The state Supreme Court’s Family Practice Committee is recommending rule revisions that would allow child-support determinations to be based on a broader and more accurate picture of family spending.
The committee, chaired by Appellate Division Judge Marie Lihotz, urges adoption of a new award schedule that "for the first time captures spending in families over a twelve-year period," from 2000 through 2011, which "encompasses prosperous years, recession years and the current slow recovery years."
