Articles tagged: child support

The 2020-2021 Massachusetts Trial Court Child Support Guidelines Task Force was convened in 2020 and requested the submission of comments by December 15, 2020 to assist them in updating the guidelines as required every four years.  MCFM, and other organizations and individuals, submitted comments and recently the Task Force announced their changes with the new 2021 Massachusetts Child Support Guidelines.  Click here to read MCFM's comments. 

Following is a blog post reprinted with permission from Skylark Law & Mediation, PC that summarizes all the changes:

New Massachusetts Child Support Guidelines (2021): Big Changes, Little Changes, Typos & some Unexpected Results

by Justin L. Kelsey

Every four years, per federal mandate, the Massachusetts…

The 2020-2021 Massachusetts Trial Court Child Support Guidelines Task Force requested the submission of comments by December 15, 2020 to assist them in updating the guidelines as required every four years.  After multiple meetings and requests for submissons from MCFM members an ad hoc committee put together comments to be submitted from MCFM.  These are the comments we submitted:

To the Task Force:

The Massachusetts Council on Family Mediation, Inc. (“MCFM”), requested input from our members in response to the 2020-2021 Massachusetts Trial Court Child Support Guidelines Task Force’s (“Task Force”) request for comments. 

We collected comments from our members, who are experienced family mediators in Massachusetts, via e-mail and in two facilitated Zoom sessions.  We have collected and organized these comments in an effort to provide concise and clear feedback to the Task Force from MCFM members.  In some places we have summarized multiple…