CSE is run and staffed by thugs, using principles developed by criminal gangs. What you need is Michigan Lawyer of the Year (2000) Mike Tindall. Not sure if the link below still works. The agency didn’t notify him of a change in the CS amount that he “owed” (they decided behind his back), and he ended up going to jail - something that damaged his reputation and created professional problems. He spent about a half million dollars (based largely on estimating the cost of his own time at lawyer rates) to win his own case against them. As far as I know, the agency never apologized. I’m not saying you should spend a half mil. to try to get your $40K back, but you’d have a lawyer who knows what he’s up against.
http://www.michiganlawyersweekly.com/loty2000/tindall.htm
Thanks for the link, Roger even though it isn’t working. I know of Tindall. My husband and I have been in this since 1987. There is very little we don’t know about the criminality of the CSA and the family court system. We aren’t looking to get the $40,000 back or even decreased...it will never happen.
BTW, I said above that was $40,000 in arrears which is wrong. ALL of the false arrears were paid long ago. The CSA (as in Tindall) did not tell us there were arrears for over 10 years. During those 10 years we got numerous statements from the CSA clearly stating that there were no arrears and got the same answer when asking them directly. The 40,000 is INTEREST on the false arrears the CSA generated by doing a phony handwritten audit.
As for getting another lawyer...no thanks. We’ve paid probably more than $100,000 to lawyers over the last 20 years and have nothing to show for it. Lawyers don’t diligently represent men in family court for fear of offending the judges...the lawyers have to appear before these same judges in other cases and judges DO have long memories.
What we really want to know is where the hell those tax intercepts went. Since we don’t believe we will get the $40,000 erased or reduced we have nothing much to loose by going to court pro se and laying out all of the garbage we know about the CSA and the court on the record. We have plenty of time and don’t mind wasting the courts’ and CSA’s time.