By: Anthony C. Adamopoulos
The current “old” Child Support Guidelines provided a separate child support calculation where, for example, the father shared “financial responsibility and parenting time” of greater than one-third but less than fifty percent of the time.
This usually meant that if, for example, the father was with his children more than one- third of their time he was going to pay less child support than the father who is with his children about a third of the time. This adjustment is dropped under the newGuidelines announced on July 18th and formally effective on September 15, 2017.
While the formal effective date is not until September, experienced divorce attorneys, mediators and arbitrators have started using the new Guidelines.