Child Support Enforcement Agency

Question: Men: Is the child support enforcement agency Communist , Socialist, or just anti-American? New legislation want parents to support a child (really an ADULT) until they are 26 years old. Some can do it and that is great; If they choose. But my parents could barely support themselves. Everyone knows that the CSEA is heartless! Why make criminals out of poor people who struggle daily to survive?

Answer: Child support should continue into college years so that a child wishing to attend college can continue to have support from both parents. If you don't want to be on the hook for child support, don't have children.

Question: Does anybody know a good place to park my money or assests to protect from child support enforcement agency? I pay my child support I am just looking for a good investment vehicle to park my money that is safe from garnishments or liens. Should I buy bricks of gold or silver or watches or guns? Thanks

Answer: look pay off all of your debts and you do not have to worry any more about garnishments or lien!!!!

Question: can child support enforcement agency make your spouse pay your support? If you are asked to pay child support but are currently unemployed can they make your spouse pay child support for your child?

Answer: In my state if you don't pay...you go to jail. Not having a job means nothing. Your new spouse will not be held responsible for your child support.

Question: Sue child support enforcement agency? I want to sue the child support enforcement agency for violating Paragraph XXV of the Constitution of Georgia and for defamation of character. I have been unemployed for 20 months. I have a court order to pay child support but am unable to because of my employment status. The Constitution of Georgia Paragraph XXV states that "The social status of a citizen shall never be the subject of legislation." Having a job is part of social status and them taking action against me because of that is defamation of character. Is this a good argument?

Answer: Thomas I just love your twisted logic. What a colossal wast of your time! If you hate others authority over you, get yourself in a position to meet your obligations so that they can't interfere with you! Your social status has nothing to do with the welfare of your children. Soccerref

Question: how do i find scheduled court date and time for cuyahoga county child support enforcement agency? how do i find scheduled court date and time for cuyahoga county child support enforcement agencie

Answer: Try here http://coc.cuyahogacounty.us/

Question: Role of Child Support Enforcement Agency? I paid my court ordered child support for 13 years as was my legal, and moral, obligation. In fact, I have a balance with the Child Support Enforcement Agency (CSEA). During those 13 years, I lived 1100 miles away from my child (I’m in the military) but did everything I could possibly do to maintain a relationship (phone calls, holiday cards, gifts, vacationing near my child, etc...). Recently, I moved closer to my child (less than 200 miles away now) and came to the gruesome realization that the mother of my child had literally given my child to someone else. To make a long story short, after a horrendous juvenile court case, I now have custody of my child (14 years old now). I, and my child’s mother, was accused of Child Abandonment by the woman that raised my child. Since the mother and the other woman made every attempt conceivable to conceal my child’s living arrangements from me, I was not found guilty. Instead, my child was found to be “dependent” due to the distance between us. Despite all of this, the simple fact of the matter is I paid my child support for 13 years to a woman (via the CSEA) who did not, in turn, provide support for my child (that little tidbit came out of the court case). I was never given any indication that my child was not being cared for by his mother. Neither was the rest of my family. The woman that did raise him never reported the mother to CSEA or reported my child as abandoned to the local law enforcement. She merely decided to keep my child and raise my child as her own (that also came out in court). I’ve been ripped off! Mind, you, I do not refer to being ripped off in the financial sense. Since the day my child was born I have been capable of providing a life to my child with a loving father. The fact that I was in the military is moot as I married a year after my child was born. Two women, whom I strongly believe need psychological counseling, decided that I didn’t need to be a father. Now that I’ve provided a little bit of background, I am quickly approaching my question. I’ve searched the internet far and wide for state and federal child support enforcement laws and regulations and the only thing I can find conclusive support of is that child support will be collected from the parent ordered to pay. So here is my question; what assurances, if any, is the CSEA required to make so that the person supporting the child is the person who receives the child support? Note that I’m not asking how I can determine that my child support is actually going to the support of the child. It should be quite obvious from the background I’ve provided that my child support did not go to the support of my child at all. The reasoning behind my question is simple. If there are policies and laws in place to ensure a child is properly being cared for by the custodial parent, I can only assume had those policies and laws been enforced, I would have been notified through the CSEA or some other agency a long time ago that my child was in need of parental care.

