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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.
Tossed on a Sea of Change: A Status Update on the Responsible Fatherhood Field
The Families Forward Program: Final Evaluation Report
This is a link to the final evaluation report on a child support debt reduction demonstration program, Families Forward, in Racine County, Wisconsin representing a collaboration among three entities: the Wisconsin Bureau of Child Support, the Racine County Child Support Department, and the Institute for Research on Poverty. The program aimed to reduce child support debt (arrears owed by non-custodial parents) while increasing child support payments.
The Noncustodial Parent Employment Program: Employment & Payment Outcomes
Deadbeats, Deadbrokes, and Prisoners
The Use of Civil Contempt and Criminal Nonsupport as Child Support Enforcement Tools: A Report on Local Perspectives and the Availability of Data
This is a link to the first of two reports focused on child support and incarceration. Together, these reports will represent a first step in an effort to better understand Wisconsin’s use of two enforcement tools that may result in incarceration: civil (or remedial) contempt and criminal (or punitive) nonsupport.
Strengthening families through Stronger Fathers: Final Impact Report for the Pilot Employment Programs
This final report discusses the 2006-2009 pilot employment program implemented by New York for parents behind in their child support. These pilot programs, part of the Strengthening Families Through Stronger Fathers Initiative, provided employment-oriented services, fatherhood/parenting workshops, case management, and other support services to nearly 4,000 parents behind in their child support in four New York communities.
New York Initiative Helps Fathers Increase Their Earnings and Child Support
New York launched a pilot employment program to help parents behind in their child support in four communities between 2006 and 2009. The program was part of the state’s Strengthening Families Through Stronger Fathers Initiative. This policy brief discusses the effect of this initiative on earnings and child support payments.
Work-Oriented Programs in Child Support
Maryland Child Support Case Stratification Pilot
Child Support Enforcement: Incarceration as the Last Resort Penalty For Nonpayment of Support
Using jail as an option for nonpayment of child support has many implications: Are low-income non-custodial parents who are unable to fulfill their child support obligations penalized for being poor? Should non-custodial parents charged with civil contempt of court be entitled to an attorney? Should non-custodial parents whose only offense is nonpayment of child support be incarcerated in settings known to be violent and dangerous? Should incarcerating non-custodial parents be eliminated as an option due to the high costs associated with incarceration?
