Comments on: Iniquity of the Bradley amendment… http://www.trondson.com/2009/01/persecuting-low-income-and-disabled-parents Wed, 28 Jul 2010 01:51:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Rev. Rocky B. Hunt http://www.trondson.com/2009/01/persecuting-low-income-and-disabled-parents/comment-page-1#comment-13413 Rev. Rocky B. Hunt Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:38:09 +0000 http://www.trondson.com/?p=728#comment-13413 As to the previous post. In addition thereto, I forgot to mention, that these cases are typically all being categorized as Title -IV D cases. If your ex, never received services, they would be a non-titleIV -D case which is what my case is. All of the rhetoric by these agency's, always refers to Title IV-D because they can mislead the Justices by pre-prejudicing your positition, that you are a 'Deadbeat Dad' and are violating the (PRWORA) Personal Responsibility and Work Reconciliation Act of (1996). However, this may not always be the case. There is a definite distinction between the two and the rules governing same should be observed and not overlooked just to punish an obligor parent. (usually the father), and as we have seen, by the holding of the Florida Supreme Court in teh case of: AAYhash v. AYYhas, 700 So. 2d 752 (Fla. 5th DCA 1997), and Ayyhash v. Farmer, 750 So2d. 691 (Fla. 5th DCA 1999), the obligee, (usually the mother) and in this case was the mother was not even sentenced to community service for criminal acts she committed in an attempt to elude capture, even kidnapping the children, removing them with a visitation order in place, falsifying state and federal documents to conceal their identities etc, etc., (all felonies). The opinion in thiscase, should be of concern to all citizen's, that set precedent bythe Justices decision that the "mother should not be sacrificed on the alter of judicial proceesses." The dissenting opinion by a justice in opposition thereto, stated his concerns as to what precedent is being set by Florida in allowing the mother in the case to commit felonies and get away with it." You as citizen's, should demand your unalienable constitutional rights, not the state's legislativley imposed inalienable rights allowing the substitution of their bias & prejudiced opinions to fester in judgments, later impose upon you as a paying citizen who may or may not have a legal duty to pay support throught fraudulent accounting and generally accepted practices and principles (GAAP) in accounting. This state recognizes the 'Frye' standard, this is the accepted scientific principle, that a Judge sitting on the bench, should be held to. If he has no training in accounting, what's he doing ruling on finincial matters in equity. Hell, I can't balance a checkbook, let alone, use an algebraic formula to account for nor justify, a bank statement and I'd doubt that 95% of the Judge's in Family Court who have made these determinations, can either. People it your right to demand a proper accounting / audit review of your case. Stand on that right enforce it throught Civil Contempt Enforcement Sanctions if you have to, (and you will have to). Contac the Government Accountability Office(GAO) which is the investigative arm of the Congress, as I have in numerous cases. Contact the Department of Justice (DOJ) for any type of criminal acts in violating your substantive rights, under the constitution relating to, enforcement of any administative agency, Justices or the likes, who would violate (his/her) duty to uphold them, under Article VI of the U.S. Constitution. Ask that they be held acountable for thier actions, try to get them to cut-off their funding forcing compliance to the U.S. Constitution. I wish you all the best life has to offer, this and every day of the Holiday Season. Merry Christmas to you and yours whether politically correct, or not and continued prayer for relief to you and your. Very Truly Yours, Rev. R.B. Hunt Universal Life Church of the Renaissance As to the previous post. In addition thereto, I forgot to mention, that these cases are typically all being categorized as Title -IV D cases. If your ex, never received services, they would be a non-titleIV -D case which is what my case is. All of the rhetoric by these agency’s, always refers to Title IV-D because they can mislead the Justices by pre-prejudicing your positition, that you are a ‘Deadbeat Dad’ and are violating the (PRWORA) Personal Responsibility and Work Reconciliation Act of (1996). However, this may not always be the case. There is a definite distinction between the two and the rules governing same should be observed and not overlooked just to punish an obligor parent. (usually the father), and as we have seen, by the holding of the Florida Supreme Court in teh case of: AAYhash v. AYYhas, 700 So. 2d 752 (Fla. 5th DCA 1997), and Ayyhash v. Farmer, 750 So2d. 691 (Fla. 5th DCA 1999), the obligee, (usually the mother) and in this case was the mother was not even sentenced to community service for criminal acts she committed in an attempt to elude capture, even kidnapping the children, removing them with a visitation order in place, falsifying state and federal documents
