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Publication Date: November 2002
Publisher: Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law
Author(s): Paula Roberts
Research Area: Social conditions
Type: Report
Coverage: United States
Abstract:
Many legal services programs assist neither custodial nor noncustodial parents in basic child support matters. Since the many local child support enforcement agencies that are left with this work struggle to provide adequate and timely service, a good argument can be made for more legal services program involvement in this area.
This article, published in the Poverty Law Manual for the New Lawyer, describes the child support enforcement system and highlights two public-benefit-related topics: child support assignment and cooperation requirements for families receiving public assistance and distribution of collected support.