Chapter 3 —Child Support: A Program For Everyone But Children And Fathers
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| Chapter 4 — Families In The Twenty-First Century |
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| Chapter 6 — Fathers And Mothers Today |
| Chapter 7 — Paternity Fraud Epidemic |
| Chapter 8 — Who's Minding The Minders? — The Fate Of Children |
Insanity: The most common sources of impossibly high support orders are default judgments where the defendant was never even served with notice of the case; "imputed income" where the judge makes an assumption as to what the parent "should" be earning; failure to adjust support orders when earnings are reduced; and imprisonment. In many states the rigid rule is that imprisonment is "voluntary" and, therefore, not a basis to reduce child support. The result is that a prisoner is released, found to be in arrears on child support that accrued while in prison, and sent back to prison as a "deadbeat."