Child Support Enforcement: New Reforms and Potential Issues

Solomon-Fears, Carmen

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

关键词: Families;    Child support;    Child support enforcement;    Welfare;   

RP-ID  :  97-408
RP-ID  :  97-408_2003Jun30

美国|英语

来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

P.L. 104-193 (the 1996 welfare reform legislation) made major changes to the Child Support Enforcement (CSE) program. Some of the changes include requiring states to increase the percentage of fathers identified, establishing an integrated, automated network linking all states to information about the location and assets of parents, and requiring states to implement more enforcement techniques to obtain collections from debtor parents. Additional legislative changes were made in 1997, 1998, and 1999, but not in 2000, 2001, or 2002. This report describes several aspects of the revised CSE program and discusses three issues that probably will be reexamined by the 108th Congress — CSE financing, parental access by noncustodial parents, and distribution of support payments.