The Duggar Family (from  examiner.com ) The Massachusetts Child Support Guidelines recognize that families with multiple children have increased expenses (although those expenses are not simply doubled with each additional child). The 2009 guidelines included a multiplier for each additional child (up to 5, sorry Duggars).  This multiplier directly increases the amount of child support owed by a specific percentage.  In the 2013 guidelines these percentages were increased, though due to the reduction in the base rates for support the impact on prior orders may simply cancel each other out. The increase in rates is shown below: Obviously from the chart there is not a suggested multiplier for families like the Duggars or Octomom, but the guidelines do at least address these situations by setting a minimum presumption: "The guidelines formula applies to families with 1-5 children. For more than five children, the order should be at least the amount ordered for fiv...

The Child Support Guidelines in Massachusetts include the following provision: "Obligations to a subsequent family may be used as a defense to a request to modify an order seeking an increase in the existing order but such obligations should not be considered a reason to decrease existing orders." In short, this means that you cannot request that the Court reduce your child support because you chose to have more children (although you can defend a request for an increase on this basis). This could be really bad news for someone who is apparently unaware of birth control like New York Jets cornerback, Antonio Cromartie . Antonio Cromartie has a lot to say about the upcoming Patriots/Jets Divisional Playoff Game , but is less eloquent when it comes to remembering the names of his nine children (with eight different mothers). This video from Toucher & Rich (of Boston's 98.5 the Sports Hub) points out Cromartie's shortcomings in song: