Economic Commentary on the Underlying Basis of Texas’ Child Support Guidelines and Needed Directions for Study and Reform. [PDF]
A paper presented by R. Mark Rogers to the Texas House Juvenile Justice and Family Issues Committe, Austin, Texas, July 12, 2006.
      This paper shows that Texas’s current guidelines are not founded on economic studies. After hearing the testimoney University of Texas law professor Jack Sampson, coauthor of The Sampson & Tindall Family Code Book, admitted that the child support guidelines now in effect are totally arbitrary. There never was any economic data used to set the guidelines.