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Shared Physical Custody and Child Maintenance Arrangements : a comparative analysis of 13 countries using a model families approach. / Hakovirta, Mia; Skinner, Christine.
Shared Physical Custody: Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Empirical Insights in Custody Arrangements. ed. / Laura Bernardi; Dimitri Mortelmans. Springer, 2021. p. 325-350 (European Studies of Population).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Shared Physical Custody and Child Maintenance Arrangements
T2 - a comparative analysis of 13 countries using a model families approach
AU - Hakovirta, Mia
AU - Skinner, Christine
N1 - This post reviewed version was submitted on 20th April 2019 to the Book editors. It has yet to be accepted by those editors and sent for further approval to the publisher.
PY - 2021/6/17
Y1 - 2021/6/17
N2 - This book chapter provides new insights to the question of how childmaintenance policies have responded to changing post separationfamily arrangements and most specifically shared physical custody(SPC). We analyse how shared care is implemented and how itoperates in child maintenance policies in 13 countries: Australia,Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Iceland, New Zealand,Norway, Spain, Sweden, the UK and the US. The comparativeanalysis is based on vignette questionnaire collected in 2017. Thereare differences in how countries have acknowledged and recognizedshared physical custody in their child maintenance policies. It variesfrom complete annulment of obligations, to some countries makingfiner grained adjustments to reduce child maintenance obligationsand yet others’ making no changes as a result of shared physicalcustody, with the paying parent still having to provide the full amountof child maintenance. It seems there is no standard practice and nordo the different arrangements map easily onto child maintenancescheme typology. The latter is surprising, as it might have beenexpected that similarly structured child maintenance schemes wouldtreat shared physical custody in similar ways. This variabilitydemonstrates a lack of coherence across child maintenance policieson how to deal with this phenomenon of greater gender equality inpost-separation parenting arrangements.
AB - This book chapter provides new insights to the question of how childmaintenance policies have responded to changing post separationfamily arrangements and most specifically shared physical custody(SPC). We analyse how shared care is implemented and how itoperates in child maintenance policies in 13 countries: Australia,Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Iceland, New Zealand,Norway, Spain, Sweden, the UK and the US. The comparativeanalysis is based on vignette questionnaire collected in 2017. Thereare differences in how countries have acknowledged and recognizedshared physical custody in their child maintenance policies. It variesfrom complete annulment of obligations, to some countries makingfiner grained adjustments to reduce child maintenance obligationsand yet others’ making no changes as a result of shared physicalcustody, with the paying parent still having to provide the full amountof child maintenance. It seems there is no standard practice and nordo the different arrangements map easily onto child maintenancescheme typology. The latter is surprising, as it might have beenexpected that similarly structured child maintenance schemes wouldtreat shared physical custody in similar ways. This variabilitydemonstrates a lack of coherence across child maintenance policieson how to deal with this phenomenon of greater gender equality inpost-separation parenting arrangements.
KW - Joint Physical Custody
KW - Child Maintenance
KW - Comparative Analysis
UR - https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030684785
M3 - Chapter (peer-reviewed)
SN - 9783030684815
T3 - European Studies of Population
SP - 325
EP - 350
BT - Shared Physical Custody
A2 - Bernardi, Laura
A2 - Mortelmans, Dimitri
PB - Springer
ER -