Child Support Enforcement Unit.
I’m thinking Trump should weigh in on this because he has had to pay alimony and child support (which is basically debtor’s prison)
There are millions of men who have been impoverished by draconian CS laws brought on during the Clinton era. Local collection units get kick backs from the feds for the maximum amount collected.
I became interested in the child issue when a manager where I worked tried to get custody of his daughter’s toddler. She lost it because the former convict boyfriend refused to take a drug test after a bar fight, which in Florida is an automatic seizure of children living in the household. The grandfather hired a private detective who found the state had put the boy with a known pedophile who also had several other children. Gramps got a lawyer and visited the DCF office and the lawyer told them he would schedule a press conference if they didn’t return the child right-this-minute. DCF sent a deputy sheriff to bring the boy to them. Then, they told him that the state payments wouldn’t start for a month. Turns out the state pays $2500 a month for child support. There is a huge amount of money involved and DCF, in my opinion, is a racket.
Incidentally, they changed the name after they lost track of a couple of children and the children were murdered. The case worker had been falsifying records about her visits and the children had been dead for months.
I spoke informally at the gym with a case worker and she said that up to five percent of the children in state care were unaccounted for at any given moment. I shouldn’t be concerned, she said, “because generally it’s just a paperwork issue.”
I have heard so many bad stories over the years from neighbors and friends I’d be terrified if the state took my children.