Douglas County has 38,000 child support cases and it's only fair to those who pay on time that the state tracks down those who don't.

But aggressive bill collecting can lead to mistakes and there’s one parent Channel 6 talked with who says he's been labeled a deadbeat dad unfairly.

His business is marriage but a divorce worries bridal shop owner Adam Scott Guy because he says the state has billed the wrong guy for back child support.

"You open mail and get a nice $85,000 surprise. I didn't even know I had three kids," says Guy.

Adam Scott Guy is happily married with a three-year-old child at home.

But in the mail he's received an $85,000 bill for court-ordered child support on three children owed by a different man by the same name.

Guy says “Find this guy who's a deadbeat and punish him. Don't punish me just cause I have the same name."

But the bill and a follow-up state child support letter came to this Guy's address.

“We don't take any legal action in child support unless we verify addresses via two different independent sources. So we do try to insure we absolutely have the current address. But things do happen when you deal with thousands of kids and thousands of cases," says Kelly Lamson with Child Support Services.

It’s a mistake the state says it will correct.

Adam Scott Guy and his wife just purchased a shop for brides and grooms and they're concerned about divorcing their credit from this mistake in child support collection.

"Something like this comes along, someone could say ‘hey, wait a minute this guy is owing serious back child support,’ but no, it's not me," says Guy.

But in calls to Child Support Services this Adam Scott Guy has been assured that records on deadbeat parents will show that he's the wrong Guy.

Though mistakes like this are rare, Nebraska Child Support Services will make computer corrections quickly so the wrong person isn't billed continually for back child support.

The department says the key is to alert its employees to the error right away.

Scott Guy says he'll check his credit reports repeatedly to make sure the mistaken bill doesn't show up.