Are the New Child-Support Guidelines "Adequate" or "Reasonable"?

Vicky Barham, Rose Anne Devlin and Chantale LaCasse

Canadian Public Policy, 2000, vol. 26, issue 1, 1-15

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2000
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