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is reform happening?
This was an interesting article in today's Sacramento Bee. Personally, I
think the guy is abusing the spirit of the 50/50 shared custody concept, and that won't garner any sypathy or respect from courts or legislators. My favorite was where one group advocated an "approximation test" for custody splits instead of the "best interests of the child" doctrine. The result would be nothing but more of the same, but with a trendy new name. The appearance of reform without actually having to do anything. Ya gotta love it. http://www.sacbee.com/content/news/s...-8017380c.html |
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is reform happening?
This was an interesting article in today's Sacramento Bee. Personally, I
think the guy is abusing the spirit of the 50/50 shared custody concept, and that won't garner any sypathy or respect from courts or legislators. My favorite was where one group advocated an "approximation test" for custody splits instead of the "best interests of the child" doctrine. The result would be nothing but more of the same, but with a trendy new name. The appearance of reform without actually having to do anything. Ya gotta love it. http://www.sacbee.com/content/news/s...-8017380c.html Actually, the article mentioned nothing about the QUALITY of the care provided under the approximation test, totally removing it from any semblance of "best interests"... Mel Gamble |
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is reform happening?
"Mel Gamble" wrote in message ... This was an interesting article in today's Sacramento Bee. Personally, I think the guy is abusing the spirit of the 50/50 shared custody concept, and that won't garner any sypathy or respect from courts or legislators. My favorite was where one group advocated an "approximation test" for custody splits instead of the "best interests of the child" doctrine. The result would be nothing but more of the same, but with a trendy new name. The appearance of reform without actually having to do anything. Ya gotta love it. http://www.sacbee.com/content/news/s...-8017380c.html Actually, the article mentioned nothing about the QUALITY of the care provided under the approximation test, totally removing it from any semblance of "best interests"... Just more proof daycare providers should be awarded sole custody based on the approximation test for time spent with children. Now if the brilliant attorneys can only decide which parent gets the child custody credit for latch key kids we'll have something to really cause child custody reform. Want to bet the mother gets credit for children's time spent with a daycare provider and latch key kids time spent alone at school and after school? What a farce! |
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is reform happening?
Bob Whiteside wrote:
"Mel Gamble" wrote in message ... This was an interesting article in today's Sacramento Bee. Personally, I think the guy is abusing the spirit of the 50/50 shared custody concept, and that won't garner any sypathy or respect from courts or legislators. My favorite was where one group advocated an "approximation test" for custody splits instead of the "best interests of the child" doctrine. The result would be nothing but more of the same, but with a trendy new name. The appearance of reform without actually having to do anything. Ya gotta love it. http://www.sacbee.com/content/news/s...-8017380c.html Actually, the article mentioned nothing about the QUALITY of the care provided under the approximation test, totally removing it from any semblance of "best interests"... Just more proof daycare providers should be awarded sole custody based on the approximation test for time spent with children. Now if the brilliant attorneys can only decide which parent gets the child custody credit for latch key kids we'll have something to really cause child custody reform. Want to bet the mother gets credit for children's time spent with a daycare provider and latch key kids time spent alone at school and after school? What a farce! They already do. What a farce. Most, if not all orders, anymore state, "all times not with the FATHER, shall be with the MOTHER for determining support, etc., etc. |
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is reform happening?
Bob Whiteside wrote:
"Mel Gamble" wrote in message ... This was an interesting article in today's Sacramento Bee. Personally, I think the guy is abusing the spirit of the 50/50 shared custody concept, and that won't garner any sypathy or respect from courts or legislators. My favorite was where one group advocated an "approximation test" for custody splits instead of the "best interests of the child" doctrine. The result would be nothing but more of the same, but with a trendy new name. The appearance of reform without actually having to do anything. Ya gotta love it. http://www.sacbee.com/content/news/s...-8017380c.html Actually, the article mentioned nothing about the QUALITY of the care provided under the approximation test, totally removing it from any semblance of "best interests"... Just more proof daycare providers should be awarded sole custody based on the approximation test for time spent with children. Now if the brilliant attorneys can only decide which parent gets the child custody credit for latch key kids we'll have something to really cause child custody reform. Want to bet the mother gets credit for children's time spent with a daycare provider and latch key kids time spent alone at school and after school? What a farce! These are examples of the things that happen when the system is so grotesquely distorted against fathers (carefully disguised as "non-custodial parents"). Another similar example is the definition of a "day" for purposes of the threshold number of days in many states' CS guidelines, after which there is a CS reduction to take account of the amount of time the children are with the father. In my own state, "day" is interpreted as meaning overnight. So fathers who have the children during the day get no reductions in the money they have to pay the mother. I know I sound like a broken record, but these things happen (and will continue to happen) so long as there is a glass ceiling on paternal custody, and so long as the fathers' movement has no political clout. |
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