RHODE ISLAND

Rhode Island's PTA appropriately results in no presumptive child support transfer payment when parental income and parenting time are both equal.

Rhode Island's PTA has an extraordinarily and unjustifiably high threshold of 178.85 days.

Rhode Island's PTA has an extremely large discontinuity (or discontinuities), creating an extremely large cliff effect or multiple cliff effects.

Rhode Island's PTA doesn't recognize the fixed, duplicated costs involved in shared parenting.

Rhode Island's PTA ignores the changing child costs in both households based on parenting time.

None.

Rhode Island has no statutory preference for, or presumption of, shared parenting (joint legal custody and shared physical custody) for temporary or final orders.

Rhode Island statutes do not explicitly provide for shared parenting during either temporary or final orders.

Rhode Island statutes consistently speak of “the custodial parent” and “the noncustodial parent.”

Rhode Island statutes do not contain any policy statement or other language encouraging shared parenting.

Rhode Island statutes do not mandate consideration, or even enumerate as a possible factor, a “friendly parent” factor in determining a child’s best interest for purposes of determining custody. A “friendly parent” factor is mandated by case law (Pettinato v. Pettinato, 582 A.2d 909, 913-14 (R.I. 1990).)