Research Catalog

Title

Child support assurance : design issues, expected impacts, and political barriers as seen from Wisconsin / Irwin Garfinkel, Sara S. McLanahan, and Philip K. Robins, editors.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Urban Institute Press ; Lanham, Md. : Distributed by University Press of America, c1992.

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Additional Authors

• Garfinkel, Irwin.
• McLanahan, Sara
• Robins, Philip K.

Description

xx, 369 p.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

An Institute for Research on Poverty study

Uniform Title

An Institute for Research on Poverty study.

Subject

Child support > Wisconsin

Note

• "Annex": p. [357]-364.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Pt. 1. An Overview of the Child Support Assurance System -- 1. Findings of the Wisconsin Child Support Reform Project: Introduction and Summary / Irwin Garfinkel, Sara S. McLanahan and Philip K. Robins -- 2. The Wisconsin Child Support Assurance System: From Plausible Proposals to Improbable Prospects / Thomas Corbett -- Pt. 2. Was the Old System as Bad as it Seemed? -- 3. Noncustodial Fathers' Ability to Pay Child Support / Irwin Garfinkel and Donald T. Oellerich -- 4. Inequality in Divorce Settlements: An Investigation of Property Settlements and Child Support Awards / Judith A. Seltzer and Irwin Garfinkel -- 5. Custody and Visiting after Divorce: The Other Side of Child Support / Judith A. Seltzer -- 6. Paternity Establishment in AFDC Cases: Three Wisconsin Counties / Sara S. McLanahan, Patricia R. Brown and Renee A. Monson -- Pt. 3. What Are the Costs and Benefits of a CSAS? -- 7. Who Should Be Eligible for an Assured Child Support Benefit? / Daniel R. Meyer, Irwin Garfinkel, Donald T. Oellerich and Philip K. Robins -- 8. The Economic Impact of Child Support Reform on the Poverty Status of Custodial and Noncustodial Families / Ann Nichols-Casebolt -- 9. The Use of Normative Standards in Family Law Decisions: Developing Mathematical Standards for Child Support / Irwin Garfinkel and Marygold S. Melli -- 10. The Effect of Routine Income Withholding on Child Support Collections / Irwin Garfinkel and Marieka M. Klawitter -- 11. The Effect of Routine Income Withholding of Child Support on AFDC Participation and Cost / Marieka M. Klawitter and Irwin Garfinkel -- 12. The Effect of Routine Income Withholding on the Labor Supply of Custodial Parents / Nancy Maritato and Philip K. Robins -- 13. Effects of Child Support on Remarriage of Single Mothers / Kwi-Ryung Yun -- 14. Public Opinion about a Child Support Assurance System / Thomas Corbett, Irwin Garfinkel and Nora Cate Schaeffer.

ISBN

• 0877665621 :
• 087766563X (pbk.) :

LCCN

^^^92008638^//r95

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Harvard Library