Policy Agenda:
Eliminate cost-recovery component of the program. Families receive all child support payments.
Eliminate automated "coercive" enforcement such as credit reporting and license suspension.
Eliminate the separate requirements for families with assistance cases, such as cooperation, referral, and assignment, and retained collections. Allow individualized, negotiated cases for all families in the caseload.
Establish and modify orders based on parents' actual incomes.
Eliminate the automatic assessment of interest on arrears.
Explore and reconsider percent-of-income orders, credit for informal support, in-kind support when income is lacking.
Support co-parenting including negotiating roles and responsibilities. Recognize parenting time in guidelines when establishing all orders.
Lower limits for garnishment of current and past-due support.
Create a speedier path for order review and adjustment
Strengthen the administrative process and do not refer cases to the judicial process unless necessary.
Help courts approach most enforcement cases as problem solving courts instead of punitive / coercive courts. Examine role of prosecuting attorneys in order establishment.