Sanjari v. Sanjari
Indiana Court of Appeals
755 N.E.2d 1186 (2001)
Amir and Alison Sanjari divorced and amicably agreed to joint physical and legal custody of their two children, splitting time roughly 50/50 every two weeks. The trial court nonetheless ordered Amir (defendant) to pay Alison (plaintiff) graduated weekly child support, applying standard guidelines that treated Alison as the custodial parent and Amir as merely exercising visitation, and it declined to credit Amir for private-school tuition payments he had made in anticipation of the children attending a school they ultimately didn't attend. Amir appealed both the support calculation and the tuition ruling.
Whether a joint custodial parent is entitled to different child-support considerations than a noncustodial parent.