Feds Stop Child Support Collection Firm

Privatization of child support payments is heinous to the children. This type of collections should be left up to the Justice Department of each state.

Just in 2005 California had $26,211,026 in undistributed funds...... Your personal experiance is small in relation to what is actually happening on a larger scale..... Read my comment(s) above and look into the links if you want to see how the system really works.....

Ok, went off on a tangent (deadbeat dads). Sorry. My experience with the CA state collecting child support, well, county actually, is they pay every dime of it to the mother, and tack a weekly collection fee on top of it. But this is a county deal, not private.

To add some additional comments from my perspective: Private collection agencies should not be involved in collecting legally mandated payments. My experience with collection agencies has led me to believe that most of them fall in the middle ground between attorneys and loan sharks; not a very attractive middle ground, as they all work on a commission basis. However, I do support the timely payments of child support.

I have a great deal of sympathy for "Reg", "Tree Wolf", in their particular situation. I am 100% against using restriction of visitation rights as punishment against Fathers. I supported a step-son for 20 years while his natural Father paid no support and started another family in a distant state. However, I asked my wife not to cause any problems that might cause a rift between my step-son and his Father, my judgement proved to be correct. Unfortunately, after 20 years of marriage, I was forced to divorce at my wife's request. We were in a community property state and I agreed to the child support formula without getting a lawyer or going to court, as I loved my children. Unfortunately, I lost a job that I had held for 22 years, then suffered a near fatal case of pneumonia, not covered by COBRA. I exhausted 20 years of IRA money to cover the child support and medical expenses, while unemployed and ill. Now, at 59 years old, I still send $2,000 a month to my daughters for graduate school (they are 22 and 23 yrs. old), thus my reason for working in Nigeria. But anyway, my point is that I do understand that we cannot all predict the situations that life may bring us too, and certainly any man doing his best for his family has my respect. The men that have forgotten or neglected their children are not held highly in my esteem.

Lots of excuses, but if you have kids, pay for them. Way too many people have kids and walk away. How many single mothers out there are not getting anything, having to rely on welfare or a minimum wage job because she had a kid with an asshole that thinks that having 5 kids with 5 different mothers makes him a real man? In jail and the payments are backing up? Stay the fuck out of jail. I'm not talking black, white, hispanic, asian, or anything else. Your kids should come first. Not a bag of weed. Not your cigarettes. Not a bottle of beer. Your kids. Pissed off because they are making you pay for medical insurance for your kid? Tough shit. Like I said. A lot of excuses for being less than a man.

If you think that is harsh, well, if you let your kid grow up in stark poverty, and refuse to help raise them correctly, even though you are capable, not making sure they get an education, have a roof over their head, not getting good nutrition, you are fucked and should never have had any kids. They don't stand a chance.

@moonloon, I have met ladies who where collecting child-support from two different fathers. Recently one of these ladies had another child. She wanted another child but had no intention of staying with the father or giving him any parental rights. He is young and untrained for any worthy employment( as if jobs were available). My point is each parent should each be 100% responsible for their children. It is not as black and white as it seems.

http://www.dadsamerica.org/2007missingfunds.htm

And again I have to ask, why is the government not getting in trouble for doing the same exact thing.....

$485,491,812 for all 50 states in one year (2005) undistributed CS......

What a scam. they are taking the money that should be going to feed and support children. They should be held on fraud charges at the very least. I would also see a (I hate to say) lawyer about just where my money went. Also about how to get what ever they took from my child support back for the child. I guess anytime you are dealing with money. there is going to be some kind of fraud involved all to often it's the children that suffer.

Child services of California put my daughter in a foster home for a month and a half and the social worker in charge of the case refused to return my phone calls. Finally my daughter's mother, who was in jail, was able to get a judge to review the case and get another social worker to contact me. A week later I had full custody of my child. No action was ever taken against the social worker who lied and said she was unable to contact me. For a month and a half my 10 year old thought I didn't want her. That social worker is the only person I have malice in my heart toward.

