Tag: child support
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Child support formulas are decades out of date
State child support guidelines were built for a different economy. The formulas misprice modern custody, healthcare costs, and dual-earner households.
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Imputed income rulings are routinely fantasy math
Family courts impute earning capacity using assumptions that often ignore actual labor markets. Here’s why imputed income rulings frequently miss reality.
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Child support is treated as income for the recipient and that’s a problem
Child support is technically not income, but in practice it functions as one in benefits formulas, custody disputes, and tax reporting, with messy consequences.
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Child support enforcement criminalizes poverty
Child support enforcement in the US punishes inability to pay almost as harshly as refusal to pay. The result is a system that deepens the poverty it claims to address.