Does anyone know if it is possible to sue a government entity for not validating/reporting correct child support info? San Diego County CA - Child Support Division is reporting inaccurate past due information to Experian on my spouse's credit report. They are reported a ridiculous amount ($53,700). We are trying to figure out where they got that amount for the 11 months of support they could not sent to the children's mother. (The support order is $380/month). We have sent certified validation letters to Calif. with no response. We are at the next stage where we are validating with Experian. Shortest Version Possible - My husband is being victimized because of a bureaucratic mess between Calif. and Texas. His employer has regularly taken payroll deductions for his children in Calif. The mother and kids disappeared for almost a year. Therefore Calif. began refusing the payments saying they couldn't locate her. Once she reappeared again, she filed suit to get her support. Instead of checking the payment history record, Calif. child support filed court papers and reported to Experian that past due amounts were due. (The filed lien also shows up as a public record). (We are trying to figure out what Texas did with the payments that Calif. refused for 11 months). Did they keep and invest the money . . . The State of Texas is non-responsive also. Texas says take it up with Calif. Calif. says take it up with Texas. We have retained an attorney, but are addressing the credit reporting issues now because my husband was refused a job because he looks like a deadbeat dad. We got a record of all the payroll deductions from his current employer for the past four years. Thanks for any info/responses.
In my opinion, it sounds like getting an attorney is your best bet to get the records corrected. But I would keep up with where the ex-wife is living at all times (if possible) from here on out to prevent this sort of thing from happening again. Your husband can notify the child support office of her change of address just as well as she can. Also, he could send her the child support payments directly if the child support office continues to screw this up. Just make sure he keeps his cancelled checks as proof of payment. When he is brought into court for failure to pay, then he will have proof that he did, in fact, pay her and was forced to pay her directly because of the child support office's incompetency. Good luck. Calmest_LA
