ST. PAUL – In the final hours of this year’s legislative session, lawmakers passed a dramatic rewriting of Minnesota’s child-support policies.
Unlike the law that has been in place for decades, the new system would calculate support payments based on the income of both parents — the parent with custody and the parent without. The old system based payments just on the income of the parent without child custody.
The bill, which was passed May 23 on the last day of the Legislature’s regular session, is expected to be signed Fri- day by Gov. Tim Pawlenty.
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