Federal Resources

• Child Support Enforcement Office
• Department of Justice, Criminal Division, Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section Includes the Deadbeat Parents Punishment Act (18 USC 228)
• Federal Office of Child Support Enforcement
• Federal Parent Locator Service
• Financial Management Service/Dep't of the Treasury - EFT/EDI Child Support Payments
• Handbook on Child Support Enforcement
• Interstate Roster and Referral Guide - Offers child support enforcement details from each U.S. state
• NECSRS (National Electronic Child Support Resource System)
• The Comprehensive Resource for the Interpretation and Application of Child Support Guidelines in the United States
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• U.S. General Accounting Office
• Enhance Child Support Enforcement - From the Whitehouse, February, 2002.

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  The following is a portion of USC Code 18, § 228, the federal Child Support Recovery Act (CSRA).

  -CITE-18 USC Sec. 228 01/16/96
  
  -EXPCITE-
  
  TITLE 18 - CRIMES AND CRIMINAL
  
  PART I - CRIMES
  
  Sec. 228. Failure to pay legal child support obligations
  
  -STATUTE-
  
  (a) Offense. - Whoever willfully fails to pay a past due support obligation with respect to a child who resides in another State shall be punished as provided in subsection (b).
  
  (b) Punishment. - The punishment for an offense under this section is -
  
    (1) in the case of a first offense under this section, a fine under this title, imprisonment for not more than 6 months, or both; and
  
    (2) in any other case, a fine under this title, imprisonment for not more than 2 years, or both.
  
  (c) Restitution. - Upon a conviction under this section, the court shall order restitution under section 3663 in an amount equal to the past due support obligation as it exists at the time of sentencing.
  
  (d) Definitions. - As used in this section -
  
     (1) the term ''past due support obligation'' means any amount -
  
        (A) determined under a court order or an order of an administrative process pursuant to the law of a State to be due from a person for the support and maintenance of a child or of a child and the parent with whom the child is living; and
  
        (B) that has remained unpaid for a period longer than one year, or is greater than $5,000; and
  
     (2) the term ''State'' includes the District of Columbia, and any other possession or territory of the United States.
  
  -SOURCE-
  
  (Added Pub. L. 102-521, Sec. 2(a), Oct. 25, 1992, 106 Stat. 3403.)
  
  -MISC1-
  
  SHORT TITLE
  
  Section 1 of Pub. L. 102-521 provided that: ''This Act (enacting this section and sections 3796cc to 3796cc-6 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, amending section 3563 of this title and section 3797 of Title 42, and enacting provisions set out as a note under section 12301 of Title 42) may be cited as the 'Child Support Recovery Act of 1992'.''
  
  

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