Answer: This entire scenario is a nightmare in more ways than just the legal aspects. You have some excellent points and I seriously doubt anyone, regardless of well meaning intentions, could possibly give any answers that could be upheld in court. Best and only advice would be to get a consultation with an attorney. Lay all the details out for him and see where you stand in all of this. I could easily see civil and criminal charges resulting here for the mother of the child. Best of luck and I hope this can be useful to you

Question: who won lawsuit against child support enforcement agency for profiling him?

Answer: If you could give just a little more information on this, it would be greatly appreciated. What state, when and what circumstances?

Question: Need Child Support Attorney, fathers rights advocate! To investigate Child support enforcement agency fraud!? I've been court-ordered to pay child support since 1994. My ex-wife filed for divorce in 1998. Court had no knowledge of divorce until recently discovering it online by communicating with IL. Child support court order originated in Dane County Madison, WI. Dane County collected child support from me begining in 1994 until 2006, and now says it should have not been involved from time of divorce and has suspended further actions because of 1998 divorce which was filed for in IL. Question is: "Can money which was taken from me from 1998 until 2006 be classified as money confinscated under false pretense?" "If so can Agency be sued for false involvement, and for money gained in that measure?" The child-support enforcement agency is so dedicated to collecting from me that it was not concerned if it was in violation of it's grounds to act, for they imediately suspended themselves becuase of divorce.

Answer: Regardless of when or how they got the money, if that's all you're providing for your child(ren) I would just GET OVER IT. You made the child(ren), too. Don't go after getting the money back, that would only make them resent you. Unless you really are heartless and just don't care.

Question: Is the child support enforcement agency really concerned with child support? I am the father in a case in Arizona. The mother did not start the case but she was collecting welfare from the state. I was in the process of serving her with court papers to establish paternity, support, parenting time, and joint-custody. I was paying at least half for all of my sons necessities but she was still collecting welfare, instead of finding a job, even though I had watched my son in the evenings. Therefore, the district attorney served me with court papers. Ironically, once the ball started rolling the mother of my son decided she was going to leave town. I served her with a court order to not leave the state but she left anyways, and anybody who knows anything about court orders knows that they are worthless out of state, unless they are federal or criminal. Anyways, she has not showed up to court ordered genetic testing. A hearing was scheduled but now they are pushing it back to see if they can get her to do genetic testing still. They said that if she does not show up they will just cancel her welfare and drop the case. I have studied government literature and it says that states can take advantage of limited services from other states. People I talk to at the child support enforcement agency seem to not know about this or care. If they are not willing to do what is necessary, inter-state, then are they really concerned with child support? Because of this, my son is in the situation that he may not have any support. The lady told me, "We don't normally go after the custodial parent." Well, are they really concerned with my child or the custodial parent? Laughter_every_day: No, you got it wrong. The agency is supposed to be there to support children. It isn't an issue of who owe's what in every instance of the policy of the agency. It is an issue of whether or not the child is being supported by both parents. According to their websites it is about fighting for the child to be financially supported by both parents. So, who is the support for? My child or the custodial parent? Is it about establishing support for my child or for the custodial parent? Or for the agency? It is either one or the other. The agency claims to be concerned with the support of a child. Also, there have been motions in the past filed with the court by the district attorney making the custodial parent a third-party defendant, making them have to answer for not showing up for genetic testing. The court system is concerned with the child as well, supposedly. This isn't about having psychics it is about doing their job for my child. Laughter: Child support is child support. My child is owed child support, and the custodial parent is preventing that.

Answer: Okay why hasn't the judge issued a warrant for her arrest? There may be things you can be doing. Where is she living? I have a contact in Arizona, a 30 year fathers rights paralegal. Join Dads House in Yahoo Group to fully learn your rights. Some sections of our manual was developed there. http://dads-house.org/ \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\

Question: Can I have my case reffered to a different child support enforcement office? The aunt of my ex works in the child support enforcement agency of her town, is there anyway to have my case reffered to a different case worker or an agency in a different town because she works there?

