BM is employed. They have all of the information. When she filed for CS, she got it almost instantly. Perhaps I will send a toned down email minus the threats and just follow through with my threats in two weeks anyway. I've gotten a good response from my state senator's office in the past and as an editor for a newspaper, I know how to get my story out there when it comes to government BS and I won't even have to use my own paper. AND I'll forward copies of all my correspondence to the AG's office.

I can understand those who are owed much more might have self-employed, unemployed or underemployed non-custodial parents their dealing with or maybe they can't even find them. But she has a job, we know this. They know this. She agreed to pay. So no, I won't stand in line and be patient. There isn't a line. I'm at the frikkin' front. Everything is in complete order except for the idiots at the AG's office. It has to be bias. I'm fed up with the double standard. It's not like we haven't already had custody of the kids for going on five years and for four, she wasn't made to pay a dime. We didn't press it. Now that it's on paper ... this is just complete crap. We've given them plenty of time, as we know from a fact how long of a turnaround it took for DH's wages to be garnished in the SAME STATE and for four times as much. Screw them. The government is accountable to taxpayers for it's service or lack thereof and I will call them out, loud and clear, if they don't pull their head out, pronto.

Also, what you might not get is, it would be one thing if I logged onto the CS website and saw that they have acknowledged that she owes the money. The account shows what a district court has in fact ordered more than three months ago and their ironing out how their going to collect it or distribute it or what-the-crap-ever. But no, it's "being assessed" wth is there to assess? The AG's office is not going to overule a judge of the state over the assessment. I don't understand what they've been doing. There is nothing for them to assess. They have all the information they need. All they have to do is their WAAAAYYYY overcompensated lackey jobs in a timely fashion.

Thanks for reading my vent.

I'm a bit familiar with how slow they work on some things, but this should be cut and dried. Maybe I'll get on some foodstamps and that'll hurry 'em along.

When DH got custody, it took them FOREVER to stop his CS obligation. His boss was cool and just stopped garnishing his wages. So it accrued, we went to court to get it officially ordered he doesn't owe it, but BM was getting welfare (for kids she only had two weekends a month :O ) so they didn't want to take that and by the time we got it off the books it was up to like $40,000. BM actually cried when the court ruled we didn't owe it. Like she thought she was going to get that or deserved it or something. Puh-leaze. I had the biggest smile on my face and I didn't try to hide it. I think she may have even seen me do a slight little victory dance outside the courtroom.

Took the AG's office another five or six months to actually get it off the books so she didn't get our tax refund. Luckily, we're not really in a recovery situation. We know where she is, we know where she works. We know we can take her DL if it comes down to it. I do like the contempt idea though. Our lawyer might be able to get her to have to pay the cost of filing it.