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Low‐Income and Never‐Married Families: Service and Support at the Intersection of Family Court and Child Support Agency Systems
Author(s) -
Boggess Jacquelyn L.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
family court review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.171
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 1744-1617
pISSN - 1531-2445
DOI - 10.1111/fcre.12266
Subject(s) - child support , agency (philosophy) , payment , cash , enforcement , poverty , alimony , family support , domestic relations , unemployment , income support , state (computer science) , intersection (aeronautics) , business , political science , demographic economics , family law , law , economics , economic growth , sociology , finance , medicine , engineering , social science , physical therapy , algorithm , aerospace engineering , computer science
State child support enforcement agencies facilitate the legal establishment of paternity for children born outside of marriage and enforce the payment of child support by noncustodial parents. They are directed to move cash resources from a nonresident parent to the home of his/her child. Ideally, this income transfer provides financial support for children and security for custodial families. This article describes how the agency is challenged in the fulfillment of this responsibility by the adversarial nature of its own process and by the intractable poverty and unemployment (among other barriers to economic security) of a significant portion of its caseload.