CHILD SUPPORT QUEST RECAP FOR 2007

March 30, 2007 "undisposed" child support case
April 5, 2007 Hearing with Administrative Hearing Officer
June 11, 2007 Mailed in the mandatory direct deposit form
June 15, 2007 Visit to local child support office - no information on hearing
June 15, 2007 Submit another affidavit of child support delinquency - outstanding $2,810 through 5/31/07

What I was told at the Child Support Enforcement local office:
1. To wait until the information was entered into the system and that no enforcement action would take place until the CSE office received
information from the Circuit Court. Although a hearing was held April 5th, the CSE office still had no information on the outcome of that hearing, nor any final order as of June 15
2. That people are really "better off" filing child support enforcement
themselves.

July 6, 2007 Letter to the Director of the Florida Department of Revenue,
Office of Child Support Enforcement, copies to Rep. Bill Galvano, Rep. James Frishe
July 24, 2007 Letter to the Assistant Attorney General, Child Support
Enforcement Section, copies to legal services attorney, Circuit Court Judge and the Department of Revenue, Office of Child Support Enforcement. (No response as of this date.)
July 27, 2007 In response to my letter, telephone call from Tony Thompson legislative liaison for Department of Revenue. This links back to original post here.
August 6, 2007 Receive my copy of recommended order from the April 5th
hearing saying I have no valid child support order. Note, that all staff in the system up to this point have repeatedly told me that I have an open case with an order in place (post referenced above).

Do not pass go, do not collect any $

There is no child support order! You must reapply. You must submit an application and have it reviewed , you must submit financial affidavits, income tax returns, birth certificates, paternity affidavits, pay stubs.
August 2007 - I receive a package of forms, I complete them and deliver them in person.
September 10, 2007 - Request for seven additional items of information. I submit all seven.
October 11, 2007 - Request for additional pay stubs for July and September. But, the annualized amount is on the stub, I offer. Anyone can, through simple arithmetic, calculate my income. I submit stubs for July and September and write on the form, "my income has not changed, it is the same every month."
There is a cumulative figure also printed on the wage statement, which I highlight with a marker.
November 9, 2007 - Request for what? additional pay stubs, now for September and October. And now, they need tax returns from 2004 and 2005! (they already have 2006). In another month, it will be 2008, why are we going back four years? I can find nothing in state rules that require this.
December 17, 2007 - my visit to the local Child Support Enforcement Office (see post here.)

Which brings us back to February 2008. No response to my letter that I sent the local office, reminding them that I was still waiting for a telephone call from my previous months' attempt to speak with them.