PARENT'S RIGHTS NOW!

How many times does the family court have to be “reminded” of the Rules of Family Court before someone–puts their foot down—and does something about these mongrels?

http://www.sccourts.org/opinions/unpublishedopinions/HTMLFiles/COA/2009-UP-008.htm Fuller v. Fuller, App. Ct. 2009-UP-008[3] Although we have affirmed the appealed order based on our own findings from our review of the evidence, we take this opportunity to remind the family court bench that, under the South Carolina Rules of Family Court, “[a]n order or judgment pursuant to an adjudication in a domestic relations case shall set forth the specific findings of fact and conclusions of law to support the court’s decision.” Rule 26(a), SCRFC.

¿Por qué se piden los informes de nuevas contrataciones?

Las empresas desempeñan una función esencial para que los niños de New Jersey puedan recibir la asistencia que necesitan. Por lo general, los niños que no reciben pensión infantil por orden de un tribunal se ven obligados a vivir en la pobreza o depender de los programas de asistencia pública. Al cumplir con los requisitos de la ley de informes de nuevas contrataciones, usted ayudará para que los niños reciban la asistencia que merecen.

En 1996, el Congreso aprobó una ley llamada "Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act" (Ley de Reconciliación de Oportunidades Laborales y Responsabilidad Personal, PRWORA) como parte de la reforma de beneficencia social. Esta legislación creó el requisito para las empresas de los 50 estados de informar acerca de sus nuevas contrataciones y recontrataciones de empleados a un directorio estatal.

Los informes de nuevas contrataciones aceleran el proceso de órdenes de retención de ingresos para el pago de pensiones para niños menores, facilitan el cobro de estas pensiones en casos de niños cuyos padres cambian con frecuencia de empleo y ubican con rapidez a padres que no tienen la custodia de los hijos, para ayudar a establecer la paternidad y las órdenes de pensiones para niños menores. Los informes de nuevas contrataciones ayudan a que los niños reciban el apoyo que merecen. Las empresas son un elemento clave para asegurar la estabilidad financiera de muchos niños y familias, y deben estar orgullosos de su papel.

In 1996, Congress enacted a law called the "Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act," or PRWORA, as part of Welfare Reform. This legislation created the requirement for employers in all 50 states to report their new hires and re-hires to a state directory.

New hire reporting speeds up the child support income withholding order process, expedites collection of child support from parents who change jobs frequently, and quickly locates non-custodial parents to help in establishing paternity and child support orders. New hire reporting helps children receive the support they deserve. Employers serve as key partners in ensuring financial stability for many children and families and should take pride in their role.

Single parenting is a strain in every direction. On a good day, you can fret about being ?untraditional? and worry whether your children?s lives might be better; on a bad day, you come face to face with the brutal economics of being both the provider and the nurturer, and you worry whether your children will eat tonight, or who will watch them when work requires you to stay late unexpectedly. It is a fundamental principle that parents who bring a child into this world are both responsible for providing that child's physical needs, regardless of any conflicts in their relationship. South Carolina dosen't seem to understand it takes a women and a man to have a child . One of the results of this lack of holding the fathers responsabale as much as the mother for the children they have .South Carolina has one of the highest teen birth rates in the nation. Each of these pregnancies --- among girls as young as 10 and 11 years-old --- create substantial social, health-related and economic consequences for the individuals involved, as well as for every taxpayer in South Carolina. Between 1995 and 2000, the state incurred nearly $51 million indirect costs due to teen pregnancies in the form of economic and housing assistance, foster care and juvenile justice issues In 2004 According to the South Carolina Commission for Minority Affairs' 2004 Statistical Profile, 31 percent of all children in South Carolina under the age of 18 live in single-parent families. Of all females in the state who give birth, 40.1 percent are single.

