CALIFORNIA FAMILY LAW
...Child Support
......Current C/S Guidelines
.........Timeshare
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The statewide uniform guideline for determining child support orders requires that periods of physical responsibility for the child be determined and factored into the presumptive order.

Cannot calculate child support based on a fictive timeshare to penalize a parent for interfering with visitation.

Where neither parent retains “primary physical responsibility” for an adult child, the guideline child support formula is inapplicable.

H% Factor is meant to be an approximation of time parent has responsibility for children, not necessarily hours of physical custody.

Court of Appeal verifies trial ct’s timeshare by calculating hours children spend with each parent.

Trial ct.'s decision to impute to H the time child was away at boarding school was a proper exercise of court's discretion.

Timeshare for periods in child care awarded to parent who has burden of finding, arranging, fronting money, transporting C and whose work day is interrupted for emergencies.

Time-sharing adjustment is based on parents' respective periods of primary physical responsibility for children rather than physical custody.