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The court can deviate from the shared time formula if it finds that strict application of the formula would be unfair to either parent or the child, as in the following examples:

It depends. If you have joint legal custody of your daughter, then the braces are a medical decision that should be agreed upon by both parents. As for the liability associated with the braces, a judgment of divorce or marital settlement agreement may identify four components regarding child support. The monthly amount of child support. The allocation of variable costs for the child if a shared placement schedule. The allocation of uninsured medical expenses. The responsibility for payment of any health insurance for the minor child. Under the above scenario, if the court had allocated the uninsured medical expenses equally between the parents (which is common), that would be a shared expense if both parents agreed to the braces as joint custodial parents. If the parents cannot agree, then either party could seek an order from the court as to whether the child should receive braces, and if so, who should pay for the braces.

It depends. Generally, the divorce decree should include, in the terms and conditions related to variable costs, a schedule and deadline of when the variable costs should be reconciled between the parents. Typically, the parents will specify that each month, or each quarter, the parents will exchange documentation of past variable costs and uninsured medical expenses for the children, and the reconciliation payment be made between them within 15 days. The reconciliation payment is made outside of the Wisconsin Child Support Trust Fund and directly between the parents. If there is a great deal of animosity between the parents and they do not communicate well together, there are creative options that the lawyer can identify for this exchange of child related expenses.