Deck 10: Child Support

Question 1

The purpose of a qualified medical child support order (QMCSO) is to enforce a pension appraisal.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Child support is monetary assistance from the noncustodial parent.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Food, shelter, and clothing are considered

A) life necessities
B) luxuries
C) the noncustodial parent's responsibility
D) None of these choices is correct.

Answer 3

A

Question 4

The Child Support Recovery Act of 1992 was established to recover overpayment of child support by the noncustodial parent.

Question 5

A stepparent can be held liable for the increased lifestyle needs of a child.

Question 6

Life necessities include every conceivable need of a child.

Question 7

Once a child is emancipated, the child's parents are no longer liable for his or her life necessities.

Question 8

Title IV-D of the Social Security Act was created to establish continuity among all 50 states with respect to child support enforcement.

Question 9

A change of circumstance occurs when a parent loses his or her job.

Question 10

The acronym URESA stands for United Rights Everywhere Security Act.

Question 11

The tax refund intercept was created to withhold the tax refunds of parents who are current with child support.

Question 12

A trust is designed to ensure that the child has every desire satisfied.

Question 13

Wage withholding is used in every child support case.

Question 14

The Deadbeat Parents Punishment Act of 1998 was established for the custodial parent who refuses to purchase a new car for a child who needs transportation to get to school.

Question 15

A consent order is a written agreement between parents that is approved by a judge.

Question 16

Wage garnishment is automatic in a child support case.

Question 17

The court that issued the first child support order has in rem jurisdiction.

Question 18

Liens can be placed on property for the nonpayment of child support.

Question 19

"Preponderance of the evidence" is another way of saying "an agreement of the terms."

Question 20

Aid to Families with Dependent Children sends financial support to Bosnia.

Question 21

A parent is no longer liable for the life necessities of a child who reaches the age of

A) emancipation
B) majority
C) modification
D) trust

Question 22

Money provided by the noncustodial parent for the support of the children is called

A) child support
B) emancipation
C) in loco parentis
D) a consent order

Question 23

Being stopped, by one's own prior acts, from claiming a right against another person who has legitimately relied on those acts is known as

A) the doctrine of equitable estoppel
B) a preponderance of the evidence
C) a qualified medical child support order
D) the emancipation doctrine

Question 24

The in loco parentis doctrine applies to

A) a person who has stepped in and is performing the role of parent to a child
B) an insane person
C) a negligent doctor
D) a lien against a nonpaying parent's automobile

Question 25

To ensure continuing child support, it is wise to have _____ in place in the event of death.

A) life insurance
B) a will
C) wage withholding
D) AFDC

Question 26

A parent who is financially able to pay child support but has a record of nonpayment may be asked to

A) create a trust
B) provide a list of his or her assets
C) create a line of credit
D) None of these choices is correct.

Question 27

To _____ is to withhold money from an obligated parent's paycheck.

A) garnish
B) freelance
C) intercept
D) mediate

Question 28

If a noncustodial parent does not pay child support, what action(s) can be taken?

A) All of these choices are correct.
B) wage garnishment
C) tax refund intercept
D) no action

Question 29

The _____ facilitates the processing of interstate child support cases.

A) UIFSA
B) UMDMJ
C) MIT
D) WEST

Question 30

The Child Support Recovery Act of 1992 made it a

A) federal crime to willfully fail to pay child support
B) right for a noncustodial parent to not pay support
C) right for a parent to claim a child on a tax return
D) state crime to willfully fail to pay child support

Question 31

The _____ was created to combat the problem of parents' abdicating their monetary responsibilities for child support by skipping the state.

A) URESA
B) AFDC
C) WIC
D) ALEXIS

Question 32

A change or an alteration to a child support order is

A) called a modification
B) illegal
C) forbidden
D) None of these choices is correct.

Question 33

To force a parent's medical insurer to place a child on the parent's health insurance policy, one must have a

A) QMCSO
B) good reason
C) medical problem
D) car

Question 34

To help improve child support enforcement programs in all 50 states, _____ was created.

A) Title IV-D of the Social Security Act
B) the Deadbeat Parents Punishment Act
C) Aid to Families with Dependent Children
D) the Child Support Recovery Act

Question 35

_____ can be placed on the property of a nonpaying parent.

A) Liens
B) Fountains
C) Signs
D) Swing sets

Question 36

A conclusion that will be drawn unless evidence is presented to counter it is called

A) a rebuttable presumption
B) child support
C) arbitration
D) None of these choices is correct.

Question 37

Affirmative defenses

A) go beyond denying the facts and arguments of a complaint
B) appear in all complaints
C) appear in military divorce complaints only
D) None of these choices is correct.

Question 38

At minimum, child support must provide for a child's _____. These include food, shelter, and medical care.

Question 39

Child support is calculated using

A) a child support worksheet
B) the plaintiff's word
C) the defendant's word
D) the plaintiff's word and the defendant's word

Question 40

The Deadbeat Parents Punishment Act concerns the enforcement of

A) child support orders
B) visitation orders
C) consent orders
D) life insurance policies

Question 41

The court that ordered the first child support order has _____ jurisdiction.

Question 42

The _____ facilitates the processing of interstate child support cases.

Question 43

To improve child support enforcement programs in all 50 states, _____ of the Social Security Act was created.

Question 44

According to the Child Support Recovery Act of 1992, it is a/an _____ crime to willfully fail to pay child support.

Question 45

A material and substantial _____ may involve increased costs for supporting the child(ren) or a financial hardship for the paying parent.

Question 46

If a child reaches the age of majority or is _____, a parent is no longer legally liable for the life necessities of the child.

Question 47

If parents mutually agree to the terms in a child support order, the terms can be written in a/an _____ and presented to a judge for his or her signature.

Question 48

A/An _____ can be placed against property for the nonpayment of child support.

Question 49

A/An _____ is a change or an alteration to a child support order.

Question 50

A/An _____ is designed to ensure the payment of child support by placing money under the protection of a trustee.

Question 51

Each state, with assistance from the federal government, has supported its children in need through the _____ program. Aid to Families with Dependent Children

Question 52

Monetary payments from a noncustodial parent are called _____.

Question 53

A/An _____ is used to force a parent's employer to place a child on that parent's health care plan.

Question 54

The _____ was created in 1998 to aid in the enforcement of child support orders.

Question 55

In addition to a case information statement or a financial disclosure affidavit, all 50 states use a/an _____ to calculate the amount of child support to be paid.

Question 56

In the event of the death of the payor parent, _____ will ensure the payment of child support.

Question 57

The _____ doctrine applies to a situation in which a person other than a child's biological parent has stepped in and performed the role of parent to the child.

Question 58

All 50 states are subject to the Revised _____ for dealing with the problems of nonpaying parents skipping the state.

Question 59

Withholding an income tax refund from a parent in arrears called a/an _____.