KANSAS

Kansas's PTA appropriately takes into account the effect of the PTA on both parents' households.

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

Kansas's PTA has an extraordinarily and unjustifiably high threshold of 182 days.

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

Kansas's PTA significantly overestimates the fixed, duplicated costs involved in shared parenting.

Kansas statutes express a preference for joint custody. KAN. STAT. ANN. § 23-3206

Kansas statute requires courts to consider “friendly parent” factors. “[T]he court shall consider all relevant factors, including, but not limited to: ... the willingness and ability of each parent to respect and appreciate the bond between the child and the other par- ent and to allow for a continuing relationship between the child and the other parent.” KAN. STAT. ANN. § 23-3203

Kansas statutes do not explicitly provide for shared parenting during temporary orders.

Kansas statutes, though they express a preference for joint legal custody, do not establish a rebuttable presumption that shared parenting (joint legal custody and shared physical custody) is in a child’s best interest.

Kansas has no statutory preference for, or presumption of, shared physical custody for temporary or final orders.

Kansas statutes have only a weak presumption with respect to parenting time. “A parent is entitled to reasonable parenting time unless the court finds, after a hearing, that the exercise of parenting time would seriously endanger the child’s physical, mental, moral or emotional health.” KAN.STAT.ANN.S 23-3208