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A Further Look at Child Support Guidelines

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 2004

Roger F. Gay
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Jo Michelle Beld's article on child support guidelines defends the efforts of the Minnesota Child Support Enforcement Division to maintain the state's formula for determining child support award amounts (2003). She responds to long-standing criticism, in this instance conveyed by Stephen Baskerville, that the child support enforcement community, which has a financial interest in child support amounts, exercises unchecked authority through the forced use of guidelines, and that as a result, child support awards are arbitrarily high (2002).

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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 37 , Issue 4 , October 2004 , pp. 729 - 730
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© 2004 by the American Political Science Association

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