Who's your daddy? Paternity tests put doubts to rest

Indeed, this is probably the worst case that you can think of, doubting the validity of your child.   And there's that old chivilric impulse.  What type of a man denies he's the father?   But when the child isn't yours, that becomes an issue of fraud.

 

entertainment.iafrica.com | news Osama 'wanted to marry Whitney'

Okay, all I have to say about this one: he had to be talking the pre-crack Whitney Houston.  I don't care how long you are out in the dunies or how long you spend in Africa, you'd turn to "manlove" before you tapped that.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/18/us/18gibson.html?_r=1&hp&ex=1155873600&en=77f3e84264890da6&ei=5094&partner=homepage&oref=slogin

So Mel gets to go to some bad meetings, swill coffee, and confess that he is "powerless" around alcohol (and apparantly Jews as well).  Nice, real nice.  Can we get an atheist in Malibu to protest this slap on the wrist.  Seriously, the guy endangered other people's lives.   If that had been any of us, we would have been bent over the bunk while Bubba let us "develop a personal contact with our Higher Power".

What a freaking joke.

Promoting Fathers Rights and Helping noncustodial (ncp) Mothers Win in Family Court for Custody, Visitation and Lower Child Support

This law is one of those that debinitely needs to be passed, and if it is passed in North Dakota, hopefully, we can get one like this in the Ballot in Colorado.  However, it is no surprise that the governor would opposte it.  Somebody obviously got in his ear and told him money would decrease.

Why?  The federal law doesn't require you to declare a non-custodial parent.  It just says that child support payments should not be greater than the costs requried to raise a child.  Nothing about that law is in violation of the Federal statutes.

Promoting Fathers Rights and Helping noncustodial (ncp) Mothers Win in Family Court for Custody, Visitation and Lower Child Support

This law is one of those that debinitely needs to be passed, and if it is passed in North Dakota, hopefully, we can get one like this in the Ballot in Colorado.  However, it is no surprise that the governor would opposte it.  Somebody obviously got in his ear and told him money would decrease.

Why?  The federal law doesn't require you to declare a non-custodial parent.  It just says that child support payments should not be greater than the costs requried to raise a child.  Nothing about that law is in violation of the Federal statutes.

Ms. Suares:

 

I am writing in regards to your child support enforcement
article (http://www.wlbt.com/Global/story.asp?S=5271171&nav=menu119_3)
, which seemed, like several I have read in this area, very biased and
one-sided against the non-custodial Parents, highlighting the efforts to track
down these "deadbeats" and give them forty lashes in the town
square.  However, you failed to ask
several questions in this case:

 

1.  Specifically,
of the $810 million you mention in your article that remains uncollected, about
how much of that is principal and how much of that is interest and
penalties?  Also, how much of that $810
million is determined based upon imputed income, which is highly skewed and
assumes full employment at a job that the judge and the custodial parent imagine
that non-custodial parent is at (or should be at).

2.  You also fail
to mention the response of many of these non-custodial parents, who often times
are beaten down and cowed by a system that seems to favor the first to the
courtroom door and plagues the other sides with demands and accusations,
oftentimes forcing the NCP into a situation where hiding from the system seems
to be a better option.  Of course this
could be understood. 
"Deadbeats" and "fugitives" do not always find their
way out to talk to reporters like yourself.

3.  You also
finally fail to mention the other side, parents who want to pay their child
support but who have found themselves on tough times economically.  What about them?  What options do the Mississippi Department of
Human Services give to the parents that lost the custody battle?  All you have is a single statement from a
custodial parent "I encourage everyone who is a single parent to come out
and DHS will support you," [Single Mom Angela Robinson] says.  By the way, I find it oddly amusing to see
the sanctity that you invest the title Single Mother with, even going out of
your way to make it a proper noun while you leave the "deadbeats" and
"fugitives" with much more common nouns.

Finally, if you do have a response portion of your show,
a question from me in response to this quote:

MDHS Director Don Taylor has a message for parents:
"You need to look at what you're doing now and ask yourself, 'Is this how
I want my child to remember me?'"

Mr. Taylor, how do you want the children to remember the
non-custodial parent?  As somebody beaten
down by the system, existing paycheck to paycheck but making sure you and the
other fat-cats down at the public trough get yours?

