This page is intended to provide a central source of analysis regarding child support guidelines and selected court opinions related to the economics of child support guidelines. Links are intended for economic, legal, or regulatory analysis.
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For those wishing to contribute to this site, the site author prefers a link to the offered report because the web space demand is substantial. This page discusses an true, economics based child support guideline. This guideline is based on sharing actual expenditures on children, treating child-related tax benefits as a cost offset to be shared, and takes into account what costs are incurred by each parent. For the last point, each parent is equally responsible for sharing the other parent's child expenses. Introduction to Cost Shares Child Support Guideline.