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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.
In re JB (Oklahoma 2015)
Parents and Children Together: Design and Implementation of Responsible Fatherhood Programs
The Parents and Children Together (PACT) evaluation, conducted by Mathematica Policy Research for the Office of Research, Planning and Evaluation in the Administration of Children and Families (ACF) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is examining a set of Responsible Fatherhood (RF) and Healthy Marriage grantees funded by ACF’s Office of Family Assistance. PACT aims to provide foundational information to guide ongoing and future program design and evaluation efforts, and to build the evidence base for programming. This report presents early findings from the process study of four OFA RF grantees serving low-income fathers and participating in the PACT evaluation: 1. Connections to Success in Kansas City, Missouri, and Kansas City, Kansas 2. Fathers’ Support Center St. Louis in St. Louis, Missouri 3. Goodwill–Easter Seals Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and St. Paul, Minnesota 4. Urban Ventures in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Helping Noncustodial Parents Support Their Children: Early Implementation Findings from the Child Support Noncustodial Parent Demonstration (CSPED) Evaluation
In 2012, OCSE competitively awarded grants under the Noncustodial Parent Child Support Demonstration (CSPED) Project to child support agencies in eight states to provide enhanced child support, employment, parenting, and case management services to noncustodial parents who are having difficulty meeting their child support obligations. Also in 2012, OCSE competitively awarded a cooperative agreement (under Grant Number: 90FD0184) to the Wisconsin Department of Children and Families to procure and manage an evaluation of CSPED through an independent third-party evaluator, a partnership between The Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin, and Mathematica Policy Research. This interim implementation report provides an early look at the first two years of CSPED, consisting of a planning year and one year of program operations, and provides insights into recruitment, engagement, collaborative partnerships, and service delivery strategies for anyone thinking about or actually implementing employment programs for noncustodial parents who are unable to pay their child support.
Dellit v. Tracy (Wyoming 2015)
In re Andrea R. (Tennessee 2015)
An upward deviation in the child support amount for private school tuition must be supported by a specific finding that the expense is appropriate. This finding must be based on evidence of the financial circumstances of each parent and the child’s lifestyle.
Lubell v. Lubell (Tennesee 2015)
Burnham v. Burnham (Mississippi 2015)
Caldwell v. Atwood (Mississippi 2015)
State ex rel. Brown v. Shipe (Tennessee 2015)
The Impact of Child Support Laws on the Measured Outcomes of Children
Published in the Journal of Legal Issues and Cases in Business Volume 3 – December, 2014, this article documents the results of research performed by the authors in which they tested the hypotheses that 1) children whose families have more money have better outcomes; and 2) states with harsher punishments for failure to pay child support have better compliance with child support than those that don’t. The authors conclude with recommendations for reform of the child support program that will focus more on the needs of the child.
