1 option
Child support : the next frontier / edited by J. Thomas Oldham and Marygold S. Melli.
LIBRA KF549.Z9 C46 2000
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Child support--Law and legislation--United States--Popular works.
- Child support.
- Child support--Law and legislation.
- United States.
- Child support--Law and legislation--Popular works.
- Child support--United States--Popular works.
- Genre:
- Popular works.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 231 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2000]
- Summary:
- Explores the issues in reform of child support laws.
- Contents:
- I. The current legal structure. Child support comes of age : an introduction to the law of child support / June Carbone
- The goals and limits of child support policy / Marsha Garrison
- The impact of welfare reform on the child support enforcement system / Paul K. Legler
- II. The current social structure and its relevance to reform. Child support and child access : experiences of divorced and nonmarital families / Judith A. Seltzer
- Fathers and the child support system / Daniel R. Meyer
- III. Improving the present system. Guideline review : the search for an equitable child support formula / Marygold S. Melli
- New methods to update child support / J. Thomas Oldham
- IV. Child support : the experience elsewhere. Child support as distributive and commutative justice : the United Kingdom experience / John Eekelaar
- A comparative approach to child support systems : legal rules and social policies / Mavis Maclean and Andrea Warman
- V. Replacing the current system. The limits of private child support and the role of an assured benefit / Irwin Garfinkel
- Why child support assurance won't work / Allen M. Parkman
- Why child support assurance won't work : a rejoinder / Irwin Garfinkel
- Child support is not the answer : the nature of dependencies and welfare reform / Martha Albertson Fineman.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0472110578
- OCLC:
- 42798266
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.