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No Child Support, 50/50 Automatic as Law?
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Originally posted by Tayken View PostChild Support is federally mandated under the FCSG. It is a law! There is little to debate.
Originally posted by Tayken View PostYou can search my threads for the Stats Can study where that info is hidden.
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Originally posted by Tayken View PostIt isn't hard to make things fair. But, it is hard to make them fair and equal. You can get close but, family law is not about "perfection". It is about resolving matters for children ... Not parents.
That is why they use the offset method to calculate child support in shared residency matters when the access split is around the 60/40 mark.
"Parent A" income = 100,000
"Parent B" income = 35,000
1. Parent B majority access support from Parent A is: $880/month
2. Parent A majority access support from Parent B is: $303/month
Now, let's see how fair this is...
In 1. Parent A is paying 10.56% of income in CS. In 2. Parent B is paying 10.38%! Gasp the inequality!
Now, lets apply the offset to this where the parents share residency at minimum to a 60/40.
$880 - $303 = Parent A pays Parent B $577
((577*12)/100,000)*100 = 6.92% of 100,000
Feel free to make a spreadsheet and put incomes of all types and you will get an average that produces the same %s roughly. Well, for anything 149,000 or less. 150,000+ changes the rules and game.
The law needs to change to take into account the child's needs and what that couple would actually spend on the child in comparison with the current one-size-fits-all yard stick.
Also the suggestion that the child support is the "right of the child" is correct, however there is NO way to ensure that the money being given as the "child's right" is actually being spent on the child. the law here is incorrect in assuming that a honest parent who's submissions are truthful is equally honest to an untruthful parent who has primary care of the child (remember, you don't lose custody for lying or swearing false financial statements etc) and will have equal accountability and ethics and will ethically spend the "child's right" on the child.Last edited by sahibjee; 11-14-2017, 12:51 AM.
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