Answer: It may require a change of venue of your case. \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\

Question: New Mexico attorney general child support enforcement agency? My husband was taken to court by the New Mexico Attorney General on a child that his ex-girlfriend had and claimed he was the father. Paternity was ordered and indeed he was the father of the child. My hubby has been paying child support through the New Mexico Attorney General since Dec 2005. It is now May 2007 and my hubby just received a letter from the New Mexico Attorney General stateing they were no longer enforcing child support or medical support for this child. My hubby called the New Mexico Attorney General because come on we clearly thought there was a mistake. The New Mexico Attorney General stated that they closed the case due to the custodial parent not corroperating with them about this case. My hubby was told he still needs to pay his child support but that they would not be taking the payments or logging them. He was told to pay her directly. He asked for her address so he could do this and they said they couldn't give him that info..OMG what do we do?

Answer: File something with the court! There has to be a court order. You can find the case number through www.nmcourts.com if you don't have it readily available. You really need to talk to a lawyer about this. Where are you in New Mexico? If you're low income, NM Legal Aid has offices all around the state and, if you're not, then maybe the State Bar Association (1-800-876-6227 and 1-505-797-6000) can help you. The state bar has a website at www.nmbar.org that has a lawyer finder service.

Question: do child support orders made by the child support enforcement agency in ohio go up if it goes to court? just curious to see if there are any cases

Answer: no child support is basic on your income it can go up if you are be hide in support they will up it a little to credit some to the rears

Question: What child support agency does the best job with difficult cases or difficult parents? Gov't child support agencies take forever to never to collect back child support or enforcement. Private agencies take a % usually 35% plus $400.00 for Case Development Fee. I would like to know if anyone had any luck with these agencies. If so, which ones would you recommend? Have you heard any good reports on Supportkids or Child Support Network?

Answer: Both types of agencies, governmental and private, have access to the same information, but each has benefits over the other. Most child support investigation firms (private agencies) don't get paid unless they collect, and since they have fewer cases, they tend to work harder at getting the job done (harder=quicker). However, one thing the private agency doesn't have that the government agency does have is the capability to learn of updates real-time. For example, if Joe Smith has been out of sight for 5 years, and then all of the sudden gets a job, the social security administration and the state he's working in, will update a national database immediately...the governmental child support division will learn of this new information in less than 24 hours...whereas a private agency will eventually learn of the information, but only because they physically do the search...if they did a search 10 days earlier, then all of the sudden joe smith gets that job, the states going to know immediately, but the private guy's not going to know for another 3 months when he pays to update his files. So, in this situation, the government would prevail quicker than the private guy. In my opinion, no one should pay for a service that's offered for free by the government. You're own taxes are already going towards the service the government offers, so why not take advantage of it? And on a final note, in most states, if a private agency finds property, or wants to have a person's driver's license suspended for unpaid support, then he is going to have to go thru the governmental agency anyhow. The child support governmental agency is the only party allowed to initiate punishment such as suspending a drivers license, holding an IRS tax refund, putting a lien on a home, etc.

Question: I need to reach a worker with child support agency, and cant get any help.? I have tried to call the Child enforcement agency and cannot get any help. I need to reach a Robert Pringle with the Child Support Agency.

Answer: Good luck with that. That's what happens when you have to deal with a government agency. They don't operate like a normal business because they don't have to. They don't have to care about promptness, customer service, or satisfaction because they will never go out of business.

Question: Is it better to use a lawyer or the Child Support Enforcement Agency? My oldest son's father has not given me child support in over a year (we have nothing on paper, it was just a verbal when he was an infant). I would like to have a court ordered support, but is it better to use CSE or a private lawyer? If I read correctly, the CSE will take 10% of each monthly check, but then a lawyer is very expensive up front (we would have to take out a loan for this). I would just like some guidance on what path to consider.

