This week, we’ve got HB 221, which would potentially lower child support payments for non-custodial parents who spend time with their kids. This could be argued either way, and I don’t really have a strong opinion on it other than to say blanket standards for this sort of thing have always seemed like a bad idea to me. For every case of a divorced mother struggling to make rent payments while the father jet sets around town, you can also point to a mother who’s milking some poor bastard dry even though she doesn’t need the money. Seems like it should be an option for the judge to determine on a case-by-case basis, but not a blanket application (I get that impression perusing the bill).