Nineteen states are experimenting with different forms of license revocation to enforce child-support orders.

But if contested, the court will issue a temporary child-support order until the case is resolved at a later hearing.

Left with nothing but a child-support order, she has been trying for weeks to get money to pay her child's college bills.

Casey Hoffman knows plenty about the difficulties of enforcing child-support orders.

To receive any benefits, participants had to obtain a child-support order against the absent parent.

The program is structured to be financially advantageous only for those who can earn at least $350 a month and secure child-support orders.

Better enforcement of child-support orders was the goal in 1996.

He increased enforcement of child-support orders, moving thousands of families off welfare.

Administration officials and members of Congress said the changes would revolutionize enforcement of child-support orders.

New Jersey officials already use many of the enforcement techniques in the national law, but 78 percent of child-support orders go uncollected.