Legal Opinion
Bast v. Rossoff
New York Court of Appeals
Decided June 16, 1998PublishedCited by 104 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Wesley, J.
On this appeal we must resolve the issue of how child support should be calculated when parents have “shared custody” of their child. Balancing the policy considerations behind enactment of the Child Support Standards Act (CSSA) against the practical challenges of applying the CSSA in shared custody situations, we hold that child support in a shared custody case should be calculated as it is in any other case. In this case, since the lower courts bypassed the initial three-step statutory formula set forth in the CSSA, we modify and are constrained to remit for a…
2Cases cited8 opinions
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- Holmes v. HolmesAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1992
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