Child support order and payment amounts have implications for the economic well-being of noncustodial parents, custodial parents, and children. Most noncustodial parents with a child support order pay part, but not the full amount of that order; likewise, most custodial parents who are owed child support receive some support, but not the full amount they are owed.
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Child Support Enforcement Tools and Their Relationship to Payments: A Review of County Policy and Practice
- Lisa Klein Vogel
- Report
- September 2019
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Challenges and Opportunities for Engaging Noncustodial Parents in Employment and Other Services
- Lisa Klein Vogel
- Report
- September 2019
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Barriers to Child Support Payment
- Lawrence Berger, Maria Cancian, Angela Guarin, Leslie Hodges, and Daniel R. Meyer
- Report
- August 2019
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Recent Changes to State Child Support Guidelines for Low-Income Noncustodial Parents
- Leslie Hodges and Lisa Klein Vogel
- Report
- August 2019
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Child Support Payments, Income Imputation, and Default Orders
- Maria Cancian, Steven Cook, and Daniel R. Meyer
- Report
- August 2019
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The Use of Child Support Guidelines in Wisconsin: 2010 and 2013
- Leslie Hodges and Steven T. Cook
- Report
- August 2019
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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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Do low-income noncustodial fathers “trade” earlier families for newer ones?
- Lawrence M. Berger, Maria Cancian, Angela Guarin, and Daniel R. Meyer
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- July 2019
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Helping the hard-To-Employ transition to employment
- Fast Focus Policy Brief
- July 2019
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Comparison of CSPED Participants to National and State Child Support Caseloads
- Leslie Hodges
- Discussion Paper
- June 2019