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| Sat, 06-03-2006 - 2:01pm |
A little while back, a discussion of what CS is for ensued. I was purusing CS laws for another reason today and realized where my belief of what CS is for came from. (DUH) I wanted to post that reason:
"(a)The child is entitled to benefit from the income of both
parents to the same extent that the child would have benefited
had the family unit remained intact or if there had been an
intact family unit consisting of both parents and the child."
Are other state laws similiar in this statement? I don't know. This is, however, what I had stated CS was for. Anyone else have their state laws to look at and see what the deal is in their state?



This is part of what I pulled form TN guidelines:
"Ensure that, when parents live separately, the economic impact on the child is minimized, and, to the extent that either parent enjoys a higher standard of living, the child shares in that higher standard."
Karen ~ wildlucky4me ~
This is what is says in CT:
The Connecticut Child Support Guidelines are based on the Income Shares Model. The Income Shares Model is predicated on the concept that the child should receive the same proportion of parental income as he or she would have received if the parents lived together. The Income Shares Model has proven to be the most widely accepted, particularly due to its consideration of the income of both parents.
Based on this economic evidence, adjusted for Connecticut's relatively high income distribution (as explained more fully in subsection (d) of this preamble, following), the guidelines allow for the calculation of current support based on each parent's share of the amount estimated to have been spent on the child if the parents and child were living in an intact household. The amount calculated for the custodial parent is retained by the custodial parent and presumed to be spent on the child. The amount calculated for the noncustodial parent establishes the level of current support to be ordered by the court. These two amounts together constitute the total current support obligation.
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