Just when you think it couldn't get any worse - no, that's bullshit - it's always getting worse, I've come to have new data relative to the obscene amount of Federal dollars the imploding State of California receives each fiscal year for its Gestapo-like Child Support Enforcement and Case Management efforts.

In fiscal year 2023/24 the State of California received a eye-opening $824 million real whole George Washington's for this this particular hunting expedition, and of that amount, $672.5 million dollars went to County and Local Child Support Gestapos throughout the State. Damn small question as to whether or not Los Angeles County's Brown Shirts received a generous hand-out in this regard.

As I've cited here previously and recently articulated to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, not one dime of Child Support Enforcement funds - regardless of source - ever makes its way into the lives of children of divorce or impoverished kids; no. Instead, those funds go to prop up the salaries, benefits, paid time off, and pensions of those employed by or retired from, the Child Support Enforcement Industry; people just like Brandon Nichols
Most of you don't know who Brandon Nichols is, but so you know, Nichols is the Director of the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services.
In tax year 2023, Mr. Nichols knocked back $603,000 in total, taxpayer funded compensation. Are taxpayers to believe that this egregious compensation package is somehow in "The Best Interest of the Child"? Not bloody likely!

In the US, "Paternity Fraud" - matters wherein a man or boy is misnamed "father" whether that be accidentally, intentionally, or otherwise - is the only article of court or law wherein scientific proof of innocence does not exonerate. A DNA test will get a guy off death row, or prove he didn't rape somebody, but if he's outside very obscure statute of limitations that vary largely by state - within which to challenge and or disestablish paternity - the Family Court won't even hear his case and place him on the hook paying child support for a child DNA evidence has proven he didn't father!

For a myriad of reasons - disgust mostly - it's been quite a long while since I've updated my blog, but not much has really changed. 

Though the government and media would have people believe differently, the fact remains that in US divorce and custody matters, Mom's are still granted primary physical custody of minor children - when such kids are involved - in over 90 percent of cases. While the term varies by State, Primary Physical Custody remains the cornerstone from which child support amounts are "determined".... Understand what "bias" is? In Family Law Court "bias" doesn't convey the half of it! Read on, please.....

 

It really is all about the money and if you have any doubt, consider this:

During fiscal year 2019/20 - the most recent data I've received to date - California's Department of Child Support Services (DCSS) received $779 million in Federal funds for it's case management and child support enforcement effort(s). Of those funds, about $50 million was used for DCSS's highly flawed child support automation, essentially, their IT Department.

Something else that hasn't changed, is that not a dime of those Federal funds ever makes its way into the lives of children of divorce or impoverished kids.

 

No, instead those funds prop up the egregious compensation, benefits, and pension packages of those employed by - or retired from - the child support enforcement racket, and trust me, it is a racket of epic proportion. .

A Gestapo-like conglomeration of semi-anesthetized people such as Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services (LACDCFS) Director Brandon Nichols whose compensation package costs taxpayers almost $550,000 per year!

Yes all one need do is Google the term child and - if its not first - it'll be close, the term child support appears. Add the letter s after child and child support is always at the top of the list of click choices, "Best Interest of the Child" remains a bullshit lie the Court's spew.

 And then we have "Paternity Fraud" - Never heard of that one?!

Paternity Fraud are matters wherein a man or boy is or was, misidentified as "Father" on a birth certificate - whether named accidentally, intentionally, or otherwise - and either sooner or later is, at the risk of jail, ordered to pay child support for a baby.

In the United States, these types of matters remain the only article of court or law wherein scientific proof of innocence does not exonerate!

 

A DNA test will get a guy off Death Row or prove he didn't rape, but if he's outside of what are very obscure statutes of limitations - that vary largely by State - within which to challenge and disestablish paternity, he's on the hook paying child support for a child that DNA evidence has, again, proven that he didn't father.

There are hundreds and perhaps thousands of such men and boys all across the Nation....

 

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While perhaps innocent, yet another egregious and no-question uninformed attack on men and boys is being mounted in California, this time - unfortunately - by an otherwise good guy.
Retired CHP officer Tom Lackey - who got himself elected as the Assemblyman representing the 36th District - has introduced AB 1498 which - if enacted - would plaster the faces of men and boys who happen to be in arrears on child support, across the home page of a tax payer funded website.....
More on this development soon.....

I suffered a significant injury to my typing hand in mid-2014. I'll be back soon with more blistering reports on the family law and child support enforcement Gestapo!
Happy New Year!

