Are the new child-support guidelines "adequate" or "reasonable"?

被引：3

作者：

Barham, V ^{[1
]}

Devlin, RA

LaCasse, C

机构：

[1] Univ Ottawa, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada

[2] Univ Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2M7, Canada

来源：

CANADIAN PUBLIC POLICY-ANALYSE DE POLITIQUES | 2000年 / 26卷 / 01期

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D O I：

10.2307/3552253

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

Child-support awards constitute an important source of revenue for many single-parent households. The inadequacy of these child-support awards is one of the factors cited to justify the government's recent implementation in January 1997 of a new child-support Guidelines. This paper evaluates these Guidelines by examining how they compare to six standards of adequacy and reasonableness. We are led to conclude that any child-support system based solely on the incomes of former spouses is unlikely to succeed. One way out of this dilemma is to use a broader measure of wealth when calculating child-support payments which may make it possible to reduce the economic impact of divorce on children.

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