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Split and Shared Custody Agreements

By Jerome A. Wisselman and Lloyd C. Rosen

As we discussed in the first two installments of this article, the uniform application of the Child Support Standards Act (CSSA) to all families' situations can have some apparently unintended consequences, especially now that many fathers are taking a more active role in their children's lives. Because of changing societal norms, it is becoming ever more clear that the way the CSSA delegates financial responsibility to parents in shared custody arrangements ' those in which one is deemed the “custodial parent” and the other the “non-custodial parent” ' is not always logical or equitable. In extreme cases, it can even compel non-custodial parents to spend less time with their children than they would like to, in order not to incur greater child support obligations.

Does the CSSA generate better results when parents split custody?

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