States and Child Support Payments to Poor Families
W.Va., other states divert child support payments to help poor families get back on their feet, By P.J. Dickerscheid (AP), October 5, 2009, Los Angeles Times: “Changes in how state governments are...
View ArticleUnemployment and Child Support Payments – Rhode Island
R.I.’s hard times hit child support, By W. Zachary Malinowski, October 26, 2009, Providence Journal: “One-by-one, day-after-day, the men sheepishly walk to the lectern in Family Court and answer...
View ArticleChild Support Arrearages – Michigan
Michigan rules derail child support payments, By Catherine Jun, December 7, 2009, Detroit News: “Scores of Michigan parents have fallen behind on their child support payments, and state regulations...
View ArticleChild Support Collections – Tennessee
TN child support collections drop, By Janell Ross, February 5, 2010, The Tennessean: “Natalie Conway came to court with a Bible in her purse and a manila folder under her arm. The folder was full of...
View ArticleEditorials: Child Support Guidelines – Maryland
A matter of fairness, Editorial, March 12, 2010, Baltimore Sun: “The last time Maryland updated its guidelines for calculating child support, Ronald Reagan was in the White House, ‘The Cosby Show’ was...
View ArticleWelfare Reform – Australia
Welfare change squeezes sole parents, By Adele Horn, May 5, 2010, Sydney Morning Herald: “Thousands of sole parents are worse off under rules that changed their child support entitlements and forced...
View ArticleChild Custody and Non-Resident Fathers
Dads who don’t live with their kids find ways to be involved, By Sharon Jayson, June 16, 2010, USA Today: “Half of all U.S. children won’t live with their father for part of their childhood. But just...
View ArticleIncarcerated Parents and Child Support
Conn. to help inmates pare child-support bills, By Pat Eaton-Robb (AP), May 1, 2011, Denver Post: “Julaquis Minnifield was sitting in his prison cell last summer when he received a notice from the...
View ArticleJail and Nonpayment of Child Support
Unable to pay child support, poor parents land behind bars, By Mike Brunker, September 12, 2011, MSNBC.com: “It may not be a crime to be poor, but it can land you behind bars if you also are behind on...
View ArticleChild Support and Poverty
More custodial parents fall below poverty line as child support payment rates drop, By Marjorie Cortez, December 11, 2011, Deseret News: “A growing number of custodial parents fell below the poverty...
View ArticleIncarceration for Child Support Debt – Georgia
Judge allows thousands to join child support lawsuit, By Bill Rankin, January 3, 2012, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: “Thousands of parents facing possible jail time for failing to pay child support can...
View ArticleChild Support Formula – Illinois
Illinois may alter child support formula, By Bill Ruthhart, December 30, 2011, Chicago Tribune: “State officials for the first time in decades are pushing a major overhaul of a system that touches one...
View ArticleChild Support Debt
Rule could leave child-support debtors no income, By Daniel Wagner (AP), February 27, 2012, Detroit News: ” Old child support debts could cost thousands of poor men their only income next year because...
View ArticleChild Support and Low-income Parents – Wyoming
Wyoming committee recalculates low-income child support payments, By Kyle Roerink, January 10, 2013, Casper Star-Tribune: “The state House Judicial Committee passed a bill Thursday that would reduce...
View ArticleLafayette Journal and Courier Report on Fragile Families
Experts say births outside marriage grow out of changing norms, class divide, By Taya Flores and David Smith, January 27, 2013, Lafayette Journal and Courier: “Kionni Sheldon, a 22-year-old Lafayette...
View ArticleChild Support Services – Kansas, Ohio
Administration defends child support privatization, By Andy Marso, August 20, 2013, Topeka Capital-Journal: “A spokeswoman for the Kansas Department for Children and Families struck back at critics of...
View ArticleChild Support Payments
Billions of dollars in child support go unpaid yearly, By Emily Alpert Reyes, November 20, 2013, Los Angeles Times: “More than $14 billion in child support was left unpaid to American parents in a...
View ArticleChild Support Enforcement
How our child support system can push the poor deeper into poverty, By Jeff Guo, September 26, 2014, Washington Post: “In the United States, nearly one in four children are due some sort of child...
View ArticleChild Support Enforcement
Skip child support. Go to jail. Lose job. Repeat., By Frances Robles and Shaila Dewan, April 19, 2015, New York Times: “By his own telling, the first time Walter L. Scott went to jail for failure to...
View ArticleIncarceration and Child Support
For men in prison, child support becomes a crushing debt, By Eli Hager, October 18, 2015, Washington Post: “Earl L. Harris did not owe child support when he was sent to prison in 1997 for selling...
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