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Demography (1998) 35 (2): 135–146.
Published: 01 May 1998
...Judith A. Seltzer Abstract Family membership and household composition do not always coincide. Joint legal custody after divorce formalizes the relationship between fathers and children who live apart. Policymakers hope that explicit acknowledgment of nonresident fathers’ rights...
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Demography (1998) 35 (2): 147–157.
Published: 01 May 1998
... arrangement, shared custody has increased over a nine-year period. We find that the probability of shared custody increases with parent’s income. Prior marital history. parents’ ages, the age and gender of children, and the legal process also have an impact on the probability of shared custody. In contrast...
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Demography (1993) 30 (4): 719–735.
Published: 01 November 1993
... Association of America 1993 1993 Child Support Court Record Child Support Payment Formal Compliance Custodial Parent References Albiston Catherine R. , Maccoby Eleanor E. , & Mnookin Robert R. ( 1990 ). Does Joint Legal Custody Matter? . Stanford Law and Policy Review...
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Demography (1998) 35 (2): 133.
Published: 01 May 1998
...Suzanne M. Bianchi, Guest Editor 12 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1998 1998 Child Support Absent Father Married Father Legal Custody Physical Custody INTRODUCTION TO THE SPECIAL ISSUE: "MEN IN FAMILIES" SUZANNE M. BIANCHI, GUEST EDITOR When Robert Mare first...
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Demography (2014) 51 (4): 1381–1396.
Published: 09 May 2014
...). We consider a range of factors measured in the court record that may be related to the likelihood of different custody outcomes, including parents’ economic characteristics (their employment, total income, and the share of income attributed to the mother); the legal environment (which parent...
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Demography (1993) 30 (1): 45–62.
Published: 01 February 1993
... to welfare is higher than has been reported previously. Receiving child support significantly decreases the likelihood of returning to welfare. 16 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1993 1993 Child Support Event History Analysis Child Support Payment Joint Custody Legal Custody...
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Demography (2010) 47 (1): 205–225.
Published: 01 February 2010
.... , & Rubin D.B. ( 2001 ). Testing the Number of Components in a Normal Mixture . Biometrika , 88 , 767 – 87 . 10.1093/biomet/88.3.767 Maccoby E.E. , & Mnookin R.H. ( 1992 ). Dividing the Child: Social and Legal Dilemmas of Custody . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press...
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Demography (2000) 37 (2): 203–213.
Published: 01 May 2000
... the paper, I use the term custodial parent to refer to physical placement of the child, not to legal custody, which is fre- quently shared between parents. 2. I include only fathers for whose ex-wives data are available in a given quarter, because child support information is available only from re...
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Demography (1998) 35 (2): 217–228.
Published: 01 May 1998
... Seltzer , J.A. ( 1990 ). Legal and Physical Custody Arrangements in Recent Divorce . Social Science Quarterly , 71 , 250 – 66 . Seltzer , J.A. ( 1991 ). Relationships Between Fathers and Children Who Live Apart: The Father’s Role After Separation . Journal of Marriage and the Family...
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Demography (1989) 26 (2): 219–233.
Published: 01 May 1989
... of noncustodial fathers have a legal obligation to pay child support; of those with a legal obligation, only half pay the full amount and 24 percent pay nothing; and more than half of the mothers with children potentially eligible for support receive nothing (U. S. Bureau of the Census, 1987). In response...
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Demography (1996) 33 (3): 385–393.
Published: 01 August 1996
... R.H. ( 1992 ). Dividing the Child: The Legal and Social Dilemmas of Child Custody . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . McLanahan S. , & Casper L. ( 1995 ). Growing Diversity and Inequality in the American Family . In R. Farley (Ed.), State of the Union...
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Demography (2015) 52 (4): 1243–1268.
Published: 01 July 2015
... are both legal parents, they have joint custody during partnership, and this is also the default custody arrangement on dissolution of the partnership. The cohabitation law ( sambolag ) makes the joint residence communal property, and in 2003, it was extended to same-sex couples. However, because...
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Demography (1999) 36 (2): 195–203.
Published: 01 May 1999
...: U.S. THE GENDER GAP IN THE ECONOMIC WELL·BEING OF FATHERS AND MOTHERS 203 Bureau of the Census, U.S. Government Printing Office. Seltzer, J.A. 199I. "Legal and Physical Custody Arrangements in Recent Divorces." Social Science Quarterly 71:250-66. Seltzer, J.A. and Y. Brandreth. 1994. "What Fathers Say...
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Demography (1998) 35 (2): 187–200.
Published: 01 May 1998
... made byfathers appear to crowd out their involve- ment with nonresidential children, whereas other decisions rein- force their parenting behavior. Although the number of men with legal custody of their children following divorce has increased (Meyer and Gara- sky 1993), most children remain...
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Demography (1996) 33 (4): 483–496.
Published: 01 November 1996
... of the survey. This sample of recently eligible families is used in the analyses that follow because such families are more likely to be affected by recent changes in the legal and social environment than families who have been eligible for child support for a longer time. In addition, because we must use...
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Demography (2011) 48 (3): 1005–1027.
Published: 21 June 2011
... persistent disruptions in the structure of the child’s life as they split time between households. Although these findings pertain to the effects of fathers’ relocation following a divorce, they are also important given recent legal and policy initiatives to limit custodial mothers’ relocation choices...
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Demography (1998) 35 (2): 175–186.
Published: 01 May 1998
... support they provide their children. In addition, because issues like the legal issuance of a child-support or- der or the amount of payments made to child-support en- forcement agencies are not easy to address through surveys, the survey data are supplemented with data obtained from state administrative...
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Demography (2022) 59 (1): 389–415.
Published: 01 February 2022
... relationship, depending on whether they have physical custody. Hence, MPF fathers were legally obligated to pay child support. 6 If a noncustodial parent refused to pay child support, the government collected the payment via payroll deduction. Required child support payments to the custodial parent depended...
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Demography (2018) 55 (3): 769–797.
Published: 13 April 2018
... to understand specific historical, legal, and societal aspects of divorce. The sole ground for getting a divorce in Germany is disruption of a conjugal relationship beyond the point of restoration. When both spouses agree to a divorce, they can apply for a divorce after an obligatory year of separation...
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Demography (1985) 22 (3): 367–380.
Published: 01 August 1985
... of the receipt of welfare and child support. In addition, characteristics of the marital (or living) arrangement between the two parents are also likely to be important determinants of these family situations. 12 Such characteristics include whether the couple was legally married (as a proxy for the difficulty...
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