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- Title
When I grow up... I don't want to be broke: The problems with child actor trust fund requirements.
- Authors
Gaydos, Leah
- Abstract
Child actors have consistently been treated as typical minority laborers, with all of their earnings legally belonging to their parents. After many child actors were left with scraps at the end of their minority, Coogan's law was enacted in California to require parents of child actors to withhold some of their earnings in a trust. However, almost a century after Coogan's law was passed, there are still many child actors left with nothing. This Note proposes to both enact further union regulations to protect child actors in every state, and also to raise the required amount withheld from fifteen percent (15%) to fifty percent (50%). Key points for the family court community: There is no federal law requiring parents to withhold any amount of a child actor's pay.Most Coogan's laws today require parents to withhold fifteen percent (15%) of their child's paycheck, distributed into a trust or "Coogan account," with a cap of fifty percent (50%).The New York version of Coogan's law imposes a minimum withholding of fifteen percent (15%) and has no maximum or cap.The only states with any kind of child actor compensation laws are: California, New York, Florida, Massachusetts, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee.There is no SAG‐AFTRA requirement to withhold funds from a child's pay; the union only follows state and federal law.
- Subjects
MASSACHUSETTS; CHILD actors; JUVENILE courts; FEDERAL laws; CHILD labor
- Publication
Family Court Review, 2023, Vol 61, Issue 4, p918
- ISSN
1531-2445
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/fcre.12745