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- Title
Interstate Comparisons of Child Support Orders Using State Guidelines.
- Authors
Pirog, Maureen A.; Klotz, Marilyn E.; Byers, Katherine V.
- Abstract
This article examines changes in child support orders over the past ten years across the United States. It looks at time changes over time; the impact of welfare reform on child support orders and the extent to, which child support orders adequately reflects typical expenditures on children. The article also provides information about the methodology used for the study. The methodology employed was a mail survey of the State Courts and Child Support Enforcement Agencies of all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Various scenarios and income level were the part of the survey work regarding the study. It also debates on the adequacy of child support when the children basic needs are met by non custodial parent's income. The results of the study indicated a wide variation in child support orders across the states for families in similar circumstances. In addition, states with high public assistance payments tended to have lower child support payments and vice versa. The study showed that in the vast majority of states, child support orders did not adequately reflect typical expenditures on children.
- Subjects
UNITED States; CHILD support; GOVERNMENT policy; CHILD welfare; SUPPORT (Domestic relations); GUARDIAN &; ward; STATE courts; U.S. states
- Publication
Family Relations, 1998, Vol 47, Issue 3, p289
- ISSN
0197-6664
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/584979