Share income model and Child Support and HB933

[D'Arcy L McGreer]

Murray Steinburg sent this attachment to me recently.  The quote below shows a fatal flaw in the Virginia Share Income model of child support I THINK.  I do not think the panel review changed how they determine who much the NCP (non-custodial parent) should pay in child support.  Child support based on the combined income of both parents is obviously not realistic and some cases not sustainable by the NCP.  Need someone to confirm this about Virginia and the panel report.

 

There are other issues in this document that could be helpful and other papers listed at the end about Virginia.  It would be helpful if someone could compare this paper to what the panel review study the legislatures are using to vote for HB933 and determine what the flaws are in panel study.  In the meantime if I am correct about then this could be another issue used in showing how HB933 is bad.

 

“Which Income Basis: Why Average Income Instead of Combined Income?  The use of average income helps to guarantee a child support award that is consistent with a budget for both the CP and the NCP and that is also consistent with a reasonable and sustainable standard of living for both. A child support award that is based on combined incomes is not economically rational. The family is no longer intact—or never was intact—and has household overhead that is notably higher per adult income earner. Neither the CP nor the NCP engages in actual child expenditures based on intact family income and household costs. Each parent engages in economic behavior clearly different from that of an intact household. Each parent makes expenditure choices as a single-parent/earner. Both the CP and the NCP have higher adult overhead and spend on children accordingly.”  Rogers and Bieniewicz, Child Cost Economics and Litigation Issues p. 23

 

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