Author Lucien Khodeir Releases New Book Critical of the Canadian Child-Support Guidelines
Read about a newly released book that reviews the state of the Canadian child-support guidelines, points out its biases, and recommends sensible remedies in the best interests of “Children with 2 homes.”
Toronto, Canada, March 07, 2008 --(PR.com)-- The Canadian child-support guidelines were implemented on May 1, 1997 by well-intentioned drafters. The intent was to standardize the child-support levels across Canada in an attempt to make child support fairer and more objective. While the guidelines succeeded at standardizing the levels, the drafters forgot to make sure the those levels were fair beforehand. They weren’t then and they still aren’t today.
It all started back when the guidelines came into effect. Sure, they had 14 tables of child support amounts for each province and territory, but there was not one word on how all these amounts were actually calculated. When the missing piece of the puzzle finally surfaced a year later, on April 9, 1998, in the form of a technical report, the answer to one question opened the door to more questions about injustice and incompetence.
The major flaw of the guidelines was pointed out for the first time on November 10, 2005, by the Honourable Mr. Justice Morris J. Fish in his dissenting reasons in the judgment of the Supreme Court of Canada in Contino v. Leonelli-Contino [2005]: “Where a child resides with one parent less than 40 percent of the time, that parent is deemed, by legislative fiction, to incur no child-related expenses at all.”
Indeed, in deriving the amount of child support, the Canadian guidelines assume that the paying parent incurs no expenses whatsoever on the children whenever those children spend less than 40% of their time with that parent. “My children spend 30% of their time with me and the guidelines assume that I spend nothing on them, nothing on feeding them, nothing on entertaining them, and nothing on providing a second home for them. I am basically a second-class parent as far as the guidelines are concerned,” says Lucien Khodeir, author of “Children with 2 homes,” a new book critical of the Canadian child-support guidelines, published by Lulu.
“I concede that my book may be a hard read to some. That’s why I launched the web site childrenwith2homes.ca to allow visitors to read a preview of it online and to ask me questions about it,” says Mr. Khodeir.
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It all started back when the guidelines came into effect. Sure, they had 14 tables of child support amounts for each province and territory, but there was not one word on how all these amounts were actually calculated. When the missing piece of the puzzle finally surfaced a year later, on April 9, 1998, in the form of a technical report, the answer to one question opened the door to more questions about injustice and incompetence.
The major flaw of the guidelines was pointed out for the first time on November 10, 2005, by the Honourable Mr. Justice Morris J. Fish in his dissenting reasons in the judgment of the Supreme Court of Canada in Contino v. Leonelli-Contino [2005]: “Where a child resides with one parent less than 40 percent of the time, that parent is deemed, by legislative fiction, to incur no child-related expenses at all.”
Indeed, in deriving the amount of child support, the Canadian guidelines assume that the paying parent incurs no expenses whatsoever on the children whenever those children spend less than 40% of their time with that parent. “My children spend 30% of their time with me and the guidelines assume that I spend nothing on them, nothing on feeding them, nothing on entertaining them, and nothing on providing a second home for them. I am basically a second-class parent as far as the guidelines are concerned,” says Lucien Khodeir, author of “Children with 2 homes,” a new book critical of the Canadian child-support guidelines, published by Lulu.
“I concede that my book may be a hard read to some. That’s why I launched the web site childrenwith2homes.ca to allow visitors to read a preview of it online and to ask me questions about it,” says Mr. Khodeir.
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