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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.

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Frazier v. Goudschaal (Kansas 2013)

KansasChild SupportCase LawPaternityUniform Parentage Act(UPA)

Any interested party may bring an action to determine the existence or nonexistence of a mother and child relationship.
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Frazier v. Goudschaal (Kansas 2013)

KansasChild SupportCase LawPaternitySame-Sex Partners

Any interested party may bring an action to determine the existence or nonexistence of a mother and child relationship. A woman claiming to be a presumptive mother of a child is an interested party under the Kansas Parentage Act.
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Dep’t of Family Servs. v. Currier (Wyoming 2013)

WyomingChild SupportCase LawEnforcementContemptEnforcement

The Fourteenth Amendment’s guarantee of due process did not require the State of Wyoming to provide an indigent party with counsel in a civil contempt proceeding for nonpayment of child support, because Wyoming had sufficient substitute procedural safeguards to protect indigent obligors against the possibility of wrongful incarceration.
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Bagley v. Bagley (Wyoming 2013)

WyomingChild SupportCase LawEstablishment of SupportJudicial Discretion/Deviations

Wyoming law allows for the consideration of income available to child (supplemental security income) to be considered in determining child support. Based on the needs of a child and the income available to the child, a downward deviation may be appropriate.
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In re Marriage of Thomas (Kansas 2014)

KansasChild SupportCase LawEstablishment of Support

Because an adoption subsidy is meant to supplement an adoptive parent’s income for the benefit of a special needs child, the adoption subsidy is in no sense attributable to the income of adoptive parent for the purposes of calculating child support.
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Greer v. Greer (Kansas 2014)

KansasChild SupportCase LawPaternityPresumptions

Presumptions of paternity may arise in favor of different men. When the court is faced with two conflicting presumptions of paternity, it is required to conduct a hearing to determine which presumption “is founded on the weightier considerations of policy and logic, including the best interests of the child” before it determines the child’s legal parentage.
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Greer v. Greer (Kansas 2014)

KansasChild SupportCase LawPaternityGenetic Testing

A hearing to determine the best interests of the child, including physical, mental, and emotional needs (Ross Hearing), is required when (1) there is not a genetic test resulting in a presumption of paternity performed prior to the filing of the paternity action, or (2) a genetic test was completed prior to the filing of the paternity action but the result is inadmissible due to a proper statutory objection being lodged.
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Ackerman v. Ott (Wyoming 2014)

WyomingChild SupportCase LawEstablishment of SupportIncome Considerations

When deciding if a business deduction should be considered in determining the net income of a self-employed business owner under the Wyoming Child Support Guidelines, the court should focus upon the reasonable and legitimate nature of the expense and its impact on the party’s actual cash flow in the year in question rather than the treatment of the expense by federal law in the context of income taxes.
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