Skip to main content

Child Support Assurance: Effect of Applying State Guidelines to Determine Fathers' Payments

HRD-93-26 Published: Jan 21, 1993. Publicly Released: Jan 21, 1993.
Jump To:
Skip to Highlights

Highlights

GAO provided information on child support guidelines, focusing on the: (1) income of young noncustodial fathers and their ability to pay the minimum assured benefit; and (2) number of noncustodial fathers required to pay the minimum assured benefit under typical state child support guidelines.

Full Report

Office of Public Affairs

Topics

Child custodyChild support paymentsDependentsstate relationsIncome statisticsLiability (legal)ParentsChild supportExpenditure of fundsChild care programs