This workflow chart demonstrates how the Office of Child Support Enforcement operates in terms of establishing paternity and monitoring payments.

Taken from Carmen Solomon, “The Child Support Enforcement Program” Congressional Research Service (1982). Solomon (later Solomon-Fears) would go on to a long career with CRS. She published numerous reports on child support enforcement, including a legislative history and a review of the a review of the use of incarceration as a form of punishment for past due payments.

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