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Child Support Services Division [89] South Dakota Code Laws §§ 25-7-6.1 et seq. [90] Office of Child Support Enforcement [91] Tennessee Child Support Guidelines [92] Child Support Services [93] Texas Family Code §§ 154.001 et seq. [94] Attorney General Child Support Services [95] Utah Code §§ 78B-12-202 et seq., [96] based on the Income ...
Child support is the obligation on parents to provide financial support for their children. OCSS was established with the Federal Government’s enactment of Child Support Enforcement and Paternity Establishment Program (CSE) in 1975, which was enacted to reduce welfare expenses by collecting child support from non-custodial parents.
The Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act (URESA), passed in 1950, concerns interstate cooperation in the collection of spousal and child support. [1] The law establishes procedures for enforcement in cases in which the person owing alimony or child support is in one state and the person to whom the support is owed is in another state (hence the word "reciprocal").
In the U.S., in contrast, non-payment of child support may be treated as a criminal offense or a civil offense, and it can result in a prison or jail term. In New York, continuous failure to provide child support is an E felony punishable by up to 4 years in prison. In addition, child-support debtors are subject to fines and property seizure.
A Houston, Texas, man was ordered to pay $65,000 in child support to his ex-girlfriend for a child he did not biologically father, according to KOCO.. A Texas child support court ruled in 2003 ...
A Florida man has been forced to pay child support even though a DNA test proved that he is not the child's biological father, First Coast News reports. Last year, Joseph Sinawa, of St. Augustine ...
The Act also establishes which state's law will be applied in proceedings under the Act, an important factor as support laws vary greatly among the states. [5] The Act establishes rules requiring every state to defer to child support orders entered by the state courts of the child's home state.
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