Although family law requires parents to support their minor children, the question of post-majority support – or child support for adult children – is entirely different. Some states permit this type of child support, while others do not. Those affected by this divergence in approaches...

The approach taken to child support in New Zealand has shaped perceptions and outcomes. Despite ongoing dissatisfaction, substantial changes to the legislation have yet to be made. The current Government is considering changes which address some of the major issues: costs of children; incomes of...

Legal barriers or "collateral consequences" arising from criminal convictions came to the forefront of the legal and policy discourse at the dawn of the twenty-first century, as the population of people with criminal convictions skyrocketed. These barriers act as restrictions to...

This Essay builds on prior work examining the role the law plays in fostering or discouraging nurturing relationships between fathers and children. In Beyond Economic Fatherhood: Encouraging Divorced Fathers to Parent, 153 U. Pa. L. Rev. 921 (2005), I used social norms theory to explore how the...

Nathaniel was a California teenager who became a father in 1995. The mother of Nathaniel’s child was named Ricci, and at the time of conception, she was thirty-four years old. Nathaniel, however, was merely fifteen. Although Nathaniel admitted to having sex with Ricci voluntarily about five...

Family Law economic issues involve complicated matters of accounting, finance, and tax law. This article - the second in a two-part series - focuses on Florida issues involves alimony and child support. Readers may want to think of Family Law from the perspective of a Tax Lawyer. In tax law,...

Family Law economic issues involve complicated matters of accounting, finance, and tax law. This article - the first in a two-part series - focuses on Florida issues involves alimony and child support. Readers may want to think of Family Law from the perspective of a Tax Lawyer. In tax law,...

A child support guideline is a formula used to calculate support payments based on a few family characteristics. Guidelines began replacing court awarded support payments in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and were later mandated by the federal government in 1988. Two fundamentally different...