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Table 9. Child Support Award and Receipt Status of Custodial Parents in 1995
by Gender and Selected Characteristics of Noncustodial Parents
(Numbers in thousands)
----Child support agreed to or awarded----2/
Supposed to recv child supp in 1995
--------Received payments---------
Child
Total money support
income income
Total Total Total Total Mean S.E Mean S.E.
CUSTODIAL FATHERS
Total 2105 844 733 416 30030 2628 3370 471
Standard error 116 73 69 52 (X) (X) (X) (X)
Residence of Noncus-
todial Parent in 1995
Same State 1551 638 556 326 31023 3272 2861 299
Different State 269 83 66 41 (B) (B) (B) (B)
Outside the U.S. 37 3 3 2 (B) (B) (B) (B)
Unknown 248 121 109 47 (B) (B) (B) (B)
Visitation and Joint
Custody Arrangements
of Noncustodial Par-
ent by Contact with
Child in 1995
Visitation privs only 1080 456 393 223 30779 4465 3949 824
No contact 222 105 89 43 (B) (B) (B) (B)
Some contact--1+ days 858 350 304 180 32907 5404 4042 999
Joint custody only 1/ 30 20 13 8 (B) (B) (B) (B)
No contact 9 9 5 4 (B) (B) (B) (B)
Some contact--1+ days 21 11 7 4 (B) (B) (B) (B)
Visitation & joint 1/ 666 245 224 153 29286 2597 2550 380
No contact 54 33 33 11 (B) (B) (B) (B)
Some contact--1+ days 612 211 191 142 29708 2718 2618 406
Neither visit/joint 330 124 103 31 (B) (B) (B) (B)
No Contact 263 100 79 27 (B) (B) (B) (B)
Some contact--1+ days 67 24 24 4 (B) (B) (B) (B)
Type of Agreement
Legal Agreement 802 802 697 402 30368 2703 3375 485
Other Agreement 42 42 36 13 (B) (B) (B) (B)
Year of Most Recent
Child Supp Agreement
1990 and later 565 565 496 271 32637 3761 2979 365
1985 to 1989 190 190 156 93 24792 2862 4599 1764
1980 to 1984 73 73 70 39 (B) (B) (B) (B)
Before 1980 17 17 12 12 (B) (B) (B) (B)
Universe:People 15 years and older with own children under 21 years
of age present from an absent parent as of spring 1996.
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