From: brunner@telebit.com (Eric Brunner)
Subject: SB 370 Review and Consultation
Organization: Telebit Corporation; Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Distribution: na
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 19:15:52 GMT

While this is a California law, it is relevent to the rest of the US, so
after a second's hesitation, I went for the "na" distribution. This is
another page of S.B 370, the guidelines section, also known as sections
b and c, covering review and consultation, as the subject line suggests.

Line length and style all as they appear in the original, when I do the
formulas (that's SEC 4721, not section b as I wrote earlier), I'll have
to take some ascii-liberties. Errors are mine, and are copywrited.

SEC 4720 (continued)

(b) The Judicial Council shall periodically review the guideline
established in Section 4721 to recommend to the Legislature
appropriate revisions. The review shall include economic date on the
cost of rasising children and analysis of case data, gathered through
sampling or other methods, on the actual application of the guideline
after the guideline's operative date. The Review shall also include
analysis of guidelines and studies from other states, and other
research and studies available to or undertaken by the Judicial
Council. Any recommendation for revisions to the guideline
established in Section 4721 shall be made to ensure that the guideline
resultes in appropriate child support orders to limit deviations from
the guideline, or otherwise to help ensure that the guideline is in
compliance with federal law. The Judicial Council may also review
and report on other matters, including, but not limited to, the
treatment of the income of a subsequenct spouse or nonmarital
partner; the treatment of children from prior or subsequenct
replationships; the application of the guideline in a case where a payor
parent has extraordinarily low or extraordinarily high income, or
where each parent has primary physical custody of one or more of
the chidren of the marriage; the benefits and limitations of a
uniform statewide spousal support guideline and the
interrelationship of that guideline with the state child support
guideline; whether the use of gross or net income in the guideline
is preferable; whether the guidline affects child custody litigation or
the efficiency of the judicial process; and whether the various
assumptions used in computer software used by some courts to
calculate child support comport with state law and should be made
available to parties and council. The initial review by the Judicial
Council shall be submitted to the Legislature and to the State
Department of Social Services on or before December 31, 1993, and
subsequent reviews shall occur at least every four years thereafter
unless federal law requires a different interval.

(c) In developing its recommendations, the Judicial Council shall
consult with a broad cross-section of groups involved in child support
issues, including, but not limited to, the following: custodial and
noncustodial parents; representatives of established women's rights
and father' rights groups; representtives of established
organizations that advocate for the economic well-being of children;
members of the judiciary, district attorney's offices, the Attorney
General's office, and the State Department of Social Services;
certified family law specialists; academicians specializing in family
law; persons representing low-income parents; and persons
representing recipients of assistance under the Aid to Families with
Dependent Children (AFDC) program seeking child support services.


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