VICTORY!! THE SYSTEM IS CHANGING AT LAST BECAUSE WE DEMANDED REAL ACCOUNTABILITY FOR OUR HARD EARNED MONEY!! THIS IS HUGE FOR EVERY FATHER FIGHTING FOR FAIRNESS AND WE ARE GOING TO KEEP WATCHING TO ENSURE THESE NEW RULES STAY IN PLACE!!
October 17, 2007
Final supporters
Updates
Reached 500 supporters
September 25, 2007
Reached 100 supporters
February 16, 2004
9 Comments
Fix these laws! Justice for dads!!!! You've approved gay marriage it's time to approve justice for fathers!!
I think you should also add to your petition that child support payments be qualified for tax exemptions as they are to be used for dependents, and currently are taxed for the payer and not the payee
Fathers have rights too. Tired of being treated like a bank account instead of a parent.
This system is broken. Judges just look at the paycheck and dont care if the dad can even afford rent. Needs to change now.
Exactly!! I pay 1200 a month and my kid still shows up to my house wearing clothes 2 years old and shoes with holes. Where is the money going??
May 22, 2016 To whom it may concern, I am a loving and dedicated Father of two beautiful, healthy, intelligent, and sensitive five-year-old girls whose mother I am no longer with. I am also the father of their older sister, who is similarly healthy and happy. She is nine. I pay child support to my first daughter's Mom, even though she earns more money than I do. She is a highly effective, intelligent, well organized woman, and although our marriage didn't work, I have a great deal of respect for her as our Daughter's Parent. The Mother of my twins by contrast is one of the most resistant, entitled and irresponsible people I have ever known. She refuses to find work, and lives off a series of benefactors she has lined up. The lives of each of my children were prayed for by me before they were conceived, and no man is more blessed than me to be a father. My children's Moms prayed right along with me. It is utterly confusing to me as to why I am being required to pay child support that I cannot afford to the Mother of my twins. They are in my home half the time, and I am willing to have them here more often, although I do support them having a relationship with their mother. In the posts I have read of people's opinions of child support laws and outcomes, it seems that whatever the expressed perspective is, the common sentiment is that the support of the children is a shared responsibility. Why am I supporting a mother who refuses to support herself and our children when they are in my home half the time? The financial burden to me is excruciatingly uncomfortable, and I simply cannot afford it. Please re-evaluate the child support laws to accommodate Fathers who are in fact highly effective, responsible, loving, and dedicated Parents. We should not be subject to the same protocols that fathers who are avoiding responsibility are. Thank you for your timely considerati
To whom it may concern, I am James Williams, father of two daughters who deserve better than what they have been given by their mother and the situation they have been forced into by the system. Time is running out for both them and I, as I have a pending court date for child support. At issue is the fact that I have ALWAYS supported my daughters, whether court ordered or not. This has never been in question by my daughters or anyone who knows them or me. I have them at my home several days per week, usually two full days and two partial days. Often, though, it is more. During the summer months and school vacations, they are often picked up by me from their mother’s residence the afternoon school lets out and dropped back off at their mother’s the evening before classes resume. In spite of paying child support for eight years, I also provided the things child support should have provided for my daughters, both at my own home and for them when at their mother's. Clothing, food, school supplies, birthday and Christmas presents, everything. Meanwhile, my child support dollars went, instead, to buy cell phones, video games, alcohol, tobacco and frequent visits to night clubs or bars for Mrs. Kovach. She obviously views it as my duty to support her, rather than our daughters. She has even gone so far as to nearly demand that I purchase beer for her and her live-in boyfriend on my way to drop the girls off. No mention, however, of anything Jocelynn or Kayleigh might need. Just beer for her and the boyfriend. Despite this, upon being laid off last year, I went to the Child Support Agency office in Ravenna where I was told that paying half per month would keep me above board until I could get back on my feet. This, of course, was false and the employee who told me this has denied it since. My driver's license has been suspended, further inhibiting my ability to earn income to replace that lost last year. Again, going to the Child Support Agency, I sou
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VICTORY!! THE SYSTEM IS CHANGING AT LAST BECAUSE WE DEMANDED REAL ACCOUNTABILITY FOR OUR HARD EARNED MONEY!! THIS IS HUGE FOR EVERY FATHER FIGHTING FOR FAIRNESS AND WE ARE GOING TO KEEP WATCHING TO ENSURE THESE NEW RULES STAY IN PLACE!!
