In Re the Marriage of Oakes & Oakes

David Oakes appeals the trial court's calculation of the parties' respective child support obligations for their two children and that portion of the decree requiring him to pay support based on the "Two Children Family" column of the Washington State Child Support Schedule Economic Table. We conclude that the Legislature did not contemplate the situation created by the Oakes' custody arrangement, but that the statute as currently written requires use of the "Two Children Family" portion of the table when each parent has primary residential care of one or more of the parties' children. We…