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Compliance with Child Support Orders in Divorce Cases


  Author: Daniel R. Meyer, Judi Bartfield
Publisher: Institute for Research on Poverty
Publication:
Document Date:                  September 01, 1994
Category: Divorce and Remarriage > Economics of Divorce
Related Categories:
Children > Child Support
Divorce and Remarriage > Divorce
Family Economics > Family Income
Parenthood/Childrearing > Child support
Parenthood/Childrearing > Fatherhood
Parenthood/Childrearing > Parental Absence
 

This study provides information about the correlation between paternal income and the likelihood of compliance with child support orders.  It finds that most fathers who comply have higher incomes than those who do not and that stricter enforcement also raises the rates of compliance.

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