Revising child support orders: The Wisconsin experience

Kathleen A. Kost; Daniel R. Meyer; Tom Corbett; Patricia R. Brown

doi:10.2307/584766

Revising child support orders: The Wisconsin experience

Kathleen A. Kost
, Daniel R. Meyer
, Tom Corbett
, Patricia R. Brown

School of Social Work

University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Abstract

In an effort to make Wisconsin's child support cases more equitable and up-to-date, old child support orders were reviewed. Only 21% of the cases were revised. The amount of revised orders increased substantially, a mean of $116/month (77%). An alternative method of keeping orders current is to express them as a percentage of the noncustodial parent's income; these orders are kept up-to-date automatically without a revision process.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	19-26
Number of pages	8
Journal	Family Relations
Volume	45
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2307/584766
State	Published - Jan 1996

Keywords

Aid in families with dependent children
Child support
Single-parent families
Welfare

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