Child support problems, from Janet Jackson to Dennis Rodman, make for perfect tabloid fodder. Spoiled celebrities, deadbeat millionaire dads and trust-fund children.

"Child support is not to be used only for necessities like food, clothing, medical needs and so on," Sodoma says. "Instead, child support is actually based on the reasonable needs of the child, a ...

Parents across Houston are speaking out, saying they haven’t received crucial child support payments for weeks or even months following the launch of a new payment system by the Texas Attorney General ...

There were 22 participants - and many more questions - at the first free legal advice clinic aimed at child support problems in Hamilton County Juvenile Court.

YoungWilliams received the lucrative contract in 2009 to reduce Mississippi's backlog of child support cases. The impact of the allegations is unclear, but for many parents there's a long wait from ...

Updated: Jul 31, 2025 / 06:55 PM CDT AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Texas Office of the Attorney General unveiled a new child support system meant to improve efficiency and streamline case processing.

We employed meta-analytic methods to pool information from 63 studies dealing with nonresident fathers and children's well-being. Fathers' payment of child support was positively associated with ...

Since its launch, ChAMP has processed 3.1 million payments totaling $614 million in support, an amount that exceeds what 35 other states disburse in an entire year, according to a release.