I'm sure you will be quick to respond to this letter, but
in case you do not, I am publishing this letter online as I will any response
you wish to utter.  I am, after all, fair
and objective, something that seems to be lacking in your story.

 

Mr. John Meyer

Non-Custodial Parent

Pueblo, CO

 

P.S. If you are seeking a telephone number for a
confirmation of this response, I will be more than happy to send you one should
you want to use this letter.

 

WLBT 3 - Jackson, MS: Child Support Enforcement Month

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&pubid=968163964505&cid=1155120845141&col=1053692575155&call_page=TSS_MoreSports&call_pageid=969907740050&call_pagepath=Sports/MoreSports

Two things I love about this article:
1.  The fact that he had a bulletproof vest and loaded weapons.  I'm sure we all roll with our heat locked and loaded just in case we get transported to towntown Beiruit.
2.  The fact that this dude is constitutionally incapable of "staying in his shoes".  Stay in your shoes for a year, you'll come back as a backup or something.

Senate rejects GOP estate tax cut - Politics - MSNBC.com

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14176214/

 
Well, once again, the American people get the shaft.  While this austere body has raised its own
wages time and time again, American workers are still strung along at a rate of
$5.15 an hour.  Since the last increase
in 1997, Congress has raised its own rate from $133,600 all the way to $165,200
(a increase of 24 percent), not to mention the health benefits subsidized by
the American government.  At that same
time.  The buying power for that hourly
rate has decreased in buying power by 15%. 
This does not count the increase in health care premiums that have been
laid upon working families.

It's time to call on Congress to increase the minimum
wage.  While they are taking out their
billions for both NCPs and CPs, they are giving themselves fat pay increases
(and making sure that dead billionaires aren't burdened with taxes).  In fact, this partly isn't true.  Congress hasn't voted for a pay
increase...they don't need to.  It's
written into the law that their pay is increased according to inflation.

And this is not only the rant of somebody at the
bottom.  The chief of Wall Mart has
called for an increase in the minimum wage http://money.cnn.com/2005/10/25/news/fortune500/walmart_wage/  Businesses have taken tax cuts and contracts
while promising millions of jobs, only to stick the American public while they
run overseas with the good jobs, leaving Americans to go on the public
dole.  If they take the tax increases,
they can take a couple of minimum wage increases. 
You will hear the whinings on the right that an increase in the minimum wage will hurt entry level jobs and cause employers to shutter up.  But I cannot see how an increase of only $2/hour, when the wages have been held so artificially low, will cause much, if any, loss of jobs.  Furthermore, this has a fatal flaw in the arguement, somehow that companies will get the same rate and productivity out of lower paid workers than they will out of higher paid workers.  Cities that have increased the wages because Congress have not have not found that jobs left; if anything, they have found that the jobs that stay are quality jobs.
And if a job or two leaves.  Well, I'd quote Samuel Gomper in this one:  "if a company cannot aford to pay its workers a decent wage, maybe it shouldn't be in business in the first place."  Until a raise is passed. Congress should vote
to forego the next increase in their own wages. 
And if they don't, then the American people should tell them to hit the
streets and look for their next job.

 

NO PAY RAISE FOR THE PEOPLE = NO PAY RAISE FOR CONGRESS

Rocky Mountain News: Local

So, remember all you NCP's check your bank accounts for theft and fraud....not what the state of Nebraska is perpetrating on you, mind you.

NYS Child Support Collections Top $1.5 Billion

The words "fraud" "harassment" and "uncaring" come to mind.  A system where lawyers have risen to the top and the non-custodial parent is now treated as a cash cow.  Let's look at this article.  From the text:

More than 6,700
families have been enrolled in access and visitation groups across the
state. The goal of this initiative is to improve parent’s individual
and cooperative parenting skills and to improve the non-custodial
parent’s attitudes leading to greater compliance with child support
obligations. Over 11,800 children have benefited from the programs.

The goal here seems not to seek input from the non-custodial side, but to "improv the non-custodial parent's attitudes".  The message here is simple and clear: if you are an NCP you are a cash cow; speak up, and you're a deadbeat and we'll do anything and everything in our power to "improve your attitude."  We're not interested in your opinions, we're not interested in you, shut up and fork over the money.