Resources
Child Support Resource Library
Welcome to the YoungWilliams Child Support Resource Library. Search by keywords or use the filters to select categories of interest to you. Currently, our Library consists of academic and government research articles and reports from around the country, federal opinions, and case law from states in which our full service child support projects are located.
Mitchell v. Hall (Tennessee 2016)
A modification of a child support amount due to a child reaching the age of majority is not considered a retroactive modification in a strict sense. While the Court must still make factual findings to support the new amount, generally a parent’s duty to support a child ends when a child reaches the age of majority.
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Stevens v. Stevens (Nebraska 2016)
The order being appealed must be a final order, not a conditional order. The Order in this case adopted recommendations made by a child support referee, but gave the parties 14 days to make exceptions to the recommendations. Because the finality of the order was conditioned on the parties taking or not taking exceptions, it was not final for appeal purposes.
Bryan M. v. Anne B. (Nebraska 2016)
Research Brief: Child Support, Parenting Time, and Safety Concerns
This is an August 2015 research brief, prepared by the Center for Policy Research for the federal Office of Child Support Enforcement, describing the policy implications of legislation requiring parenting time orders, identifying implementation questions and alternatives analyzing current practices in family violence safeguards, and providing expertise on next steps for identifying and developing family violence safeguards that need to be included in processes to establish parenting time orders.
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If I Had Money: Black Fathers and Children, Child Support Debt, and Economic Security in Mississippi
This is a link to a report prepared for The Coalition for a Prosperous Mississippi (CPM), which supports a policy agenda to increase economic security for Mississippians. One major economic barrier for young black men is child support, particularly child support that is owed to the State as a result of their children receiving Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) benefits. The CPM and the Center for Family Policy and Practice conducted focus groups in Mississippi communities, and as a result of conversations with black men, women, and high school students, developed seven key recommendations to increase economic security and improve the child support program.
Stallings v. Allen (Mississippi 2016)
Tidwell v. Tidwell (Tennessee 2016)
What We Want to Give Our Kids: How Child Support Debt Can Diminish Wealth Building for Struggling Black Fathers and Their Families
This is a link to a study of black fathers and their child support debt using focus groups of 35 black fathers in 6 U.S. cities. It describes how child support debt prevents poor noncustodial parents, who are often struggling black fathers, from becoming financially stable and accumulating assets. This child support debt often contributes to widening racial disparities in wealth and inequalities across generations. The study concludes there is a need for swift policy change and redesign of the child support system, and provides recommendations in these areas.
