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December 12, 2004
Are
Child Support Levels Too High?
According to economist
R. Mark Rogers, "Child
support guidelines currently in
use by the U.S. states typically
generate awards that are
three to four times what they
should be if based on
economically sound cost tables
and on a true equal duty of
support standard for both
parents" (emphasis added).
Rogers also
believes that support levels
have become so skewed in favor
of custodial parents that even
custodial parents with a
substantially lesser income will
still end up with a "significantly
higher standard of living than
the non-custodial parent." The
situation is even more
inequitable in cases where the
custodial parent has a
significantly higher income than
the noncustodial.
Rogers of
Guideline Economics believes
that child support levels are
too high in practically every
U.S. state and has proposed a
Cost
Shares guideline which he says
will remedy the problem.
Debbie Kline is the Executive
Director of the
Association for Children for the
Enforcement of Support, a
nationwide organization which
advocates higher child support
levels and tougher child support
enforcement. Mark and Debbie
joined Glenn on
His Side with Glenn Sacks
on December 12.
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