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International Abduction Treaty Trumps Parental Rights, Says U.S. Supreme Court
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Mon, 17 May 2010 20:53 PM PDT
An order prohibiting the removal of a child from a country without the noncustodial parent's consent is enforceable under an international child abduction treaty, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday. In a dispute between the American mother and British father of a 15-year-old boy that has been closely watched by family and international law practitioners, the justices, voting 6-3, resolved a ...

 

 

 

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Supreme Court on Parental Rights

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International Abduction Treaty Trumps Parental Rights, Says U.S. Supreme Court
Law.com
Mon, 17 May 2010 20:53 PM PDT
An order prohibiting the removal of a child from a country without the noncustodial parent's consent is enforceable under an international child abduction treaty, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday. In a dispute between the American mother and British father of a 15-year-old boy that has been closely watched by family and international law practitioners, the justices, voting 6-3, resolved a ...

 



 

 

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Tuesday, May 18, 2010

6th Dist US Rep: Hoogendyk Submits Signatures!

He supported both Equal Parenting and Parental Rights in Michigan.

 

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We did it!  The first hurdle for the campaign has officially been cleared!  Yesterday, Jack turned in more than 1,500 signatures to get his name on the ballot, and is officially registered as a candidate.  There were signatures from every single county within the sixth district, gathered by a wide range of volunteers.  A huge thanks to every one of you who took the time and effort to make your voice heard.

 

So what's next?  Now that we're up and running, it's time for full campaign mode.  It is absolutely critical that voters are educated about Congressman Upton's voting record, and where Jack stands on the issues.  Which means this needs to be your campaign, not ours.  Significant change is always made at the grassroots level.  Liberal PACS and organizations are already pouring money into Fred's race (click HERE to see what groups are funding Fred's campaign), but liberal PACS will only drown out the voice of the people if we let them.

 

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So let me know how you can help, even if only in small ways, and let's send a message to Congress like they've never heard before!

 

 

 

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Holstein Squares off Against Leading CS Officials on NPR; MA's 3rd Largest Paper Endorses F & F's Shared Parenting Bill

 

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Holstein Squares off Against Leading CS Officials on NPR; MA's 3rd Largest Paper Endorses F & F's Shared Parenting Bill

May 18, 2010

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F & F's Holstein Squares off Against Leading Child Support Officials on NPR (Audio Available)

NPRThe call-in lines were jammed as Fathers & Families' Board Chairman Ned Holstein, M.D., M.S. debated two leading Ohio child support officials on NPR in Cleveland May 14.  To listen to audio of the show, click here. Dr. Holstein is on from 25:30 to 40:30. To comment on the NPR website, click here.

The show, The Sound of Ideas on Cleveland's NPR affiliate WCPN 90.3 FM is hosted by Cleveland Plain Dealer columnist Regina Brett.

Holstein debated Jennifer Bheam, the Director of the Summit County Child Support Enforcement Agency and John Galonski, Chief Assistant Prosecutor for Child Support, Summit County.

Holstein expressed Fathers & Families' view that while we believe all parents should support their children both emotionally and financially, the war on so-called "deadbeat dads" is often just a war against low-income/minority/hard luck fathers. This is particularly true in the recession.

Ned HolsteinHolstein illustrated this on the NPR program by reading the occupations of the "deadbeat" fathers on the Summit County child support officials' own website. In every case, the fathers are low income or unemployed, yet they supposedly owe large sums of money in back child support. Some of these men did not behave responsibly, but many others were victimized by problems within the child support system. One major problem is the difficulty child support obligors face in getting downward modifications after they have lost their jobs or suffered a drop in income.

Holstein also emphasized that fathers throughout history have worked hard and sacrificed enormously for their children, and that some of the fathers who do refuse to pay child support have done so in part because they feel they have been unfairly driven to the margins of their children's lives. Fathers & Families does not condone this behavior, but we do understand it, and we believe that protecting the loving bonds children share with both parents should be family courts' top priority.

To learn more about problems with the child support system in Ohio and nationally, see our column Ohio Pizza Box/'Deadbeat Dad' Campaign Unfairly Stigmatizes Fathers (Cincinnati Post, 4/2/07).


Worcester Telegram & Gazette
, MA's 3rd Largest Paper, Publishes Strong Editorial in Favor of HB 1400, F & F's Shared Parenting Bill


telegram"Instead of a father having to fight for time with the children he loves, the legal system would assume that he merits equal time, and spend its time working out the details and practicalities of a given case...."

The Worcester Telegram and Gazette, Massachusetts 3rd largest newspaper, has published a strong editorial in favor of HB 1400, Fathers & Families' shared parenting bill. The editorial comes on the heels of the op-ed by Fathers & Families' Board Chairman Ned Holstein Time for shared parenting (Worcester Telegram & Gazette, 4/29/10).

