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"Unfortunately,
I live in a state with no options. Just when
I found someone to help, a private child support
enforcement agency, my state legislators passed
a law preventing private child support agencies
from helping anyone in my state. Because of
this, I now have no child support and no place
to turn for help."
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Sharon Baker
NCCSO Member
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All
bad legislation that limits child support options has
something in common, it PROTECTS deadbeats!
These
laws make it more difficult to let private child support
enforcement agencies work effectively, even though the
government is only successful in collecting on about half
of all cases.
For
example, "deadbeat parent protection" laws, including
those recently passed in West Virginia and Connecticut
(and under consideration in Virginia) prohibit private
child support enforcement agencies from calling the deadbeat
parent to try to collect child support from him (or her)
if it causes the non-paying parent "embarrassment" or "inconvenience." The
private enforcement agency is not allowed to mail collection
and enforcement letters to the non-paying parent if the
letter can be seen by anyone else and if it might tend
to "disgrace" the person.
Why
are laws being passed to help protect deadbeats from tough
enforcement and accountability? What about custodial parents
who are humiliated when they cannot pay their rent or electric
bills because they didn't receive their child support check?
The
legislatures in West Virginia and these other states should
be more concerned about helping custodial parents obtain
effective enforcement options than about protecting deadbeats
from tough enforcement efforts.
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