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Moving beyond the Child Support Revolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 December 2018

Ann Laquer Estin
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Law & Social Inquiry , Volume 26 , Issue 2 , Spring 2001 , pp. 505 - 528
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Copyright © American Bar Foundation, 2001 

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