Wisconsin. Department of Children and Families: Administrative Rule Development Files, 1980-2004

Container Title
2014/136
Part 1 (2014/136): Original Collection, 1980-2004
Physical Description: 3.0 cubic feet (3 records center cartons) 
Scope and Content Note: Files, 1980-2004, concerning revisions to administrative rule HSS 80 (later renumbered as DWD 40), which set guidelines used by courts to calculate child support payments based on parental income. Included are the correspondence and meeting minutes of the Child Support Guidelines Review Committee, as well as public comment and hearings on changes to the child support guidelines. Also included is research, much of it from the University of Wisconsin Institute for Research on Poverty, focusing on the economic impact of child support payments. This rule was initially administered by the Department of Health and Social Services (later the Department of Health and Family Services, then the Department of Workforce Development, as of 2010 it was transferred to the Department of Children and Families.
Box   1
Folder   1-2
Child support (CS) reform pilot, 1982-1983
Committee for Review of Initiatives in Child Support (CRICS)
Box   1
Folder   3
CRICS Child Support supplemental subcommittee, 1985
Box   1
Folder   4
CRICS subcommittee, 1986
Box   1
Folder   5
Open meetings records, 1984-1986
Box   1
Folder   6
Committee member correspondence, 1983-1985
Box   1
Folder   7
Original meeting minutes, 1985-1986
Box   1
Folder   8
Percentage standard subcommittee, 1984-1986
Box   1
Folder   9
Budget subcommittee
Box   1
Folder   10
Custody arrangement subcommittee, 1985 August
Box   1
Folder   11
Income withholding pilot program, 1983
Box   1
Folder   12
Administrative rule HSS 80, 1987, 1995, and 1999 versions
Box   1
Folder   13
Proposed revisions to HSS 80, 1994
Box   1
Folder   14
Review of child support guideline, 1993
Box   1
Folder   15
Legislative Council Committee on Child Custody, Support, and Visitation correspondence, 1994-1995
Box   1
Folder   16
Legislative concerns about rule HSS 80, 1995
Box   1
Folder   17
Accounting for custodial parent's (CP) expenditures, 1999
Box   1
Folder   18
Background research for review of guidelines, 1995
Box   1
Folder   19
Support Above Basic Allowance (SABA) calculations, 1991-1993
Box   1
Folder   20
Gross income, state Supreme Court interpretation
Box   1
Folder   21
Chief Judges' Subcommittee on Child Support minutes, 1993-1994
Box   1
Folder   22
Office of Child Support Enforcement guidelines, 1994
Box   1
Folder   23
Research on child support guidelines
Box   1
Folder   24
Research on child support guidelines for 1999 rule review
Box   1
Folder   25
Final child support guidelines review, 1999
Box   2
Folder   1
Rulemaking files, 1985-1987
Research on child support income standards
Box   2
Folder   2
Background on initial child support income standard, 1985
Box   2
Folder   3
Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) papers on percentage standards, 1985-1991
Box   2
Folder   4
Fetzner v. Fetzner Court of Appeals brief, 1991
Box   2
Folder   5
Research on initial percentage standard
Box   2
Folder   6
Research on percentage standard, 1990-1996
Box   2
Folder   7
Development of guidelines for child support orders, 1987 September
Box   2
Folder   8-9
Research on child support percent standards, 1980-1989
Child support guidelines, 2004 rule revision
Box   3
Folder   1
Administrative rule DWD 40/HSS 80, 1987-2004 versions
Child Support Guidelines (CSG) Committee files, 2001
Box   3
Folder   2
Meeting minutes, 2001
Box   3
Folder   3-4
Background material and child support research
Box   3
Folder   5
Child support research, state-by-state comparison
Box   3
Folder   6
Background and minutes for Child Support Guidelines Committee, 2002
Box   3
Folder   7
Child Support Guidelines Committee planning materials, 2001-2002
Box   3
Folder   8
CSG Committee changes to rule draft, 2002
Box   3
Folder   9
Guidelines/alternate proposals in other states
Box   3
Folder   10
Child support guidelines training information, 2003-2004
Box   3
Folder   11
Child support bulletins, implementing DWD 40 revisions, 2003-2004
Box   3
Folder   12
Hearings and public comments on DWD 40, 2003
Box   3
Folder   13
Proposed amendments to DWD 40, low income adjustments, 2003
Box   3
Folder   14
Changes to child support guidelines, 2003
Box   3
Folder   15
Modifications of court forms to reflect DWD 40 updates, 2004