Non- or partial-payment of child support owed or related fees (e.g. for health care costs associated with a child’s birth) owed can lead to child support debt, known as “arrears.” Arrears may be owed to children and their custodial parents and/or to government. States are mandated to pursue the collection of and enforce court orders related to both current child support and child support arrears owed.
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Reducing the Interest Rate Charged on Arrears
- Quentin H. Riser and Daniel R. Meyer
- Report
- December 2023
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Tiffany Green on How Charging Dads for the Medicaid Costs of Their Baby’s Birth Affects Child Support
- Tiffany Green
- Podcasts
- November 08 2023
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New Research on the Child Support Landscape in Wisconsin
- Jooyoung Kong, Lisa Klein Vogel, and Tova Walsh
- Webinar
- January 11 2023
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Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid Expansions and Child Support Outcomes
- Lindsey Bullinger, and edited by Eleanor Pratt
- Fast Focus Policy Brief
- January 2021
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Systemic racism and the justice system
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- December 2020
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Negotiating race and racial inequality in family court
- Tonya L. Brito, David J. Pate Jr., and Jia-Hui Stefanie Wong
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- December 2020
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Culture change: Implementing a new approach to child support
- Jennifer L. Noyes, Lisa Klein Vogel, and Lanikque Howard
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- July 2019
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Can a redesigned child support system do better?
- Maria Cancian, Daniel R. Meyer, and Robert G. Wood
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- July 2019
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Comparison of CSPED Participants to National and State Child Support Caseloads
- Leslie Hodges
- Discussion Paper
- June 2019
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Final Impact Findings from the Child Support Noncustodial Parent Employment Demonstration (CSPED)
- Maria Cancian, Daniel R. Meyer, and Robert G. Wood
- Report
- March 2019