HOUSTON -- Note: The following story is a verbatim transcript of an Investigators story that aired on Friday, May 4, 2007, on KPRC Local 2 at 10 p.m.

A child support mix-up -- earlier this week, we showed you the struggle to get deadbeat parents to pay up.

Now, one father with sole custody is not the only one trying to get the money he's owed, but he's also trying to prove he's not the one who should be paying.

Tonight, KPRC Local 2 investigative reporter Robert Arnold clears up the child support confusion.

"I need some help now," said Eddie Storey, who is owed child support.

For eight years, Eddie Storey has been battling his ex-wife to pay her portion of child support. First, using private attorneys.

"I spent thousands of dollars of my own money on attorneys," he said.

Two years ago Storey says he could no longer afford private attorneys so he turned to the attorney general's office for help in collecting the money from his ex.

"It's all been a game of do this and wait, do this and wait, do this and wait. And nothing actually ever happens," he said.

After two years of trying to get the AG's office to go after his ex-wife, Storey finally got a response.

"I was livid, absolutely livid," he said.

"This is the letter he received. The AG wasn't going after his ex-wife. It reads the office was threatening to go after him for not paying child support. One big problem with that -- Storey has had sole custody of his children for eight years," Arnold reported.

"They were like, 'Oh well, it was just a mistake. You were the first name on the record,'" Storey said.

"So, they just assumed it was the dad and sent you the letter?" Arnold said.

This isn't the first time Storey had to fend off the attorney general's office.

"I think the people in this office need to understand they are directly involved in peoples' lives and peoples' standards of living," Storey said.

Before winning sole custody of his kids, Storey was ordered to pay child support. In 1997, his ex-wife claimed he was shirking his responsibilities.

"She just went in and said, 'My ex-husband is not paying child support. I need help,'" Storey said.

His ex made that claim even though these records show Storey was making child support payments. Nonetheless, the AG's office put a collection notice on his credit.

"I went in and applied for a car, to get a car loan and they said, 'No, we can't give you a car loan because you've got this outstanding collection,'" Storey said.

Storey cleared up that problem, won sole custody of his kids and is still waiting for the attorney general to go after his ex-wife for not paying her child support.

"I don't know if they don't know or if they don't care, but for some reason the work that needs to get done, doesn't get done," Storey said.

The attorney general's office admits it should never have put that collection notice on Storey's credit. It was a mistake.

As for his ex-wife, since we spoke with officials in Austin about Storey's case, we were told they are now in the process of filing an enforcement action against her.