NY A08296

Authorizes courts to order custodial parents to make recurring payments to non-custodial parents to cover children's basic needs during the non-custodial parent's parenting time in cases involving substantial income disparity between parents

Requires courts to make five written findings before ordering such payments: the non-custodial parent has substantial parenting time; the custodial parent has far greater income/assets; the non-custodial parent cannot earn enough to meet the child's basic needs; the payment won't leave the custodial household with insufficient funds; and denial would harm the child's best interests

Payments are prohibited when the child receives Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) benefits

Ordered payments are classified as child support for enforcement purposes and counted as income to the non-custodial parent

Courts may offset the smaller payment against the larger payment (between custodial and non-custodial parent obligations) to create a single net payment