[Note: This is a start and escalation of states assaulting the poorest of the poor, which will ultimately create many non-custodial parents to be jailed.........thus increasing incarceration grants for states along with revenue from child support collections for states to generate income because of losses that they are having due to the down-turned economy. States are beginning to make adjustments in their operations folks during this slow economy to make up for losses and they are implementing a full force attack towards and on us citizens. This is the beginning of the end I fear and things will get very bad and worse than they have been concerning the WAR ON FAMILYS........they have to maintain their profiteering and federal incentive monies somehow!, this is just one way. Notice below highlighted in red....I fear we will begin to see all states start inplementing changes such as these to maintain their crooked federally funded incentive programs, which are in danger of showing losses due to the bad economy. There is only one way for these crooks to maintain revenue and that is to further drain the people of the United States........us folks!]
Commission: Boost child support payments from low-income parents
By Mary Garrigan, Journal staff
Child support obligations for non-custodial parents will start at $216 per month for even the lowest-income South Dakotans if new guidelines proposed by the Governor’s Commission on Child Support are adopted by the 2009 Legislature.
Every four years, after public hearings held throughout the state, child support guidelines and statutes are reviewed by the commission, which issues a report and recommendations to the governor and the Legislature. The laws are used to set child support amounts among divorced, separated and never-married parents and parents in situations that otherwise involve a continued absence of the parent or child from the home, such as incarceration.
This year’s report included 10 recommendations, any or all of which would become state law if approved by the 2009 Legislature.
The recommendations include: [Read more →]
Tags: Child Support · Courts and Legislatures
January 4th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Touchstone is a prestigious and influential magazine of Christian thought. So this article, headlined on the cover, is an important event. It could not have come at a better time, with the possibility of Taken Into Custody going out of print. Please use this article to get media attention, particularly in the Christian media, which is what we need more than anything.
The outpouring of support over Taken Into Custody has been very gratifying and successful. Yesterday the book rocketed up above the 5,000 Amazon rating and was #1 in several catgories. This article should assist in getting a reprieve for TIC. Please send it to your church leaders and members, media, local officials, and other opinion leaders.
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Tags: Best Interest · Child Support · Courts and Legislatures · Marriage Movement · NCP Fathers · Protests and Groups
January 3rd, 2009 · 1 Comment
Received the following from Stephen Baskerville:
Cumberland House Publishing is being sold, and unless action is taken soon, Taken Into Custody will go out of print. This is serious for two reasons: First copies will no longer be available. Second, if this book does not succeed, no other book on the abuses of family court and the divorce industry will be published for a very long time. Publishers make decisions based on what sells. If you want your own book published, please help with the success of this one.
This is urgent, as it could go out of print in a matter of days.
Two things must be done:
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Tags: News
January 3rd, 2009 · 1 Comment
Banned dad&squo;s agonising loss | Herald Sun
Laurie Nowell
December 07, 2008 12:00am
“STEVE” has been barred from seeing his daughter for seven years.
He has never harmed his only child or her mother. He has never threatened them and a court has accepted he is of good character.
But last week, after a tortuous 10-year journey through four courts, more than 20 hearings, 12 psychologists and six lawyers, he was told he could not see his daughter until she came of age.
Steve, whose real name cannot be revealed for legal reasons, has gone through more than 20 intrusive psychological examinations, while daughter “Molly” has endured seven.
He says he has spent more than $100,000 in 10 years.
His wife twice raised sexual-abuse allegations, proven false after months of investigation.
But the court accepted she would “shut down” emotionally if Steve was allowed to see his daughter and that her distress would affect her parenting skills.
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Tags: Best Interest · Courts and Legislatures · Custody · Judicial Misconduct · NCP Fathers
December 15th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Arrests after fathers’ rights ‘fart gas attack’
By James McKeigue
15/12/2008
TWO people, one of them a 41-year-old man from Epsom, have been arrested following a “fart gas attack” by fathers’ rights campaigners on trade union offices in south London.
The Real Fathers For Justice group confirmed it targeted the premises of Napo - the trade union for family court staff - claiming those that support the family laws system “stink”.
The Metropolitan Police said officers were called to Chivalry Road, Clapham, at 1pm on Friday.
A spokeswoman said: “Two arrests were made… two men, 41 and 44-years-old, were bailed to return for questioning at a later date.
“Nobody was injured,” she added.