Both are the result of an Editorial Board meeting Holstein, F & F Deputy Director Melissa Hodgdon, and Massachusetts shared parenting activist Peter Hill had with the newspaper's Editorial Board last month. F & F also helped persuade the Boston Globe to become first major newspaper in country to endorse shared parenting in principle in an editorial (Feb 23, 2008), meaning that two of the three largest newspapers in Massachusetts have now endorsed shared parenting. Thanks again to Peter Hill for his dedicated and effective activism.

In their editorial Fairness for fathers: Bill makes sense for most divorces (Worcester Telegram and Gazette, 5/13/10), the newspaper's Editorial Board writes:

By smoothing the way toward sound custody agreements, House Bill 1400 offers help in the vast majority of cases: those involving two fit parents.

Advocates point out that the current practice in Massachusetts, in which the mother is the presumed custodial parent, encourages conflict. The Shared Parenting bill would require that courts handling separation and divorce agreements work from the presumption that both parents should share physical and legal custody.

That, says the advocacy group Fathers & Families, encourages cooperation and keeps the focus on what is best for children. Instead of a father having to fight for time with the children he loves, the legal system would assume that he merits equal time, and spend its time working out the details and practicalities of a given case. Shared parenting needn't be a rigid 50-50 split; the mere assumption that both parents deserve ample time eases tensions, and the eventual agreement arrived at depends on a host of factors...

The bill, it must be emphasized, is for families in which both parents are fit and no other problem gets in the way, such as parents living far apart. Judges would depart from the shared-parenting starting point whenever the best interests of the child so dictated, giving written reasons.

This simple bill, currently before the Joint Committee on the Judiciary, offers an enormous and welcome change in how families would navigate marriage dissolution...

Read the full editorial here. To post a comment on it on the newspaper's site, click here.

 

Massachusetts Child Support Action Alert

We need your help to lower interest on Massachusetts child support arrearages!

The Massachusetts Department of Revenue's Child Support Enforcement Division will hold a public hearing on a proposed regulation to lower interest on child support arrearages on Friday, May 21. The current interest rate on child support arrearages is an outrageous 18%.

Fathers & Families will be attending the Massachusetts Department of Revenue's hearing on child support interest. We need you there to support this needed change in current regulations.

If you are interested in attending, please contact Deputy Director Melissa Hodgdon via email or (617) 542-9300.

To view the Department of Revenue's announcement, click here.

 

 

 

What's Happening

New Zealand Dad in a Coma Still Has to Pay Child Support

NJ Court Says ‘Yes' to Civil Suits for Parental Kidnapping, False Claims of Abuse


TN: Single Dad Stops Adoption; To Get Custody of Daughter


Mom: 'We're all just one accusation away from the sex offender registry.'


Essay Review - 'Kangaroo Court: Family Law in Australia,' By John Hirst

Recommended Reading for New Yorker's Janet Malcolm - Police Say Mother Hires Hit on Father During Custody Fight

 

 

 

Kids & Dads

Hero Father Gets Hit by Car to Save Infant Son

Hero Father

Watch the MSNBC video here.

 

 

 

Are You a Disabled or Partially Disabled Parent?
If so, Please Let Us Know

Fathers & Families has joined with the American Retirees Association in co-sponsoring the disabled parents bill SB 1188, which passed the Senate Judiciary Committee on May 4.

If you are a disabled or partially-disabled parent, please fill out our form here. Your participation helps build our political strength and ability to make family court reform.

 

 

 

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Holstein Squares off Against Leading CS Officials on NPR; MA's 3rd Largest Paper Endorses F & F's Shared Parenting Bill

 

 

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Holstein Squares off Against Leading CS Officials on NPR; MA's 3rd Largest Paper Endorses F & F's Shared Parenting Bill

May 18, 2010

Top Stories

F & F's Holstein Squares off Against Leading Child Support Officials on NPR (Audio Available)

NPRThe call-in lines were jammed as Fathers & Families' Board Chairman Ned Holstein, M.D., M.S. debated two leading Ohio child support officials on NPR in Cleveland May 14.  To listen to audio of the show, click here. Dr. Holstein is on from 25:30 to 40:30. To comment on the NPR website, click here.

The show, The Sound of Ideas on Cleveland's NPR affiliate WCPN 90.3 FM is hosted by Cleveland Plain Dealer columnist Regina Brett.

Holstein debated Jennifer Bheam, the Director of the Summit County Child Support Enforcement Agency and John Galonski, Chief Assistant Prosecutor for Child Support, Summit County.

Holstein expressed Fathers & Families' view that while we believe all parents should support their children both emotionally and financially, the war on so-called "deadbeat dads" is often just a war against low-income/minority/hard luck fathers. This is particularly true in the recession.

Ned HolsteinHolstein illustrated this on the NPR program by reading the occupations of the "deadbeat" fathers on the Summit County child support officials' own website. In every case, the fathers are low income or unemployed, yet they supposedly owe large sums of money in back child support. Some of these men did not behave responsibly, but many others were victimized by problems within the child support system. One major problem is the difficulty child support obligors face in getting downward modifications after they have lost their jobs or suffered a drop in income.

