Publications on parents’ ability to contribute financially to their children’s well-being. This includes materials regarding earnings, factors associated to support payment or nonpayment, parent work programs, impacts of large arrearages, and other related topics.
Understanding the Neighborhood Contexts of Custodial and Noncustodial Parents in the Child Support System
Published December 2024
Default Orders, Income Imputation, and Implications for Child Support Outcomes
Published October 2024
How Is Child Support Regularity Associated with Custodial Mothers’ Employment? Evidence from the United States
Published May 2024
Incarceration, Child Support, and Family Relationships
Published May 2024
Child Support Modifications Among New Orders in Maryland
Published April 2024
Experiences, Characteristics, and Service Needs of Noncustodial Parents with Challenges Meeting Child Support Obligations: Evidence from ELEVATE Parents
Published March 2024
Reducing the Interest Rate Charged on Arrears
Published December 2023
Parental Accountability Court Evaluation 3, for the Georgia Department of Human Services (DHS), Division of Child Support Services (DCSS)
Published August 2023
Maryland’s Child Support Caseload
Published July 2023
Effects of Medicaid Birth Cost Recovery Policy Changes on Child Support Outcomes
Published May 2023
Slowing the ‘Vicious Cycle’: Reducing the Interest Rate on Child Support Arrears
Published January 2023
New Research on the Child Support Landscape in Wisconsin
Published January 2023
Perceptions of Fairness in Child Support
Published December 2022
Associations Between Problematic Substance Use and Child Support Order Compliance
Published October 2022
Dual Debtors: Child Support and Criminal Legal Financial Obligations
Published June 2022
Child Support Debt and the Well-Being of Disadvantaged Fathers of Color
Published May 2022
Who Is Not Paying Child Support?
Published September 2021
Parental Debt and Child Well-Being: What Type of Debt Matters for Child Outcomes?
Published August 2021
Barriers to Formal Child Support Payment
Published June 2021
Revisiting the 19 Percent Ratio of Order to Wage Threshold on Payment Compliance
Published June 2021
An Evidence-Based Approach to Child Support
Published August 2020
State Strategies for Improving Child Support Outcomes for Incarcerated Parents
Published July 2020
What Happens When the Amount of Child Support Due Is a Burden? Revisiting the Relationship between Child Support Orders and Child Support Payments
Published June 2020 (link updated 08/20/2024)
Piling on Debt: The Intersections Between Child Support Arrears and Legal Financial Obligations
Published June 2020
Child Support Reform Can Help Parents Better Support their Children During and After the COVID-19 Recession
Published June 2020
Who Is at Risk of Contempt of Court for Child Support Noncompliance?
Published June 2020
COVID-19 and Child Support: Changes in Payers and Non-Payers and What Child Support Agencies Can Do
Published May 2020
Child Support Enforcement-Led Employment Services for Noncustodial Parents: In Brief
Published May 2020
Illicit Substance Use and Child Support: An Exploratory Study
Published June 2019
Indebted Relationships: Child Support Arrears and Nonresident Fathers’ Involvement with Children
Published September 2016
