22nd-March-2008
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Wanted: the 'deadbeat dads' who owe $2m child support | |
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle3586812.ece Quote: Wanted: the 'deadbeat dads' who owe $2m child support
The ten worst fathers in Los Angeles are to be named and shamed in a series of “wanted”-style posters as part of a new and controversial effort by the authorities to stop child support evasion.
The fathers named in the campaign - inspired by the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list - collectively owe $2 million (£1 million) in payments for 17 children.
Until recently LA County did not have the resources to track down so-called “deadbeat dads” who evade child support payments. But thanks to a new $500,000 scheme organised by the Los Angeles District Attorney's office and the Child Support Services Department, a team of investigators has been appointed to find and bring to justice non-custodial parents who refuse to provide for their families.
The sums of money owed by the ten - there are no women on the list - range from $63,421.67 (Michael Lee) to $427,252.25 (Abdoul Sesay), with interest charged 10 per cent a year.
Don Knabe, the Los Angeles County Supervisor, said: “Families are struggling to pay their bills because [these men] are choosing to evade or ignore their responsibilities. With this new Ten Most Wanted list, the county has another tool to track down these uncooperative parents.” According to officials there are more than 1,000 parents in Los Angeles County with outstanding warrants against them for failure to pay child support - the vast majority of them men.
Fathers' rights groups, however, are not impressed with the new initiative.
“[Mr Knabe] has the nerve to say that they want to collect money to benefit the children,” Fred Sottile, a spokesman for Fathers-4-Justice, said in an interview with ABC News. “That is the biggest lie these politicians tell. None of this stuff done by the courts is done for the children.”
Steven Golightly, director of the Child Support Services Department, said that fathers could avoid getting on the Most Wanted list simply by contacting his office before skipping payments. “We really don't want to put parents in jail, we just want them to pay and take care of their children.”
The Most Wanted posters will be put up online and around LA County.
According to officials, investigators have arrested 61 evaders since December and ordered 64 others to appear in court. With the six captured by other law enforcement agents and the 29 who voluntarily surrendered, 160 of the 1,240 outstanding warrants for child support evaders have now been cleared and nearly $1million of outstanding child support payments have been collected.
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Alienating millions of men through pejudiced family courts does not bode well for all our futures; particularly given that men, as a group, are becoming more united against their governments and their countries as a result of this observable prejudice.
randywalk, Birmingham,
The purpose of the CSA is to grab back money for the government that all the ex-wives claim in benefits. They also tend to believe everything the ex-wife says about how much is owed. They also abuse their powers, and go straight to your employer without permission. They fob you off, but lsiten attentively to the rubbish an ex-wife comes out with. How do I know? Its happened to me, we received £100 compensation from them and they admitted that the case worker had been less than neutral.
richard dorset, Newcastle,
We had the same rubbish idea n the UK too.
The CSA said it was owed millions by so-called 'dead beat dads' only for it later to be discovered it was THEIR fault the money wasn't being collected.
Men atre treated worse than second-class citizens in the feminazi-family courts.
Until there is real equality and automatic joint custody then I' d urge all men not to pay a single penny.
But of coutrse the vast majority of fathers love their children and wouldn't dream of hurting their loved ones in such a fashion.
Shame that can't be said about the thousands of women who each year try to airbrush fathers out of their children's lives with the family courts conivance just because THEY don't want them in THEIR lives anymore.
Where are the so-called feminist believers in equality on this issue? The sisterhood (sorry - victimhood) preach equality but all they are really interested in is privilege for one gender. THEIRS.
They are a disgrace.
phil doherty, Newcastle, UK
If men pay child support then they are only morally legitimising a legal framework that secretly sees all men as 'abusers' of one sort . From the thousands of government-funded women's groups, to the divorce courts the 'pc' western political system is designed to destroy mens lives. Anyone who challenges the system can easily be labelled somehow pro-rape or pro-child sex abuse by pro-feminist politicians. Men haven't stood up to fight because they a) this view of them has become accepted by the liberal elite and b) admit to a problem for fear of being seen as weak or vulnerable. Sorry guys, but a problem won't go away just by ignoring it. Politicians have seen to it that there are massive consequence for their treatment of you - and for their abuse of your children (by denying your child's right to see you). At the moment there are no consequences. The answer is simple: get organised, get vocal - and above all make them know the voting consequences.
Mark, London, UK
I think that if the court system was fair and not biased against men you would find more compliance. The legal system criminalizes and marginalises fathers for no reason other than their gender. They take our kids away from us even when it is the woman who initates and causes the destruction of the family. The biggest reason for divorce is that middle aged women get bored with their spouse and know that if they dump them it will be like hitting lotto. They get the house, the kids, a nice monthly income off their ex. Perhaps if the person who initiates the divorce was the big loser, instead of it always being the male, then you wouldn.t see this problem
George, Paterson, NJ |
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