Letter to New Hampshire Legislators

[POC]

Dear Legislators:

Children's needs should supersede any designation which is assigned to a parent. As such, children need to be provided for 365 days per year, nothing less. By only providing for the needs of children on days that they are at custodial parent homes, New Hampshire's child support guidelines have left kids in the lurch on days that they are to be with their non-custodial parent. These child support monies should be apportioned to meet the needs of the child. Inexplicably, the current apportionment of New Hampshire's child support does not provide even a dime for needs as basic as food, shelter, clothing, and transportation when they are with their non-custodial parent. How the Legislature could have overlooked such basic needs of children is nothing short of a tragedy.

Including custodial parent income in the calculation of child support, in addition to non-custodial parent income, which has always been considered, will put hundreds of millions, if not billions of additional dollars on the table, which had not previously been considered for the benefit of New Hampshire's children. If it was already assumed, the custodial parent was spending that money for the benefit of their child, then they should have no problem with a calculation that proves such responsibility.

Not only is HB 1580 fair and just, it will provide for the needs of children where the state of New Hampshire's child support currently leaves them to do without. That depravation of children must not continue. I urge New Hampshire's senators to join their colleagues in the House and pass this legislation that will better provide for children.

Sincerely,

POC


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Here is a link to the bill - http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legisla ... b1580.html