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Critical Analysis Of Basic Child Support Awards In Puerto Rico,Analisis Critico De La Pension Alimentaria Basica En Puerto Rico

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  • Juan Pablo Navarro Acevedo

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The responsibility to support offspring emanates from Natural Law and is certainly undelayable and indelegable. However, it must be subject to parameters of fairness which guarantee that children receive, from both parents, the resources needed for their support based on principles of proportionality, need, economic ability and reasonableness. This analysis reveals the Puerto Rico child support regime leads to the imposition of child support awards that overestimate, in most cases, the non-custodial parents’ responsibility for child rearing expenses thereby violating basic equity principles. This finding is based on a comparative evaluation of awards in state jurisdictions within the United States of America.

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  • Juan Pablo Navarro Acevedo, 2013. "Critical Analysis Of Basic Child Support Awards In Puerto Rico,Analisis Critico De La Pension Alimentaria Basica En Puerto Rico," Revista Internacional Administracion & Finanzas, The Institute for Business and Finance Research, vol. 6(1), pages 39-54.
    • Handle: RePEc:ibf:riafin:v:6:y:2013:i:1:p:39-54
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    Keywords

    Child Support; Marginal Costs; Marginal Utility Theory; Forensic Accounting; Family Law;
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    JEL classification:

    • D11 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Theory
    • D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
    • H31 - Public Economics - - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents - - - Household
    • K36 - Law and Economics - - Other Substantive Areas of Law - - - Family and Personal Law
    • M49 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Accounting - - - Other
    • M59 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Personnel Economics - - - Other

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