Posted on 05/02/2015 6:57:07 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad
Should Parental authority be terminated (for both parents) when they divorce?
In a forty page bill, sponsored by the Louisiana State Law Institute - effort led by retired family law professor Spaht.
The law is difficult to read to see what has changed because she is erasing all of the existing law and rewriting and reorganizing it. So all the text is marked as new, even the parts that are existing.
This is long standing law that has not been revised in decades.
Of all rhe bad parts of the bill, the one change I am highlighting is this.
Under our current laws, parental authority terminates when a child becomes an adult (age if maturity ie 18) or when a child is emancipated (freed early by a judge).
This bill, in article 235 proposes to add the clause that parental authority also terminates when the parents divorce.
The bill is already out of the Senate committee (tuesday), read for the second time (wed) and was initially up for final vote Thursday. That vote was put off tuntil this coming monday.
Can we get some smart freepers to weigh in?
There is a lot of limiting of parental authority and demoting parents in this proposed law.
In many places the word 'parents' is being removed and replaced with the vague term 'any person with parental authority'...
So who is that?
------------------------- SB134 by Senator Barrow Peacock
FAMILY LAW: Provides for parental authority of married persons, obligations of children, parents, and other ascendants, and provisional custody by mandate. (1/1/16) (OR NO IMPACT See Note)
Current Status: Pending Senate final passage - Sched. for 5/4/15
(Excerpt) Read more at legis.la.gov ...
So this
-————————————————————————————————————————————————”Art. 216. Parental authority.
A child remains under the authority of his father and mother until his majority or emancipation.
In case of difference between the parents, the authority of the father prevails.”
Is to become:
Art. 235. Termination of parental authority
Parental authority terminates upon the child’s attaining the age of majority, upon the child’s emancipation, or upon termination of the marriage of the parents of the child.”
!!??
and these are supposed to be Republicans??
didn’t they already ban yard sales or something?
Outright communism
doesn't a State Senator need to propose it??
I’m in CA, and so useless. I’d refer this to HSLDA, as it might affect the right to home school.
Unless I’m misinterpeting what I read, it appears SB134 is being proposed by Senator Barrow Peacock
Something is fubar in Louisiana, they just baned cash transactions for yard sales, thrift stores ect.
Progressive repubcans are still statist rats! The bigger the state and the more it takes from the people, all the more power they have!!!
http://www.rabalaislaw-metairie.com/2013/11/20/tutorship-in-louisiana/
The Fifth Commandment, “Honor your father and your mother …,” comes to mind with respect to religious expression. But since the Holy Bible teaches almost zero tolerance for divorce, it’s also hypocritical for divorcing parents to play the Fifth Commandment card on judges and lawmakers when getting divorced.
If concerned citizens don’t like this law but sit on their hands and do nothing about it, then that is their problem.
What about child support?
You are correct. The bill is sponsored by Senator Peacock.
Cash banned for yard sales? That sound like CA democrats wanting to collect sales tax. What does Jindal say about it?
Leftist noses under the edge of the tent. Seeking their future in your children.
I was divorced in 1984 and lost all my parental rights. The custodial parent not only got the kids and a monthly check to spend as she saw fit. She also got all the authority.
It won’t pass. I would not worry about it.
So, you either have to accept a check from a stranger or take debit or credit cards to sell your junk in a garage sell? Isn’t there a constitution or something like that somewhere that these politicians can use to guide them?
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