Real Fathers For Justice spokesman Mike Kelly said: “We attacked this union because we wanted to get the message across that the biased family laws system and those that support it stink.”
He also promised more fathers’ rights protests in the future.
Tags: NCP Fathers · Protests and Groups
November 10th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Westminster The husband of Harriet Harman, the Deputy Labour Leader, described his horror, alarm and distress at what he thought were burglars trying to break into his home, who turned out to be fathers’ rights protesters.
Jack Dromey, the Labour Party treasurer, told the City of Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London that he had been woken at the family home in Herne Hill, southeast London, in June by loud thumping as two Fathers 4 Justice campaigners, Jolly Stanesby and Mark Harris, both from south Devon, climbed up on to the roof of the house dressed as comic book heroes to make a demonstration. [Read more →]
Tags: NCP Fathers · Protests and Groups
November 10th, 2008 · 5 Comments
LANDMARK laws that promote equal parenting time for separated couples are emotionally damaging children, according to lawyers and psychologists.
Brisbane-based former Family Court judge Tim Carmody has branded the push towards shared parental responsibility and 50-50 parenting time “a failure”.
Case study: Read Mia’s sad story
He said the onus to apply equal shared parenting orders was part of the reason he resigned from the bench in July.
“It created a real crisis for me,” Mr Carmody said. “I just couldn’t keep doing it.”
The orders appear to fly in the face of exceptions to the legislation, such as family violence or when equal time with parents is not “reasonably practicable”.
Melbourne child psychologist Jennifer McIntosh said children in 50-50 care risked developing higher than average levels of sadness, anxiety, clinginess and other mental health problems. [Read more →]
Tags: Best Interest · Custody · NCP Fathers
A member of the board of directors from a chain of abuse shelters contacted us last week. They brought forth a total of 187 current and former employees who are willing to testify to the abuses of shelter residents, falsification of funding requests, embezzlement, padding of resident numbers, sexual harassment of residents, and others throughout a chain of abuse shelters in Florida. We can not disclose the name or location (beyond the state) of this chain of shelters.
The witnesses said that they can prove every item we exposed in our piece, “Congressional Guidelines for Abusing Women” and more, including specific grants violations under HUD, VAWA, VOCA and others.
True Equality Network has been requested to manage the deposition of the witness, due to the witnesses’ distrust of the legal system. TEN has agreed to do this. In order to accomplish this project we are going to need to find a few attorneys willing to help depose the witnesses – pro bono, raise money to cover running expenses and set-up a temporary office in Florida to run the operation from (this could be a extended stay suite or the like or a borrowed apartment, home, or office space) for approximately two months. For security reasons the temporary office can not be shared space.
Additionally, the witnesses have requested that we find an investigative reporter to work with them to document this story. We need your help to locate all of the above.
Stay tuned for updates…
Yours truly,
Terri Lynn Tersak
President & C.E.O.
True Equality Network
member - Affiliate
R.A.D.A.R.: Respecting Accuracy in Domestic Abuse Reporting
P.O. Box 14214
Research Triangle Park NC 27709
919.442.7200
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Tags: Domestic Violence · News Release · Protests and Groups
Subject: EJF newsletter - Nat. Inst. of Mental Health funded study of abused men 6/21/08
Researchers at Clark University and Bridgewater State College are conducting a study on men who experience aggression from their girlfriends, wives, or female partners. If you are a man between the ages of 18-59 and have experienced aggression from your partner within the past 12 months, you may be eligible to participate in this study. We invite you to follow this link to the study webpage where you can complete an Internet survey about your experiences. Link: www.clarku.edu/faculty/dhines and click the link on the left side of the page to participate.
Their aim is to have at least 500 male victims complete this survey so that sound, empirical information about male victims and their experiences can be provided in the hopes of making domestic violence services more widely available to them.
If you have questions please don’t hesitate to contact the principal investigator.
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Denise A. Hines, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor
Clark University
Department of Psychology
950 Main St.
Worcester, MA 01610
Office: Jonas Clark Room 346
Phone: 508-793-7458
Fax: 508-793-7265
Email: dhines@clarku.edu
URL: http://www.clarku.edu/faculty/dhines
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Tags: News
Judith Lucas of the NJ Star-Ledger is the reporter that wrote this piece of YELLOW JOURNALISM trash about “Operation Falcon” (see below).
