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Publication Date: February 2005
Publisher: Center for Law and Social Policy
Author(s): Paula Roberts
Research Area: Social conditions
Type: Brief
Coverage: United States
Abstract:
This memo describes a new Interim Final regulation on review and adjustment of child support orders in states using the guidelines method of adjustment. The Office of Child Support Enforcement is proposing to return to a policy under which these states can adopt quantitative standards for adjusting support orders. Such standards allow states to disregard adjustments of a small magnitude, even when such adjustments could be consequential for both low-income custodial parent families and obligors.