Many women are reluctant to identify the father, particularly since child-support payments can be used to reduce welfare benefits.

Many are also required to pay restitution to victims and to start child-support payments.

We will also be taking significant steps to increase child-support payments.

Housing and feeding the family come first, the center says; by law, child-support payments must be made.

New York is sharing in a national frustration over collecting child-support payments.

The new policy will also allow the state to suspend the professional licenses of people who are behind in their child-support payments.

State officials said the policy is expected to increase child-support payments by $30 million this year because it will be used in the entire state.

He said at the time that child-support payments had left him "financially strapped."

Now he has taken her to court for child-support payments.

He explained his anger by saying that the money was a child-support payment.