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- Title
VISITATION AND CHILD SUPPORT GUIDELINES.
- Authors
Garfinkel, Irwin; McLanahan, Sara; Wallerstein, Judith
- Abstract
Fabricius and Braver argue that nonresident fathers incur appreciable visitation expenses and that their child support obligations should be reduced accordingly. To assess whether fathers incur "appreciable" expenses requires data from mothers and fathers on expenditures in dollar terms rather than data from college students on items kept in the nonresident father's house. The Fabricius and Braver data also overstate the degree to which all divorced fathers do anything for their children. Representative data indicate that father visitation declines substantially over time. Father's postdivorce, post-child support standard of living remains twice that of mothers and children. The cliff model-making adjustments for visitation only in the rare cases of very high shared physical custody-is sensible policy.
- Subjects
VISITATION rights (Domestic relations); CHILD support; CHILD welfare; FATHERS; MOTHERS
- Publication
Family Court Review, 2004, Vol 42, Issue 2, p342
- ISSN
1531-2445
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1531244504422012