CRIM 406 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Children International, Child Support, Payment

• School: George Mason University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 406
• Professor: Ashworth

Document Summary

Week 12 child support and adoption lecture notes. Federal legislation: required states to establish child support guidelines, guidelines are mathematical formulas the court uses to set an amount of child support in a case, this is a presumptive amount of child support. Child support formulas: payor only, payor parent pays a percentage of income depending on how many children. Income shares: uses percentage of total income to determine amount owed. Add incomes of both parents, determine amount would spend on children from guidelines. Multiply ea(cid:272)h party"s per(cid:272)e(cid:374)tage: payor only, example: guidelines say payor pays 20% of income for one child; payor earns. ,000: ,000 x 20% = ,000 per year to payee parent income shares, example: payor makes ,000; payee makes ,000, guidelines say for one child, should spend 20% of total income (,000 * 20% = ,000: payor makes 50% of total and owes payee 50% of guideline amount (,000 *