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Seminar Announcement:
Georgia Income Shares Child Support Guidelines: Deviation Strategies
Tuesday, February 19, 2008, Georgia State Bar Building, Atlanta, GA.
Approved for 5 hours CLE credit (regular hours) for attorneys.
R. Mark Rogers and Rogers Economics, Inc. have just announced an important seminar on deviation strategies on
Georgia's new Income Shares guidelines on Tuesday, February 19, 2008 at the Georgia State Bar Building, in Atlanta, GA. 
Georgia's new Income Shares guidelines became effective on January 1, 2007. This is a major step for Georgia progressing toward economically sound child support guidelines. However, the legislature still left a number of key issues in child support cases as deviation factors and did not provide guidance on how to apply many of those factors.
Some of these deviation factors are parenting time, travel expenses for parenting time, day care tax credits, child dependency exemptions, alimony, high income, and agreement of the parties among others. This seminar addresses how to calculate deviation amounts—a major step beyond what the introductory seminars cover. Do you have a strategy for arguing the new Income Shares deviation factors?
You know about "Schedule E" for deviating with the new guidelines. But do you know how to develop convincing numbers for that worksheet—and how to argue those numbers? This seminar helps to fill much of that void.
Rogers Economics first began this seminar in early 2007 and it continually has incorporated new material. While this seminar was developed for family law attorneys but the public also is invited in order to better understand the issues. Seating is guaranteed only for the first 32 registrants.
Click here for a full brochure and registration form in pdf.
Click here for a full brochure and registration form in .doc.
The seminar covers a wide range of issues for the family law practitioner, including the background of the new guidelines, procedural issues, the interaction of legal principles and economic approaches for deviating, and 'how to' for using the Excel worksheet. The following links go to sample chapters from the seminar manual.
The first link is a partial chapter that is an example of the seminar covering procedural issues and the interaction of legal principles and economic approaches for deviating. The second example is a full chapter showing some important 'how to' for the Excel worksheet.
Seminar manual, chapter 14 partial
After reviewing the sample chapters, be sure to sign up for the seminar, full manual, and other seminar tools. Remember, space is limited.
Rogers Economics, Inc. is an experienced consulting firm with the expertise you can rely upon. Rogers Economics is headed by R. Mark Rogers. Rogers is a former Federal Reserve economist with almost two decades of experience at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Georgia as an expert on forecasting and data analysis. He is an internationally recognized author on analyzing economic data. His public service as commissioner on the 1998 Georgia Commission on Child Support, years of research, publications in the legal and economics communities, and court-room successes have established him as a leading authority on the economics of this field.Read More About R. Mark Rogers
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- Expert economic analysis for child support cases
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- Personal injury analysis and other economic damages
- Web based software for financial applications
- Translation services for financial and economic data
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