Non- or partial-payment of child support owed or related fees (e.g. for health care costs associated with a child’s birth) owed can lead to child support debt, known as “arrears.” Arrears may be owed to children and their custodial parents and/or to government. States are mandated to pursue the collection of and enforce court orders related to both current child support and child support arrears owed.

Tiffany Green on How Charging Dads for the Medicaid Costs of Their Baby’s Birth Affects Child Support
- Tiffany Green
- Podcasts
- November 08 2023

New Research on the Child Support Landscape in Wisconsin
- Jooyoung Kong, Lisa Klein Vogel, and Tova Walsh
- Webinar
- January 11 2023

Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid Expansions and Child Support Outcomes
- Lindsey Bullinger, and edited by Eleanor Pratt
- Fast Focus Policy Brief
- January 2021

Focus & Focus+ 36(4), December 2020
Systemic racism and the justice system
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- December 2020

Negotiating race and racial inequality in family court
- Tonya L. Brito, David J. Pate Jr., and Jia-Hui Stefanie Wong
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- December 2020

Culture change: Implementing a new approach to child support
- Jennifer L. Noyes, Lisa Klein Vogel, and Lanikque Howard
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- July 2019

Can a redesigned child support system do better?
- Maria Cancian, Daniel R. Meyer, and Robert G. Wood
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- July 2019

Comparison of CSPED Participants to National and State Child Support Caseloads
- Leslie Hodges
- Discussion Paper
- June 2019

Final Impact Findings from the Child Support Noncustodial Parent Employment Demonstration (CSPED)
- Maria Cancian, Daniel R. Meyer, and Robert G. Wood
- Report
- March 2019

Child Support Noncustodial Parent Employment Demonstration (CSPED): Findings from the Benefit-Cost Analysis
- Quinn Moore, Katherine Anne Magnuson, and April Yanyuan Wu
- Report
- March 2019