NPO: Massachusetts Decreases Child Support Guidelines

Article here. Excerpt:

'Effective August 1, 2013, Massachusetts will be following revised child support guidelines. The Massachusetts Child Support Guidelines Task Force of the Massachusetts Trial Court has just completed its work and released the new guidelines and its report.

This is only the second occasion, that we are aware of, where the Guidelines have been reduced.

As Ned Holstein wrote in his article Massachusetts Child Support Guidelines are Actively Harmful to the Wellbeing of Children, the 2009 high levels of support orders implicitly assume that more is better.

"Excessive child support orders are the result in part of an archaic way of thinking, namely, that the wellbeing of the child is solely bound up in the wellbeing of the custodial parent and her home. And that the circumstances of the non-custodial parent matter little or not at all to the wellbeing of the child."'