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Child Support
Reports on a variety of child support-related topics, including incarceration, debt leveraging, and guidelines.
 Confronting Child Support Debt: A Baseline Profile of Maryland’s Arrears Caseload (June, 2008)
Pamela Caudill Ovwigho, Correne Saunders, Catherine E. Born
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Today’s report is the first in a series of studies designed to provide, for the first time ever, a comprehensive, detailed exposition and data-driven understanding of the arrears phenomenon in Maryland.
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People & Payments: A Baseline Profile
of Maryland's Child Support Caseload (April, 2008)
Pamela Caudill Ovwigho, Valerie Head, Catherine E. Born
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The goal of this first report in a series is to provide valid, reliable data about the children, custodians, and noncustodial parents
who comprise the Maryland child support caseload and to produce regularly updated information about results achieved in critical areas
such as support collections and support arrears.
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Child Support Outcomes of Maryland’s
In-Hospital Paternity Acknowledgment Program (June 2007)
Pamela Caudill Ovwigho, Valerie Head, Catherine E. Born
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This report researches the impact of Maryland's voluntary paternity acknowledgment program by looking at
the child support caseload and comparing if and how certain child support outcomes differ between children for
whom paternity was acknowledged and those for whom it was not.
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The Intersection of
Incarceration & Child support: A snapshot of Maryland’s Caseload
(July 2005)
Pamela Caudill Ovwigho, Correne Saunders, Catherine E. Born
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The first in a series of studies on this topic, this report begins to provide information about the extent of the intersection or overlap between child support and incarceration in the state of Maryland.
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Arrears Leveraging Pilot Project: Outcomes Achieved & Lessons Learned (March 2005)
Pamela Caudill Ovwigho, Correne Saunders, Catherine E. Born
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This report evaluates the ALPP, Maryland's Arrears Leveraging Pilot Project, designed to encourage low-income, non-paying child support obligors to pay their current support by rewarding consistent payment with reduction or elimination of state-owed arrears.
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Maryland Child Support Guidelines: Case Record Review (November 2004)
Pamela Caudill Ovwigho, Catherine E. Born, Correne Saunders
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Maryland's child support case-level guidelines review for the period 1999-2001.
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Maryland's Paternity Acknowledgement Program: Participant Entries Into the Public Child Support and Welfare Systems (October 2002)
Pamela Caudill Ovwigho, Catherine E. Born, Shafali Srivastava
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This report attempts to answer the question of who is and who is not participating in Maryland's Paternity Acknowledgement Program, and how many of the children
of participating parents are known to the State's welfare program within one year of birth.
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Research Brief 01-04: Child Support Among Children in Former TANF Families (August 2001)
Shafali Srivastava, Pamela Caudill Ovwigho, Catherine E. Born
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This brief examines the role child support receipt may be able to play in enabling families to leave welfare, increase their incomes, and avoid recidivism or returns to welfare.
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