother. The trial court reduced the award to $876 per week in recognition of the fact that Father was “ordered to pay all extracurricular activities for the children, school expenses, and all medical, dental, and optical expenses that are not covered by insurance.” Appellant’s App. p. 12.
Father observes that this is a situation in which child support is flowing from a custodial parent to a non-custodial parent. In 2007, our Supreme Court interpreted a previous version of the Indiana Child Support Guidelines and concluded that the Guidelines did not allow for child support to flow from a custodial to a non-custodial parent unless the trial court found that it would be unjust to do otherwise and made a written finding to that effect in its order. Grant v. Hager, 868 N.E.2d 801, 803-04 (Ind. 2007). Thus, if the trial court ordered a custodial parent to pay child support to a non-custodial parent, this was considered a deviation from the Guidelines requiring explanation pursuant to Indiana Child Support Rule 3. [Footnote omitted.] Here, because the child support flows from the custodial to the non-custodial parent, Father argues that the trial court was required to make a written finding that it would be unjust to order otherwise.
However, in 2010, following its decision in Grant, our Supreme Court adopted amended Guidelines. The 2010 amendments to the Guidelines make clear that trial courts no longer need to offer an explanation before ordering custodial parents to pay child support to non-custodial parents. The 2010 amendments added the following sentence to Guideline 1: “Absent grounds for deviation, the custodial parent should be required to make monetary payments of child support, if application of the parenting time credit would so require.” A sentence added to Guideline 3F is even more straightforward:
When there is near equal parenting time, and the custodial parent has significantly higher income than the non-custodial parent, application of the parenting time credit should result in an order for the child support to be paid from a custodial parent to a non-custodial parent, absent grounds for a deviation.
Therefore, an order of child support from a custodial to a non-custodial parent is no longer considered a deviation requiring explanation and Grant’s requirement that the trial court make a written finding explaining such a result no longer holds.
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Vaidik, C.J., and Riley, J., concur.