Enforcement of Child Support Obligations

This lesson is a review of child support enforcement at both the state and federal levels.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of the lesson, the student will be able to:

1. Discuss the basics of child support enforcement at both the state and federal levels.
2. Describe some tools courts use to enforce orders of child support.
3. Explain how the actual enforcement of a child support order takes place at the state level.
4. Analyze the Federal enforcement programs from the Social Security Act amendments in 1950 to the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act in 1996.