Q: Husband is double charged with 2 different child support agency’s. PR and Massachusetts
My husband has a son who is 20 years old. He resides in Massachusetts since the age of 5. The mother had an order of child support through assume but when she moved to Massachusetts, she opened on there. We paid child support to her trough Massachusetts and once the child turn 18 it stopped. But Assume has been continuing accumulation of debt since then and have been taking our tax returns and now deducting from his check. The funny thing is the debt never gets any smaller. We live in North Carolina and have no one in Puerto Rico to help us. At this point we consider this fraud. On another note the mother has not received any of the money that was taken from us through ASSUME. And tips on where to begin for help.
A: If you live in North Carolina, I suggest that your husband retain the services of a Puerto Rico attorney. So long as ASUME is not informed that the 20 year-old's case was transferred to Massachusetts, they'll continue recognizing the amounts owed and surcharges will continue to accumulate. Your attorney would contact ASUME to provide ASUME with the evidence of payments in Massachusetts since his son and the son's mom moved to that state. Your husband will need to request a full payment certification from Massachusetts to evidence ASUME that the child support was paid in a timely manner throughout those years, and request ASUME to eliminate the incorrect amounts.
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