A quiet
shift is happening in family courts, and it's being led by a company named Maximus.
These changes come on the heels of growing public pressure—especially from
parents in Arizona—where conversations about reforming child support and
custody enforcement started heating up in 2025. Since then, politicians in
Arizona and other states have begun holding meetings on the matter.
What Maximus Is Planning
Jeremy Toulouse, a representative of Maximus, says the company plans to modernize the child support system with a more “holistic” approach to family services. He acknowledges that the current system is often punitive toward noncustodial parents, especially fathers, citing examples like contempt proceedings and driver’s license suspensions. The Maximus website promotes ideas like empowering fathers, coparenting initiatives, and stabilizing noncustodial parents to reduce child welfare cases. On the surface, that sounds like progress—but we have serious concerns.
Follow the Money: Title IV-D and the Courts
To understand what’s really happening, you need to look at how the system is funded. The plan to modernize family court involves Title IV-D of the Social Security Act, a federal program that provides funding to states for child support enforcement. Courts and agencies receive incentive payments for the amount of child support and alimony they collect—for every dollar they collect say they get 50 cents. While this may sound like a tool to ensure accountability, it creates a dangerous incentive structure.
Some believe this system prioritizes collection over fairness and may even influence judicial decisions. Critics argue that these incentives can benefit judicial retirement funds, raising ethical questions about how decisions are made—and who truly profits. It’s hard not to feel like our retirement is being used to fund their 401K and we will retire with so much less.
There’s no mention of noncustodial mothers in this plan.
Nothing about helping us maintain contact with our children or supporting our visitation rights. Once again, the narrative is dominated by fathers, while noncustodial mothers—many of whom are suffering in silence—remain invisible.
There are a
growing number of noncustodial mothers in the U.S., and yet we are
consistently left out of these policy conversations. We face barriers to seeing
our children. We are silenced in courtrooms. We are dismissed in the media. And
now, as systems begin to “modernize,” we’re watching reforms unfold without our
voices in the room.
The legislative meetings are taking forever, and reform is not coming fast enough. This is our children we are talking about. Creating our own reform will get the ball moving quicker in the government. Then on Mother's Day 2026 this showed up............
It’s time
for that to change.
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What You Can Do
We are
urging mothers and allies to take action:
- Contact Maximus directly at (844) 592-2218
Let them know how you feel about their “restructuring” of family court—and how it fails to address noncustodial mothers. - Join NALA
Help us count how many noncustodial mothers are out there and document what we’re experiencing. This is about being seen, being counted, and being heard. - Share this article
The more awareness we build, the more pressure we create to include all parents in future reforms.
Final
Thoughts
Family
court should be about what's best for all children and all parents—not
just those who fit the most visible narrative. We believe that justice must
include noncustodial mothers, and we will continue to fight for reform that
reflects the full truth of what’s happening in family courtrooms across this
country.
We’re not
asking for special treatment. We’re demanding equal recognition.
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