Posted on 03/20/2006 3:33:15 AM PST by Pikachu_Dad
MEETING ALERT ATTEND TO SAVE SHARED PARENTING!
A meeting of Members of the House Committee on Civil Law and Procedure and members of the Senate Committee on Judiciary A
THIS MEETING IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. ANYONE CAN ATTEND!!
DATE: Tuesday, March 21, 2006
TIME: 2:00 p.m.
PLACE: House Committee Room 6
PURPOSE: To discuss shared custody provisions in the child support guidelines
This should be in the lower section of the capitol. Any State Trooper or person with a maroon jacket can direct you. There are also signs that tell where the meetings are being held. The title of the meeting may be on HCR 4. or HB 315.
The meeting is open to the public!! This is the ONLY chance we will get to address the Representatives and Senators directly and on the record. Please try to show up and testify AGAINST this bill if you can. If we can kill it in committee, it is dead till the next session. If it makes it out, odds are very good it will pass.
Rep. Bowler just has one more year left and she is term limited out, thank GOD!! We must stop this bill from passing and by a wide margin so that other legislators will know that this is a BAD idea. Without us there to tell them they only have the other side to listen to. We have the truth on our side, WE CAN WIN IF WE SHOW UP AND TESTIFY!!
It is really simple. Others will be there to help. Simply fill out a card AGAINST the bill and you get to say a few words against it. We REALLY need people who are in the same district as the reps and senators on the committee, but anyone will do.
Rest assured, the other side has already been lobbying these people hard. Some of them are paid by OUR tax dollars to teach at LSU, but spend a lot of their time trying to convince legislators to pass laws that destroy families all in the hope of ending divorce. They have had their way for 30 years and you see where we are. Need I say more, their way is NOT working!! The time for shared parenting is NOW!!
You must attend this meeting if you want to one day see shared parenting as a reality in this state!! The reps and senators can’t vote to pass this if 100 people show up in the gallery and fill out a card AGAINST this bill!! They work for us, not the special interest who hang around at the capitol!! Be there to show them we care about our children!!
Thanks and God Bless our cause and our Children!!
Derek
I know that the "shared parenting" concept looks good on paper, and works out well for the adults. But doesn't it really mean that the children are merely visitors at two homes and don't have a permanent home anywhere? I'm not trying to pick a fight with you, Dad. Just playing devils advocate here.
Do you have a link to the page where this information is posted?
I'm confused. What is Dad against?
Also take note of Teri Stoddard's blog...
Also, Krights Radio... Maybe someone can get an interview/call-in with them to plug, if they haven't already.
Maybe look-up Glenn Sacks too. He does an online newletter.
"I'm confused. What is Dad against?"Yeah, that too. Highlights about what is on the table that fathers find objectionable or what LA fathers would rather see could be helpful. Legal reading can be really dry and hard to interpret.
I'm all for it and so is the poster of the topic.
Plain and simple - Shared parenting = less criminal youth = less tax dollars spent.
Dept. of HHS proved this years ago.
63% of youth suicides are from fatherless homes
--U.S. D.H.H.S., Bureau of the Census
85% of all children that exhibit behavioral disorders come from fatherless homes
--Center for Disease Control
80% of rapists motivated with displaced anger come from fatherless homes
--Criminal Justice and Behavior, Vol. 14, p. 403-26
71% of all high school dropouts come from fatherless homes
--National Principals Association Report on the State of High Schools
70% of juveniles in state operated institutions come from fatherless homes
--U.S. Dept. of Justice, Special Report Sept., 1988
85% of all youths sitting in prisons grew up in a fatherless home
--Fulton County Georgia jail populations & Texas Dept. of Corrections, 1992
Meeting notice:
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/agenda.asp?meeting_id=1667
Study request:
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=311519
Cut and paste of the study request:
(gets a bit out of order.)
HLS 05RS-3343 ORIGINAL
Page 1 of 2
Approved
6-20-05
Regular Session, 2005
HOUSE CONCURRENT STUDY REQUEST NO. 4
BY REPRESENTATIVE BOWLER
CHILDREN/CUSTODY: Requests study to review shared custody provisions in the child
support guidelines
A CONCURRENT STUDY REQUEST 1
To the House Committee on Civil Law and Procedure and the Senate Committee on 2
Judiciary A to meet and to function as a joint committee to study the effectiveness 3
of shared custodial arrangements in the child support guidelines and the relationship 4
between shared and joint custodial arrangements and to report the findings of the 5
joint committee to the legislature prior to the convening of the 2006 Regular Session. 6
WHEREAS, the Louisiana Legislature revised the child support guidelines in Act 7
No. 1082 of the 2001 Regular Session and defined "shared custody" as a joint custody order 8
in which each parent has physical custody of the child for an approximately equal amount 9
of time; and 10
WHEREAS, Civil Code Article 132 provides that in the absence of an agreement 11
between the parties, the court shall award custody to the parents jointly; and 12
WHEREAS, the comments to Civil Code Article 132 state that this provision is 13
intended to strengthen the preference for joint custody; and 14
WHEREAS, there continues to be great confusion regarding the judicial application 15
of the law relative to shared custodial arrangements and joint custodial arrangements; and 16
WHEREAS, no other area of the law touches Louisiana citizens, including the 17
children of our constituents, more intimately, directly, and often painfully than the law of 18
custody and child support. 19
THEREFORE, the Legislature of Louisiana requests the House Committee on Civil 20
Law and Procedure and the Senate Committee on Judiciary A to meet and to function as a 21
HLS 05RS-3343 ORIGINAL
HCSR NO. 4
Page 2 of 2
joint committee to study the effectiveness of shared custodial arrangements in the child 1
support guidelines and the relationship between shared and joint custodial arrangements and 2
to report the finding of the joint committee to the legislature prior to the convening of the 3
2006 Regular Session. 4
DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument.
Bowler HCSR No. 4
Requests the House Committee on Civil Law and Procedure and the Senate Committee on
Judiciary A to meet as a joint committee to study the effectiveness of shared custodial
arrangements and the relationship between shared and joint custodial arrangements and to
report the findings to the legislature prior to the 2006 R.S.
The best alternative is that the parents remain married. That is the best alternative. Stronger laws need to be put into place to keep families together. Actually, it means that they have TWO permament homes. Kids love both their parents and need time with each of them to grow up healthy.
Thanks Terry. We are familiar with all of them. We are in a bit of a scramble because we were only notified last Thursday. Much of that time was spent trying to find out more information on the meeting - since the initial announcement was exceptionally vague.
We had a speaker on Krights last year when this lady tried to pass her bill the first time HB92 of 2005.
THIS IS AN EXTREMELY BAD BILL. WE DO NOT RECOMMEND IT. THE SPONSOR SHOULD BE SHUNNED.
Absolutely!!
Our main site is here: www.LaDads.org
Our lobby site is here: www.LaCFF.INFO
Do come back any post a link to any news agency or blog coverage of this event afterwards - preferably in a day or two while it's still timely for others to blog about. Especially if there are pictures of people with signs. Also narrow down the main points of contention at the meeting. Legal .pdfs are painfully tiresome reading.
Sharde parenting is Pro-marriage in the fact study after study revealed the divorce rate goes down when shared custody laws go into effect.
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