Recently, Barham, Devlin and LaCasse (2000) show that the 1997 Child-Support Guidelines fail to meet several standards of adequacy or reasonableness, not surprising given that the standard of living of children depends upon the wealth of the family before separation, yet only the income of the...

Child-support awards constitute an important source of revenue for many single-parent households. The inadequacy of these child-support awards is one of the factors cited to justify the government's recent implementation in January 1997 of a new child-support Guidelines. This paper evaluates...