# Presentation: 520198

## Court and AdministrativeChild Support ExchangesAKA: Non-Standard Exchanges Using GJXDM

- 2006 Global Justice XML Data Model User’s Conference

-  September 2006

## AGENDA

- Why is the NCSC working on non-criminal activities?
- What have we done?
- Where are we going?

## Why Try to Apply GJXDM to  Non-Criminal Cases?

- Court Workloads  Nationally
- State Trial Courts - approximately 66.8 million incoming cases in 2003
- Traffic cases - for 54.6% of all incoming cases in State Trial Courts in 2003

## Overall . . .

| Total Incoming Cases to State Courts,
 by Court Jurisdiction, 2003                    
(in millions) |  |  |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Case Type | General Jurisdiction & Unified Courts | Percentage of Non-Traffic Incoming Cases | Limited Jurisdiction Courts | Percentage of Non-Traffic Incoming Cases |
| Civil | 7.6 | 39% | 9.4 | 36% |
| Domestic | 4.1 | 21% | 1.6 | 6% |
| Juvenile | 1.4 | 7% | 0.5 | 2% |
| Criminal | 6.2 | 32% | 14.4 | 56% |
|  |  |  |  |  |
| Non-Traffic Total | 19.3 | 100% | 25.9 | 100% |

- 68%

- 44%

## Why Child Support?

- They were interested before there was a GJXDM
- HHS/NCSC collaboration in late 2001 and early 2002
- To determine if the Electronic Court Filing 1.0 DTD could handle child support cases
- Showed that the ECF DTD could model the complexities of child support cases, albeit not for sophisticated financial calculations

## Why is Child Support Challenging?

- Complexity
- Familial relationships
- Legislation and regulations governing case types, incentives, and case flow
- Administrative and  non-administrative remedies

## Why is Child Support Challenging?

- Complexity
- Custody and financial orders
- Arrangements for regular payments, arrearages, medical care, and education
- When do they end?
- Who gets paid?
- Do payments change as visitation arrangements change?
- Medical and insurance information

## What Makes It Easier Than Some Other Efforts at Exchange . . .

- The child support enforcement community has a 30 year history of sharing increasing information
- Parent Locator System
- Federal and state tax intercepts
- Employer notifications

## What Might the Justice Community Learn from the Child Support Community?

- Authoritative definitions
- Local/state/federal continuum
- Big carrot and big stick

## What Have We Done?

- 2002 Child Support DTD in conformance with the ECF 1.0 Standard
- Used successfully in New York since then
- NY is the only state out of the 54 states and territories that can currently differentiate in their annual court caseload statistics the different types of support cases:
- IV-D Intrastate
- IV-D UIFSA
- Private Support

## Most Recent Activity

- IEPDs and XML schema for intrastate (not interstate) cases (single case and mass submissions):
- Request for Remedy
- submission by the Child Support Enforcement (CSE) units (or private parties)
- Administrative bodies
- Courts for modifications
- Courts via petition
- Court Orders
- Submission back to the Child Support Enforcement units or private parties
- Financial support arrangements
- Custodial and visitation arrangements
- Paternity determinations

## Joint Workgroup

- Court and CSE representatives from the same states:
- California
- Colorado
- Delaware
- Georgia
- Iowa
- Michigan
- New York
- Oklahoma
- Vermont
- Virginia
- Washington State

## Current Status

- Completing the final changes to documentation
- Will enter into the Joint Technology Committee standards review process for the court community and a similar process in the child support enforcement community
- Will be added to the Clearinghouse and to the NCSC website during the review process for use

## What Were Our Problems Using GJXDM for This Non-Standard Justice Exchange?

- Terminology
- Obligor, obligee, custodial and non-custodial parents
- Areas that were the right stuff but not the right context
- Medical insurance details for children, not for automobile accidents
- Broadness and appropriateness of definitions
- Greater precision and more clear authority for child support community

## Where are We Going?

- Encouraging broad use in the courts and child support communities
- International interest and treaty and conventions inclusion
- Application to Interstate cases
- Document and forms creation

## Where is the NCSC Going with Non-Standard Justice Models?

- Expansion to other non-traditional justice arenas
- Child welfare
- Child protection orders
- Conservatorships & Guardianships

## Where is the NCSC Going Generally Beyond IEPDs?

- Have developed proof of concept open source federated Registry/Repository for IEPDs
- Human searchable and readable
- Machine searchable and readable
- Registration and notification of updates after registration

## Excellent results fromGJXDM for a non-standardjustice purpose and an excellent partnership across traditional boundaries

## Contact Info

- Terrie Bousquin
- Director of Technology Services
- _[Tbousquin@ncsc.dni.us](mailto:Tbousquin@ncsc.dni.us)_
- Moira Rowley
- Business Integration Expert
- _[Mrowley@ncsc.dni.us](mailto:Mrowley@ncsc.dni.us)_