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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.
The Impact of Child Support Enforcement on Fertility, Parental Investment, and Child Well-being
This is a link to a National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) working paper. The authors found that increasing the probability of paying child support, in addition to increasing resources available for investment in children, may also alter the incentives faced by men to have children out of wedlock.
Truth and Consequences Part III: Who Pays When Paternity is Disestablished?
Child Support Cost Avoidance in 1999: Final Report
Reducing Welfare Costs and Dependency: How Much Bang for the Child Support Buck?
Child Support Enforcement: Departures from Long Term Trends in Sources of Collections and Caseloads Reflect Recent Economic Conditions
Linking the Past and the Future: Building a Longitudinal & Predictive Child Support Knowledge Management System
Factors Associated with Nonpayment of Child Support
Despite the employment of an automated enforcement system, recent statistics show that only half of non-custodial parents pay the full amount of what they owe. Understanding the reasons for noncompliance is critical in improving the child support enforcement system and providing suitable financial support to custodial-parent families. This is a link to an IRP report that explores potential reasons why some orders are not fully paid despite the routinization of the enforcement system.
Maryland’s Paternity Acknowledgement Program: Participant Entries Into the Public Child Support and Welfare Systems
This report by the University of Maryland School of Social Work attempts to answer the question of who is and who is not participating in Maryland’s Paternity Acknowledgement Program, and how many of the children of participating parents are known to the State’s welfare program within one year of birth.
Truth and Consequences: Part II. Questioning the Paternity of Marital Children
There is wide variation among the states on the issue of paternity disestablishment for marital children. While some states have enacted legislation, few have adopted a comprehensive scheme that deals with potential challenges by husbands, wives, and paramours. This is a link to a monograph that discusses the need for states to have a comprehensive scheme for addressing the concerns of all potential parties, and that disestablishment actions must consider the best interests of the child, and protect these interests through appointment of a guardian ad litem.
Truth and Consequences: Part I. Disestablishing the Paternity of Non-Marital Children
In some states, there are detailed procedures for challenging paternity acknowledgments; in other states, there is little or no statutory guidance in this area. Some states have statutory and case law to guide the process of paternity disestablishment when paternity has been adjudicated or presumed, while others offer little guidance. This is a link to a monograph that reviews the statutory and case law in this area and offers recommendations for bringing greater fairness and clarity to the process.
