Designed to assist advocates for nonresident fathers in child welfare cases, this checklist provides legal strategies for addressing child support obligations. Strategies for advocates are explained and include: request that the court or agency not refer the child to child support enforcement services when reunification may be a goal, argue that agency case plans cannot be derailed by imposing child support recovery mechanisms, combat any attempts by the State to terminate a father's rights based on his failure to pay child support, and identify other legal strategies to oppose collecting…
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Journal Article Nonresident fathers' financial support and time are both important to children's well-being, although the association between these two types of involvement is mixed in the literature. Using the 1994 - 2004 waves of the Current Population Survey-Child Support Supplement, this article examined the associations between mothers' reports of child support payments and visitation. The results indicated that about 36% of nonresident fathers did not visit their children at all, and the distribution of visitation was highly skewed. Therefore, zero-inflated Poisson regression was used, and the results…