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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t believe in equal share custody. No such thing.[/quote]

How so? Court-appointed split of calendar year or intervals of time shared. Seems pretty simple to implement. Also gives both parents a chance to see their children. [/quote]

I'm divorced and ex-DH and I get along and coparent well.  The kid definitely would not like a 50/50 split of time.  DH's job is much more inflexible than mine and he works a lot and travels on a regular basis for work.  [b]There are also circumstances where both parents can't afford housing in the same neighborhood due to income disparity, which could mean each home is zoned for different schools.[/b] I have a bigger home and do the bulk of the after school activities because my house is the base and we don't live right next door to each other.  He pays child support.   Having that one size fits all policy isn't a good idea.  I'm all for that as the starting point, but you have to take into consideration the individual circumstances.  My good friend's husband is a consultant who is gone during the week and is home on the weekend.  How would the no child support/equal custody rule work there?  I would be fine with the equal custody/no child support if we lived in the same neighborhood so we had the same school zone, and if ex-DH had a job where he was home on a regular basis.  That just isn't the case.  [/quote]

As long as one parent/guardian is present in a residence in the school district and the child is there 50% of the time, it doesn’t matter if one or both has homes in-boundary. It just means the child’s commute will be longer with one parent over the other. [/quote]
So what happens Giancarlo decides to move away from Torino with his mistress to a new flat in Genoa?
THis law is about old dudes. [/quote]

Don’t be so obtuse. There is a way to split the school year - all summer, breaks, etc. where if it isn’t exactly EQUAL time, it’s equitable based on the circumstance (I.e. the parent who decided to move away might get less time). But at least the presumption of equality is there. [/quote]

Yep - there’s a way to be certain Giancarlo isn’t too inconvenienced. Ex can handle the school year heavy lifting and Little Sophia can come visit the Riviera in the summer... [/quote]

Okay. I don’t know what you want to hear. I guess you are intent on assuming the man is the bad spouse/parent in all situations. Typical DCUM![/quote]

The point is why say no child support if there are many circumstances where one parent will be doing the heavy lifting for most of the time.  And I most certainly think child support should go both ways.  If the dad is the one doing the heavy lifting, then he should get child support.  The point is why have a rule that there is no child support at all.  They aren't saying there is a presumption of equality, but there is child support if the parties prove otherwise, they are saying the rule is no child support and 50/50 period, even if that's not the reality. [/quote]

The article says that if one parent “can’t afford” expenses the wealthier parent will pay for costs directly.

Besides, unless anyone commenting here is from Italy, we don’t know what the reality is there. We’re looking at this through a U.S. prism and so it’s not necessarily fair to knock them. [/quote]

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