A Working, Superior Alternative To Current Guidelines
13th National Conference
Children’s Rights Council
Bethesda, Maryland
May 5, 2001
Presumptive child support guidelines were enacted by the states by the end of 1989 to comply with the federal Family Support Act of 1988 in order to retain certain federal funding. In retrospect, it is clear that the guidelines implemented were and are very flawed in terms of their economic foundation. Today’s child support guidelines, as implemented, are based on two general models with only a few minor exceptions:
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