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As with judges of family law, determining child support is routine work for the judges in the Court of Appeals, which is managed pragmatically according to case flow. Based on an ethnographic study within the family division of a Court of Appeals, spread over several years, this article aims to understand the judicial treatment of cases in the Court of First Instance compared with such treatment in the Court of Appeals. Therefore, by analyzing the principles utilized by judges in the Court of Appeals to grant child support and, when appropriate, to calculate their amounts, this research reveals that the more restrictive judicial policy of the Court of Second Instance adds to social and gender inequalities.