CLASP Issues Devastating Critique of Private Child Support Collectors’ Abuses

Article here. Excerpt:

'“[P]rivate collection agencies often fail to deliver any genuine services. Instead, they strip income from low and moderate-income families that could have been spent on housing, childcare, clothing and school expenses, or saved for their children’s education. They trap custodial parents in perpetual contracts.

“They also exploit the child support indebtedness of low and moderate-income non-custodial parents through the use of predatory and abusive tactics that increase their debt levels and often destroy their credit histories and interfere with parenting relationships.

“A number of private child support companies bring to the table a history of consumer complaints, bar association ethics complaints, and litigation filed against them.”'