October 17, 2007
Final supporters
Updates
Reached 500 supporters
September 25, 2007
Reached 100 supporters
February 16, 2004
9 Comments
I have all the same support costs as my ex, I provide a home, food, clothes, toys, etc. I have my son 3-4 days a week, I want to be able to give him the best life I can. She has a husband to help her, I have no one. Why should I have to kill myself working so much trying to afford to support my kids myself and paying to help her support them, when she doesnt work, sits on her butt all day, receives food stamps to cover groceries and has a husband to pay bills. Her financial burden on me is not fair, especially when she is the one that cheated on me and left me. Let me support my kids at my home and live my life with out having to pay her bills too.
Fix these laws! Justice for dads!!!! You've approved gay marriage it's time to approve justice for fathers!!
I think you should also add to your petition that child support payments be qualified for tax exemptions as they are to be used for dependents, and currently are taxed for the payer and not the payee
Fathers have rights too. Tired of being treated like a bank account instead of a parent.
This system is broken. Judges just look at the paycheck and dont care if the dad can even afford rent. Needs to change now.
Exactly!! I pay 1200 a month and my kid still shows up to my house wearing clothes 2 years old and shoes with holes. Where is the money going??
May 22, 2016 To whom it may concern, I am a loving and dedicated Father of two beautiful, healthy, intelligent, and sensitive five-year-old girls whose mother I am no longer with. I am also the father of their older sister, who is similarly healthy and happy. She is nine. I pay child support to my first daughter's Mom, even though she earns more money than I do. She is a highly effective, intelligent, well organized woman, and although our marriage didn't work, I have a great deal of respect for her as our Daughter's Parent. The Mother of my twins by contrast is one of the most resistant, entitled and irresponsible people I have ever known. She refuses to find work, and lives off a series of benefactors she has lined up. The lives of each of my children were prayed for by me before they were conceived, and no man is more blessed than me to be a father. My children's Moms prayed right along with me. It is utterly confusing to me as to why I am being required to pay child support that I cannot afford to the Mother of my twins. They are in my home half the time, and I am willing to have them here more often, although I do support them having a relationship with their mother. In the posts I have read of people's opinions of child support laws and outcomes, it seems that whatever the expressed perspective is, the common sentiment is that the support of the children is a shared responsibility. Why am I supporting a mother who refuses to support herself and our children when they are in my home half the time? The financial burden to me is excruciatingly uncomfortable, and I simply cannot afford it. Please re-evaluate the child support laws to accommodate Fathers who are in fact highly effective, responsible, loving, and dedicated Parents. We should not be subject to the same protocols that fathers who are avoiding responsibility are. Thank you for your timely considerati
To whom it may concern, I am James Williams, father of two daughters who deserve better than what they have been given by their mother and the situation they have been forced into by the system. Time is running out for both them and I, as I have a pending court date for child support. At issue is the fact that I have ALWAYS supported my daughters, whether court ordered or not. This has never been in question by my daughters or anyone who knows them or me. I have them at my home several days per week, usually two full days and two partial days. Often, though, it is more. During the summer months and school vacations, they are often picked up by me from their mother’s residence the afternoon school lets out and dropped back off at their mother’s the evening before classes resume. In spite of paying child support for eight years, I also provided the things child support should have provided for my daughters, both at my own home and for them when at their mother's. Clothing, food, school supplies, birthday and Christmas presents, everything. Meanwhile, my child support dollars went, instead, to buy cell phones, video games, alcohol, tobacco and frequent visits to night clubs or bars for Mrs. Kovach. She obviously views it as my duty to support her, rather than our daughters. She has even gone so far as to nearly demand that I purchase beer for her and her live-in boyfriend on my way to drop the girls off. No mention, however, of anything Jocelynn or Kayleigh might need. Just beer for her and the boyfriend. Despite this, upon being laid off last year, I went to the Child Support Agency office in Ravenna where I was told that paying half per month would keep me above board until I could get back on my feet. This, of course, was false and the employee who told me this has denied it since. My driver's license has been suspended, further inhibiting my ability to earn income to replace that lost last year. Again, going to the Child Support Agency, I sou
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I have all the same support costs as my ex, I provide a home, food, clothes, toys, etc. I have my son 3-4 days a week, I want to be able to give him the best life I can. She has a husband to help her, I have no one. Why should I have to kill myself working so much trying to afford to support my kids myself and paying to help her support them, when she doesnt work, sits on her butt all day, receives food stamps to cover groceries and has a husband to pay bills. Her financial burden on me is not fair, especially when she is the one that cheated on me and left me. Let me support my kids at my home and live my life with out having to pay her bills too.