Based on OPPAGA's recommendations, state law has been amended to require judges to provide a written record of reasons for deviating from child support guidelines and to allow credit for the time children spend with the secondary residential parent in determining support awards.
However, the current child support guidelines schedule continues to reflect 1973 expenditure data and 1992 economic conditions and should be updated. Several economic models that could be used to update the guidelines schedule would affect support obligations differently.

Adherence to Florida's Child Support Guidelines Appears to Be Improving
Report 02-13 February 2002
Progress Report: Child Support Enforcement Demonstration Projects Continue to Show Mixed Results
Report 00-19 November 2000
Child Support Enforcement Demonstration Projects Show Mixed Results, But Should Be Continued
Report 98-39 January 1999

Copies of this report in print or alternate accessible format may be obtained by email OPPAGA@oppaga.fl.gov, telephone (850) 488-0021, or mail 111 W. Madison St., Room 312 Tallahassee, FL 32399-1475.