Family Court Reports

For Immediate Release

Parental Rights Organizations Across the Nation to Encroach on Washington DC for Civil Rights Event.

Oakland County, Michigan ———- Children’s and
Parent’s Rights organizations from across the nation are scheduled to
encroach on Washington DC this August 15 & 16 at the Upper Senate
Park. Why? Because government policies do not reflect what is truly
best for children and good parents. The event is bringing the major
issues facing parents to the legislators’ doorsteps, their backyards,
and their offices.

A coalition of numerous individuals, organizations, and agencies
that grows daily as August draws near, aim to bring solutions to many
crises that are affecting America in this landmark event. This event is
not to be confused with last year’s successful event, a rally held
under the name DC RALLY 2007 and organized largely by Minister Ronald
Smith of Children Need Both Parents, Inc. which is scheduled again for
2009.

“Where we have a government that thinks it has the apparent
authority to confiscate children at will, as we can see from the recent
issues in Texas earlier this year, something needs to be done.” states
Lary Holland, one of the organizers of this event. He further states,
“we are dealing with a fundamental liberty and civil rights issue that
has to be recognized and respected by our government, the protected
right of parenthood.”

Various groups across the nation aren’t willing to compromise
liberty and let their government run on autopilot any longer.
“Somewhere along the lines, the government stopped believing that the
Constitution was a restriction on them and not a restriction on the
people,” according to Holland. This event will also be welcoming a
number of cyclists that are pedaling bicycles from Michigan’s Capitol
all the way to Washington DC to support a child’s right to two parents.

For more information about this historic civil rights event,
individuals and groups may contact “Write to Parent” at 800-883-9619.
Organizations that have not secured their exhibition table can do so
through August 8, 2008 by using the toll-free telephone number.
Individuals and Organizations looking to attend and participate in the
event may obtain the most up to date for information on travel,
accommodations, and itinerary at the event website at www.dcfestival2008.com.

Society has done a wonderful job at claiming that "child support" is a special kind of "debt." Society has also done a wonderful job in convincing the public that people sentenced for owing debt to prisons nationwide is a good thing. Where is the societal value in placing a 51-year old man in PRISON for years on a debt that is likely going to cause a significant recitivism rate, especially since once this man gets out his employment is likely going to be minimum wage work? Who is really penalized by this? The taxpayers are penalized more than anyone, as well as this man's children.

The child support enforcement program was intended to pay back the federal government for welfare payments they were making to the States to operate their social welfare programs. What is odd, is that the program has morphed into a cumbersome and bloated bureucratic machine that doesn't benefit society, only those that are directly employed by the system. If anything, the programs are encouraging more out of wedlock births, more fights over money, and more dissolutions of marriage because it is now financially beneficial to separate. The government is simply glorifying the bad behaviors of society while punishing the tax payer. Read the below article and tell me where the value to society is.

Man to serve time for back child support

From Wire Reports

A 51-year-old Kosciusko man was sentenced to 10 years in prison with eight suspended and ordered to pay $68,215.87 in back child support. [This man will likely no longer be as marketable when he gets out of prison, therefore reducing his earnings potential and contribution to society dramatically.]

Dennis Kern was sentenced Wednesday, April 30, by Oktibbeha County Circuit Court Judge Lee Howard on charges of refusing to provide for the support and maintenance of his children.

The case was prosecuted by Mississippi's attorney general. [This AG should have been focusing on serious crimes.]

The court ordered Kern to start paying the owed child support payments 60 days after his release from prison. [Unlikely because most employers will not want ex-cons working for them.]

He will be on supervised probation once he's out. [More Fees for the System]

Political unrest continues in Delaware and other states regarding the tyrannical and systematical exclusion of one parent from children's lives in lieu of steep financial gains by both special interests and government.
(Original Publication: Delaware Online: Letters to Editor: January 26, 2008)

John Mercure frequently targets child support obligors in his news stories.

