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29 J. Am. Acad. Matrimonial Law. 351 (2016-2017)
In-Kind Child Support

handle is hein.journals/jaaml29 and id is 377 raw text is: In-Kind Child Support In-Kind Child Support by Margaret Ryznar* Abstract Given that the importance of child support increases with the decline of the traditional family, it is essential to address the issues facing the child support system, such as high arrearages and loss of involvement by many noncustodial parents. This Article ex- plores the merits of changing the current rules on child support, which do not recognize in-kind child support. Due to the adminis- trative difficulty of in-kind child support and its potential hardship to custodial parents, this Article also proposes limits on such a system, including percentage caps on in-kind child support and ju- dicial approval or parental agreement. I. Introduction Increasing numbers of children in the United States con- tinue to be reliant on the child support system. While children of divorce generated significant reliance on child support in the United States in the twentieth century, today they are joined by many out-of-wedlock children whose parents never married. In 2014, more than 40% of births were to single women.1 To the extent that divorce numbers are decreasing, it is because fewer people are marrying. As a result of these demographic changes, more than 22 mil- lion children lived with only one parent-the custodial parent- in the spring of 2014, composing 26% of all children in the * Associate Professor of Law, Indiana University McKinney School of Law. Thanks to librarian Benjamin Keele and Jessica Dickinson for their inval- uable research assistance, as well as the faculties of the Indiana University Mc- Kinney School of Law and the Indiana University Maurer School of Law for helpful comments during workshops of this paper. 1 Unmarried Childbearing, CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PRE- VENTION, http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/unmarried-childbearing.htm (last vis- ited Jan. 11, 2017). 351 Vol. 29, 2017

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