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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 New York Noncustodial Parent EITC: Its Impact on Child Support Payments and Employment
Holding Child Support Orders of Incarcerated Payers in Abeyance: Final Evaluation Report
Child Support Enforcement: $25 Annual User Fee
Child Wellbeing and Non-custodial Fathers
This report discusses some of the data related to the poverty of children, and recognizes that the structure of a family plays an important role in children’s well-being. According to some estimates, about 50% of children will spend or have spent a significant portion of their childhood in a home without their biological father. This report examines policy options to help non-custodial fathers improve their earning potential, support their children, and become more involved in their children’s lives.
Medical and Child Support Background and Current Policy
This report describes current federal policy with respect to medical child support, examines the potential impact of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on the child support program, provides a legislative history of medical support provisions in the child support program, and includes state data on medical coverage of children in the child support program.
Hague Convention Treaty on Recovery of International Child Support and H.R. 1896
This document provides a discussion of the Hague Convention and how it will benefit U.S. children living abroad, as well as foreigners with children living in the United States. The Convention contains procedures for processing international child support cases that are intended to be uniform, simple, efficient, accessible, and cost-free.
Child Support Enforcement: Program Basics
Characteristics of Families Served by the Child Support (IV-D) Program: 2010 Census Survey Results
Overlapping Eligibility and Enrollment: Human Services and Health Programs Under the Affordable Care Act
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has created new opportunities for health and human services programs, including child support, to integrate eligibility determination, enrollment, and retention.Using two large microsimulation models, the study found considerable overlaps between expanded eligibility for health coverage and current receipt of human services benefits, particularly with Earned Income Tax Credits, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, and the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program.
Who Pays Child Support: Noncustodial Parents’ Payment Compliance
To better understand patterns of noncustodial parent (NCP) payment compliance, this study builds on what has already been documented about the Maryland public child support caseload and provides a first-ever, systematic look at the question of who pays current support, how much they pay, and how this relates to NCPs’ demographic characteristics, employment patterns, and earnings levels.
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