In 2006 South Carolina Kids Count Project Director Baron Holmes : Stated "In order for young children to reach their potential, their health, family, economics, and safety would have to improve by at least 20% on the Kids Count indicators." The required reduction to reach the national average would be: Single-Parent Families by 22%

In all of my reserch I have only found only one thing that turns the the tide of single parent births by this high of number. The paper is titled "The Impact of Child Support Enforcement Policy on Nonmarital Childbearing." The research was supported by the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology at the University of Washington and a grant from the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Researchers studying the factors behind out-of-wedlock births have found a significant variable that often is overlooked: child support. States that are strict in enforcing child support have up to 20 percent fewer unmarried births than states that are lax about getting unmarried dads to pay, the researchers found.

PLEASE EMAIL THESE THREE STOGES AND TELL THEM TO WAKE UP AND SUPPORT THE CHILDREN OF SOUTH CAROLINA

South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford http://www.scgovernor.com/Contact.asp?sitecontentid=33

South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham http://lgraham.senate.gov/index.cfm?mode=contactform

South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint http://demint.senate.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.Home

In 1996, Congress enacted a law called the "Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act," or PRWORA, as part of Welfare Reform. This legislation created the requirement for employers in all 50 states to report their new hires and re-hires to a state directory (emphasis added).

New hire reporting speeds up the child support income withholding order process, expedites collection of child support from parents who change jobs frequently, and quickly locates non-custodial parents to help in establishing paternity and child support orders. New hire reporting helps children receive the support they deserve. Employers serve as key partners in ensuring financial stability for many children and families and should take pride in their role.

Prisoners who use the telephone to maintain strong family ties will be better prepared to rebuild their lives upon returning home. Why then does Massachusetts allow price-gouging phone companies to drive prison rates for interstate calls sky high, isolating inmates from the outside world? It is time to end telephone price gouging in prisons. If phone companies in Florida, Michigan, Missouri and New York can provide inmates with reasonable rates, so can Massachusetts.

Those demanding the incarceration of fathers in arrears on child support should themselves be jailed for their own overdue payments to their creditors. After all, what's good for the goose is good for the gander. Discriminately incarcerating one class of people (fathers) for overdue financial obligations in a society, and not incarcerating others who are guilty of the same, amounts to a state-sanctioned discriminatory inquisition.

Perhaps all single mothers with delinquent and outstanding medical bills for treatment of their children should be summarily jailed? If a father becomes involuntarily unemployed following massive layoffs, and is without income and therefore "refuses" (or so he's accused) to pay his child support should be jailed for being a "deadbeat," then it logically follows that a mother who "refuses" to seek medical treatment for a sick child simply because she is without the means to pay is also without a valid excuse and should be locked up as well.

Since 2004, the [Florida] Legislature has required courts to support their operating expenses substantially, through fees collected by county clerks. Some of the clerks use collection agents, while about a third use the Collections Courts, state officials said. Here in Leon County alone, 839 people were arrested and jailed in the year ended last September over court debts or failure to appear at Collections Court, according to a study by the Brennan Center. Other Florida counties have less stringent policies.

Around Leon County, there are some 5,400 outstanding “blue writs” — the civil equivalent of an arrest warrant for failing to appear and pay fees. Some people come in and pay when they receive their summons; others spend a night or more in jail, often having been arrested when the writ pops up during incidents like routine traffic stops.

The prisons are the last step in a very broken system. There are too many things you can go to prison for, there are far too few options for judges to use outside of incarceration, and there is too little recognition of the damage our criminal justice system does to offenders who pose little danger to others.

Though Virginia Sen. Jim Webb's comparison between Japan, a homogeneous, fairly static society with very little immigration, and the United States, a heterogeneous, mobile country with a large number of immigrants, breaks down, he is correct that putting people into prison for anything that does not threaten another's safety is damaging to both the public who pays and the offender who is forever changed by the experience.

Prostitution, gambling, drugs, writing bad checks and shoplifting are just a few of the crimes that society should not endorse, but prison is not the correct response.

However, what actual sanctions will our society accept?

In the end, to fix the corrections system, we must start with the lawmakers who feel prisons are the only way to be tough on crime.

Then the courts need more options for sentencing and a changed outlook on the law being only a revenue source for lawyers. Saying prisons are broken because of the high numbers in them is the same as saying graveyards are broken because of being full of dead people.