For quite a while now, I've been operating - incorrectly - under the assumption that California receives in the neighborhood of $90 million dollars per year in federal subsidy for its child support collection and case management efforts; I’m getting old because I simply cannot recall from whence I came to have that figure. Recently, at the suggestion of a very helpful, empathetic, and smart guy in Sacramento, I contacted the California Legislative Analysts Office, and low and behold, I was able to obtain verifiable and accurate information. In the current 2012/2013 fiscal year, California is scheduled to receive $504 million federal dollars for its child support collection and case management efforts. I wish to be clear here, that particular $504 million is for child support collection and child support case management only! Not incidentally, those federal funds never make their way into the lives of children of divorce or impoverished kids, instead financing the salaries, paid vacation time, medical benefits and pensions of those employed by - or retired from - the family law and child support collection Gestapo’s.
The analyst who was kind enough to speak with me went on to say, of that $504 million dollars, $61 million is strictly for the maintenance and repair of the computer system the state, county, and local child support enforcement workers use to track the comings and goings of child support money, and to monitor where Dad’s are etc.
Now, if we bear in mind that the only federally funded study ever conducted on the subject of child support showed that - when employed - men pay between 83 and 91% of all court ordered child support, we begin to see the big picture; why are the tax payers financing child support collection and enforcement if these guys are already paying their child support?
Consider, in California alone we have over 8,000 men paying child support for children that DNA evidence has proven they didn’t father. To emancipate those men from this assigned debt would put the state at risk of losing all - or a good portion - of the massive annual federal subsidy I mentioned above; at the risk of stating the obvious, California is but one of fifty! Think about it, then, you do the math…."Best Interest of the Child"?
Not bloody likely

This entry is about Philadelphia area resident, Walter Andre Sharpe, yet another paternity fraud case, surprise, surprise! Like Joe Dier, this guy is trying to get his money back, and I'll be watching very closely.
Please read the excellent article written by Matt Miller for The Patriot News, dated 7/26/2012.
While it is likely that men experienced with the nightmare’s known as the Family Law or Child Support Collection Industries would have responded to the certified letter in question, Mr. Sharpe may have simply been too afraid to challenge anything these Gestapo‘s say; no excuse, just a fact.
People also need to know that these regimes continue siphoning of HUGE sums of taxpayer money via their child support collection system(s) and subsequently, they don’t like a lot of “noise” surrounding their activities, particularly when one bears in mind that much of their revenue generation is blatant thievery just as it has been in this case.
The fact is, this case is potentially a LOT bigger than the Court and Dauphin or Montgomery County officials are letting on about, and here‘s why:

In California alone we have over 8,000 men paying child support for children that DNA evidence has proven they didn’t father; why? Quota! If the Golden State were to emancipate these men from their assigned debt, the State risks losing the $90+ million Federal Dollars it receives annually for its child support collection and case management efforts; Federal Funds that, not incidentally, never make their way into the lives of children of divorce or impoverished kids. Instead, those funds finance the salaries, medical benefits, paid vacation time, and pensions of people employed by or retired from regimes such as the Dauphin County Domestic Relations Department and their hundreds of minions. And you wonder why these regimes so vehemently resist turning guys like Mr. Sharpe loose? Please!
Further, it is entirely possible that the biological mother and “the right guy” were completely oblivious to much of the legal ramblings; these child support collection regimes are capable of ANYTHING when it comes to "collecting" tax payer money; Believe it!
Its been happening in every county, in every State, in the United States for forty years now!

Child Support Injustice @ Rural America

In doing my morning perusal of Internet news today, with “child support” in the Yahoo search bar (my searches typically, and almost always without fail, result in a quick and easy discovery of yet another ubiquitous Family Law and or Child Support Collection injustice vicimizing a man or a father(s) and more often than not, these articles are showcased at a reputable online journalistic website) I came across a story about the plight of my new friend, Joe, written by Michael Wiser, during today’s search. The piece is - refreshingly - a concise and right-to-the point, facts-in-front-of-your-face, well written article; thanks Mike!

Now, Joe lives in a place called Grundy Center, Iowa. In simple L.A. terms, Grundy Center is “way the fuck out there” or “in Bumfuck Egypt“. Now, please understand, my intention is not to knock Grundy Center, to the contrary, I wish they had a regional airport as I could use a few days in the country, like right now, yesterday! Rather, my intention is to showcase that even in what many American taxpayers - like John Cougar Mellencamp - would acknowledge as “Small-town America” men and fathers are not safe from the injustices of a Family Law Industry intent upon keeping “Dad” right where they want; paying money! I spoke to Joe by phone today, he told me what he had been experiencing. I shared with him that he was not alone, and that in fact there are 8,000 men in California alone paying child support for kids that DNA evidence Has proven they didn’t father; I shared a lot of what I know about the Family Law and Child Support Collection Industries, and how horrible they are. I’m going to do all I can to help raise the awareness of Joe’s case.

See, Joe has paid thousands - THOUSANDS - of dollars in child support for a child that is not his! Joe loved, and may still very much so, love this little girl, she was “his”. He fought for and wanted to gain full custody (Ha!) when the mother took the child from Joe’s residence, and it was only when he started custody proceedings that was he told the little girl was not his; he then wanted to adopt. His story came to light, when he asked to have the mother reimburse him; he said he - in reality - expected no money to be paid by the mother, but that set me to thinking. If Joe was informed he was not the father prior to a DNA test being conducted, I am of the opinion that Mom knows who the biological father is, and that "Dad" owes Joe a few bucks, no?