This reduces the child support, and it takes a lot of the fight out of the system.
In most states the amount of child support is based on the number of nights the child spends with the father. The more nights with the father, the less child support the mother would get. And the federal government has tied the amount of child support the state collects to the ability of the state to collect TANF (welfare) money. If a state fails to collect more child support each year it may loose some of its TANF funding from the federal government. So it is in the mothers and the states “best money interest” to keep the child with the mother.
That is not an option as it would take away government jobs. They can’t have a socialist society without creating jobs for the masses.
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The first thing they need to do is past the Presumption of Equal Custody law in every state, including Tennessee. Half the states have that now.