to conceal their identities etc, etc., (all felonies). The opinion in thiscase, should be of concern to all citizen’s, that set precedent bythe Justices decision that the “mother should not be sacrificed on the alter of judicial proceesses.” The dissenting opinion by a justice in opposition thereto, stated his concerns as to what precedent is being set by Florida in allowing the mother in the case to commit felonies and get away with it.” You as citizen’s, should demand your unalienable constitutional rights, not the state’s legislativley imposed inalienable rights allowing the substitution of their bias & prejudiced opinions to fester in judgments, later impose upon you as a paying citizen who may or may not have a legal duty to pay support throught fraudulent accounting and generally accepted practices and principles (GAAP) in accounting. This state recognizes the ‘Frye’ standard, this is the accepted scientific principle, that a Judge sitting on the bench, should be held to. If he has no training in accounting, what’s he doing ruling on finincial matters in equity. Hell, I can’t balance a checkbook, let alone, use an algebraic formula to account for nor justify, a bank statement and I’d doubt that 95% of the Judge’s in Family Court who have made these determinations, can either. People it your right to demand a proper accounting / audit review of your case. Stand on that right enforce it throught Civil Contempt Enforcement Sanctions if you have to, (and you will have to). Contac the Government Accountability Office(GAO) which is the investigative arm of the Congress, as I have in numerous cases. Contact the Department of Justice (DOJ) for any type of criminal acts in violating your substantive rights, under the constitution relating to, enforcement of any administative agency, Justices or the likes, who would violate (his/her) duty to uphold them, under Article VI of the U.S. Constitution. Ask that they be held acountable for thier actions, try to get them to cut-off their funding forcing compliance to the U.S. Constitution.
I wish you all the best life has to offer, this and every day of the Holiday Season. Merry Christmas to you and yours whether politically correct, or not and continued prayer for relief to you and your.

Very Truly Yours,

Rev. R.B. Hunt
Universal Life Church of the Renaissance

]]> By: Rev. Rocky B. Hunt http://www.trondson.com/2009/01/persecuting-low-income-and-disabled-parents/comment-page-1#comment-13412 Rev. Rocky B. Hunt Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:00:57 +0000 http://www.trondson.com/?p=728#comment-13412 Well they've done it again... You are all needlessly suffering. What is needed is gov't accountability. The only change in the bragley amenment needed is ' Properly Established ' which would create a position for a Judge / Certified in Accountanting, not just run of the mill, everyday Judge's, sitting on the bench bored to death just ruling on he said she said. This would cause doubt of a Judge's ability to adjudicate a matter involving finances, since this is all about money. He'll I had to obtain the services on a 'forensic accountant' to investigate 8 cases, so far, for improper accounting practices and just recently forwarded a letter to the GAO requesting simultaneous investigations under parallel proceedings. In these cases he has uncovered fraud by establishing that the Clerk of Courts-Central Depository's records contain, 53 week annual billing cycles, over-billing, double-billing and billings past teh emancipation events of the children. Did you know that an emancipated child becomes, sui juris and is suppose to obtain all rights associated with adulthood? What I'm stating, is that this is their cause of action, its for thei benefit according to the 5DCA hoildngs in the case of Robert S. Thurlow., P.A., v. Lafata, 915 So.2d 737 (Fla. 5th DCA 2005); Department of Health & Human ServicesChild upport Enforcement v. Holland, 602 So. 2d 652 (Fla. 5th DCA 1992) which violates Fla. R. CIv. P. 1.210(a) " regardless of the basis for the support duty, legal or contractual, the Child is the beneficiary and the "real party in interest" this also affects the legal standing of the Department, the Court and any Agency's enforcment of said erroneously determined orders and the rights of the now, emancipated child to stand in thier own stead as an adult to enforce or not said ordeerr for support. The first amendment right to redress injury under the U.S. Constitution being violated, is the right to notification under the holding in the case of: Connally v. General Construction Co., 269 U.S. 385 (1926) which states, Notification of legal responsibility is "the forst essential of due process of law.", that the order for support which should have been terminated upon emacipation, these enforcement agencies know, of the emancipation dates of the chil(ren) since, it is printed right both in the final dissolution decree judgment and on the front page of the 'supposedly' accurate and Certified Ongoing Arrears Affidavit / Payment History. Do you know that you all arte entitled to a proper accounting / audit as a matter of law. In my case, the court has reduced itself to violating Sec'.s 409.2564(6) as well as so many others reducing fraudluent cliams to judgment and even allowed the FLa. Dept. of Rev. (FDOR) Attorney General William H. Branch, to intervene o/b/o State attorney Katherine Fernandez -Rundle who used these fraudulent affidavit's to illegally invoke the jurisdiction of teh court in the first place. Now they've illeglly claimed that I am a vexatious litigant violating Sec. 69.083(2)(a), all of this is being done in contravention of the law regarding fraud in the procurement of jurisdiction, and void dissolution decree judgment. Utilizing fraud on another State by transferring the fraud through