Problem Solving Courts

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Problem Solving Courts
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Presenting Child Support and the Courts

• Judge Kristin Ruth
• District Court Judge
• Wake County, NC
• [phone]
• Khruth_at_bellsouth.net

And now
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Child Support Enforcement Problem-Solving Courts

• Finding Integrated Solutions

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Problem-solving Court(s) as a Solution?

• Problem-solving courts dockets that bring
  together community resources to address a
  specific problem
• Partnerships between courts, public agencies and
  community-based organizations facilitate the
  delivery of services.

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The Cycle

• Parent is ordered to pay child support
• Parent doesnt pay
• Parent is issued a show cause
• Parent is served and comes to court
• Parent is found in contempt
• Parent is ordered to pay a purge or go to jail
• Parent pays the purge and parent is released
• Cycle repeats itself over again
• Ruth, K. (2006) Breaking the cycle Alternatives
  to incarceration lead to collections in Wake Co.,
  North Carolina. Child Support Report, 38 (1) 2.

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I find myself repeating a cycle that only I can
change. - K.S.
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Breaking The Cycle Judge-Driven Hearings and
Service Integration
Breaking The Cycle Judge-Driven Hearings and
Service Integration
Breaking The Cycle Judge-Driven Hearings and
Service Integration
Custody Visitation/ Mediation
Custody Visitation/ Mediation
Custody Visitation/ Mediation
Custody Visitation/ Mediation
Electronic Monitoring
Vocational/ Counseling Services
Vocational/ Counseling Services
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The Process

• Accountability Opportunity Judge SUCCESS

Electronic Monitoring With Field Supervision
Vocational Services WfK Mediation others
Status Hearings With Performance Reports
Increased Compliance gt Payments lt Jail Days lt
Failures
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The Goals

• Increased Child Support Payments
• Reduced Jail Overcrowding
• Jail-Avoidance savings

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Local Impact Contributes to Overall CSE
Collections
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Academic Research Meredith College

• Phase I study named Child Support Sanctions and
  Effects on Non-custodial Parent Compliance
• Designed and led by Dr. Rhonda Zingraff,
  Professor of Sociology at Meredith College

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Abstract

• The sanctions this research focuses on is the use
  of Electronic House Arrest (EHA) and Working For
  Kids (WFK) programs in increas-ing child support
  payment compliance.
• The analysis of compliance focuses on pay-ment
  histories of non-custodial parents placed in the
  programs six months prior and six months after
  the sanction was implemented.
• The data is examined to see if the child support
  payment compliance sanctions have a significant
  effect on compliance of non-custodial parents vs.
  the traditional use of jail incarceration as the
  primary or sole sanction.

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Significance of change in payment compliance
before and after WFK
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Working For Kids Employment Program

• Tony Zarcone, Director

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Significance of change in payment compliance
before and after EM/EHA
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Significance of change in payment compliance
before and after JAIL
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Comparison of change in payment compliance by
Sanction
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Conclusions

• Strong implications that the EHA and WFK
  sanctions do impact payment compliance and
  performance.
• Evidence that both sanctions increase child
  support compliance in terms of frequency of
  payment and levels of payment.
• Evidence of increased employment particularly
  after EHA sanction.
• Evidence that EHA compares favorably to Jail and
  WFK as effective sanction.

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The sad thing is that when you are getting high,
you dont care about anything But Getting
High!!! - T.M.
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• A Special Thank-You to The National
  Judicial-Child Support Task Force, OCSE and all
  of YOU who have impacted the lives of so many
  children.

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I could write a book about how good I feel
now. - M.C.