During the 1980s, the issue of child support emerged on the national agenda. Federal and state governments in the United States focused on the private obligations of parents to support their children, strengthening existing child support laws and establishing new ones. In this book, Andrea H....

A large proportion of divorced and separated fathers form new partnerships. The new partner's preferences are not likely to put much weight on expenditures on the man's children from his previous union. Thus, his own and his partner's income would have different impacts on his child support...

Does an Illinois circuit court have authority to modify a child support order on behalf of a child permanently living with a parent in Illinois, thereby altering the support obligations of a nonresident parent who is accorded all the federal constitutional due process protections against...

This paper examines the effect of economic incentives generated by U.S. divorce and custody law on a range of child health and human capital measures. State laws vary widely in the treatment of child support under joint custody. While some states require no child support in joint custody cases,...

The basic formula for adjusting a child support award to account for visitation or shared parenting is relatively simple. The form of the equation does not depend upon one's views with regard to whether the adjustment should be made directly in relation to time children spend with each parent...

While divorcing couples in the United States have been studied for many years, separating unmarried couples and their children have proven more difficult to analyze. Recently there have been successful longitudinal ethnographic and survey-based studies. This piece uses documents from a single...