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  • 020194

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  • Published 2004.
  • 8 pages.

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Building Debt While Doing Time: Child Support and Incarceration

Publication year: 2004 | Cataloged on: Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: The "appropriate treatment of child support obligations while parents are in prison and following their release" is discussed. This article contains sections on: the debate; common judicial approaches (e.g., the No Justification Approach, the Complete Justification Approach, and the One Factor Approach) and the states which follow them; research findings; programs to address the problems; examples of state policies and legislation; Denver's Work and Family Center (WFC) experience; and conclusion.
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