AllLaw State Child-Support Guideline Scraper
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AllLaw State Child-Support Guideline Scraper
Scrapes AllLaw.com child-support guideline pages for all 50 US states and Washington D.C. Returns the guideline model (income shares, percentage of income, or Melson formula), a narrative summary, calculator inputs, factors considered, statutory references, and the last-updated date — one record per state.
What it does
AllLaw publishes a canonical consumer reference for child-support guidelines in every US jurisdiction. Each state page contains:
- The computational model used (income shares vs percentage of income vs Melson formula)
- A narrative explanation of how support is calculated
- The inputs the state calculator collects (number of children, parenting time, income amounts, healthcare costs, etc.)
- Factors the court considers when setting or modifying support
- Statutory citations where present
The actor crawls the hub page at /calculators/childsupport/ to discover all state URLs, then fetches each state's detail page and extracts structured data from the server-rendered HTML and embedded JSON-LD Article blocks.
Output
Each output record contains:
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
state |
string | US state name (e.g. California, Texas, Washington D.C.) |
url |
string | Canonical source URL |
guideline_model |
string | Income shares / Percentage of income / Melson formula |
guideline_summary |
string | Narrative summary (first ~1200 chars of article body) |
calculator_inputs |
array | Field labels the state calculator collects |
factors_considered |
array | Factors the court considers (income, healthcare, custody, etc.) |
statutory_references |
array | Cited statutes and rule numbers where present |
last_updated |
string | ISO-8601 date the article was last modified |
scrapedAt |
string | ISO-8601 timestamp when the record was scraped |
Use cases
- Family-law SaaS and legal research tools — structured per-state guideline model for support estimator tooling
- LLM fine-tuning and RAG pipelines — state-specific child-support computation rules as structured context
- Policy research — compare guideline models, income thresholds, and factors across all 50 states + DC
- Fintech alimony/support estimators — drop-in dataset for child-support calculators
Input
| Parameter | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
maxItems |
integer | 10 | Maximum number of state pages to scrape (max 50: all 50 states + DC) |
Notes
- The site is server-rendered HTML with no Cloudflare protection — no proxy is required.
- The actor discovers all 50 state URLs from the hub page automatically. Set
maxItemsto 50 to get all states. - Guideline model detection uses keyword analysis of the full article text. A small number of states may return an empty
guideline_modelif the page does not explicitly name the formula. - Last-updated dates come from JSON-LD
dateModifiedmetadata — most pages were updated in 2024.