THE INEQUITY OF EQUITY: HOW THE CHILD SUPPORT SYSTEM IN NORTH CAROLINA ABUSES PARENTS AND HOW IT CAN BE FIXED

  By. Timothy P. Koller Jr. February 2014 INTRODUCTION   Beginning in the 1940’s, at a time when the national divorce rate was less than 10%, there was an inherent understanding that children of broken homes and families needed to be provided for.1 Corresponding with this time in our period of social and legal history, there was also the prevailing misconception that women had an inherent right to physical custody of minor children.2  This underlying social concept was likely bolstered and perpetuated by the fact that our country was reeling on the heels of one of the largest wars in the industrialized age.3 Because the...