When the Parent Becomes the Coordinator: Administrative Burden, Response Latency, and Outcome Persistence in an Eight-Year U.S.–England Child-Support Enforcement Case, 2018–2026

This working paper examines an eight-year documentary record of a cross-border child-support enforcement case between Colorado, United States, and England. Using dated correspondence, court records, agency communications, payment records, and legal records, it examines the administrative work performed by the parent, response latency, response quality, repeated administrative cycling, and whether agency actions produced durable outcomes. The paper develops three related concepts for further study: coordination burden, administrative cycling, and outcome persistence. It treats the case as a longitudinal single-case study and hypothesis-generating dataset rather than a population-level or causal analysis. The author is both the parent/service recipient and the researcher. This dual role is explicitly treated as a methodological limitation. The public repository edition omits underlying private records and nonessential identifying information because the source material involves children, family-law records, and identifiable third parties. Working Paper, Version 1.0. September 2026. Not peer reviewed.