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http://petition.WashingtonSharedParenting.com This Washingon adult child speaks to the effect of being alienated from her father by falsehoods told by her mother and other professionals and how she rekindled that relationship two year later and found his loving arms again.
Parental Alienation is real. Shared Parenting is needed in each state in the US. Parents need to be accountable for visitation violations.
This Video demonstrates the harm that failures by Washington’s Legislature, and especially Senator Hargrove committ on children every day in Washington State
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I’ve been reading some posts and I think its great when a single mom can take care of her kid(s) by herself – I think its an awful situation to be put in but I really commend the women (and the men) that do it. but i wonder how? how can a single, let’s say 17year old take care of a child all by herself? full time job, daycare, apartment, bills.. It’s tough enough with a partner. I keep seeing posts where women say they’ve done it all by themselves but I can’t imagine how. just curious.
I work really hard in order to support myself and my son. His father had only seen him 4 times (day he was born, 1 visit to home, appointment, christmas) and makes no effort to see how he is doing or help financially (my Child support hearing is next week) I’m also a full time college student. The biggest help I have is my mom and her husband, I’d be lost without them. Thanks to them I don’t have to worry about daycare while I’m at work or school. It’s really hard, I have to worry about his needs first, there have been times where I couldnt afford to buy myself food because he needed diapers and I either go eat at my moms, borrowed money or just not eaten. I don’t regret a minute of my life without my baby boy. He is the only reason I work so hard and study my butt off. He is all the motivation in the world that i need in order to pull through and get ahead.
My friend is a single mother. The baby’s father is the true definition of dead beat dad. He tries to skip out on paying his child support and even tried lying to the agency about where he works so that he wouldn’t have to pay it. He works for a dance company and gets paid a lot in cash for teaching dance classes. He is dating one of the owners of the dance company so we think that he is convincing her to not take the child support out of his paycheck. The only time my friend actually gets a check is when she calls and makes several complaints to the Child support agency which takes a lot of time and effort. How can she get her well-deserved child support money without hiring a lawyer or incurring a lot of expenses?
I want to clarify something. He already has a wage garnish order in place, but the employer is not complying with it. We think it has to do with the fact that he is dating the owner of the company and is convincing her to not take the garnished wages out.
The employer can get in big big trouble for denying a support order!
If she cannot get a reasonable explanation for the late payments, she needs to file a complain with the court.
I talked to a lawyer the other day and he told me something interesting. That Child support and visitation are not dependent on each other. In essence you can pay child support, but never see your child and you can see your child, but not be making payments. I wondered if this was true? He said that they are not connected because visitation is the most base right that a parent can have and not making child support payments does not mean that they are a bad parent. Therefore they can’t lose visitation for not paying, except in incredibly extreme circumstances. Is this true?
Your lawyer is correct. However, if a parent gets too far behind in child support payments, oftentimes an arrest warrant will be issued for non-support. This causes some parents to not visit for fear of arrest. