Even sole custody fathers can be ordered to pay child support, when he makes more than the mother. I've seen many such cases in 20 years of working with them. You don't go for joint physical because of the money. You do it because of the children. All Children Deserve Two Parents Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears has noted, children born to unmarried women and to those in cohabiting relationships “must often overcome increased risks of poverty, education failure, child abuse, delinquency, emotional distress and mental illness.”…….the lack of a father’s guidance in children’s lives is a major cause of their suffering. “Marriage is the best child welfare, crime prevention, anti-poverty program we have,” http://www.barnesville.com/archives/266-gem-from-jim-octuplets.....html Fortune Magazine - Fatherless Families & Crime “Ominously, the most reliable predictor of crime is neither poverty nor race but growing up fatherless.” http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/08/10/76732/index.htm Stanford University - Divorce, Nontraditional Families, and Its Consequences For Children "We know that children of divorced parents have more emotional and behavioral problems and do less well in school than children who live with both their Parent." http://www.stanford.edu/~rmahony/Divorce.html Joint Custody Equal Time - A Teen’s Views On Joint Custody How I divide my life between my divorced parents' homes. By Charlotte Juerge - Newsweek - Dec 15, 2008 http://www.newsweek.com/id/174698 Father Makes Two - James Cook (Deceased 03/09), Joint Custody Assoc. By Margot Roosevelt, Nov. 11, 2003, Time Magazine http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,183968-1,00.html

If you make substantially more money than the other parent, then yes, you would still need to pay child support. If you both make about the same, then no. At least that's what I was told by a Family Law Lawyer...