Stan Burtt
S. Laurel Street
Summerville

Financially pressed people...are representing themselves more and more in court, according to judges, lawyers and courthouse officials across the country, raising questions of how just the outcomes are and clogging courthouses already facing their own budget woes as clerks spend more time helping people unfamiliar with forms, filings and fees.

We all know that the numbers are through the roof,” said James K. Borbely, a circuit court judge in Vermilion County, Ill. “You just look at the courtrooms.”

Judges complain that people miss deadlines, fail to bring the right documents or evidence and are simply unprepared for legal proceedings. Such mistakes make it more likely they will fare poorly — no matter the merit of their cases.

Reliable numbers for people representing themselves in noncriminal cases are hard to come by. Nationally there is no tracking system, and each state’s court system follows its own rules. Many people hire a lawyer for one phase of a proceeding but then drop them later. (In criminal cases, of course, defendants have a right to an appointed lawyer.)

Records of New York’s family courts, in which a vast majority of people appear without a lawyer, are imperfect. But in the first six weeks of this year, nearly 95 percent of litigants in paternity and support cases did not have a lawyer, compared with 88 percent in all of 2008 (emphasis added).

How does it make sense and help a company's bottom line to comply with such a reporting requirement? Simple: the reports are used primarily for tracking parents who owe back child support and for reducing fraud under various social programs, including unemployment benefits. Employers are a vital link in the effort to ensure payment of child support, not only through garnishment of wages, but also through the new hire reports. If your employees who are owed child support start receiving it because of someone else's new hire report, you will have a better, more focused employee. What you do can help other employers, and what they do in that regard will help you. New hire reporting also helps your company through reduction of benefit fraud. Part of the unemployment tax that every taxed employer has to pay comes from claim fraud that must be recouped somehow, and of course the "somehow" is by resorting to employers! Since a new employee's wages will not be reported to TWC for up to three or four months following their hire, the new hire report can help TWC detect UI benefit claim fraud three or four months earlier than it might normally be found. For more details, see the article titled "How Employers Can Help Reduce Claim Fraud" in the Post-Employment Problems section of this book. In addition, since the new hire reporting law absolutely requires employees to give you their social security numbers, it is one more tool to use in verifying SSNs (see the article in the next section of this book titled "Verification of Social Security Numbers"). If a cross-match turns up a problem with the SSN, you can then contact the Social Security Administration for assistance in verifying whether the number is valid. Finally, new hire reporting can help avoid the problem of employees engaging in "double-dipping" with other state or federal benefit programs, such as workers' compensation.

Contempt results from the willful disobedience of a court order. Lindsay v. Lindsay, 328 S.C. 329, 345, 491 S.E.2d 583, 592 (Ct. App. 1997). A willful act is one “done voluntarily and intentionally with the specific intent to do something the law forbids, or with the specific intent to fail to do something the law requires to be done; that is to say, with bad purpose either to disobey or disregard the law.” Spartanburg County Dep’t of Soc. Servs. v. Padgett, 296 S.C. 79, 82-83, 370 S.E.2d 872, 874 (1988) (citing Black’s Law Dictionary 1434 (5th ed. 1979)). The determination of contempt ordinarily resides in the sound discretion of the trial judge. State v. Bevilacqua, 316 S.C. 122, 129, 447 S.E.2d 213, 217 (Ct. App. 1994). “A finding of contempt . . . must be reflected in a record that is ‘clear and specific as to the acts or conduct upon which such finding is based.’” Tirado v. Tirado, 339 S.C. 649, 654, 530 S.E.2d 128, 131 (Ct. App. 2000) (quoting Curlee v. Howle, 277 S.C. 377, 382, 287 S.E.2d 915,

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(A) By January 1, 1996, the Child Support Enforcement Division of the Department of Social Services shall create and develop an Employer New Hire Reporting program. The Employer New Hire Reporting program shall provide a means for employers to voluntarily assist in the state's efforts to locate absent parents who owe child support and collect child support from those parents by reporting information concerning newly hired and rehired employees directly to the division.

(B) The following provisions apply to the Employer New Hire Reporting program: (1) An employer doing business in this State may participate in the Employer New Hire Reporting program by reporting to the Child Support Enforcement Division (emphasis added).