interstate processes in letters of transmittal now utilizing a fraudulent tribunal's void order to invoke long-arm jurisdiction for collection of erroneously determined amounts. This allows the Courts to be used as a shield for fraud. Did you ever wonder why a 'newly formed interstate support order' cannot be overturned, modified or cancelled beyond the last request for modification? Did you ever wonder why a forum state, would get someone into a 'Star Chamber' proceeding, in a 'supposed' evidentiary setting, isolated from a public forum and reduce your 'forensic accountant's testimony' to that of a layperson in order to enforce said erroneously determined and fraudulent orders? This is just some of what happend to me, by the judges of the 11th Judicial Corcuit Court in Miami-dade county , Florida. I acn't list the violations of both Fla. and Us. Constitution's as they are too numerous to mention. All of you should demand a proper accounting/audit of your financial position in compliance with Public Law (PL 73-10) and violates the Bradley Amendment Act of (1986) through previously or subsequently established, void & fraudulent income deductionand wage garnishment orders. These issues are now pending before the Third District Court of Appeals of Florida in CS No. 3D09- 1287 follow closley, as I attempt to overturn my void dissolution decree judgment and the fraudulent enforcment of sam by of a dozen other gov't. entities. This mat seem insurmountable to you at times but it can be done if properly considered by a Court of justice. Unfortuneatly the only source for recompense lies in the Federal realm under 42 USC 1983, but through (Him), all things can be accomplished, it may not happen when you would like ti to, but it will happen. Keep the Spirit of Chirstmas alive in your hearts and (He) will see us through this difficult maze of rhetoric, innuendo, and unsubstantiated claims. In HIs Service, Rev. R. B. Hunt Universal Life Churh of the Renaissance Well they’ve done it again…
You are all needlessly suffering. What is needed is gov’t accountability. The only change in the bragley amenment needed is ‘ Properly Established ‘ which would create a position for a Judge / Certified in Accountanting, not just run of the mill, everyday Judge’s, sitting on the bench bored to death just ruling on he said she said. This would cause doubt of a Judge’s ability to adjudicate a matter involving finances, since this is all about money. He’ll I had to obtain the services on a ‘forensic accountant’ to investigate 8 cases, so far, for improper accounting practices and just recently forwarded a letter to the GAO requesting simultaneous investigations under parallel proceedings. In these cases he has uncovered fraud by establishing that the Clerk of Courts-Central Depository’s records contain, 53 week annual billing cycles, over-billing, double-billing and billings past teh emancipation events of the children. Did you know that an emancipated child becomes, sui juris and is suppose to obtain all rights associated with adulthood? What I’m stating, is that this is their cause of action, its for thei benefit according to the 5DCA hoildngs in the case of Robert S. Thurlow., P.A., v. Lafata, 915 So.2d 737 (Fla. 5th DCA 2005); Department of Health & Human ServicesChild upport Enforcement v. Holland, 602 So. 2d 652 (Fla. 5th DCA 1992) which violates Fla. R. CIv. P. 1.210(a) ” regardless of the basis for the support duty, legal or contractual, the Child is the beneficiary and the “real party in interest” this also affects the legal standing of the Department, the Court and any Agency’s enforcment of said erroneously determined orders and the rights of the now, emancipated child to stand in thier own stead as an adult to enforce or not said ordeerr for support. The first amendment right to redress injury under the U.S. Constitution being violated, is the right to notification under the holding in the case of: Connally v. General Construction Co., 269 U.S. 385 (1926) which states, Notification of legal responsibility is “the forst essential of due process of law.”, that the order for support which should have been terminated upon emacipation, these enforcement agencies know, of the emancipation dates of the chil(ren) since, it is printed right
both in the final dissolution decree judgment and on the front page of the ‘supposedly’ accurate and Certified Ongoing Arrears Affidavit / Payment History. Do you know that you all arte entitled to a proper accounting / audit as a matter of law. In my case, the court has reduced itself to violating Sec’.s 409.2564(6) as well as so many others reducing fraudluent cliams to judgment and even allowed the FLa. Dept. of Rev. (FDOR) Attorney General William H. Branch, to intervene o/b/o State attorney Katherine Fernandez -Rundle who used these fraudulent affidavit’s to illegally invoke the jurisdiction of teh court in the first place. Now they’ve illeglly claimed that I am a vexatious litigant violating Sec. 69.083(2)(a), all of this is being done in contravention of the law regarding fraud in the procurement of jurisdiction, and void dissolution decree judgment. Utilizing fraud on another State by transferring the fraud through interstate processes in letters of transmittal now utilizing a fraudulent tribunal’s void order to invoke long-arm jurisdiction for collection of erroneously determined amounts. This allows the Courts to be used as a shield for fraud. Did you ever wonder why a ‘newly formed interstate support