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Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 03:17:04 -0400 From: Ruben Safir To: mrbrklyn-at-panix.com Subject: [fathersandfamilies-at-fathersandfamilies.org: Pres. Candidate Johnson Tells F & F Family Law 'Is Ripe for Reform'; F & F Pens Column on Paternity Fraud Bill] User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14)
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Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 23:12:44 -0400 From: Fathers and Families To: ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com Subject: Pres. Candidate Johnson Tells F & F Family Law 'Is Ripe for Reform'; F & F Pens Column on Paternity Fraud Bill X-Mailer: PHPMailer (phpmailer.codeworxtech.com) [version 2.2]
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[4]Pres. Candidate Johnson Tells F & F Family Law ?Is Ripe for Reform?; F & F Pens Column on Paternity Fraud Bill June 7, 2011
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[5]Presidential Candidate Johnson Tells F & F Activists, Audience That Family Law System ?Is Ripe for Reform?
Simmons and Johnson Fathers and Families supporter Marc Simmons, MD, shakes hands with presidential candidate Gary Johnson at a GOP event June 3.
A contingent of Fathers and Families? Election Campaign 2012 activists attended two New Hampshire GOP events over the weekend and asked presidential candidate [6]Gary Johnson, a former two-term governor of New Mexico, about family court reform.
In Nashua on June 5, Johnson told F & F activists Roy Corbeil, a grandfather, and Seth Diamond:
?Anything I could do on the federal level I would do, as president, to address [this] real inequality. I recognize it, having been Governor of New Mexico. It?s a huge issue?the courts rule?usually [if not] always against the fathers?[in these rulings, fathers rights'] are obliterated, they?re nonexistent. I recognize that?I?m open to ideas [on fixing it].?
At a Belknap County event, Johnson responded to a question from F & F activist Shawn Gliklich, MD by telling the audience:
?[Family court] is an area that is really ripe for reform?I understand this issue and have researched hundreds of these cases.?
Simmons and Johnson Presidential candidate Gary Johnson pledges support for family court reform at GOP event June 3.
At a recent [7]New Hampshire GOP Straw Poll, Johnson finished behind the 1st place finisher, former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum, in a close knot for 2nd with Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty, and Ron Paul.
This is the second success in two weeks for the Fathers and Families? Election Campaign 2012--at the Portsmouth, New Hampshire Seacoast Republican Women?s Breakfast with Newt Gingrich on May 26, F & F member Deanna Marchand asked presidential candidate Newt Gingrich:
Family courts generally allow fit loving fathers only a few days a month with their children. This is not only harmful to children since it?s so important level of involvement by both parents in their lives, but it?s also a terrible civil rights violation when the government dictates how much time a father or mother can spend with his or her children. What are your thoughts on family court reform?
We Want YOU for Fathers and Families? Election Campaign 2012?Click [8]Here to Volunteer In response, Gingrich, the former Speaker of the House, criticized the family law system for its ?extreme anti-male bias.?
Gingrich added that he was ?in favor of fathers having rights?We live in an age that is very different than 50 years ago and I think that it is very often very important?that we have a much greater sensitivity that both sides, both parents, both have rights and have responsibilities??
We commend both Johnson and Gingrich for their awareness of and interest in the crisis in family courts.
Fathers and Families? Election Campaign 2012 Fathers and Families? [9]Election 2012 Campaign is a nonpartisan grassroots campaign with the goal of injecting family court reform into the 2012 election campaign.
Between now and New Hampshire?s February 14, 2012 primary, our activists will be going to candidates? campaign stops, rallies, and townhall meetings, as well as calling in when candidates are interviewed on radio talk shows. We will be politely and persistently asking candidates questions about family court reform, with the goal of garnering media attention for our issues and getting candidates to go on the record with their views.
Our central issue is simple?family courts harm children by routinely separating them from one of the two people they love most.
How You Can Help
No matter where you are, there are many ways you can help:
1) If you are in New England and can volunteer to make appearances at campaign stops and townhalls, please fill out our volunteer form [10]here and type ?Fathers and Families? Election 2012 Campaign? at the beginning of the ?How I Can Help? section.
2) We understand that many of you can?t participate due to geography or other limitations. We still want you to fill out our volunteer form [11]here and participate by: * Helping us organize by making phone calls and doing web research. * Making calls to reporters, radio talk shows, and candidates? offices, writing letters and posting comments in response to our campaign Action Alerts. You will see these on our website at [12]www.FathersandFamilies.org, our Facebook page at [13]www.Facebook.com/FathersandFamilies, and in our weekly [14]ENewsletter. * Our New Hampshire efforts cost money?help defray our costs by giving at [15]www.FathersandFamilies.org/give.
We Are Non-Partisan
Fathers and Families is resolutely non-partisan and has and continues to work successfully with legislators on both sides of the aisle on legislation to promote family court reform. Our primary goal is to protect the loving bonds children share with both parents after divorce or separation, and we?re happy to work with any legislators or political figures who share this goal.
During the Fathers and Families Election Campaign 2012 we will be intervening at both Republican and Democratic events. However, there are many more Republican events than Democratic events because the Republican primary will be hotly contested, whereas the Democrats have an incumbent running.
