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.

Economic Well-Being of Divorced Mothers with Varying Child Placement Arrangements in Wisconsin: Contributions of Child Support and Other Income Sources
- Judi Bartfeld, Hong-Min Ahn, and Jeong Hee Ryu
- Report
- April 2012

Shared Placement: An Overview of Prevalence, Trends, Economic Implications, and Impacts on Child Well-Being
- Judi Bartfeld
- Report
- December 2011

A Decade of Voluntary Paternity Acknowledgment in Wisconsin: 1997–2007
- Patricia R. Brown and Steven T. Cook
- Report
- 2008

Characteristics of Shared-Placement Child Support Formulas Used in the Fifty States
- Patricia Brown and Tonya Brito
- Report
- March 2007

Wisconsin’s 2004 Shared-Physical-Placement Guidelines: Their Use and Implications in Divorce Cases
- Patricia Brown and Maria Cancian
- Report
- March 2007

Recent Trends in Children’s Placement Arrangements in Divorce and Paternity Cases in Wisconsin
- Steven T. Cook and Patricia Brown
- Report
- May 2006

The Father-Child Relationship in Voluntary Paternity Acknowledgment Cases
- Patricia R. Brown
- Report
- February 2006

Children’s Living Arrangements in Divorced Wisconsin Families with Shared Placement
- M. L. Krecker, P. Brown, M. S. Melli, and L. Wimer
- Report
- June 2003

Use of Wisconsin’s Child Support Guidelines in Shared Placement Cases
- Steven T. Cook
- Report
- August 2002