order’ cannot be overturned, modified or cancelled beyond the last request for modification? Did you ever wonder why a forum state, would get someone into a ‘Star Chamber’ proceeding, in a ‘supposed’ evidentiary setting, isolated from a public forum and reduce your ‘forensic accountant’s testimony’ to that of a layperson in order to enforce said erroneously determined and fraudulent orders? This is just some of what happend to me, by the judges of the 11th Judicial Corcuit Court in Miami-dade county , Florida. I acn’t list the violations of both Fla. and Us. Constitution’s as they are too numerous to mention. All of you should demand a proper accounting/audit of your financial position in compliance with Public Law (PL 73-10) and violates the Bradley Amendment Act of (1986) through previously or subsequently established, void & fraudulent income deductionand wage garnishment orders. These issues are now pending before the Third District Court of Appeals of Florida in CS No. 3D09- 1287 follow closley, as I attempt to overturn my void dissolution decree judgment and the fraudulent enforcment of sam by of a dozen other gov’t. entities. This mat seem insurmountable to you at times but it can be done if properly considered by a Court of justice. Unfortuneatly the only source for recompense lies in the Federal realm under 42 USC 1983, but through (Him), all things can be accomplished, it may not happen when you would like ti to, but it will happen. Keep the Spirit of Chirstmas alive in your hearts and (He) will see us through this difficult maze of rhetoric, innuendo, and unsubstantiated claims.

In HIs Service,

Rev. R. B. Hunt
Universal Life Churh of the Renaissance

]]> By: Hugh Gladstone http://www.trondson.com/2009/01/persecuting-low-income-and-disabled-parents/comment-page-1#comment-13388 Hugh Gladstone Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:52:01 +0000 http://www.trondson.com/?p=728#comment-13388 One of the other reply's questioned why the federal government does not shut down these family courts. It's because the Federal Government started the problem in the first place. The Child Support system has become enormously expensive to tax payers, far more so than before when it was fair.. Support Collections and Support Orders have doubled in recent years while the cost to the tax payer is now more like four times the old costs. It's because the Matching Federal Funds reward the courts for ordering more excessive, harsher and higher child support awards. It's our TANF welfare system and it's called Title IV-D Enforcement. This program pays out over 4.5 Billion Dollars a year in matching funds to all of the States for Ordering higher Support awards and using harsher, debtor prison collection methods. If you have ever been to family court, you might notice that everyone in there is against the non custodial parent. It's profitable for them to be unfair to the fathers. Where does the nearly 5 Billion dollars go? Who knows, they won';t show me where it goes. Does it go into the pockets of some of the people in the local family courts? The entire Family Court System has been engineered to make us slaves and to beat us down. We need to force a change. The Title IV-D money is supposed to be welfare, but it allows the custodial parent to get paid on it even when she has unlimited income and/or assets. My X-Wife is a millionaire and is on the IV-D welfare program while poor people who live in her county go hungry. She has gotten a free attorney for the past 4 years in addition to huge tax credits. Even though it's welfare, the money does not go to the poor. Even Michael Jackson, if alive, would qualify for it. It's not a free country anymore until this is stopped. One of the other reply’s questioned why the federal government does not shut down these family courts. It’s because the Federal Government started the problem in the first place. The Child Support system has become enormously expensive to tax payers, far more so than before when it was fair.. Support Collections and Support Orders have doubled in recent years while the cost to the tax payer is now more like four times the old costs. It’s because the Matching Federal Funds reward the courts for ordering more excessive, harsher and higher child support awards. It’s our TANF welfare system and it’s called Title IV-D Enforcement. This program pays out over 4.5 Billion Dollars a year in matching funds to all of the States for Ordering higher Support awards and using harsher, debtor prison collection methods. If you have ever been to family court, you might notice that everyone in there is against the non custodial parent. It’s profitable for them to be unfair to the fathers. Where does the nearly 5 Billion dollars go? Who knows, they won’;t show me where it goes. Does it go into the pockets of some of the people in the local family courts? The entire Family Court System has been engineered to make us slaves and to beat us down. We need to force a change. The Title IV-D money is supposed to be welfare, but it allows the custodial parent to get paid on it even when she has unlimited income and/or assets. My X-Wife is a millionaire and is on the IV-D welfare program while poor people who live in her county go hungry. She has gotten a free attorney for the past 4 years in addition to huge tax credits. Even though it’s welfare, the money does not go to the poor. Even Michael Jackson, if alive, would qualify for it.
It’s not a free country anymore until this is stopped.

