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the child. The 30% threshold is very close to the amount of |
| time that "an alternate weekend, split holidays and vacation" |
| nonresidential parent has. Litigation to defend or support a |
| deviation occurs, with parents fighting over a very few days and |
| nights, counting them for the court, in order to be under or |
| over that threshold. Such litigation focuses the court and the |
| parties away from the best interest of the child. The |
| elimination of the 30% deviation does not deprive a parent who |
| is very active in the life of the child and who provides less |
| than substantially equal parenting from petitioning the court |
| for a deviation under another provision that permits the court |
| to deviate when the court finds that the application of the |
| guidelines would be "unjust, inequitable, or not in the child's |
| best interest" pursuant to the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 19- |
| A, section 2007, subsection 3, paragraph Q. |
