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Soon after the governor announced he was going to privatize child support services provided by the Department of Human Services Child Support Enforcement Program, the out-of-state vendor that won the bid contracted with the Jackson law firm of YoungWilliams, P.A., to represent it in the ensuing law-suits with the state employee's union. Mary Ann Wellbank, former director of the Montana child support agency and the 2006 president of the National Child Support Association who recently joined YoungWilliams as vice president of marketing, said it's amazing how in just a few years, YoungWilliams has become a national leader in providing child support services to state government.
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To: STATE EDITORS
Contact: Gary Tuma of the Pennsylvania Office of the Governor, +1- 717-783-1116
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Legal Services of Eastern Missouri's Jason Dodson has been appointed to the 2012 Child Support Guidelines Advisory Group by the Supreme Court of Missouri's Family Court Committee.
This group, which consists of judges, family court commissioners and a few attorneys from throughout the state, will be collecting and analyzing testimony from Missouri residents to help develop new child support guidelines.
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SAN BERNARDINO - After years of troubling below-average performance, the San Bernardino County Department of Child Support Services on Tuesday was taken off the state's list of agencies in need of corrective action.
The child support department, which handles the second largest caseload in California after Los Angeles County's department, was given the probationary status in 2003 when it failed to meet federal and state guidelines.
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Larry D. Coleman, Raytown, MO, for appellant.
David S. Baker, Kansas City, MO, for appellee, Culotta.
Bart A. Matanic, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson Ci...
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In 2003, the state placed the San Bernardino County Department of Child Support Services (San Bernardino DCSS) on a list of agencies in need of correction action.
The primary problem: Chronic below-average performance in collecting child support payments.
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It's an agency that is probably invisible to most people but it brings in up to $13 million in much needed revenue each month to San Bernardino County and about $150 million a year. Not exactly chump change.
The people it collects that cash from sometimes have to be dragged kicking and screaming to the pay window.
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NASHVILLE - The state Department of Human Services notified Shelby County officials late Thursday that it will not renew its $14.8 million contract with Shelby County Juvenile Court for child- support collection and enforcement services .
The court's annual contract with DHS expires June 30. Instead of renewing it, DHS began moving Wednesday to put the next contract out for a competitive bid process open to private companies - which provide the services in Tennessee's other three urban counties - and other agencies.