The Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission was established in 2008. It is the Non-Departmental Public Body responsible for child maintenance. Its website provides information on its functions and activities. It includes access to full text press releases, business plans, reports and documents. These include regulations and legislation about child maintenance payments.
The Child Support Agency (CSA) in the UK is part of the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission. It has responsibility for ensuring that parents who live apart from their children contribute financially to their upkeep by paying child maintenance. Its website provides information on its function (including changes to its role introduced with the creation of the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission in 2008). It also includes press releases, annual reports and regulations relating to child maintenance payments.
Web pages describing the aims and work of the Centre for Socio-Legal Research based at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Research at the Centre is organised around projects looking at: the operation of the Family Advocate system, the Family Court and welfare system in South Africa. The Centre is also involved in the development of policy initiatives in the areas of family law and welfare. The site provides a staff list with contact information, brief details of activities and publications, and links to other Internet sites relevant to socio-legal studies.
This site forms part of the Legal Information Institute Internet gateway based at Cornell Law School in New York State. The uniform matrimonial and family laws locator is one of five subject locators on the site. It covers United States state laws which correspond to uniform laws in the subject areas of matrimony and the family. There is an alphabetical list of these uniform laws, each entry having a list of the states to which that law applies and links to the full-text where it is available.
Official website for the Child and Family Court Advisory and Support Services for England and Wales. CAFCASS acts as a central co-ordinating body for groups of practitioners providing advice to courts on issues of child and family welfare. CAFCASS was established by the UK Criminal Justice and Courts Services Act 2000 as a non-departmental public body answering to the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families.
The American Bar Association Commission on Domestic Violence is based in Washington, D.C., USA. The Commission provides support to attorneys representing victims of domestic violence. The site includes information about Commission members, an online newsletter and a selection of resources to download. These include a tool for attorneys on screening for domestic violence and a report onincorporating domestic violence into the law school curriculum.
