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Maryland Reduces Child Support Arrears to 0

How Do You Vote for Parenting
Rights and Responsibilities?

Your Securities Secure Your Voice
November 2, 2012
Top Story
Maryland Reduces Child Support
Arrears to 0

By Robert Franklin, Esq., Member, Fathers and Families
Board of Directors


Robert Franklin
Robert Franklin
In Maryland, the Child Support Payment Incentive Program is taking small steps to chip away at the mountain of bad child support debt. The Office of Child Support Enforcement acknowledges that 63% of fathers in arrears report earnings of $10,000 or less per year.

The Maryland program allows noncustodial parents with incomes below 225 percent of the federal poverty level and who have made 24 months of consecutive child-support payments on their current obligation to have their arrears reduced to zero. Also, as of October 1, the new legislation will automatically suspend child-support orders for anyone sentenced to 18 or more months in jail and lacking the financial means to pay.

While other states continue to strip away licenses to drive and professional and occupational licenses, Maryland is making some small steps to acknowledge that some dads are just “dead-broke” and the state is better off helping them reenter the workforce – and the lives of their children.

The full story appears on Fathers and Families website.



How Do You Vote for Parenting Rights and Responsibilities?
By Rita Fuerst Adams, National Executive Director,
Fathers and Families


Which party is dedicated to parenting rights and responsibilies? Does either promote shared parenting? It certainly is not evident in the political platforms of the Democrats or the Republicans.

Both President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney are considered good fathers. Both should know and understand their value to their own children. We would hope this would translate into defending the rights and responsibilities of all fathers in their children’s lives.

As you mull over the debates and the campaign advertisements, perhaps it is also good to see what each party has included in its political platform. This, supposedly, is what each party is dedicated to accomplishing in the coming four years.

The Democratic political platform addresses:
“President Obama’s administration has offered men who want to be good fathers extra support. We have bolstered community faith-based groups focused on fatherhood, partnered with businesses to offer opportunities for fathers to spend time with their kids at the bowling alley or ballpark, and worked to help deployed dads connect with their children. We all have a stake in forging stronger bonds between fathers and their children.”


The Republican political platform addresses marriage and traditional values as the solution for our children’s modern issues:
“It has been proven by both experience and endless social science studies that traditional marriage is best for children. Children raised in intact married families are more likely to attend college, are physically and emotionally healthier, are less likely to use drugs or alcohol, engage in crime, or get pregnant outside of marriage.”


As you read the platforms please remember that currently the United States Congress, through the Office of Child Support Enforcement spends $5 billion each year on child support enforcement and $10 million to help dads enforce their visitation rights.

Vote. Vote your pocketbook. Vote your conscience. Just exercise your right and vote.



Your Securities Secure Your Voice
By Rita Fuerst Adams, National Executive Director,
Fathers and Families


At the urging of a couple of members, Fathers and Families has opened an account to receive gifts of securities. Now you may transfer gifts of stocks and bonds directly to Fathers and Families. This is the most advantageous way for you to contribute appreciated securities. It provides you, the contributor, the best option for your charitable contribution deduction. Please contact me for the account and Pershing number for easy transfer.

Fathers and Families is a nonprofit, 501(c)(3), organization. Fathers and Families is qualified under section 170 of the Internal Revenue Service Code to receive gifts, grants, and contributions which are deductible for Federal income tax purposes. Our federal tax identification number is 04-3409728.

In addition, Fathers and Families may receive all other forms of planned gifts . Contributors may name Fathers and Families as a beneficiary for retirement plans and IRA’s or life insurance.

Of course, the most popular form of planned gifts, are still bequests. Join me, by placing Fathers and Families in your will. I have Fathers and Families in my will to receive equal shares with the Cleveland Clinic and Ohio University.

Please email or call me at 617.542.9300 ext. 3, if you have –
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Barbara Kay Calls for Gender-Neutral Justice in Child Support

The Guardian: Gender Equality in International Custody Cases Means ‘Mothers Lose Out’

Child Support Enforcement and The Social Security Act
Title IV-D Program


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A member recently donated a used, excellent condition Kyocera Taskalfa 550c color multifunction system with scanner, fax board, and saddle-stitch finisher. It prints, scans, copies, and faxes.

Specs:
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  • Resolution: 600 x 600 dpi (copy and print) / 8 Bit Color Depth
  • Max Monthly Duty Cycle: 225,000 pages
More information, specs, and photos are available at Kyocera’s website.

Price is negotiable. The money we receive will go towards our work reforming family law. Pickup only from Manchester, NH. Please spread the word to anyone you know who may be interested. Contact Rita Fuerst Adams.



Mission
Fathers and Families improves the lives of children and strengthens society by protecting the child’s right to the love and care of both parents after separation or divorce. We seek better lives for children through family court reform that establishes equal rights and responsibilities for fathers and mothers.



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