Interstate Modifications of Court-ordered Child Support: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Administrative Law and Governmental Relations of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 5304 ... August 12, 1992

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Page 50 - From the wild Irish slums of the 19th century Eastern seaboard to the riot-torn suburbs of Los Angeles, there is one unmistakable lesson in American history: a community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in broken families, dominated by women, never acquiring any stable relationship to male authority, never acquiring any set of rational expectations about the future - that community asks for and gets chaos.
Page 64 - TO THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON HUMAN RESOURCES, COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS, US HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ON THE SUBJECT OF...
Page 50 - Traditional liberals' unwillingness to acknowledge that twoparents families are the most effective units for raising children has led them into a series of policy cul-de-sacs .... Our point is that at the level of statistical aggregates and society-wide phenomena, significant differences do emerge between oneparent and two-parent families, differences that can and should shape our understanding of social policy.
Page 21 - contestant" means a person, including a parent, who claims a right to custody or visitation rights with respect to a child; (2) "custody determination" means a court decision and court orders and instructions providing for the custody of a child, including visitation rights; it does not include a decision relating to child support or any other monetary obligation of...
Page 21 - ... means a person, other than a parent, who has physical custody of a child and who has either been awarded custody by a court or claims a right to custody...
Page 25 - ... (3) Those characteristics of the law and practice in such cases, along with the limits imposed by a federal system on the authority of each such jurisdiction to conduct investigations and take other actions outside its own boundaries, contribute to a tendency of parties involved in such disputes to...
Page 33 - I am a Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP). CLASP is a nonprofit organization engaged in research, analysis, technical assistance and advocacy on a range of issues affecting low income families.
Page 22 - State' means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or a territory or possession of the United States. "(c) A child custody determination made by a court of a state is consistent with the provisions of this section only if: "(1) Such court has jurisdiction under the law of such state; and "(2) One of the following conditions is met: "(A) such state (i) is the home state of the child on the date of the commencement of the proceeding, or...
Page 21 - Home state" means the state in which the child immediately preceding the time involved lived with his parents, a parent, or a person acting as parent, for at least six consecutive months, and in the case of a child less than six months old the state in which the child lived from birth with any of the persons mentioned. Periods of temporary absence of any of the named persons are counted as part of the six-month or other period. (6) "Initial decree" means the first custody decree concerning a particular...
Page 23 - State no longer has jurisdiction, or it has declined to exercise such jurisdiction to modify such determination. "(g) A court of a State shall not exercise jurisdiction in any proceeding for a custody determination commenced during the pendency of a proceeding in a court of another State where such court of that other State is exercising jurisdiction consistently with the provisions of this section to make a custody determination.

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