165 Md. App. 445 - Beck v. Beck’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
February 2013
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Oaks v. Connors · Degren v. State · Montgomery County v. Buckman · Adamson v. Correctional Medical Services, Inc. · Petrini v. Petrini
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“The purpose of the guidelines was to limit the role of the trial courts in deciding the specific amount of child support to be awarded in different cases by limiting the necessity of factual findings that had been required under pre-guidelines case law. The legislature also intended the guidelines to remedy the unconscionably low levels of many child support awards when compared with the actual cost of raising children, to improve the consistency and equity of child support awards, and to increase the efficiency in the adjudication of child support awards.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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