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Agency Abuse
There are few government agencies in America that are powerful as those charged with the collection of child support. Operating without oversight, employees of these agencies ruthlessly pursue the collection of debts with a blatant disregard for the individual financial circumstances of debtors.
Because these agencies operate without any form of oversight, they have caused misery for countless individuals going through divorce. Those who staff these agencies are quite often of the lowest ethical character -- those hungry for bureacratic power, with fascist or communist-like tendencies, those who have an underlying contempt for civil rights in our society, and who wish to cause pain.
The maliciousness of child support agencies have done much to separate non-custodial parents from their children. Their unshackled ability to initiate arrest warrants against father's and other non-custodial parents to collect debts, regardless of whether or not debtor's are financially able to pay, has turned normal law abiding citizens into criminals, wrecked lives, and in some cases have even driven victims to suicide. In doing so, they even violate a Constitutional ban on debtor's prisons.
Since our government on a state and local level has done such a bad job of overseeing these agencies and providing checks on power, NCPForce! will now provide oversight of its own.
The list below is arranged by state and sorted by agency worker name.
If you wish to add details or report another agency, use our convenient form or e-mail us at agency@ncpforce.com (be sure to include dates of support orders, date of most recent contact with the agency, and the names of abusive workers).
Please select a state from the links below:
CA |
MN |
MO |
NH |
NJ |
NY |
OH |
OK |
California
| Worker(s) Named |
Agency (w/ address) |
County |
# of complaints |
Joe Adair |
CPS Placerville |
El Dorado |
1 |
Details: Complaint alleges that this worker has reported fabricated false information on reports, let foster children be abused in foster homes, let foster children be taken out of the state with out a court order, let foster children fail in education, let foster children fall through the system.
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Minnesota
| Worker(s) Named |
Agency (w/ address) |
County |
# of complaints |
Alison J. Luebben |
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Anoka |
2 |
Details:
Complaint 1: Complaint alleges that worker Allison J. Luebben is helping a custodial parent / child abuser collect ever increasing sums of money from NCP despite custodial parent having children removed from his care. |
Missouri
| Worker(s) Named |
Agency (w/ address) |
County |
# of complaints |
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ST. LOUIS CITY & COUNTY FAMILY SUPPORT DIVISION |
St. Louis |
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| Details: This agency is listed on our Most Abusive Agencies page for precipitating a multiple homicide. |
New Hampshire
| Worker(s) Named |
Agency (w/ address) |
County |
# of complaints |
Evelyn Elms |
Littleton District Office Child Support Services Division |
Grafton |
1 |
| Details: Complaint alleges that overzealous support worker Evelyn Elms violated a divorce decree and wrongly garnished wages of complainant who is a college student; complaint further alleges that Ms. Elms interfered with amicable agreement of parents to cooperate on their child's upbringing, and that her aggressive tactics against complainant are jeopardizing his ability to complete college. |
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Manchester DHS
195
McGregor St.
South Tower, Suite 110
Manchester, NH 03102-3749 |
Hillsborough |
1 |
From NCPForce!: This child support agency played a major role in the death of Brian Armstrong who was murdered by prison guards in the Valley Street Jail in Nashua, NH. For more details, please see our AVENGER PROJECT page.
Details: Complaintant is an unemployed non-custodial father who has lost his driver's license due to arrearage collection measures by this agency, who has experienced difficulty finding new employment due to a lack of a license. Yet despite this fact, this agency has increased his support payments 700% after not informing him of a support hearing. Complainant also lives in another state and states that this agency has not properly kept him informed of its actions. Complainant also states that this agency is continuing to harrass him for child support payments even though it knows that the child no longer lives with the custodial mother. |
New Jersey
| Worker(s) Named |
Agency (w/ address) |
County |
# of complaints |
Ms. Mechanic |
Middlesex County Division of Child Services |
Middlesex |
2 |
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Details: This agency is listed on our Most Abusive Agencies page for its role in the murder of Wilbur Streett, a disabled fathers' rights activist suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease who died after being imprisoned for child support arrears.
Complaint 1 - Complainant states that this agency is blindly pursuing support orders and issuing warrants for arrest for unpaid arrears even though the custodial mother has taken his children (without his consent, and in violation of a court order) to a foreign country. Complainant says that this agency took no interest in the whereabouts of his children or their welfare, even after he reported that they were sleeping on the floor of a home belonging to a relative of the custodial mother. Complainant further alleges that one of his children was reported missing abroad since 2006; complainant states that this agency is still pursuing payments for this child.
