Federal Case Closure Criteria: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly – Intergovernmental Edition
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
2:00 p.m – 3:15 p.m. Eastern
This was a FREE webinar!
Description
There are 21 federal case closure criteria detailed in CFR § 303.11 that states can use to close their cases. But which of these are available for interstate cases? Are they open to the initiating jurisdiction, the responding jurisdiction, or both? Should we keep them all? Some? None? Change some? Add any new ones? This conversation contains information about how states/jurisdictions are currently using these criteria in the real world currently, as well as how they should be used in the future.
Recording and Materials
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Speakers
Ryan Morrow, Assistant Attorney General and Deputy Division Chief for Field Legal Practice, Office of the Attorney General of Texas Child Support Division
Ryan Morrow is an Assistant Attorney General and Deputy Division Chief for Field Legal Practice for the Office of the Attorney General of Texas Child Support Division. In this role, Ryan oversees all areas of legal practice for the Texas IV-D agency. Ryan is a frequent speaker at Texas child support conferences, in addition to ERICSA, NCSEA, and WICSEC events, speaking on a variety of topics, most notably, interstate, and international child support, trial advocacy, and IV-D practice. Ryan is a graduate of the University of Kansas and Western New England College School of Law. He is licensed to practice in Connecticut, Kansas, and Texas.
Rob Velcoff, Independent Child Support Consultant, Intergovernmental Support Services
Rob Velcoff is an independent child support consultant with his own agency, Intergovernmental Support Services. His agency provides assistance with all manner of intergovernmental case processing, including training, government and private grants and special projects, office set-up and reorganization, and just about anything related to interstate or international child support. Before starting his own agency Mr. Velcoff worked for the New York State Division of Child Support Services for over 30 years. He became Manager of Interstate Operations at the beginning of 1999, and supervised the Central Registry until November 2008. Mr. Velcoff assisted with all interstate issues for New York State, both policy and programmatic, including being part of a team responsible for implementing the 1996 version of UIFSA in January of 1998 and the 2008 version of UIFSA in January of 2016. He was New York’s representative in several federal, national and international workgroups. Mr. Velcoff was also New York’s international child support liaison. In May 2011 he became President of the Eastern Regional Interstate Child Support Association (ERICSA). Mr. Velcoff has received several awards, including ERICSA’s Patrick W. Quinn Intergovernmental Award for Intergovernmental Impact, the National Tribal Child Support Association Partnership Award for Professional Excellence, ERICSA’s Felix Infausto Award (President’s Award), the Domestic Relations of Pennsylvania (DRAP) President’s Award, an Indiana Prosecuting Attorneys Council (IPAC) Certificate of Appreciation, the Florida Department of Revenue’s Sterling Silver Pickle Award (first ever recipient from outside the State of Florida), the New York State OTDA Commissioner’s Award for Outstanding Achievement, and others. Mr. Velcoff has presented at hundreds of workshops at more than 250 state, regional, federal, national, and even international child support conferences on a wide range of topics. He worked in child support at the local county level for three years before moving up to the state level. Mr. Velcoff received a BS in Criminal Justice from the State University College of New York at Brockport and an MA in Criminal Justice from the State University of New York at Albany.
Moderator: Petrina Travers, Assistant Director, Office of the Ramsey County Attorney, Child Support Services Division
Petrina Travers, Assistant Director, Office of the Ramsey County Attorney, Child Support Services Division Petrina Travers is the Child Support Assistant Division Director with the Ramsey County Attorney’s Office in Minnesota. She has a BA in Sociology from the University of Minnesota with an emphasis on Criminology and Law. She has been with Ramsey County for 20 years, and currently serves on the ERICSA Board of Directors.