| Econ_Dad |
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| 10/11/11 10:28 PM |
Re: Child Support Modification
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Hi, Renny. I had thought your post had a typo and you had meant "can't imagine." Didn't realize you were joking.
I was simply stating the numbers. I think in the interests of the children, especially in shared parenting time cases, the most important issue for many ncps is insuring that state formulas reflect actual costs incurred in each household.
When formulas result in amounts that don't eflect actual costs, you end up with serious economic distortions. In many states, the distortions result in either dedicated minority-time (but significant time) ncps credited with numbers like $3 a day, or parents with near-equal time incentivized with hundred of dollars a month weighing on one or two days a month. Both are serious issues, one issue resulting in children spending time in NCP households who are struggling with support amounts that reflect none of their own child-rearing expenditures and another issue that often results in litigation and "the gaming of time for money." At the risk of repeating myself, try [censored].childservicepolicies for a dynamic look at the numbers in MI.