I Liheslaturan Guåhan finds and declares that child support is a basic legal right of Guam’s parents and children, that mothers and fathers have a legal obligation to provide financial support for their children and that child support payments can have a substantial impact on child poverty and local welfare expenditures. It is therefore the Legislature’s intent to encourage payment of child support to decrease overall costs to Guam taxpayers while increasing the amount of financial support collected for Guam’s children.