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The Florida Department of Children and Families ( DCF) is a state agency of Florida. Its headquarters are at 2415 North Monroe St., Ste. 400 in Tallahassee, Florida. The department provides social services in Florida to children, adults, refugees, domestic violence victims, human trafficking victims, the homeless community, child care providers, [4] disabled people, and the elderly. [5]
Child support in the United States. In the United States, child support is the ongoing obligation for a periodic payment made directly or indirectly by an "obligor" (or paying parent or payer) to an "obligee" (or receiving party or recipient) for the financial care and support of children of a relationship or a (possibly terminated) marriage.
e. Child support (or child maintenance) is an ongoing, periodic payment made by a parent for the financial benefit of a child (or parent, caregiver, guardian) following the end of a marriage or other similar relationship. Child maintenance is paid directly or indirectly by an obligor to an obligee for the care and support of children of a ...
Here’s what to know. After the child sex abuse scandal involving Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky, Florida legislators in 2012 passed a law that placed a greater responsibility on ...
Enrollment at Miami-Dade and Broward public schools is falling. We want to hear why parents are taking their kids out.
Florida lawmakers seek more oversight of child-welfare organizations, exec pay. In the Tampa area, a child-welfare organization doing business with the state was enhancing an executive’s annual ...
The Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act (URESA), passed in 1950, concerns interstate cooperation in the collection of spousal and child support. [1] The law establishes procedures for enforcement in cases in which the person owing alimony or child support is in one state and the person to whom the support is owed is in another state (hence the word "reciprocal").
Evan Rowlands hasn’t attended a regular school classroom since he was 6 years old. On doctors’ orders, the 10-year-old from southern Hillsborough County studies an online curriculum at home ...