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Supportkids promises to hunt down deadbeats and devote personal attention to custodial parents. Many customers are appreciative. Nancy Fox, 46, lost patience with the child-support office in Ann Arbor, Mich., after a decade of trying to squeeze payments out of her ex-husband. Months after hiring Supportkids in 1999, she gladly received a lump-sum payment of $7,590--after Supportkids took its 34% commission. When the state agency suggested that she might be better off canceling her contract with Supportkids, she recalls asking, "What are you, crazy? Then who's going to collect the money...
...ex-wife owed their four children. Then he discovered that the company had taken 34% out of four tax intercepts--money that the Internal Revenue Service, not Supportkids, had withheld from her tax refunds. He managed to get that money back, but he could not get out of his contract. Ok Cha Adams, a housewife in St. Louis, Mo., similarly agreed to turn over a third of nearly $17,000 in child-support arrears to the company. Then she learned from a Cleveland Plain Dealer reporter that it was not Supportkids but the military that had garnished her ex-husband...
...family; it was the loud insistence of the public (and the advice of her counselors), that convinced the Queen to order an extravagant royal funeral for the late Princess. Diana's coffin, laden with white blooms, was pulled through the streets of sobbing London, followed by her grim-faced ex-husband, her heartbroken brother and her beloved sons...
...Instead of Woodstock innocence, cynical commercialism?by now a defining Chinese characteristic?rears its head at the end of Day One. Dou Wei, best known as the ex-husband of Canto-pop diva Faye Wong, bores half the audience into an early departure with an hour of pretentious ambient electronica. At the end of his set?during which a steady barrage of bottles and cans is hurled onto the stage?Dou cackles wickedly and says, "You've been tricked!" Tricked indeed: "We know the music is entirely inappropriate for this kind of venue," says one of his synth-geeks later...
...Meanwhile, both mother and daughter keep using that eerily temperamental elevator. Seems like the usual poor decision-making skills from horror film characters. But we soon learn that Yoshimi is trapped in her situation by a bitter custody dispute with her ex-husband; moving her daughter to a new school might look bad to the court. If they want to stay together, she and Ikuko have nowhere left to run, even when a demanding juvenile ghost starts making very physical appearances...