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Broke But Not Deadbeat: Reconnecting
Low–Income Fathers and Children.
National Conference of State Legislatures, Children and Families
Program, July 1999. (347.16/N21o) Low–income, unwed fathers lack the financial
resources to pay their full child support obligations. How can this be alleviated?
State Child Support Automation Systems. Teresa A. Myers, National Conference of
State Legislatures, 1999. (347.16/N21p) Reports the progress made by 41
jurisdictions on a federally mandated digital child support intranet between
the states and federal authorities.
Child Support Enforcement: Annual Report to Congress for the
Period Ending September 30, 1997. 22nd edition. U.S. Office
of Child Support Enforcement.
(347.16/X7) Report to
Congress on child support provisions, including the Personal Responsibility and
Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (P.L. 104–193). Includes federal and state statistics.
Child Support Enforcement: Effects of Declining Welfare
Caseloads Are Beginning to Emerge. U.S. General Accounting Office, 1999. (347.16/X5) A survey of the
child support enforcement programs of seven states, including Wisconsin.
Child Support Enforcement: New Reforms and Potential Issues. U.S. Congressional Research Service,
Education and Public Welfare Division, April 16, 1998. (347.16/X13) Updates Child Support Enforcement
Program: a Fact Sheet.
Child Support Enforcement Program: a Fact Sheet. U.S. Congressional Research Service,
Education and Public Welfare Division, February 3, 1998. (347.16/X14) Concise child support provisions of Title IV–D,
1975 Social Security Act (P.L. 93–647 and P.L. 104–193).
Child Support Enforcement Program and Establishment of Paternity: Informational Paper. Wisconsin Legislative Fiscal Bureau, January 1999. (347.16/W7a) Description of the Wisconsin child support program developed in response to Title IV–D of the 1975 Social Security Act and modified by P.L. 104–193.
Child Support Enforcement Program: Audit of the Nevada
Department of Human Services’ Welfare Division. Nevada Legislative Auditor, February 1999. (347.16/N4) Recent audit of Nevada’s child support
enforcement program.
Child Support Issues: State Legislative Summary. National Conference of State Legislatures,
December 1998. (347.16/N21j) A survey of legislation by 46 states between
July 1997 and June 1998, concerning child support issues.
Child Support Law in Wisconsin. Wisconsin Legislative Council, July 9,
1998. (347.16/W7h3) An overview of Wisconsin law relating to
child support as affected by 1997 Wisconsin Acts.
Child Support Reform: Lessons from Wisconsin. Judi Bartfeld, Patricia Brown, Daniel R.
Meyer, and Irwin Garfinkel, University of Wisconsin, Institute for Research on
Poverty, 1996. (347.16/W7q4) History of Wisconsin child support
regulations. Includes bibliographies.
Child Support: State Info Pack. Council of State Governments, States
Information Center, 1997. (347.16/C83c) Background information from various sources
about child support. Includes
bibliographies and Web sites.
Coresident Grandparents and Grandchildren. Ken Bryson and Lynne M. Casper, U.S. Bureau
of the Census, 1999. (347.16/X16) A different kind of child support:
grandparents.
Divorce Law in Wisconsin: an Overview. Wisconsin Legislative Council, July 13,
1998. (347.14/W7h) Wisconsin divorce law as defined by Chapter
767, Wisconsin Statutes, and modified by 1997 Wisconsin Acts, as well as case
law.
An Evaluation [of the] Kids Information Data System [by the] Department of Workforce Development: 1997. Wisconsin Legislative Audit Bureau, December 1997. (Au2/1997/21; noncirculating) Audit report of the progress made and problems with the Wisconsin automated child support system.
Health Insurance and Child Support. Daniel R. Meyer, University of Wisconsin,
Institute for Research on Poverty, 1994.
(347.16/W7n7) Data from
Wisconsin suggest that less than half of noncustodial parents can afford to
provide health insurance for their children.
New Penalties for Failure to Pay Child Support. Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau, May
1998. (347.16/W7e1) Describes new penalties as specified by
Wisconsin Act 191 (1997 Senate Bill 494).
A Parent’s Guide to Child Support. Children’s Defense Fund, 1999. (347.16/C43) Appendices include “Directory of Child
Support Offices for the 50 States and District of Columbia” and “State Policies
on Passing Through Child Support to Welfare Families”.
Patterns of Child Support Compliance in Wisconsin. Judi Bartfeld and Daniel R. Meyer,
University of Wisconsin, Institute for Research on Poverty, 1997. (347.16/W7q5) More Wisconsin statistics.
Wisconsin Child Support Directory and Resource Book. Wisconsin Department of Workforce
Development, Division of Economic Support, April 1999. (347.16/W7L4) The 6th edition of a reference
book for Wisconsin county staff that provides telephone numbers and addresses
for frequently contacted county, state, and federal agencies involved in
operating the child support program.
Noncirculating publications of the Wisconsin Bureau of Child
Support available in the library’s Wisconsin documents collection:
Bureau of Child Support News. 1996+
(WorkD/EconS/b)
Child Support: What the Paying Parent
Needs to Know. 1998 (WorkD/EconS/c)
Employer’s Guide to Child Support. 1998
(WorkD/EconS/e)
Paternity: What Fathers Should Know. 1994; 1998
(WorkD/EconS/p)
Paternity: What Mothers Should Know. 1994; 1998
(WorkD/EconS/p)
[Wisconsin Child Support Manuals]. Four loose–leaf manuals used to administer
the Wisconsin Child Support Program (WorkD/EconS/w):
Wisconsin Child Support Forms and Documents. 1998+
Wisconsin Child Support Policy and Programs. 1998+
Wisconsin Child Support Procedures. 1995+
Wisconsin Child Support Reports Manual. 1998+
Wisconsin’s Child Support Program. 1994; 1998
(WorkD/EconS/w)
Clippings: (Noncirculating;
available for use in the library; clippings prior to 1981 are on microfiche)
• Divorce:
347.14/Z
• Family support - desertion; parental support:
347.16/Z
• Illegitimacy; teen pregnancy, nonmarital
child: 346.22/Z
Related Web Sites:
http://www.childsupport-aces.org/home.html - Association
for Children for Enforcement of Support (ACES).
http://www.clasp.org/index.htm - Center
for Law and Social Policy (CLASP).
http://www.cwla.org/cwla.publications.html - The
Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) Publications and Giftables.
http://www.childrensdefense.org/ - Children’s
Defense Fund.
http://www.ncsl.org/programs/cyf/cs.htm - National
Conference of State Legislatures - Human Services Child Support.
http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/cse/ - U.S.
Office of Child Support Enforcement.
http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/irp/ - University
of Wisconsin, Institute for Research on Poverty.
http://www.urban.org/socwelfare.htm - The
Urban Institute.
http://www.dwd.state.wi.us/bcs/ - Wisconsin
Bureau of Child Support. Links
to Kids Information Data Systems (KIDS).