Dude, forget that. system is wak

Dad dipped long time ago, he appeard only to give the mom the check.
Court order says he had to pay for health insurance, our morgage pay ment and child support.
he did for two months. then stopped paying, but not calling, and denying and then saying he had no money, even tho, he was the owner of the second biggest pluming businees in Washington.
my brother broke his leg in football..went to the hospital,guess what, No Insurance. My mom had to pay up front, or however they do that.

us human beings just need to learn to understand ourselves and other people. Learn that there are levels of being a human being. others are on differentmoods,and different thoughts, thoughts become different theen action, you get in a slump, feel pressure, way easier to run then face it. When you choose to start a family, understand that your actions effect 2, 3, 4 ,5 how ever many people you create; to depend on you, you have to watch your actions.

Adults talk about stress, they work all the time, deal with bills and just everyday stuff...

So my conclusion at 18 years old is to wait on relation and creating people to depend on me to find my way, get my self on track. Experiance life, enjoy people, dates things that just relieave the child in ya. Cause childhood, is fun care free..

Once is gone, and your like... damn i want a differennt experiance and creat someone like me, and meet someone like me, maybe experiance things with that person. then decide.

This annoys me. Future is coming.
us kids maybe not so intelectual and smart, tho there are some in are generation, but dude, Us kids want peace. Us kids want to learn and not the economy bull shit. man made to beat in life a goal made. What are goal as human?

just pissed come on now. pay the 200 a month.

That was perfect, Keithponder.

That really sux.

My father married a woman who had four children, adopted those children, and then was ordered to pay child support shortly after he and my stepmother divorced. Stepmom immediately returned to living with her first husband, but Dad was stuck with child support payments for 5 years. He had a shellshocked look for the rest of his life, which was shortened by the stress of this ordeal.

I talked to a friend,Friday night, who was recently released from jail on Rice street, here in Atlanta, after spending 6 months locked up driving on a suspended license. It was his 3rd offense. He told me that the majority of men in lock up were there for no payment of child support. He said that they were 95% African American who between the ages of 18 to 40 years of age. The problem, he said, was that most of them had been there for 3 to 4 moths, and there child support payments were on going, even if they were locked up. It creates a double standard. How do you pay when you're locked up and how do you find work once you're released with a criminal record. In Georgia, non payment of child support is a crime.. The courts, btw, are making a ton of money off of these illegal collection firms. Every municipal court in the United States of America has ties with this collection firms. The court is nothing but a bank. THE WORD BENCH, IN LATIN, MEANS BANK.

My daughter is 19 years old. Her mother and I split when she was 4. We've remained friends over the years however. When My daughter was 6 years old,her mother filed a tax return, showing that she was head of her household. The State of Georgia, without complaint from her mother, tried hard to intervene into or relationship, by demanding that I start making child support payment to her mother, through the State. We both had to go to court and argue with a prosecutor that didn't know a damn thing about neither one of us or our relationship, go to the Department of Family and Children Services, then hire an attorney just to make the State butt out of our personal affairs. Over the years, I raised my daughter, and my step-son, from outside of their home. I'm the Father to both of them, and very good friends with their Mother, as is my wife. We have what some call a "blended family".

There are dead beat Fathers out there, but some of these men just need to be given a fair chance to do the right thing.

The scams played upon the innocent by unscrupulous con artists seem to be endless, the irony is that as soon as they're shut down, they move across town, state or country and open another just like it under another name and wallah!. . . business as usual.
What is even more ironic is that often these scam artists operate for years, and many never come to justice

I apologize for the dble post.

Great article, motherfortruth, I've wondered about corruption in this system for a long time. It seems it would be easy for any private agency to pull this. They have bully power to keep most paying who can't afford an attorney once a month.

All the hoopla about deadbeats and we find a company who is exploiting the system... I wonder why they do not do this for the states who fail to pay out the CS they collect... it adds up to millions each year......