County of Stearns v. Barnell

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a parent’s child-support obligation is not based solely on the actual costs of the actual needs of a child
• holding that failing to make this threshold showing “disposes of appellants’ equal protection argument”
• ruling state’s Title IV-D child-support program did not violate parents’ right to control their child’s upbringing because child support does not involve a fundamental parental right
• rejecting constitutional challenges to child-support statutes and noting the legislature’s “constitutional authority in determining to maximize the recovery of child support”
• “[E]ven if the evidence established that [the state’s] review of its [child support] guidelines was deficient, . . . the state would simply be ineligible for incentive payments under the federal scheme.”

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