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Child Support
About 20 states use what's called an "Income Shares" model. That means they look at the incomes of both the mother and the father and apply a table of values to determine appropriate child support. Other states look simply at the income of the person paying child support and ignore the income of the recipient. There's lots of information here on Divorceinfo.com about collecting child support: I've tried to gather as much information as possible about how to figure child support in each state. Check your state's page here on DivorceInfo and see if I've been able to find resources you can use. Here's a nice article on Enforcement of Child Support Orders from Nolo Press.
Here are some of the organizations who specialize in collecting child support:
And here's a cautionary piece from the New York Better Business Bureau on the risks you have when you use one of these companies. If you're interested in getting into all the debate about child support enforcement, you can check out the Men's Rights groups and see what they have to say. You can also check out the Child Support Newsgroup. For a collection of scholarly research on child support issues, check out the Child Cost Research and Consulting Home Page. Here are some other pages about children here on Divorceinfo.com: |
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