Child Support Enforcement and Guidelines are Unrealistic

By Joe Jones (jjones@cfuf.org) – the founder of the Center for Urban Families in Baltimore and Joan Entmacher Joe Jones (jentmacher@nwlc.org) is the vice president for Family Economic Security at the National Women’s Law Center. Raising a child takes a lot of love, time and money — and doing it alone is tough. Children need and…

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Forgiving $38,750 in Child Support, for My Kids’ Sake

   Should everyone support his or her children? Yes. Is court-ordered “child support” supporting your children? NO one knows.  Can someone tell me the what law requires court-ordered child support to be spent on the child? I didn’t think so.  The amount of “child support” ordered by family court has no relationship to the real…

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