Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you all very much for being here. I appreciated your presentations.
Professor Bala, I would like to start with you. You talked a little bit about equal shared parenting, and you know some of the witnesses who have already appeared at our committee have taken a different point of view from yours, although many have agreed with you.
You mentioned that there's really only one jurisdiction that actually has true equal shared parenting, that being Kentucky. You said that in your estimation there has been perhaps an increase in litigation because of that scheme.
We've heard from other witnesses who actually support equal shared parenting, and who have said that it would avoid further litigation or more litigation. You say that's not the case, and I would like to hear why you think there actually would be more litigation if that scheme were implemented.