Complaint 2 - Complaint dates back to the 1990s. Complainant was a 19-year-old college-bound student who had a child as a result of a relationship with a 27-year-old female family law attorney. Complainant alleges that a case worker, a Ms. Mechanic, acted with clear bias in favor of the attorney/custodial mother during a support hearing. Complainant says that Ms. Mechanic ignored the fact that the custodial mother was using her knowledge as an attorney to deny him visitation with his child without cause, and that this case worker became verbally abusive and threatening. Complainant further states that this agency refused to work with him to establish a realistic child support plan while he was a student, and that this agency destroyed his credit rating and seized funds from bank accounts necessary for basic survival, thereby making it impossible for him to obtain employment or to hold onto an apartment. Complaint alleges that the abuse continues to this day, with the agency refusing to make any kind of payment plan for arrears and at the same time denying him a driver's licence and a passport (and severly limiting opportunities for gainful employment which would allow him to pay off his debt). Complainant states that he is now married and has a child with a woman who is a foreign national, and that the passport seizure is impacting upon the life of his new child because his family is unable to leave the country together to visit relatives abroad. Complainant states that this agency was made aware of his family's situation, and that this agency told his attorney"it does not care about the second child". Complaint also alleges that this agency also refuses to state in writing why it is refusing to make any sort of a payment plan even though the attorney/custodial mother is in a superior financial position. |
New York
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Agency (w/ address) |
County |
# of complaints |
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Nassau County Support Collection Unit |
Nassau |
1 |
Details:
Complaint 1: Complaint states that this agency is violating terms of court settlement on arrears payment. Due to constant harassment, complainant had his job terminated after this agency garnished his wages. This agency continues to garnish wages and seize assets, resulting in a situation in which complainant can no longer hold down a job. |
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Ulster County Child Support |
Ulster |
1 |
Details:
Originally listed by NCPForce!: According to press releases from this agency and law enforcement agencies in the county, this agency has been pursuing the arrest of non-custodial parents with as little as $50 in arrears, without regard for employment or health status.
Complaint 1: Complainant states that this agency refuses to emancipate him from an 18-year-old daughter who lives on her own and works two jobs. Furthermore, complainant states that this agency is seeking an upward adjustment for this child's mother, even though it is well aware that the child no longer lives with her mother. Complainant states he has paid over $300,000 in child support and is caring for a disabled fiancee (while the child's mother lives off welfare and has had children with three other men). Complainant also states that this agency has refused to modify support even after he lost his job and wrongfully suspended his license even though he has been making child support payments. |
OHIO
| Worker(s) Named |
Agency (w/ address) |
County |
# of complaints |
Cynthia Brown |
Butler County Child Support Enforcement |
Butler |
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| Details: This agency has been listed on our Most Abusive Agencies page for placing photos of non-custodial parents with child support arrears on pizza boxes and encouraging hate against non-custodial parents within her community. |
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Hamilton County Department of Job and Family Service |
Hamilton |
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| Details: This agency has been listed on our Most Abusive Agencies page for distributing wanted poster for non-custodial parents with arrearages which encourage hate against non-custodial parents. |
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Huron |
1 |
Details:
Complaint 1: Complaint states that this agency has harassed a self-employed non-custodial parent facing financial difficulties. According to complaint, this agency has made threatening phone calls and sent threatening mail to suspend complainant's driver's license, and has reported complainant to credit agencies for a $30 arrearage (which was paid within one month of the arrearage). This agency is also attempting to coerce complainant to open a checking account for automatic withdrawal of child support, otherwise the non-custodial parent will remain on the list for license suspension and will be reported again to credit agencies as in default, even though the support order is satisfied and paid in advance. Complaint also states that Huron County's own website does not list checking account requirements and that the agency refuses to acknowledge fact that the non-custodial parent is unable to obtain checking account due to previous financial issues leading to debt with Check Systems (an independent financial agency restricting checking accounts of individuals still owing a debt to a bank for personal accounts.) |
Oklahoma
| Worker(s) Named |
Agency (w/ address) |
County |
# of complaints |
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Oklahoma Child Support Services
Division of Oklahoma Depart. of Human Services
Sequoyah Memorial Office Building
2400 N. Lincoln Blvd., Oklahoma City, OK 73105 |
ALL |
2 |
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Details: This agency is listed on our Most Abusive Agencies page for its policy of indiscriminately doubling support amounts on unemployed parents and for threatening the increased incarceration of non-custodial parents as a means of blackmailing state legislators not to reduce its budget.
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Expose agency abuse now by using the convenient form below, or send us an e-mail at agency@ncpforce.com which includes dates of support orders, date of most recent contact with the agency, and the names of abusive workers. Attach any photos of abusive workers, links, or press clippings about the agency you are reporting.
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ABOUT NCP FORCE! (Non-Custodial Parents Force)
Our organization is a non-profit, grassroots action organization dedicated to reforming
America's family law system.
While we frequently refer to divorced fathers, who overwhelmingly
bear the brunt of abuses in the family law system, we champion the cause of all non-custodial parents,
be they unwed fathers, non-custodial mothers, grandparents, or assigned parentage fathers
(men who are held responsible for parentage despite the fact that they are not biological fathers).
Unlike many other family law websites which claim to help divorced dads and NCP's, we will never ask our visitors for money or donations. We also do not charge for, or offer legal services. Instead we provide a virtual base of operations, forum, and information clearing house for visitors to help themselves free of charge.
Learn more about joining the NCP Force! It's free and no personal questions will be asked unless you wish to
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