Child Support Enforcement Incarceration As the Last Resort Penalty For Nonpayment of Support

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Child support.

Child welfare.

Courts.

Crime.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Contained In:

ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection

Place of Publication:

[United States] [publisher not identified] 2012

Summary:

Provides background on the child support enforcement program (CSE), and summarizes methods by which State CSE agencies obtain child support obligations. Focuses on State and Federal authority and the authority of their courts to use the threat of incarceration and/or actual incarceration for situations involving contempt of court and criminal nonsupport. Examines implications of threat of jailing noncustodial parents who are delinquent in meeting their child support obligations, and places imprisonment option in policy context

Notes:

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Other Format:

Microfiche version Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service. Child Support Enforcement

Publisher Number:

CRS-2012-DSP-0169

Access Restriction:

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