Child support reform: Lessons from Wisconsin

Family Relations

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 11-18

  Meyer, Daniel R ^a   Bartfeld, Judi ^a   Garfinkel, Irwin ^b   Brown, Patricia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin ^*

Author keywords

Child support; Noncustodial parents; Policy; Single parent families

Indexed keywords

EID: 0029665909     PISSN: 01976664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/584765     Document Type: Article

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