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Three Ways Child Support Tears Families Apart
… instead of achieving its intended objective of ensuring adequate support for children. "The system creates debtors prisons because the payments are excessive for low income obligors and payments do not stop during unemployment....
Your Turn: Comment on Guardian ad Litem Reform
Connecticut's Judicial Branch is seeking written public comment on its draft report to Chief Justice Chase T. Rogers. Written comments will be accepted on or before Tuesday, January 12, 2016. The comments may be e-mailed...
Connecticut’s unrealistic child support awards-out of compliance
The federal Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE) has proposed that states revise unrealistically high child support guidelines. Details are at: http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/css OCSE proposes to update Federal regulations in...
Many jailed due to unrealistic child support orders
There is new evidence of the damage caused by unrealistic child support orders. A Washington Post article on Nov 15, 2015 says: “Of the 2.2 million people incarcerated in the United States, about half are parents, and at least 1 in 5...
Do you know where your kids are, but can’t see them?
A Hartford Courant article (October 6, 2015, p A1) quotes a parent as saying that this "is the worst possible experience a father and mother could have. Your children are alive, you know where they are, but you can't see them." This...
NPR Reporter Audie Corish doesn’t understand low income dads
Audie Cornish used the term "deadbeat dads" three times in a recent article. She is right that excessive child support is at the root of a lot of crime and illegal street trafficking, but she hasn't done good research on excessive...
NPR: Child support is root of violent crime in Baltimore
Leana Wen, the dynamic health commissioner of Baltimore says about “Safe Streets”, a group working to end street violence in Baltimore: "Initially when I was meeting with Safe Streets, I said, 'What is the one type of support we can...
Dividends from Involved Dads – Benefits from Shared Parenting of Babies
The Economist, a highly respected weekly news magazine reports that “Chaildren whose fathers take even short spells of paternity leave do better (May 16th, 2015, p 54).” The Economist article covers parental leave policies – and the...
Many jailed due to unrealistic child support orders
Over 2% of the US population is in jail, and many are low income parents who got behind on excessive child support orders, according to a New York Times article. For example, in Georgia, one in eight inmates is there because of...