CSE workers see child support as their own: no bleep, Sherlock

Woman says she stole to pay for casino trips – News – The Olympian – Olympia, Washington

As I say on these stories when they come up, you have to wonder whether these are rogue caseworkers or whether they’re just taking what they learn on the job to the next level. I wonder if she tipped any single mothers or fathers up there. You could say that’s child support. It doesn’t help the children it’s meant for, but then again when does the interest and penalty help the children either.

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Another bit of good news for fathers on child support

Broward mayor won’t pay support for child he fathered 20 years ago — South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com

Surprisingly out of Florida, a father will not have to pay for a child that he fathered 20 years ago because the mother already collected child support from the presumed father. A magistrate found that Broward County Mayor Josephus Eggelleton won’t have to pay for a child that he acknowledged as his.

There are two thoughts out of this.  The first is that at least the system found that a mother can’t dip her hand in the piggy bank twice for child support.  That’s good.  And I love how the lawyer can say with a straight face that the child shouldn’t be punished:

Sanders’ attorney, Robert Barrar, said Tuesday he intends to appeal Beilly’s decision. “The child should be entitled to compensation. The child shouldn’t be penalized for what happened all those years ago,” he said.

And exactly how is not paying your client, the mother, because she already got paid “punishing” the child. If anything, the child was just as punished by your client not revealing to her son who his father was or might be. Why isn’t the child suing the mother for withholding that little bit of information.

I said that there were two thoughts on this one. The second thought is as to the man who paid for the child support. Shouldn’t he be compensated? After all, even if you allow for the fact that somebody could have more than two parents, that would mean that his duty to support his child should have been halved. And if he should be compensated, then by whom? By the mayor, or by the mother?

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Please, don’t do the cse job for them.

FayObserver.com – Current Article Page

Bad enough when they try to make us live barely above poverty level.  It’s worse when we start offing ourselves for them.  I’m not whitebread enough to say things like “Club Fed” or imply that prison is a walk in the park, but try to keep things in perspective.
Well, there are at least two more kids who won’t have much child support anymore.  Then again, did they have any life insurance on them?  I’m sure the Scotland Child Support Enforcement Agency is hard at work on that question.  No sense mourning the dead, I suppose.

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First Missouri, now Arizona

Audit: Child Support Enforcement Needs Improvement

This audit doesn’t go anywhere near in depth as the one done by Montee (or at least, the news story doesn’t), but it’s indicative.   I wonder how many over- and underpayments they would find in Arizona.  Of course we all know that Missouri was just a lone example blown way out of proportion by an “irresponsible” auditor.  Of couse, and the Titanic just stopped to pick up some ice.

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