Child Support in the News

Just some more articles about the rise of “dead-beat” dads due to job losses. This reminds me of the article I wrote last year in the “Petition for Child Support reform” where we would be seeing an increase in “dead-beat dads” due to the recession and loss of regular incomes. This article is from the [...]

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The Swedish Model in Practice

by: Jonas Fredén
The term “Swedish Model” is used to describe the fact that the Swedish society is based on a high degree of public financing. Let’s find out what this means in practice by following a regular Swedish mother and daughter through a normal day.

7.30 a.m. Drop-off at preschool
Early morning weekdays, [...]

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Child Support Help for Parents Impacted by Layoffs

This is long time overdue but I guess it is better late than never. Hopefully, it will offer some help and assistance for non-custodial parents who struggle to get their child support modifications put in place due to layoffs and disabilities that prevent them from earning a living AND be able to make child support [...]

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Fighting Over Child Support After the Pink Slip Arrives

By JULIE BOSMAN
Published: March 28, 2009
The same story echoed a dozen times through Room E8 of Manhattan Family Court in a single day: fathers, pinched by the recession, pleading for a reduction in child support.
A salesman at Saks Fifth Avenue who is estranged from his teenage daughter said he feared he [...]

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Children in Sweden: Growing Up in Sweden

As a Swede living in the US, I had to post this article from the website Sweden.se enjoy!!
Two million people are under 18 in Sweden. Most of them take for granted free schooling, an active social life, easy access to nature and the internet.
Of the nine million people who live in Sweden, almost [...]

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Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep…

I love, love, love my job as a secretary in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit!!!! The only thing that could actually make my job better is if I was to became a NICU nurse and could do more to help these premature babies.  What is there not to love about this job? I get to [...]

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