As part of "a comprehensive income security plan," the commission called for stricter enforcement of child-support obligations.

In the most crucial innovation, the courts suspend child-support obligations while the men are in the program.

According to an Urban Institute study, children in single-parent families would get $34 billion if all child-support obligations were met.

More could be done, and officials would do well to look for guidance at state efforts to collect debt in another area: child-support obligations.

In fact, some officials estimate that as many as one in three child-support obligations are ignored.

The directory was created under a 1996 law to help enforce child-support obligations.

The same year Congress made a federal case out of carjacking, it did the same thing for failure to meet many child-support obligations.

The Assembly passed a bill establishing a formula for judges in assessing child-support obligations.

In a rare moment of bipartisan agreement, the committee today endorsed tough new measures to force fathers to meet their child-support obligations.

Some parents now escape child-support obligations when they change jobs because the orders do not follow them.