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DADS and MOMS NEWSLETTER

Please find attached a brief report of some of the many activities going on around the state and country. There is a lot more to report so check the DADS web site Message Forum for the latest news.

for information call 248-559-DADS(3237) or 517-437-9547

DADS Monthly Meeting, Tuesday December 6^th, 2005

Location
THE BIRMINGHAM COMMUNITY HOUSE
380 South Bates Street
BIRMINGHAM, MI 48009
Located in Downtown Birmingham, call for directions-248-644-5832.

PROGRAM AGENDA
Guest speaker:	JUDGE RICHARD HALLORAN, Wayne County Court
Topic:	Personal Protection Orders and Domestic Violence
Agenda:	5:30 - 6:30 Counsel Session
	7:00 - 7:30 Dads Presentation
	7:30 - 9:00 Guest Speaker, Judge Richard Halloran
	9:00 - 9:30 Legal roundtable with various legal counsel

To host a meeting in your area, contact the DADS of Michigan business office, 248-559-3237.


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Michigan Legislative Update

Several people attended the Michigan Republic conference on Mackinac Island and met many Senators and Representatives. In addition, several people have participated in several campaign fund raisers of candidates. We need you to take an active role to meet the candidates, help them understand the issues, and provide the campaign support

Here is a summary of some recent legislation in progress and the strategy is to call your Senator AND Representative to get them to sign up for a bill or take action.

1. Pass HB 5267 (equal parenting) – Hearings begin December 19
2. Pass HB 4161 (eliminate presumption of Mom custody in unwed situations). Has been introduced to the Senate Families committee.
3. Pass SB 436 and HB 5088 (paternity). Is moving forward.
4. Military Custody Bills HB 5100 and SB 0714 – Passed the House and Senate unanimously and awaiting signature.
5. Introduce legislation to eliminate the Strict Liability law MCL 750.165 on child support.
6. Veto/modify the US Bradley Amendment USC 666 at the federal level - child support.
7. Update VAWA (Domestic Violence) to include language for gender neutrality. Delayed in the US Senate.
8. Repeal SB 263 (Hearsay evidence allowed for domestic violence)
9. Introduce legislation to require update of child support guidelines based on SER or foster care guidelines.
10. Enforce FOC to follow child support guidelines when you loose your job, disabled, activated in the military  (Michigan FOC frequently will not modify support)

Check this site for the bills: http://www.legislature.mi.gov/

Additionally
1.  Tell 2 people every day.
2.  Attend and meet legislators campaigning for office
 
What I want to EMPHASIZE is that DADS and Moms of Michigan is not a Fathers Rights organization.  Our message is one of gender neutrality and that the Best Parent is Both Parents. 
 
We will need your financial support to get these bills passed.

Family law
Updated Bills or Resolutions:

• SB 0891 of 2005
  Family law; child support; collection duties for certain state departments; establish. Amends title & secs. 1, 3, 13 & 28 of 1941 PA 122 (MCL 205.1 et seq.) & repeals 1927 PA 375 (MCL 14.131 - 14.134)

Friend of the Court November 2005 Pundit Newsletter
http://courts.michigan.gov/scao/resources/publications/focbnewsletters/nov2005pundit.pdf

The Fathers (and Mothers) War - They serve their country and lose their children

The message below is coming to you from ANCPR www.ancpr.org

If you have Family Law issues, you need the ANCPR Winning Family Law Strategies Handbook.  It is available for immediate download when you sign up for ANCPR Membership.

The Fathers War - They serve their country and lose their children http://ancpr.com/blog/archives/127

The Fathers’ War - www.amconmag.com/2005/2005_10_24/article2.html
By Stephen Baskerville

While our country focuses on the war abroad, many of our soldiers fight personal battles here at home—or more accurately, can’t fight. They are losing their families and getting little help from an administration that claims to “support the troops” while doing nothing to protect the parental rights of the fathers it sent into combat. (more…)

BOWEN v. GILLIARD ET AL., 107 S. Ct. 3008, 483 U.S. 587 (U.S. 06/25/1987)
Excerpt http://laws.findlaw.com/us/483/587.html

[1] SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES

[2] No. 86-509

[3] 107 S. Ct. 3008, 483 U.S. 587, 97 L. Ed. 2d 485, 55
U.S.L.W. 5079, 1987.SCT.42905 www.versuslaw.com or www.justia.us/us/483/587/case.html

[4] decided*fn*: June 25, 1987.

[5] BOWEN, SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES v.GILLIARD ET AL.

[6] APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE
WESTERN DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA.

[66] The family is an institution "deeply rooted in this Nation's history and tradition." Moore v. East Cleveland, 431 U.S. 494, 503 (1977). Our society's special solicitude for the family reflects awareness that "it is through the family that we inculcate and pass down many of our most cherished values, moral and cultural." Id., at 503-504 (footnote omitted).*fn2 As a result, we have long recognized that "freedom of personal

[ 483 U.S. Page 612]

choice in matters of family life is a fundamental liberty interest protected by the Fourteenth Amendment." Santosky v. Kramer, 455 U.S. 745, 753 (1982). See also Cleveland Board of Education v. LaFleur, 414 U.S. 632, 639 (1974). Therefore, "when the government intrudes on choices concerning family living arrangements, this Court must examine carefully the importance of the governmental interests advanced and the extent to which they are served by the challenged regulation." Moore, supra, at 499.*fn3

[67] A fundamental element of family life is the relationship between parent and child. As we said in Lehr v. Robertson, 463 U.S. 248, 256 (1983): "The intangible fibers that connect parent and child have infinite variety. They are woven throughout the fabric of our society, providing it with strength, beauty, and flexibility. It is self-evident that they are sufficiently vital to merit onstitutional protection in appropriate cases." We have thus been vigilant in nsuring that government does not burden the ability of parent and child to sustain their vital connection. See, e. g., Santosky, supra, at 753; Stanley v. Illinois,405 U.S. 645 (1972); Meyer v. Nebraska, 262 U.S. 390 (1923). *fn4

[68] "The rights of the parents are a counterpart of the responsibilities they have assumed." Lehr, supra, at 257. When parents make a commitment to meet those responsibilities, the child has a right to rely on the unique contribution

 

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