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"Bob Whiteside" wrote in message ink.net... "Werebat" wrote in message news:q1k%d.66018$7z6.21714@lakeread04... This is the first chapter of an interesting book: http://www.supportguidelines.com/book/chap1a.html And it mentions an interesting idea: "Some commentators believe that given the continually expansive role of the federal government into heretofore matters of family law that were the exclusive province of the states, it is surely only a matter of time until the federal government adopts a national child support guideline model." I wonder if it might not be a GOOD thing for NCPs if the federal government DID implement a national child support guideline model. Oh, I'm sure it would be as unfair, clunky, and cumbersome as anything the states have now, and you can be sure it would be based on recommendations from Policy Studies, Inc... But it would also provide the scattered men's rights groups with a unifying target to take aim against, instead of keeping them divided and conquered. Instead of trying to fight 50 different sets of state laws, they'd only be challenging one (albeit federal) set of laws. We already have a national CS guideline model. The program started in 1974 with passage of Title IV-D of the Social Security Act that tied together Aid to Dependent Children and CS. In 1984 Congress added services to non-ADC family CS laws. In 1988 Congress passed the Family Support Act adding paternity establishment, use of CS guidelines, mandatory income withholding, and periodic review of CS orders. In 1996 ADC was replaced with TANF, and changes were made to paternity establishment, use of locator services, added enforcement tools, and rules on how collects would be dispersed. 2/3 of the costs of implementing the CS guideline system are paid for by the federal government. Federal incentive payments to the states reward additional money to the states for compliance with federal CS programs. We have federal laws regarding felonies for crossing state lines to avoid paying CS, we have a federal $4 billion computer system to track everyone who works, we have federal systems to track interstate CS orders, and we have international treaties that facilitate enforcement of international CS orders. Anyone advocating for more federal involvement in CS, like a federal standardized CS amount, is asking for more problems than we have already. At least the current system allows for local state input into the guideline dollar amounts. There is already too much federal involvement in the CS guidelines. I totally agree with you, Bob. The fact that the terms "sensible" and "federal government" rarely belong in the same sentence. The main problem is that the further one gets from the source, the more difficult it becomes to see the problems. With solutions to problems depending on politics, which, like judicial rulings, have little in common with "justice", federal intervention into just about anything is always a disaster. Phil #3 |
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