]]> By: Scott Howard http://www.trondson.com/2009/01/persecuting-low-income-and-disabled-parents/comment-page-1#comment-13064 Scott Howard Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:03:44 +0000 http://www.trondson.com/?p=728#comment-13064 Why is it that if a man and woman are together[with kids] and he loses his job and is unable to support his kids, he can go down to the local D.E.S. building and get help and he doesnt become the bad guy. But if the couple are not together and he cant support his children his face ends up on pizza boxes. It's totally unfair, not to mention unconstitutional. I have a hard enough time in this economy trying to keep a roof over my head without worrying about my drivers license being suspended, or going to jail for simply being broke. Why is it that if a man and woman are together[with kids] and he loses his job and is unable to support his kids, he can go down to the local D.E.S. building and get help and he doesnt become the bad guy. But if the couple are not together and he cant support his children his face ends up on pizza boxes. It’s totally unfair, not to mention unconstitutional. I have a hard enough time in this economy trying to keep a roof over my head without worrying about my drivers license being suspended, or going to jail for simply being broke.

]]> By: Precious Aso http://www.trondson.com/2009/01/persecuting-low-income-and-disabled-parents/comment-page-1#comment-13017 Precious Aso Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:53:11 +0000 http://www.trondson.com/?p=728#comment-13017 I think the government has been raising revenue for itself and caring less about the charge and in the process punishing citizens who are doing right by their children. This is a typical example of overzealous law makers who make judgments from their axis of the world without looking at the full picture. In Florida fathers are being asked to pay child support for children that DNA has proven are not theirs, while the state makes no provision for a DNA test before the father signs the birth certificate, but they fault the father for signing the birth certificate after his live in girlfriend who he has no knowledge has been cheating on him told him he is the father of the child. I would like to fight the system and anyone who is interested in fighting this fight with me should please contact me via my email. I think the government has been raising revenue for itself and caring less about the charge and in the process punishing citizens who are doing right by their children. This is a typical example of overzealous law makers who make judgments from their axis of the world without looking at the full picture.

In Florida fathers are being asked to pay child support for children that DNA has proven are not theirs, while the state makes no provision for a DNA test before the father signs the birth certificate, but they fault the father for signing the birth certificate after his live in girlfriend who he has no knowledge has been cheating on him told him he is the father of the child.

I would like to fight the system and anyone who is interested in fighting this fight with me should please contact me via my email.

]]> By: Rebecca http://www.trondson.com/2009/01/persecuting-low-income-and-disabled-parents/comment-page-1#comment-13002 Rebecca Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:35:58 +0000 http://www.trondson.com/?p=728#comment-13002 The Bradley Amendment is re-victimizing our injured veterans…the men and women who protected our country, were injured struggling to get care, treatment and rehabilitation. HOW CONVENIENT FOR OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO LOCK THEM UP, TAKE AWAY THEIR CITIZENSHIP AND BENEFITS THROUGH FELONY CONVICTIONS AND THROW THEM OUT ON THE STREETS WITH NO WAY TO SURVIVE. So much for the land of the brave and the free. Exactly what were they fighting for again? We all know about the outrageous delays in getting the VA to process claims, provide monetary assistance, medical treatment and rehabilitation services. This is well documented and very much in the news. And the problems don’t stop there. NO ONE IS ASKING what happens to the veteran struggling to get these benefits while his/her spouse abandons them and/or child support continues to accrue at the level that once was appropriate for their military pay and benefits. No longer able to work, fighting to access rehabilitation services and struggling to get claims processed correctly, in a timely manner and to institute benefits most of these once respected citizens can hope to find themselves in jail on felony charges long before the VA corrects their files and sorts out their rehabilitation options. My husband, Duane Kozlowski, a veteran with a TBI and PTSD, rated at 100% permanently and totally impaired, is sitting in a rural jail in Clare County, Michigan, a state he has never lived in, 400 miles from home, sans the rehab he desperately fought to get, unable to even receive 1/10th of the care he needs because these laws, rightly designed to protect kids from deadbeat parents, are being miss applied to physically disabled truly impaired veterans. He has plead not guilty to a FELONY child of failure to pay child support/child neglect. Typical of most of these cases the FOC knew of his disability and did not reduce the ordered support. Why? Duane like most other impaired vets couldn’t appear in court, couldn’t afford a remote attorney and had no clue how to file paperwork in a state he didn’t live in. The paperwork he filed in our home state of IL which has an understaffed and underfunded deferment program did no good. Despite the fact that he is cognitively disabled, has been unable to be placed in work by FOUR concurrently coordinating vocational rehabilitation resources, VA, state, local and national agencies…he is being held for a felony crime of being a financially destitute, physically and mentally disabled person. The slap happy mess between the various arms of the VA, the two states involved and the inability of anyone to address the issue rationally and in