The table for calculating child support that a divorced parent pays to the other parent living with their children has been updated by the Supreme Court’s Legal Training and Research Institute for the first time in 16 years. The move was prompted by criticism that the amount of child support paid on the basis of the table used in divorce trials is too low — a factor that leaves many single-parent households mired in poverty.
The update to increase child support will indeed help improve the financial conditions of single-parent families — though not significantly. However, a larger problem is […]
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