CA: Last minute changes to bill - Move-Away Bill Will Harm Children of Divorce

Move-Away Bill Will Harm Children of Divorce
April 18, 2006
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From Glenn Sacks -


A new bill has been introduced into the California Senate which will make it
more difficult for children of divorce to retain the loving bonds they share
with both parents. The bill's backers made a sweeping, last minute amendment
to the bill in order to slip it through before opponents had a chance to
organize.
I want all of you to write the Judiciary Committee members in opposition to
SB 1482 by clicking here.

Under SB 1482, which will be voted on by the California Senate Judiciary
Committee next Tuesday (April 25), a parent seeking to block a move is
specifically prohibited from citing most of the evidence that could provide
a basis for restraining the move. Nonmoving parents are prevented from
citing the move's impact on their children's relationships with them or the
effects of the children losing their schools and friends. This directly
abrogates current California case law which says that the children's
relationship with their nonmoving parent must be considered when deciding a
relocation case.

SB 1482 is an attempt by the extremist Coalition for Family Equity and
misguided feminists to reverse the progress made on behalf of California's
children of divorce over the past two years. From 1996 to 2004 move-away
determinations were based on the Burgess decision, which was interpreted by
California courts as conferring unlimited move-away privileges. Under
Burgess the bonds between tens of thousands of children and their
noncustodial parents were needlessly ruptured.

The California Supreme Court addressed the problem in the LaMusga decision
in April, 2004 by making it clear that courts can prevent children from
being moved when it is detrimental to their interests. Among the factors
deemed important were the relationship between the child and the nonmoving
parent.

In the summer of 2004 then Senate President John Burton, one of the most
powerful people in California, introduced SB 730, a bill which would have
granted custodial parents an almost unlimited right to move children far way
from their noncustodial parents.

We organized opposition to SB 730, and thousands of you wrote and called
Sacramento to oppose the bill. Our campaign gained widespread media
attention and was endorsed by numerous mental health and family law
professionals. Burton surprised Sacramento insiders by withdrawing the bill
a few weeks later.

OMG!! From my own experience....we successfully blocked my ex's
planned move to North Carolina.....I can't imagine what allowing this
could create....it would basically legalize parental kid napping.

"Erin" wrote in message
ps.com...
OMG!! From my own experience....we successfully blocked my ex's
planned move to North Carolina.....I can't imagine what allowing this
could create....it would basically legalize parental kid napping.

Legalize parental kidnapping is already the norm where vindictive ex-wives
are allowed to kidnap the children away from the father.