• Most child support collections are made for families who have never been on assistance! The program was originally intended to recuperate money expended by the federal government to the states for their welfare programs. Now the taxpayer is caught funding a glorified collection service for middle and upper income feuding families!
• The most effective form of collection is through income withholding orders through Fiscal Year 2006. Income Withholding Orders are an automated task that doesn't require employees.
• The Financial Data Match program is a computer generated list that is matched up electronically by the State's data contractors. This sweeps money from obligors' accounts automatically and doesn't take additional employees.
• Federal and State Income Tax Off-Sets are another highly effective method of collection child support according to the federal government reports on Child Support collections. This again does not take additional employees.
• Wisconsin's Total Administrative Expenses, which as of today are unaudited and likely to be plagued with immense overspending, total $108,692,436.00! At least $777,010.00 of the administrative expenses weren't even for Title IV-D / Collection services.
• NON-TANF (should be income ineligible to receive government services at taxpayer expense) collections continued to increase in Fiscal Year 2006, While the collections on cases that are Welfare cases DECLINED according to federal reports.
• Wisconsin has a central child support distribution center for receiving and distributing child support funds and the local county offices no longer perform this intensive function.

The program should become more efficient over time and require less employees and the middle and upper income feuding families should be removed from the program, instead the program is getting larger and claiming to need more funds to operate. The State should not focus their programs on revenue generation but on aid to needy families. This will save the taxpayers immensely. An equal custody mandate would go along way in solving expense problems as well.

A final note on child support is that the I-TEAM should be focusing its attention on ensuring that the State of Wisconsin doesn't steal money from these poor children by not distributing collected child support. In Fiscal Year 2006 there is NET UNDISTRIBUTED CHILD SUPPORT COLLECTIONS OF $8,210,847 according to the Federal Child Support Preliminary Report for 2006. Of that Net UDC at least 8.6% of it has been completely unresolved. If this money is not distributed within one year from the date of collection the state is allowed to escheat the money into its own budget as program income, taking it out of reach of the children it was collected for! This makes it worthwhile for the State to sit on the money. Why not locate these parents and get this money distributed before it is stolen from these poor children!

John Mercure's email address is jmercure@todaystmj4.com.You can voice your opinion on the subject to him via email or peruse his blog, which has a few child support issues listed at http://www.todaystmj4.com/bloggers/mercure. Let me know if you get a response to your inquiries and I would be happy to post them here at this site.

This button just seemed appropriate... but I ask.. will the residents of California truly overcome such tyranny or just let it pass without a fight?

Basically, I call laws like the above a "Minority Report Approach" to legislation, based on the Tom Cruise movie Minority Report. The premise of the movie was that three "pre-cognitives" could see into the future and determine a crime before it was committed and arrest the individual before they engaged in the criminal activity. Only one problem, the "pre-cogs" didn't always agree so the "system" would cover up the mistakes of the pre-cogs. Also, the movie raises an interesting philosophy that since an act was not committed yet, could they be found truly guilty of the crime "before it even happened?" In Tom Cruise's case, he demonstrated that the future was not always certain. In the above California Legislation, California Senators are attempting to force someone to perform an act before there is even a crime, as required by our Constitution. But...this is family court right? Now remember that child support is merely a civil debt and no crime has been committed leading up to the order of such debt to be paid to another party.

For those of you unfamiliar with the Constitution, the document that
restricts governmental powers, there was an Amendment that completed
Ratification on December 6, 1865. Under US Const. Amendment 13 Sec. 1 "Neither
slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for a crime
whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within
the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." Either California isn't part of the United States, or California and other states
are trying to take more authority than what they actually have. The

The U.S. Supreme Court, in United States v. Kozminski (1988), has defined involuntary servitude as "compulsory service by the use of physical restraint or injury, or by the use or threat of coercion through legal process."
Essentially the program as defined above, as well
as the many court orders forcing individuals to participate in
government welfare programs without compensation because there exists a
civil debt or other civil judgment, is nothing more than a return to
the slave trade and indentured servitude that was outlawed just a mere
142 years ago.

The child support program rewards the states for actually creating broken homes and is an obstacle to shared equal parenting. Check out http://www.nationwideblueprint.com for more information about the program.

Articles are coming out across the board in Virginia and other states portraying that the child support program is ripping off poor mothers and poor families because of a $25.00 application fee after it has been determined the agency has distributed $500.00 or more in a calendar year. The propaganda couldn't be further from the truth and is simply untrue. My general response is that the State bureaucracies are just trying to solidify their position as savior to keep their jobs by rewarding a single party with a negative outcome, which is broken homes. Our irresponsible and wasteful government at work. My general editorial response (198 words) is pretty much as follows:

Federal cuts will not put more W. VA
families on welfare. This is a smokescreen that state bureaucracies put up in
an attempt to maintain comfy government employment with lush benefits.

The child support programs were intended to recuperate money
provided by the federal government to the states for welfare. This turned the
states that participate in voluntary Title IV-D programs into taxpayer
subsidized collection