Journal of Legal Issues and Cases in Business Volume 3 – December, 2014 The impact of child, page 1 The impact of child support laws on the measured outcomes of children Saundra T. McFarland Jackson State University Nicholas Hill Jackson State University ABSTRACT This research examines the link between measured child outcomes and child support laws to ascertain whether children with child support orders are impacted by the child support collection methods and/or the level of rigor utilized in collecting child support. The first phase of research involved evaluating the varying child support laws and related data of each state. The second phase of research involved evaluating health, education and crime data for children in each state. This research seeks to find the child support and collection methodologies that prove more beneficial for the well-being of children and will likely show that in states where child support laws and collection enforcement laws are stricter, children have better outcomes. Keywords: child outcomes, child support collection, child support enforcement, child support laws Copyright statement: Authors retain the copyright to the manuscripts published in AABRI journals. Please see the AABRI Copyright Policy at http://www.aabri.com/copyright.html.