Family Structure and Support Issues

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Nova Publishers, 2007 - 141 pages
As populations in many developed countries begin to dwindle or become heavily unbalanced toward the aged, the support families, their structures and societal encouragement become vital issues. This book examines some of the perplexing and complex issues involved in this battle for survival.

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Contents

The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families TANF Block Grant Responses to Frequently Asked Questions
1
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families TANF Its Role in Response to the Effects of Hurricane Katrina
19
A Review of Medical Child Support Background Policy and Issues
27
Child Support Enforcement Program Basics
65
Child Support Enforcement New Reforms and Potential Issues
75
Child Support Provisions in the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 PL 109171
85
The Family and Medical Leave Act Background and US Supreme Court Cases
95
Parental Notification and Ayotte v Planned Parenthood of Northern New England
103
SameSex Marriages Legal Issues
111
Index
135
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Page 112 - No State, territory, or possession of the United States, or Indian tribe, shall be required to give effect to any public act, record, or judicial proceeding of any other State, territory, possession, or tribe respecting a relationship between persons of the same sex that is treated as a marriage under the laws of such other State, territory, possession, or tribe, or a right or claim arising from such relationship.
Page 57 - ... child under such family coverage; (b) if the parent fails to provide health insurance coverage for a child, to enroll the child upon application by the child's other parent or the State child support or Medicaid agency; and (c) with respect to employers, not to disenroll...
Page 125 - Marriage, so far as its validity in law is concerned, is a civil contract, to which the consent of the parties capable in law of contracting is essential.
Page 122 - Marriage in the United States shall consist only of the union of a man and a woman. Neither this constitution or the constitution of any state, nor state or federal law, shall be construed to require that marital status or the legal incidents thereof be conferred upon unmarried couples or groups.
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Page 55 - Medicaid agency, locating absent parents, establishing paternity, determining whether the noncustodial parent has a health insurance policy or plan that covers the child, obtaining sufficient information about the health insurance policy or plan to permit the filing of a claim with the insurer, filing a claim with the insurer or transmitting the necessary information to the Medicaid agency, securing health insurance coverage through court or administrative order (when it will not reduce the noncustodial...
Page 55 - If the custodial parent does not have satisfactory health insurance coverage, the child support agency must petition the court or administrative authority to include medical support in new or modified support orders and inform the State Medicaid agency of any new or modified support orders that include a medical support obligation. The regulations also require child support agencies to enforce medical support that has been ordered by a court or administrative process.
Page 95 - Act — (1) to balance the demands of the workplace with the needs of families, to promote the stability and economic security of families, and to promote national interests in preserving family integrity; (2) to entitle employees to take reasonable leave for medical reasons, for the birth or adoption of a child, and for the care of a child, spouse, or parent who has a serious health condition...

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