3/01/2005 08:51:00 AM|||Toni|||Phyllis Schlafly: TownHall.com
How about injecting a bit of common sense back into Family Court. I had previously noted another ridiculous situation where a women had kept the man's semen and used it later for Invitro fertilization. Primarily this issue applies to men but I had a girlfriend whose husband could never hang onto a job (turned into a druggie) and when divorce finally became a reality, Family Court gave custody initially to him because 'He didn't Work' and she worked many hours . So, she had to pay alimony AND custody AND fight to get the children out of his mitts. It was very ugly. Once she finally got the custody changed it was changed to a co-custody situation. What was odd, was she still had to pay his portion of the child support since he didn't work (except of course to sell drugs). That's all an side to what Phyllis Schafly has to say about the problems facing Reservists in Family Court. Phyllis Schafly is a pitbull when it comes to assisting our military members, read what she has to say.
Looks like the courts now like to target those serving their country:
Child-support orders for reservists are usually based on their civilian wages. When they are called up to active duty that burden doesn't decrease. Few can get court modification before they leave, modifications are seldom granted anyway, and even if a father applied for modification before deployment the debt continues to grow until the case is decided much later.
Military fathers cannot get relief when they return because federal law forbids courts from reducing child-support debt retroactively. Once the arrearage reaches $5,000, the father becomes a felon subject to imprisonment and forfeiture of his
driver's license, professional licenses and passport.
Laws granting deployed service personnel protection from legal actions at home date back decades, but they are ignored in family court. Child kidnapping laws do not protect military personnel on active duty from having their ex-wives relocate
their children.
|||110968870639329120|||Reservists deserve protection from family-court mischief