Far Out

How far out can you go? The folks at the Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) at the University of Wisconsin at Madison go pretty far in their May 2010 article, "Promising antipoverty strategies for families."

"Difficult issues include determining how much child support can be expected from nonresident parents who are not working, and whether (and how) child support orders should change when nonresident parents suffer earnings losses or unemployment." http://www.irp.wisc.edu/publications/fastfocus/pdfs/FF6-2010.pdf

You probably thought it would be easy to know how much child support you can expect from a nonresident parent who isn't working. Unless you're far out too.