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"Clinton also recognizes that many states’ child support guidelines are excessive, noting:"'Child support payments can represent half of [low-income] men's income, and can provide a strong incentive to work in the underground economy.'"Clinton’s proposals are a good start, but much more needs to be done to address the problems low-income fathers face."My new co-authored column, Hillary Clinton’s Youth Opportunity Agenda Will Help Low-Income Fathers (Black Press USA Network, 1/25/08), discusses some small but significant proposals from Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to resolve the child support problems faced by many low-income African-American fathers. The proposals are based on the Urban...

Group Protests Outside Pizza Place Posted By: Deb Silverman Protesters were outside a Hamilton Pizza Parlor because the owner's working to help track down deadbeat parents. Members of the national group "Fathers for Justice," are picketing outside Karen's Pizza on Eaton Avenue. This is one of three Butler County Pizza Parlors putting the County's most wanted deadbeat parents on pizza boxes. The unique effort by the Butler County Child Enforcement Agency recently made national news. "What's happening is the kids are seeing this on the boxes it's awful," said John Fowler from Fathers for Justice. "We don't humiliate people that...

At last count, Florida attorney Willie Gary raked in roughly $1 million a month. Featured on the TV show "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous," the 59-year-old lives in a sprawling, $6 million waterfront home in Stuart, Fla. His law firm, which recently employed former Atlanta Mayor Bill Campbell, has three posh offices and owns two jets, including a 32-passenger Boeing 737 outfitted with an 18-karat gold sink and a $1.2 million sound system. But just how much money is too much money to pay in child support? Atlanta resident Diana Gowins — the mother of twins fathered by Gary...

When oursupposedly compassionate federal government pokes its nose into areas that, under our principle of federalism, should be none of its business, the result is often unintended consequences, gross injustices, and of course massive costs. A prime example is the 1986 federal Bradley Amendment, which mandates that a child support debt cannot be retroactively reduced or forgiven even if the debtor is unemployed, hospitalized, in prison, sent to war, dead, proved to not be the father, never allowed to see his children, or loses his job or suffers a pay cut.

Saturday, February 18, 2006 Paternity fraud rampant in U.S. 30% of those named as fathers bilked of child support unjustly Posted: February 18, 2006 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2006 WorldNetDaily.com WASHINGTON – More than three years ago, a Maine district court judge ruled that Geoffrey Fisher no longer had to pay child support for a child that wasn't his. But that didn't stop the state from revoking Fisher's driver's license and coming after him for thousands of dollars it says he owes in back payments. Last year, Maine sent Fisher, 35, a letter seeking $11,450 in child support, even though...

When someone puts in for Child Support, the proper thing To find out who the father is and see why he is not providing support. The following are all replies that Dallas women have written on Child Support Agency forms in the section for listing father's details. Or putting it another way...Who's yo Daddy! These are genuine excerpts from the forms. Be sure to check out # 11 - it takes the prize and # 3 is runner up. 1. Regarding the identity of the father of my twins, child A was fathered by Jim Munson. I am unsure as...