[Your Name]

[Address]

[City], Minnesota [Zip]

[Month and Day], 2009

[Name of Child Support Worker]

[Name of Child Support Enforcement Unit]

[Address]

[City], [State] [Zipcode]

Re: IV-D Case # [case number]

Dear [Name of Child Support Worker],

I have a complaint to file with the state agency responsible for establishing and supervising the administrative procedure used to open the IV-D case referenced above.  I understand that the parent referred to on this application as an obligor must first bring such a complaint to the Child Support Officer (CSO) assigned to the IV-D case, and that the CSO will try to resolve the complaint by following the administrative complaint procedure established by the Commissioner of Human Services.  My complaint asserts the procedure used to open this case allowed the government to violate my fundamental right to maintain a private parent and child relationship without respect to my due process rights.

The IV-D agency’s opening of this case has inappropriately classified me an obligor who is subject to the child support enforcement provisions of the 1937 Aid To Dependent Children Act (Act).  Parents classified as obligors under this Act are often publicly referred to as deadbeat parents. In other words, the term “obligor” is merely a gentler way of say deadbeat parent.  I was not given an opportunity to be heard before the government pinned this badge of infamy to me. 

I object to being placed in the same class of parents who have abandoned, deserted, neglected, or abused their children, and the facts of this case show that I am clearly outside the scope of such a classification.  In this case, the applicant is not, and never was, an individual member of a needy family, a term used to describe the class of families eligible to receive child support enforcement services under the Act. Furthermore, my children do not dwell in a needy household. 

 The supreme law protects fathers and mothers from an erroneous deprivation of their natural parental rights by state agents.  Without question, an administrative procedure that allows IV-D services to be granted to every applicant who applies falls far short of what the law requires when it comes to protecting the liberty interests of the non-applicant parent. 

Your agency denied me due process by granting services to the applicant in this case without providing me an opportunity to be heard, and without even a cursory review of the facts available to them that would distinguish an acceptable application from an unacceptable one.  Therefore, I want This IV-D agency to review the claims made on the application for IV-D services, provide me an opportunity to object to such claims, immediately close this IV-D case, seal the file, and leave my children and me alone.  If you lack authority to grant my requests, please move my complaint up the chain of command and report back to me the progress being made in resolving my complaint.

A prompt, and fair resolution of this complaint will be appreciated.

Sincerely,

[your signature]

[Your Name]