Maryland Child Support Guidelines: 2015 to 2018 Case-level Review

The main focus of this report is to determine whether orders established or modified between January 2015 and December 2018 followed the Maryland guidelines, and if they did deviate, how often and for what reason were there deviations. The information used for this report provides a rich data source that allows us to explore other relevant topics, including the practice of income imputation, the effectiveness of the Self-Support Reserve (SSR), the phenomenon of complex families, and finally, payment compliance among the orders established during the study period.

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guidelines
deviations
imputed income
payment compliance
jurisdictions

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http://hdl.handle.net/10713/22379