Mr. Jim Durham

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  The show follows National Child Support founder Jim Durham as he tracks down and confronts fathers who don't pay child support.

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  The show follows National Child Support founder Jim Durham as he tracks down and confronts fathers who don't pay child support.
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  Another issue is Durham's company, National Child Support Center is a collection agency that critics say do more harm than good. Collectors have been accused of charging steep fees and using ultra-aggressive tactics. Durham bills his clients 34% of whatever he collects.

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  --Syndicated columnist Kathleen Parker, Washington Post Writers Group, on Deadbeat Dads According to The Hollywood Reporter, "Deadbeat Dads, originally developed at Fox, follows National Child Support founder Jim Durham as he tracks down and confronts dads who don't pay child support. According to Reuters, Durham "functions as a sort of 'Dog the Bounty Hunter' ...

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  Jim Durham
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  Jim Durham, director of the National Child Support Center, functions as a sort of "Dog the Bounty Hunter" for tracking deadbeats.In the pilot, a financially destitute mom is contrasted with her wealthy ex-husband, who is living the high life.Durham confronts the man at his country club to shake him down in front his friends.It's ambush reality TV -- but for a noble cause.
  
  "(Durham) calls them on the phone and gives them the chance to do the right thing," said executive producer JD Roth ("The Biggest Loser," "Beauty and the Geek").
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  Durham bills his clients 34% of whatever he collects.
  
  Roth counters that Durham's clients typically feel so abandoned by the court system that they're relieved to get any money at all.Plus, he said Durham is the only collector who extracts interest owed on the outstanding debt, so his clients often receive more money than if the absent dads had simply paid their bills.
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  Jim Durham, director of the National Child Support Center, functions as a sort of "Dog the Bounty Hunter" for tracking deadbeats.In the pilot, a financially destitute mom is contrasted with her wealthy ex-husband, who is living the high life.Durham confronts the man at his country club to shake him down in front his friends.It's ambush reality TV -- but for a noble cause.
  
  "(Durham) calls them on the phone and gives them the chance to do the right thing," said executive producer JD Roth ("The Biggest Loser," "Beauty and the Geek").
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  Durham bills his clients 34% of whatever he collects.
  
  Roth counters that Durham's clients typically feel so abandoned by the court system that they're relieved to get any money at all.Plus, he said Durham is the only collector who extracts interest owed on the outstanding debt, so his clients often receive more money than if the absent dads had simply paid their bills.

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  Published on: 4/30/2008    Last Visited: 8/17/2008  

  According to Reuters, in Bad Dads Jim Durham, director of the National Child Support Center, "functions as a sort of 'Dog the Bounty Hunter' for tracking deadbeats...[Durham's role is as] an avenger of penniless single mothers [who] hunts down deadbeat dads and forces them to pay child support...
  
  "In the pilot, a financially destitute mom is contrasted with her wealthy ex-husband, who is living the high life.Durham confronts the man at his country club to shake him down in front his friends.It's ambush reality TV."
  
  According to Reuters, Durham will target fathers who are behind on their child support by "making their lives miserable -- foreclosing on their house, repossessing their car.
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  In addition, child support collector Jim Durham, who is at the center of Fox's Bad Dads, has been the target of many custodial mothers' complaints.
  
  According to Reuters, "Child support collectors have come under fire for charging steep fees and using ultra-aggressive tactics. [Jim Durham, director of the National Child Support Center, who is the central figure in Bad Dads], bills his clients 34% of whatever he collects."
  
  SmartMoney magazine detailed private child support collections agencies' abuses in their article Mother's Little Helpers (8/2/02), and they specifically point to Durham as one of the leading culprits.According to SmartMoney:
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  In addition, child support collector Jim Durham, who is at the center of Fox's Bad Dads, has been the target of many custodial mothers' complaints.
  
  According to Reuters, "Child support collectors have come under fire for charging steep fees and using ultra-aggressive tactics. [Jim Durham, director of the National Child Support Center, who is the central figure in Bad Dads], bills his clients 34% of whatever he collects."
  
  SmartMoney magazine detailed private child support collections agencies' abuses in their article Mother's Little Helpers (8/2/02), and they specifically point to Durham as one of the leading culprits.According to SmartMoney:
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  According to Reuters, in the show Jim Durham, director of the National Child Support Center, "functions as a sort of 'Dog the Bounty Hunter' for tracking deadbeats...[Durham's role is as] an avenger of penniless single mothers [who] hunts down deadbeat dads and forces them to pay child support...It's ambush reality TV."
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  Jim Durham, director of the National Child Support Center, functions as a sort of "Dog the Bounty Hunter" for tracking deadbeats.In the pilot, a financially destitute mom is contrasted with her wealthy ex-husband, who is living the high life.Durham confronts the man at his country club to shake him down in front his friends.It's ambush reality TV -- but for a noble cause.
  
  "(Durham) calls them on the phone and gives them the chance to do the right thing," said executive producer JD Roth ("The Biggest Loser," "Beauty and the Geek").
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  Durham bills his clients 34% of whatever he collects.
  
  Roth counters that Durham's clients typically feel so abandoned by the court system that they're relieved to get any money at all.Plus, he said Durham is the only collector who extracts interest owed on the outstanding debt, so his clients often receive more money than if the absent dads had simply paid their bills.

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  Unscripted series in development at Lifetime include Camping with the In-Laws, a one-hour, closed-ended format that pits engaged couples and their respective future in-laws against each other through hilarious challenges, with Clay Newbill (The Bachelorette) and Spike Jones, Jr. (Animal Atlas) executive producing; and Deadbeat Dads, from executive producer JD Roth (The Biggest Loser), which follows National Child Support Founder Jim Durham's personal crusade to track down and confront deadbeat fathers.

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  According to The Hollywood Reporter, "Deadbeat Dads, originally developed at Fox, follows National Child Support founder Jim Durham as he tracks down and confronts dads who don't pay child support. According to Reuters, Durham "functions as a sort of 'Dog the Bounty Hunter' for tracking deadbeats...It's ambush reality TV. Durham will target fathers who are behind on their child support by "making their lives miserable - foreclosing on their house, repossessing their car. He will squeeze them."
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  Durham, the central figure in Deadbeat Dads, has often been singled out by women's groups as a perpetrator of these abusive tactics.

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  Published on: 9/15/2006    Last Visited: 1/16/2007  

  "It's an old wives' tale that half of these guys don't have the money to pay," said Jim Durham, founder of National Child Support, a private agency based in Cincinnati.
  
  Durham said he started his company 15 years ago, after he came across a woman panhandling on a road to feed her children.
  
  He says his team of 150 lawyers has smaller caseloads, so they can use collection tactics that government agencies don't have time for.
  
  "We're calling his neighbors, we're calling his relatives, we're calling his references," Durham said.

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  The show follows National Child Support founder Jim Durham as he confronts fathers who don't pay child support.

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  Published on: 4/28/2008    Last Visited: 8/17/2008  

  According to the Hollywood Reporter, Fox tagged Jim Durham, Director of the "National Child Support Center", as the leading lion of the event.Interestingly, this organization does not exist.
  
  The real name of the company Durham runs is "National Child Support" (NCS).The NCS is not a national or official organization -- it is a private for-profit fee-based collections agency located in Cincinnati, Ohio.Their website cannily does not identify Durham on its website, but Zoominfo tagged the truth.

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