INEEDJUSTICE
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TEXAS
I thought I posted this yesterday 12/20/04 but can't find it so I am asking for help again. This is a letter I sent the attorney general on my friends behalf explaining his situation. Any help would be muchly appreciated.
12/20/04
I have a life long friend who has wasted alot of money with attorneys to no avail trying to straighten out a problem that was created by YOU the State when you changed YOUR computer systems in 1997. Magically his records have dissapeared so you say & he was told that YOUR office had made a mistake eight years prior & had not charged him enough in child support ? Not only did you increase what you said he owed you put penalty & interest on it as well & his documentation shows an amount of $10,000.00 & you have turned this into $35,000.00 ?
How in the world can you put penalty & interest on your own mistake ? He was paying what you told him to pay.
You don't buy a car or a house & after making the agreed payments for years have them tell you HEY guess what we made a mistake WE did not charge you enough & by the way we are going to add penalty & interest on it TOO even though it WAS our mistake ?
How can you justify doing this if you can Not or Won't produce any records for him showing how & why this was done ? you say you have none his previous records just dissapeared from your computers ? ?
He Does have a paper trail of all he has spent & paid & copies showing the $10,000.00 that you Magically turned into $35,000.00 & you have NO documentation to offer him to show how you came to this decision ? I am trying to help him help himself resolve his child support issues.
Can you tell me the steps he can take to get to the right person that can actually make a decision & correct his problem not just the telephone anwering personel that only wastes a persons time ? I want to help him out & resolve this without him having to waste any more money. I am Recommending that he contact the local television stations consumer reporters since the problem lies within your office as far as Wrongful information & Wrongful amounts owed. The situation is this: His daughter is 26 & a mother of 3 & has not lived with the ex spouse that he pays child support to since the age of 15. From the age of 15 to 17 he had custody until she was considered an adult at 17. She his daughter is willing to testify she never has benefitted from the child support even when she lived with her mother. My friend has lost his job & is on unemployment & has lost both his parents in the last 14 months & his health & nerves are going downhill because of this. What little he had in his retirement which by the way was & Is for HIS retirement NOT an ex spouses child support & YOU have frozen that account ? He was depending on that money to live on until he finds a new job & you have garnished his unemployment check & evedently not considered that he is now making less money & the amount you take out should be based on what he is getting from un employment.
How is he suppose to live, find a job, buy gas, eat & pay his other bills on a meaasly $900.00 a month unemployment check after you take $200.00 of it ?
The bottom line is I doubt the State really wants all the bad publicity NEWS coverage that this is going to bring out & I know he does not want to have to go through it but I WILL do it for him if I need to HE is being wrongfully done & NO one in YOUR office is willing to HELP.
I await your reply & hope that someone in YOUR office will HEAR my plea & give this the time it deserves YOU are ruining a GOOD mans life. PLEASE make sure this gets into the right hands of someone that can actuall make a change come about.
TEXAS
I thought I posted this yesterday 12/20/04 but can't find it so I am asking for help again. This is a letter I sent the attorney general on my friends behalf explaining his situation. Any help would be muchly appreciated.
12/20/04
I have a life long friend who has wasted alot of money with attorneys to no avail trying to straighten out a problem that was created by YOU the State when you changed YOUR computer systems in 1997. Magically his records have dissapeared so you say & he was told that YOUR office had made a mistake eight years prior & had not charged him enough in child support ? Not only did you increase what you said he owed you put penalty & interest on it as well & his documentation shows an amount of $10,000.00 & you have turned this into $35,000.00 ?
How in the world can you put penalty & interest on your own mistake ? He was paying what you told him to pay.
You don't buy a car or a house & after making the agreed payments for years have them tell you HEY guess what we made a mistake WE did not charge you enough & by the way we are going to add penalty & interest on it TOO even though it WAS our mistake ?
How can you justify doing this if you can Not or Won't produce any records for him showing how & why this was done ? you say you have none his previous records just dissapeared from your computers ? ?
He Does have a paper trail of all he has spent & paid & copies showing the $10,000.00 that you Magically turned into $35,000.00 & you have NO documentation to offer him to show how you came to this decision ? I am trying to help him help himself resolve his child support issues.
Can you tell me the steps he can take to get to the right person that can actually make a decision & correct his problem not just the telephone anwering personel that only wastes a persons time ? I want to help him out & resolve this without him having to waste any more money. I am Recommending that he contact the local television stations consumer reporters since the problem lies within your office as far as Wrongful information & Wrongful amounts owed. The situation is this: His daughter is 26 & a mother of 3 & has not lived with the ex spouse that he pays child support to since the age of 15. From the age of 15 to 17 he had custody until she was considered an adult at 17. She his daughter is willing to testify she never has benefitted from the child support even when she lived with her mother. My friend has lost his job & is on unemployment & has lost both his parents in the last 14 months & his health & nerves are going downhill because of this. What little he had in his retirement which by the way was & Is for HIS retirement NOT an ex spouses child support & YOU have frozen that account ? He was depending on that money to live on until he finds a new job & you have garnished his unemployment check & evedently not considered that he is now making less money & the amount you take out should be based on what he is getting from un employment.
How is he suppose to live, find a job, buy gas, eat & pay his other bills on a meaasly $900.00 a month unemployment check after you take $200.00 of it ?
The bottom line is I doubt the State really wants all the bad publicity NEWS coverage that this is going to bring out & I know he does not want to have to go through it but I WILL do it for him if I need to HE is being wrongfully done & NO one in YOUR office is willing to HELP.
I await your reply & hope that someone in YOUR office will HEAR my plea & give this the time it deserves YOU are ruining a GOOD mans life. PLEASE make sure this gets into the right hands of someone that can actuall make a change come about.
