The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
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Subchapter
003A
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CHILD CUSTODY AND SUPPORT
(Cite as: 15 V.S.A. § 650)
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§ 650. Legislative findings and purpose
The legislature finds and declares as public policy that after parents have separated
or dissolved their civil marriage, it is in the best interests of their minor child
to have the opportunity for maximum continuing physical and emotional contact with
both parents, unless direct physical harm or significant emotional harm to the child
or a parent is likely to result from such contact. The legislature further finds and
declares as public policy that parents have the responsibility to provide child support,
and that child support orders should reflect the true costs of raising children and
approximate insofar as possible the standard of living the child would have enjoyed
had the family remained intact. (Added 1985, No. 181 (Adj. Sess.), § 1; amended 2003, No. 159 (Adj. Sess.), § 5; 2009, No. 3, § 12a, eff. Sept. 1, 2009.)