Answer: There's no charge for child support to establish the case. They get 15% in federal matching funds for handling them, of which they spend only 25 cents on the dollar received from the feds on the programs. As for charging you, Judge David Grey Ross, Commissioner of the Federal Office of Child Support Enforcement advised the states to stop doing that. They will file for retroactive support because that makes them more money. They file for up to 18 years of retroactive child support on men who didn't know they had a child with a woman, amounting to tens of thousands of dollars. Even against a man who got a woman pregnant who had sex with him when he was 12 years old. Over $80,000. The problem is, child support enforcement will only address child support, and nothing else. Using an attorney could get all the issues addressed at the same time. Now, you could inform him that you will be doing it, if the two of you don't come to an agreement that can be registered with the court, with him paying through the court. This can be done using a certified mediator. http://tinyurl.com/Mediation-Choosing Don't let him give you any crap about getting the child. Unless you live in Arizona, single fathers have ZERO rights to the child until granted them by the courts. I know because I teach them how to get it. But, if you don't take care of this in mediation, and he does file for those rights, it could get expensive for you in attorney fees. \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\

Question: How do I move forward from a child support enforcement case number to an actual order for support? I've been separated from my husband for a year, in the process of divorcing for 6 months. The child support enforcement agency finally sent me a case number (after 11 months of sitting on their hands), but now they are saying that they need to verify his address (the one I gave them) with the post office and then they will proceed with the case and they told me to call back in 30-45 days. Is that how long it usually takes to get things going on an interstate case? Is there any way I can get them to speed things up a little? I appreciate any advice from those who've been through this, or have legal background. Links to websites have not been helpful as they never seem to have info that pertains to me....

Answer: Yes, the waiting is inevitable. In my experience, they say they have to verify, they go to serve at his home, he's not there, they go to work, he's not there, he quits job, moves away, process starts all over. I call agency, get voicemail, box is full, please try again. blah, blah, blah. The kicker is when they say, "if you have an address for him, please call us". I'm thinking this is their job, right? But nonetheless, if you can make it all work without the support, and just keep pushing on and be your kids' mom, it all works out in the long run. My son is now 26 and I am still getting back support. The wheels of justice turn slow. And you can pray for a breakthrough for your ex that he will turn into an upstanding individual who you will not have to pursue for support.

Question: Do I legally have to hand over all my finacial info to the child support agency for a 36 month review? I am asked to provide tax returns, copies of my last 6 pay stubs and also fill out how much I make an hour in a report for the child support enforcement agency to review(which was requested by my ex-wife). Do I have to give them all my information?

Answer: yes

Question: Any recommendations about child support enforcement agencies? I have a court order from 7 years ago,my ex always elude the system. Should I go thru a private agencie to collect the child support he owe me? Which one you will recommend or as I can not afford an attorney what are my options?

Answer: Call your district attorney. Its free too.

Question: Why is the child support agency forcing my child's father to pay child support when I never asked for it? I recently had a baby a few months ago, now I keep getting letters from the child support enforcement agency saying were gonna have a hearing to determine the amount of child support he should pay. Wtf? I never asked to receive child support so can they actually make him pay it if I don't ask for him to? He helps with all the things needed as of now so I don't really feel the need for him to pay an additonal fee... can they make him or what is the law behind this? (I don't receive cash assistance from welfare, but I receive food stamps & medicaid. I was told they could make him if I was receiving cash assistance but im not receiving that.) thanks

Answer: ANY Government/taxpayer assistance gives US the right to collect from the other responsible parent. I work hard to provide for my child. I give her a roof over her head, clothes, food in her belly, health insurance and so forth. I also go to school at night to finish my degree so I can provide more for her. WHY should I be paying to support your child while you let the father off scott free?! He isn't helping "with all the things needed as of now" if you NEED those food stamps or health coverage!!! Give up the food stamps, and medicaid... Work to support your own child then tell us that the father doesn't have to pay child support!!!

Question: Child Support? My ex husband is required by court to pay $420 a month. He is now behind $7,800.00. I have been in close contact with the child support enforcement agency, however everytime thay attempt to serve him papers he simply wont answer his door. He has no job, he didn't file taxes but he did just have another baby. Is there anything alse I can do? I can't afford a lawyer. Any time he gets a job it takes the process atleast 3 months to start deducting out of his paycheck and usually after the first deduction he quits his job!

Answer: Keep calling the child support division. Even if you have the same info or ask the same questions. You shouldn't have to hire an attorney. Don't give up but don't let it run your life either.