Understanding How Child Support Works Across State Lines
Enforcing Interstate Child Support and Obtaining Jurisdiction – Enforcing child support can be difficult and complicated. Throw an out-of-state order in the mix and it can get even muddier. In 2011 alone, there was roughly 37.9 billion dollars of child support owed to custodial parents in the United States. Only 62.3% of that amount owed was actually paid, which leaves about 14.3 billion dollars of unpaid child support. That’s a ton of money! Now these…