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Published on: 2/12/2004 Last Visited: 9/22/2004
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Texas Attorney General Gregg Abbot for hiring Casey Huffman, former president of Supportkids.com a private child support collection agency with a history of law suits against it for unscrupulous collection practices such as contracts which auto renew indefinitely if only one payment is collected, fees for collection of support taken out of current and back support due to contract language which defines all support past, present and future as ""support".
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When Mr. Huffman was previously the director of Texas Attorney General's Child Support Enforcement Division the collection rate was only 10%.
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When Mr. Huffman was previously the director of Texas Attorney General's Child Support Enforcement Division the collection rate was only 10%.
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Published on: 6/12/2002 Last Visited: 6/12/2002
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Nobody's forcing them to," said Casey Hoffman, founder and chief executive officer of Supportkids, which has handled 10,000 cases and is the largest of about three dozen private collection companies.
The lawsuit against Supportkids, filed Tuesday in state court in Manitowoc, Wis., comes as the private companies push for greater access to confidential financial data to help them track down parents who don't pay.Advocates, meanwhile, are pushing for greater consumer protections in this fast-growing field.
Clients like Zipperer typically sign contracts directing all child support payments to the company, which passes the money along after taking a cut 29 percent, on average, according to government auditors.
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Hoffman responded that the contract clearly states that the fee will be applied to both back-owed child support and current payments.He said clients are given an option to exclude from the commission any support being paid when they sign up an option Zipperer said she was never given.
Hoffman said he does not know how many clients have tried to leave the program but defended his company's policy of not letting people quit.Otherwise, he said, the company would spend time and money to find a parent and people could quit once payments began.
He said his contracts are straightforward and easy to understand.
"We've benefited children to the amount of $66 million since we've been in business," he said.
The lawsuit against Supportkids, filed Tuesday in state court in Manitowoc, Wis., comes as the private companies push for greater access to confidential financial data to help them track down parents who don't pay.Advocates, meanwhile, are pushing for greater consumer protections in this fast-growing field.
Clients like Zipperer typically sign contracts directing all child support payments to the company, which passes the money along after taking a cut 29 percent, on average, according to government auditors.
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Hoffman responded that the contract clearly states that the fee will be applied to both back-owed child support and current payments.He said clients are given an option to exclude from the commission any support being paid when they sign up an option Zipperer said she was never given.
Hoffman said he does not know how many clients have tried to leave the program but defended his company's policy of not letting people quit.Otherwise, he said, the company would spend time and money to find a parent and people could quit once payments began.
He said his contracts are straightforward and easy to understand.
"We've benefited children to the amount of $66 million since we've been in business," he said.
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