What you didn’t pull the “best interests of the child” card?

Man buys truck, can’t get tag – News – WSAV.com – Savannah / Hilton Head

Many of you have dealt with the DMV before, which is about as pleasant as going to the doctor for your annual meet-and-greet with “Mr. Jellyfinger”, as one of my favorite radio sports hosts dubbed the dude who did the prostate exam.  It’s no fun.  You have to have your paperwork in gear, you have to wait for an inordinate amount of time.  And I love how those places always seem to be adequattely staffed.  For instance, I’ve never seen three or more booths in a row empty while thirty people are waiting.
And as we all know, the CSE loves ripping the rights of non custodials, and that includes ripping driver’s licenses or ripping tags or the ability to get new tags.  Somedays I wonder why they don’t cut to the chase and start enslaving non custodials literally.  Then again, maybe I shouldn’t.  I know if brains were dynamite some CSEs couldn’t blow their noses.  That should tell me how dangerous ideas are in their presence.
It’s bad enough when you have a severe child support debt and can’t get a car (which hampers your ability to do things like get a job or income.  Minor things, those).  Even worse is when the reason you can’t get that car tagged is because the owner  has a child support lien on the car.  That’s what happened in this case.
And the CSE administrator goes through the child support enforcement agency playbook.  He minimizes the damage, he quotes verbatum from administrative guidelines.  Just about the only thing he doesn’t do in this case is pull the “it’s the best interests of the child” card (at least directly).  Perhaps its was the presence of a reporter or a camera.
Also David Lowe, head parasite down at the Child Support Enforcement agency, says that it “really doesn’t happen all that often”.  While it would be good to take him at his word, I think I would like some numbers just to be sure.  After all, if a Texas state attorney general can refer to $600 or $700 as “a couple of hundred” in child support, I suspect it might happen a little more often than Mr. Lowe suggests.
Oh yeah, I fired off an e-mail to CARFAX and to the reporter in question, but so far on CARFAX they don’t seem to have a record for child support liens.  That could make background checking a little hard.  Anyway props for Mr. Lowe doing what his underlines he should have  and only when the reporter came calling.  That says “responsibility” and “prompt action” like nothing ever will.

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