The kids on spring break in San Antonio, Texas with Austin & Dillon.
JW Marriot Hill Country Resort > Morgan’s Wonderland > Hyatt San Antonio Riverwalk > The Alamo.
I came across an excellent article by attorney Leon Koziol via his article, Billions in Child Support Going to Lawyers and Bureaucrats.
Attorney Koziol details how the current family legal system exploits children and parents out of billions every year in legal fees, making them fight over their children.
“... parents, children and extended families are being fleeced by lawyers and third party beneficiaries every day to unconscionable levels. It’s all part of a lucrative child control industry.“
It’s effectively a $40 billion dollar a year child-trafficking scheme sanctioned by the state. Koziol writes:
“Support obligations are artificially hiked through such judge-created fictions as imputed income. Fathers comprise 82% of support debtors per our Census Bureau …. In countless cases, particularly those involving veterans and minorities, the debtor fathers will never be able to complete their servitude, landing them in debtor prisons.
“This kind of piling-on caused one police investigator to commit a murder-suicide, leaving three children without parents and city taxpayers with a $2 million liability. Nowhere in the civil rights case will you read about this father leaving support court living on $28 per week, see Pearce v Longo, 766 F. Supp. 2d 367. It begs the question: what would make a law man resort to such extremes after following the “proper” channels?“
Welcome to the hell that is the family legal system. It literally drives thousands of parents to die every year and kids lose their fathers/mothers, all under the bogus fiction doctrine of the “best interest” of the child.
The Illinois House Legislature is now considering a bill (HB4113) for shared/equal parenting, where both parents are presumed to be equals. Illinois is sixth largest state in the country. It’s been getting national press, such as in The Washington Post and NPR.
As unbelievable as it sounds, most current state custody laws still consider one parent (the father) less equal (inferior) compared to the mother.
Mothers are awarded custodial parent rights and the majority of possession time in almost all child custody cases nationwide, upwards of 85% of the time, according to US Census Bureau.
Some states have recently changed their laws (Kentucky) to presume parental equality, but the fight continues elsewhere, with 30+ other states with pending legislation. The group that opposes equality are the family lawyers and its institutions who derive income from inciting parental custody litigation fights and benefit from its destructive financial nature.
It’s estimated family law is a $50B ($50,000,000,000) billion dollar a year business for the lawyers. All that money comes from parents pockets and the children’s financial futures.
Child psychologists nationwide support 50/50 possession equality as being ‘best’ for children.
The Illinois Fathers for Equality Facebook page has a video of a family psychologist starting at minute 8:00 about this very issue:
“Kids are bonded to both parents … They don’t like being forced into being put into a position where one parent is considered less equal than the other … it’s a very divisive thing …. lawyers like to ‘opine’ and offer ‘opinions’ about children but they don’t have any evidence. Why are they the ones we rely upon to offer evidence? They can’t give us any clinical evidence. There are hundreds of clinical research papers showing 50/50 equality is best for children. ” – Dr. Jim Bedell, clinical psychologist
We all have a vested interest in supporting shared parenting equality: ALL parents, grandparents, extended family, siblings, friends, spouses and supporters with common goals in mind. Those goals benefit our children and ultimately our society as a whole.
Who knew a documentary entitled “KEDI” (2016) about feral cats living in Istanbul, Turkey, could be so engaging and insightful?
It’s not really just about cats – it’s about the people who care for them.
I’ve been seeing lots of major newspaper articles on this subject recently.
The most recent one entitled “This Life: An existence she loves, under a growing cloud of student debt” ran in the Washington Post this week.
It’s a cautionary story about this librarian in Ohio who owes over $60,000 in student loan debt. Realistically, she’ll never be able to pay it off from her income alone. Her monthly payments only pay off the interest accruing. She says her loan debts scare off potential boyfriends, and justifiably so – debts of that magnitude are a future killer.
I personally know two people in their early 40s who have student loan debts in the six figures: one owes $100,000 and the other $250,000 dollars. They both make average incomes and can still barely even keep up with the interest payments. I didn’t have the heart to tell them, but they will never be able to pay off such massive sums from income alone. It’s nearly impossible.
I came across a Columbus Dispatch article on filmmakers making feature films in Columbus, Ohio. Very cool.
Apparently, the state of Ohio recently passed a very generous 30% tax credit rebate on productions, which has spurred motion picture investment and productions.
With a 30% rebate, maybe it’s time to produce a movie in my homestate?!