Johnson and Diamond GOP presidential candidate Gary Johnson (left) shakes hands with F & F activist Seth Diamond (right) at Nashua BBQ June 5, pledging ?Anything I could do on the federal level I would do, as president, to address this real inequality.?
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Join Fathers and Families [17][18]Fathers and Families 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: * [19]Become an F & F Activist/Supporter by Filling out Our Volunteer Form * [20]Contribute to Fathers and Families
F & F in the News
[21]F & F Pens Column for Los Angeles Daily News on Our Paternity Fraud Bill
Daily News
Fathers and Families Board Chairman Ned Holstein, MD, MS, and Executive Director Glenn Sacks have co-authored [22]Bill would give ?duped dads? some fairness under the law (Los Angeles Daily News, 6/2/11), laying out the case for CA SB 375, a paternity fraud bill. The Daily News is Los Angeles? 2nd largest newspaper, and the piece was the lead op-ed.
To write a Letter to the Editor about the column, please click [23]here. To post a comment on it, please click [24]here.
In the column we wrote:
The Arnold Schwarzenegger paternity case has revealed a large flaw in California family law, one which, ironically, Schwarzenegger attempted to fix while Governor. The flaw? Schwarzenegger fathered a child with Mildred Patty Baena, who was married to Rogelio Baena at the time. Under California law, Schwarzenegger wouldn?t be obligated to pay a dime in child support?but deceived husband Rogelio Baena would be.
Currently the only person who can be held legally responsible to support the child is the mother?s then-husband, who is presumed to be the father because the child was born into the marriage. Judges routinely (and at times apologetically) saddle such ?duped dads? with stiff child support orders. In one paternity fraud case, Arthur Gilbert, presiding judge of the Second District, Division 6 Court of Appeal, wrote:
?I reluctantly concur with the majority. Once again I vent my frustration over the state of [California] law in paternity cases?I would reverse the judgment?if I could. But I cannot?[I] suggest the Legislature reconsider?Is anyone listening??
This year, Senator Roderick Wright (D-Inglewood) introduced SB 375, which would end the marital paternity presumption.
To read the full column, click [25]here.
[26]F & F of Ohio?s Don Hubin Discusses HB 121 on NPR Legislative Update
[27]F & F-Inspired NV Child Custody Bill Signed by Governor (6/1/11)
[28]Ohio HB 121 Passes Senate, House, Goes to Governor Kasich for Signature (6/1/11)
What's Happening
[29]Charged With Murdering Her Mother-in-Law, Rosa Hill Says Stress of Custody Battle Made Her Do It [30]
Five Israeli Dads Call Custody Practice ?Institutionalized Torture? [31]
Mother Who Abducted Daughter for 25 Years Sentenced to 18 Days in Jail [32]
Father Denied Custody Because He ?is a man and the child is a girl? [33]
Parents of Internationally Abducted Children Testify Before Congress
[34]British MP: ?I will keep fighting to achieve the presumption of shared parenting?
[35]New Mexico: Only One Report of Child Abuse in 20 is ?Substantiated?
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References
1. http://www.fathersandfamilies.org/enews/cv/enews-20110607.html 2. mailto:fathersandfamilies-at-fathersandfamilies.org 3. http://www.fathersandfamilies.org/ 4. http://www.fathersandfamilies.org/enews/cv/enews-20110607.html 5. http://www.fathersandfamilies.org/?p=16455 6. http://www.garyjohnson2012.com/ 7. http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/06/new-hampshire-libertarians-love-rick-santorum/239989/ 8. http://www.fathersandfamilies.org/volunteer 9. http://www.fathersandfamilies.org/election2012 10. http://www.fathersandfamilies.org/volunteer 11. http://www.fathersandfamilies.org/volunteer 12. http://www.fathersandfamilies.org/ 13. http://www.facebook.com/FathersandFamilies 14. http://www.fathersandfamilies.org/?page_id=2547 15. http://www.FathersandFamilies.org/give 16. http://www.facebook.com/fathersandfamilies 17. http://www.fathersandfamilies.org/ 18. http://www.fathersandfamilies.org/ 19. http://www.fathersandfamilies.org/?page_id=4307 20. http://www.fathersandfamilies.org/?page_id=1330 21. http://www.fathersandfamilies.org/?p=16378 22. http://www.dailynews.com/opinions/ci_18185434 23. http://www.dailynews.com/opinions#letter_form 24. http://www.dailynews.com/opinions/ci_18185434 25. http://www.dailynews.com/opinions/ci_18185434 26. http://www.fathersandfamilies.org/?p=16347 27. http://www.fathersandfamilies.org/?p=12924 28. http://www.fathersandfamilies.org/?p=14698 29. http://www.fathersandfamilies.org/?p=16450 30. http://www.fathersandfamilies.org/?p=16444 31. http://www.fathersandfamilies.org/?p=16436 32. http://www.fathersandfamilies.org/?p=16423 33. http://www.fathersandfamilies.org/?p=16415 34. http://www.fathersandfamilies.org/?p=16370 35. http://www.fathersandfamilies.org/?p=16272
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