The infamous “Table A Incident”

The first version of this spreadsheet was developed in 1996. At the time, I wasn’t aware that a copy of the Florida Statues was available online. This was unfortunate, as it led to the most time consuming aspect of development: manually entering the child support needs table described in chapter 61 (what I would’ve done for a good scanner and decent OCR software!). The table was checked for accuracy on several different occasions, by several different eyes... in addition to the testing that was done to verify the spreadsheet as a whole worked properly, but no errors in the table were found.

Well, as you know by now there was one mistake. The table value for one child and combined net income of $8350 was entered as $1371, instead of the correct value: $1317. After this error was discovered by an observant user like you, I was notified, and went to work. I checked for any other errors like this one in the (spreadsheet) table. I copied the table from a reliable online source, tossed it into a separate spreadsheet, and ran a quick analysis comparing it to the table in my spreadsheet. Only one mistake was found: the one child value at $8350.

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