a manner designed to support this person’s rehabilitation, restore him to function, and sensibly address the issues of how to continue to pay or manage child support has not occurred. As Mitch Wood in the States Attorney’s Office in Michigan told me, “There is no difference between a deadbeat dad and a physically disabled, unable to work veteran dad, in Michigan we treat them all the same.” That right there ought to outrage our entire society. That’s blatant discrimination. AND ITS SUPPORTED FEDERALLY BY THE BRADLEY AMENDMENT. These men and women fought for our country. Whether their injuries are state side or combat doesn’t matter. They sacrificed themselves in the culture of war and in the service of our great nation. Not only has our government not kept its promise to provide timely, quality care, it has also failed to provide support in a manner that keeps these people from being further victimized by agencies and systems that do not work together and do not recognize the realities and limitations of the situation. I will be honest. For six years I have fought the good fight with the VA on my husband’s behalf. I have lost jobs over having to be his caretaker when no services were funded. I have watched him go from being a proud, hardworking, soldier to being a man who feels shamed by his country. He gave 17+ years of service with pride. I have watched him struggle to overcome his deficits and dealt with the daily impact of his injuries inside my home as the VA applied treatments that were at best useless and often, at worst, destructive. My children and I have watched in horror as this gentle man had violent reactions to medications that should never have been prescribed, endured flashbacks for which no treatments were provided. And now…as he sits in a jail that refuses to acknowledge his medical needs, where he is an indigent without access to underwear, postage, or any means of connection with the outside world (unless I can scrape together 1.50/min for the rare call through their proprietary, money-making phone scheme system). I am watching all that we worked for erode away. Six years of fighting and as of 8/4 he will be in jail 60 days. Already lost is his place in vocational rehabilitation, July will bring loss of his VA disability pay, August will bring loss of his DHS/TBI assistance for caregiver—the very resource that allows me to try to return to my work.) In the mean time, the needed treatments and rehabs are not happening and he is being further traumatized by each day spent in this facility. IN a word…NO ONE CARES! TOUGH LUCK! He is being pressured to plead guilty to the felony charge so he can go home. He doesn’t comprehend that he will no longer be a citizen—that he cannot vote, have a driver’s license, live in our home (my professional license and source of income prohibits this.) He doesn’t understand that he will never be able to get a job, rent an apartment, re-enter vocational rehab, have food stamps or state programs to help him, volunteer or be a member of our community. He doesn’t understand that if he fails to pay more 1000 per month in child support on time every month until the arrearage is gone he will return to jail for four years. This is NOT a just child support issue. THIS IS A VETERAN’S RIGHTS ISSUE! THIS IS YET ANOTHER CASE OF TREATING AN ENTIRE CLASS OF CITIZENS—SERIOUSLY DISABLED VETS WITH CHILD SUPPORT ISSUES SOLEY DUE TO THEIR DISABILITIES AND THE ESTABLISHED FACTS REGARDING OUR COUNTRY’S FAILURES TO PROVIDE APPROPRIATE AND TIMELY TREATMENT/FINANCIAL RESOURCES—IN A MANNER THAT DISCRIMINATES AGAINST THEM AND PUNISHES THEM FOR THEIR SERVICE TO THEIR COUNTRY. My husband’s case is one of many. There was no due process. There was no felony. THE FEDERAL DHS admonishment to states clearly indicates that the felony prosecution is to be used ONLY where the amount is willfully not paid, there is clear ability to pay, the amount is over 5K AND the person moves to avoid prosecution or engages in other fraud e.g. bankruptcy fraud to hide assets. My husband has been here in Illinois fighting for benefits with me as his advocate since 2004 (EVEN TAMMY DUCKWORTH WAS AWARE OF OUR CASE AND FIGHT TO GET BENEFITS AND RESOURCES MOVING), our papers were filed, our pleas for help unheeded, our efforts to rehabilitate him unacknowledged. We have struggled with a legitimate bankruptcy, financial devastation caused by my lost jobs, medical bills for treatments we had to find on our own when the VA failed, welfare, food stamps, and charitable donations from agencies and family. Year after year we struggled and begged for help without knowing what to do. Michigan left this accrue at this rate so they could abuse him DESPITE OUR REPEATED REQUESTS TO CHANGE THE RATE BASED ON HIS DISABILITY AND PROOF OF IT. Now they are unlawfully holding a seriously disabled, impoverished veteran for a ransom that no one, even those who love him can hope to raise with every intention of further diminishing his hopes for vocational rehabilitation by putting a felony on his record. I have names, of many others struggling like my husband, men who have committed suicide over this situation, reporters, advocates and agencies who watch this happening all over the country and feel powerless to stop it. WE MUST STOP IT! WE MUST NOT ABUSE OUR VETS OR OUR VET FAMILIES ANY LONGER! THIS SERVES NO PURPOSE AND IS A SHAMEFUL ABUSE OF POWER AND OUR PROMISE TO THOSE WHO SACRIFICE TO PROTECT US. PLEASE HELP BY TAKING THIS CAUSE UP AND EXPOSING IT FOR WHAT IT IS! WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE AND HOW CAN WE CONSCION THIS KIND OF ABUSE OF POWER? The Bradley Amendment is re-victimizing our injured veterans…the men and women who protected our country, were injured struggling to get care, treatment and rehabilitation. HOW CONVENIENT FOR OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO LOCK THEM UP, TAKE AWAY THEIR CITIZENSHIP AND BENEFITS THROUGH FELONY CONVICTIONS AND THROW THEM OUT ON THE STREETS WITH NO WAY TO SURVIVE. So much for the land of the brave and the free. Exactly what were they fighting for again?
