In addition to a child support order, many parents who do not live together also have a legal and/or physical custody order, which specifies how decision-making responsibility and the amount of time a child spends living with each parent is allocated between them.

Does Joint Legal Custody Increase the Child Support Payments of the Fathers of Nonmarital Children?
- Yiyu Chen and Daniel R. Meyer
- Report
- June 2015

Child Placement Arrangements and Post-Divorce Economic Outcomes
- Judi Bartfeld and Eunhee Han
- Report
- December 2014

Children’s Placement Arrangements in Divorce and Paternity Cases in Wisconsin
- Patricia Brown and Steven T. Cook
- Report
- November 2012

Child Support Referrals for Out-of-Home Placements: A Review of Policy and Practice
- Carol Chellew, Jennifer L. Noyes, and Rebekah Selekman
- Report
- October 2012

Exploring Reasons for the Decline in Child Support Orders among Paternity Cases
- Maria Cancian, Yiyu Chen, Eunhee Han, and Daniel R. Meyer
- Report
- October 2012

Full-Time Father or “Deadbeat Dad”? Does the Growth in Father Placement Explain the Declining Share of Divorced Custodial Parents with a Child Support Order?
- Daniel R. Meyer, Maria Cancian, Eunhee Han, Patricia Brown, Steve Cook and Yiyu Chen
- Report
- October 2012

The Implications of Complex Families for Poverty and Child Support Policy
- Maria Cancian and Daniel R. Meyer
- Webinar
- September 19 2012

Interactions of the Child Support and Child Welfare Systems: Child Support Referral for Families Served by the Child Welfare System, Final Report
- Maria Cancian, Steven Cook, Mai Seki, and Lynn Wimer
- Report
- May 2012

Interactions of the Child Support and Child Welfare Systems: Child Support Enforcement after Family Reunification
- Maria Cancian, Steven Cook, Mai Seki, and Lynn Wimer
- Report
- May 2012

Fathers’ Investments of Time and Money across Residential Contexts
- Marcia J. Carlson, Alicia G. VanOrman, and Kimberly J. Turner
- Report
- May 2012