Here’s a quote, so you’ll understand the outrage:
“Sheriff’s officers, marshals and county police scoured the state last week for violent fugitives and sexual predators — and parents who are months behind on their child support. ”
She’s essentially putting child support obligors with sexual predators and violent fugitives.
Here some comments from Bruce Eden, and then follows the article below, along with the article’s author email.
Bruce Eden writes:
She didn’t take the time to contact any fathers rights organization leaders like myself to show the injustices of the entire draconian child support enforcement system, and that in NJ the Supreme Court, in the 2006 ruling of Pasqua v. Council, 186 N.J. 127 (2006), and Administrative Office of the Courts require that Directive #18-06 be followed before any CIVIL child support DEBTOR can be arrested (e.g., ability to pay hearings, right to indigency hearings, right to appointed counsel hearings). The fact remains, that child support is a CIVIL matter where there is NO PROBABLE CAUSE to arrest. According to the United States Courts of Appeals and United States Supreme Court, probable cause to arrest can ONLY EXIST in CRIMINAL cases; it does not exist in CIVIL cases.
Therefore, anyone arrested and falsely imprisoned for a CIVIL child support DEBT ( in violation of the NJ Constitutional PROHIBITION, Article I, Section 13, which says that there can be NO IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT in ANY action) , has legal recourse for civil rights and monetary damages against those who arrested and falsely imprisoned them.
Again, we see the newspapers doing the “dirty work” for law enforcement and government violations of rights, but the innocent public be damned. This is nothing more than irresponsible, YELLOW journalism.
Bruce Eden, Civil Rights Director
DADS (Dads Against Discrimination)–New Jersey & New York Chapters
973-616-9558
b_eden@verizon.net____________________________________________________________
Newark, NJ–From State roundup results in 1,600 arrests–Operation targets violent fugitives, deadbeat parents and sexual predators (Newark Star-Ledger, 6/17/08):
- Sheriff’s officers, marshals and county police scoured the state last week for violent fugitives and sexual predators — and parents who are months behind on their child support.
- By Friday, there were more than 1,600 arrests.
- “There is no question, we go after these people because they raise public awareness,” U.S. Marshal James T. Plousis said. “We have to keep the word out there: If you are wanted, we are going to catch you.”
- Alleged gangsters and businessmen alike were pushed into unmarked police cars over the course of the week…
- In Union County, 42 parents from towns including Rahway, Roselle, Linden and Summit were arrested Tuesday through Thursday. All had to come up with immediate cash or face jail time. The county collected $4,413 in support payments from them…
- Today, with Maureen Kanka at his side for an 11 a.m. news conference in Trenton, Plousis will highlight the successes of the weeklong operation.
- Kanka’s daughter, Megan, was raped and killed by a sexual predator who lived in their neighborhood. Her death gave birth to Megan’s Law, which requires local governments to notify residents when a sexual offender moves into the vicinity.
- Marshals helped with the county operations, assisting sheriff’s and county officers in arresting 1,020 people who were reported behind in their child support…
- Morris County Sheriff Edward Rochford, who also serves as president for the Sheriffs Association of New Jersey, said: “It’s tough. The economy is tanking, but you’ve got to take care of your children.”
A few points:
1) Isn’t it lovely how law enforcement and the media lump fathers who are behind in their child support in with violent criminals?
2) Given that there are violent criminals out there, why are we wasting police resources going after fathers who are behind in their child support largely because they’re poor?
3) Child support enforcement officials love to pretend that “deadbeat dads” are living high on the hog with their sports cars and trophy wives. Yet let’s examine this sentence–”42 parents…were arrested…All had to come up with immediate cash or face jail time. The county collected $4,413 in support payments from them.” In other words, these men paid everything they possibly could because they wanted to avoid jail, and the amount they paid is a whopping $105 each. Where are the high-flying deadbeats we’re always told about?
4) One official did have a few brain cells firing. Morris County Sheriff Edward Rochford said: “It’s tough. The economy is tanking, but you’ve got to take care of your children.” Gee, you think? Funny how everybody is so worried about the recession and our economic woes, yet the minute you say “deadbeat dad” all that stuff goes out the window. Rochford, to his credit, is apparently something of an exception.
5) The reporter, Judith Lucas, can be reached at jlucas@starledger.com or (908) 527-4011. Perhaps readers could attempt to enlighten her a little as to the problems faced by child support obligors.