Holstein also emphasized that fathers throughout history have worked hard and sacrificed enormously for their children, and that some of the fathers who do refuse to pay child support have done so in part because they feel they have been unfairly driven to the margins of their children's lives. Fathers & Families does not condone this behavior, but we do understand it, and we believe that protecting the loving bonds children share with both parents should be family courts' top priority.

To learn more about problems with the child support system in Ohio and nationally, see our column Ohio Pizza Box/'Deadbeat Dad' Campaign Unfairly Stigmatizes Fathers (Cincinnati Post, 4/2/07).


Worcester Telegram & Gazette
, MA's 3rd Largest Paper, Publishes Strong Editorial in Favor of HB 1400, F & F's Shared Parenting Bill


telegram"Instead of a father having to fight for time with the children he loves, the legal system would assume that he merits equal time, and spend its time working out the details and practicalities of a given case...."

The Worcester Telegram and Gazette, Massachusetts 3rd largest newspaper, has published a strong editorial in favor of HB 1400, Fathers & Families' shared parenting bill. The editorial comes on the heels of the op-ed by Fathers & Families' Board Chairman Ned Holstein Time for shared parenting (Worcester Telegram & Gazette, 4/29/10).

Both are the result of an Editorial Board meeting Holstein, F & F Deputy Director Melissa Hodgdon, and Massachusetts shared parenting activist Peter Hill had with the newspaper's Editorial Board last month. F & F also helped persuade the Boston Globe to become first major newspaper in country to endorse shared parenting in principle in an editorial (Feb 23, 2008), meaning that two of the three largest newspapers in Massachusetts have now endorsed shared parenting. Thanks again to Peter Hill for his dedicated and effective activism.

In their editorial Fairness for fathers: Bill makes sense for most divorces (Worcester Telegram and Gazette, 5/13/10), the newspaper's Editorial Board writes:

By smoothing the way toward sound custody agreements, House Bill 1400 offers help in the vast majority of cases: those involving two fit parents.

Advocates point out that the current practice in Massachusetts, in which the mother is the presumed custodial parent, encourages conflict. The Shared Parenting bill would require that courts handling separation and divorce agreements work from the presumption that both parents should share physical and legal custody.

That, says the advocacy group Fathers & Families, encourages cooperation and keeps the focus on what is best for children. Instead of a father having to fight for time with the children he loves, the legal system would assume that he merits equal time, and spend its time working out the details and practicalities of a given case. Shared parenting needn't be a rigid 50-50 split; the mere assumption that both parents deserve ample time eases tensions, and the eventual agreement arrived at depends on a host of factors...

The bill, it must be emphasized, is for families in which both parents are fit and no other problem gets in the way, such as parents living far apart. Judges would depart from the shared-parenting starting point whenever the best interests of the child so dictated, giving written reasons.

This simple bill, currently before the Joint Committee on the Judiciary, offers an enormous and welcome change in how families would navigate marriage dissolution...

Read the full editorial here. To post a comment on it on the newspaper's site, click here.

 

Massachusetts Child Support Action Alert

We need your help to lower interest on Massachusetts child support arrearages!

The Massachusetts Department of Revenue's Child Support Enforcement Division will hold a public hearing on a proposed regulation to lower interest on child support arrearages on Friday, May 21. The current interest rate on child support arrearages is an outrageous 18%.

Fathers & Families will be attending the Massachusetts Department of Revenue's hearing on child support interest. We need you there to support this needed change in current regulations.

If you are interested in attending, please contact Deputy Director Melissa Hodgdon via email or (617) 542-9300.

To view the Department of Revenue's announcement, click here.

 

 

 

What's Happening

New Zealand Dad in a Coma Still Has to Pay Child Support

NJ Court Says ‘Yes' to Civil Suits for Parental Kidnapping, False Claims of Abuse


TN: Single Dad Stops Adoption; To Get Custody of Daughter


Mom: 'We're all just one accusation away from the sex offender registry.'


Essay Review - 'Kangaroo Court: Family Law in Australia,' By John Hirst

Recommended Reading for New Yorker's Janet Malcolm - Police Say Mother Hires Hit on Father During Custody Fight

 

 

 

Kids & Dads

Hero Father Gets Hit by Car to Save Infant Son

Hero Father

Watch the MSNBC video here.

 

 

 

Are You a Disabled or Partially Disabled Parent?
If so, Please Let Us Know

Fathers & Families has joined with the American Retirees Association in co-sponsoring the disabled parents bill SB 1188, which passed the Senate Judiciary Committee on May 4.

If you are a disabled or partially-disabled parent, please fill out our form here. Your participation helps build our political strength and ability to make family court reform.

 

 

 

Join Fathers & Families

faf logo
Fathers and Families is a family court reform organization with a comprehensive strategy, an impressive history of legislative and fundraising success, and the largest reach of any advocacy group of its kind:

 

 

 

 

© 2010. Fathers & Families. All Rights Reserved.


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