We all know about the outrageous delays in getting the VA to process claims, provide monetary assistance, medical treatment and rehabilitation services. This is well documented and very much in the news. And the problems don’t stop there. NO ONE IS ASKING what happens to the veteran struggling to get these benefits while his/her spouse abandons them and/or child support continues to accrue at the level that once was appropriate for their military pay and benefits. No longer able to work, fighting to access rehabilitation services and struggling to get claims processed correctly, in a timely manner and to institute benefits most of these once respected citizens can hope to find themselves in jail on felony charges long before the VA corrects their files and sorts out their rehabilitation options.
My husband, Duane Kozlowski, a veteran with a TBI and PTSD, rated at 100% permanently and totally impaired, is sitting in a rural jail in Clare County, Michigan, a state he has never lived in, 400 miles from home, sans the rehab he desperately fought to get, unable to even receive 1/10th of the care he needs because these laws, rightly designed to protect kids from deadbeat parents, are being miss applied to physically disabled truly impaired veterans. He has plead not guilty to a FELONY child of failure to pay child support/child neglect. Typical of most of these cases the FOC knew of his disability and did not reduce the ordered support. Why? Duane like most other impaired vets couldn’t appear in court, couldn’t afford a remote attorney and had no clue how to file paperwork in a state he didn’t live in. The paperwork he filed in our home state of IL which has an understaffed and underfunded deferment program did no good.
Despite the fact that he is cognitively disabled, has been unable to be placed in work by FOUR concurrently coordinating vocational rehabilitation resources, VA, state, local and national agencies…he is being held for a felony crime of being a financially destitute, physically and mentally disabled person. The slap happy mess between the various arms of the VA, the two states involved and the inability of anyone to address the issue rationally and in a manner designed to support this person’s rehabilitation, restore him to function, and sensibly address the issues of how to continue to pay or manage child support has not occurred. As Mitch Wood in the States Attorney’s Office in Michigan told me, “There is no difference between a deadbeat dad and a physically disabled, unable to work veteran dad, in Michigan we treat them all the same.” That right there ought to outrage our entire society. That’s blatant discrimination. AND ITS SUPPORTED FEDERALLY BY THE BRADLEY AMENDMENT.
These men and women fought for our country. Whether their injuries are state side or combat doesn’t matter. They sacrificed themselves in the culture of war and in the service of our great nation. Not only has our government not kept its promise to provide timely, quality care, it has also failed to provide support in a manner that keeps these people from being further victimized by agencies and systems that do not work together and do not recognize the realities and limitations of the situation.
I will be honest. For six years I have fought the good fight with the VA on my husband’s behalf. I have lost jobs over having to be his caretaker when no services were funded. I have watched him go from being a proud, hardworking, soldier to being a man who feels shamed by his country. He gave 17+ years of service with pride. I have watched him struggle to overcome his deficits and dealt with the daily impact of his injuries inside my home as the VA applied treatments that were at best useless and often, at worst, destructive. My children and I have watched in horror as this gentle man had violent reactions to medications that should never have been prescribed, endured flashbacks for which no treatments were provided. And now…as he sits in a jail that refuses to acknowledge his medical needs, where he is an indigent without access to underwear, postage, or any means of connection with the outside world (unless I can scrape together 1.50/min for the rare call through their proprietary, money-making phone scheme system). I am watching all that we worked for erode away. Six years of fighting and as of 8/4 he will be in jail 60 days. Already lost is his place in vocational rehabilitation, July will bring loss of his VA disability pay, August will bring loss of his DHS/TBI assistance for caregiver—the very resource that allows me to try to return to my work.) In the mean time, the needed treatments and rehabs are not happening and he is being further traumatized by each day spent in this facility. IN a word…NO ONE CARES! TOUGH LUCK!
He is being pressured to plead guilty to the felony charge so he can go home. He doesn’t comprehend that he will no longer be a citizen—that he cannot vote, have a driver’s license, live in our home (my professional license and source of income prohibits this.) He doesn’t understand that he will never be able to get a job, rent an apartment, re-enter vocational rehab, have food stamps or state programs to help him, volunteer or be a member of our community. He doesn’t understand that if he fails to pay more 1000 per month in child support on time every month until the arrearage is gone he will return to jail for four years.
This is NOT a just child support issue. THIS IS A VETERAN’S RIGHTS ISSUE! THIS IS YET ANOTHER CASE OF TREATING AN ENTIRE CLASS OF CITIZENS—SERIOUSLY DISABLED VETS WITH CHILD SUPPORT ISSUES SOLEY DUE TO THEIR DISABILITIES AND THE ESTABLISHED FACTS REGARDING OUR COUNTRY’S FAILURES TO PROVIDE APPROPRIATE AND TIMELY TREATMENT/FINANCIAL RESOURCES—IN A MANNER THAT DISCRIMINATES AGAINST THEM AND PUNISHES THEM FOR THEIR SERVICE TO THEIR COUNTRY.
My husband’s case is one of many. There was no due process. There was no felony. THE FEDERAL DHS admonishment to states clearly indicates that the felony prosecution is to be used ONLY where the amount is willfully not paid, there is clear ability to pay, the amount is over 5K AND the person moves to avoid prosecution or engages in other fraud e.g. bankruptcy fraud to hide assets. My husband has been here in Illinois fighting for benefits with me as his advocate since 2004 (EVEN TAMMY DUCKWORTH WAS AWARE OF OUR CASE AND FIGHT TO GET BENEFITS AND RESOURCES MOVING), our papers were filed, our pleas for help unheeded, our efforts to rehabilitate him unacknowledged. We have struggled with a legitimate bankruptcy, financial devastation caused by my lost jobs, medical bills for treatments we had to find on our own when the VA failed, welfare, food stamps, and charitable donations from agencies and family. Year after year we struggled and begged for help without knowing what to do. Michigan left this accrue at this rate so they could abuse him DESPITE OUR REPEATED REQUESTS TO CHANGE THE RATE BASED ON HIS DISABILITY AND PROOF OF IT. Now they are unlawfully holding a seriously disabled, impoverished veteran for a ransom that no one, even those who love him can hope to raise with every intention of further diminishing his hopes for vocational rehabilitation by putting a felony on his record.
I have names, of many others struggling like my husband, men who have committed suicide over this situation, reporters, advocates and agencies who watch this happening all over the country and feel powerless to stop it.
WE MUST STOP IT! WE MUST NOT ABUSE OUR VETS OR OUR VET FAMILIES ANY LONGER! THIS SERVES NO PURPOSE AND IS A SHAMEFUL ABUSE OF POWER AND OUR PROMISE TO THOSE WHO SACRIFICE TO PROTECT US. PLEASE HELP BY TAKING THIS CAUSE UP AND EXPOSING IT FOR WHAT IT IS! WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE AND HOW CAN WE CONSCION THIS KIND OF ABUSE OF POWER?

]]> By: Tim Strussman http://www.trondson.com/2009/01/persecuting-low-income-and-disabled-parents/comment-page-1#comment-12555 Tim Strussman Sun, 24 May 2009 18:52:04 +0000 http://www.trondson.com/?p=728#comment-12555 US family court system throughout the country are holding tens of millions of non-custodial parents financial hostage. The Judges are issuing court orders knowing that the litigants are unable to comply with. A sort of financial terrorist, a bully. The laws these judges apply to get to this point are neither fair nor Constitutional. Not for the children nor the parent. Treating children as puppies in a puppy mill. The System have become a rogue government inside the state. With no accountability. With hundreds of millions of complains and an extremely large political base against these courts nation wide. I can not understand why the Federal Government has not stepped in to shut them down. Doesn't the FED realize there is something gone wrong here? As these courts suck in and destroy more and more families the political base against these Judges will grow even larger. US family court system throughout the country are holding tens of millions of non-custodial parents financial hostage. The Judges are issuing court orders knowing that the litigants are unable to comply with. A sort of financial terrorist, a bully. The laws these judges apply to get to this point are neither fair nor Constitutional. Not for the children nor the parent. Treating children as puppies in a puppy mill. The System have become a rogue government inside the state. With no accountability. With hundreds of millions of complains and an extremely large political base against these courts nation wide. I can not understand why the Federal Government has not stepped in to shut them down. Doesn’t the FED realize there is something gone wrong here? As these courts suck in and destroy more and more families the political base against these Judges will grow even larger.

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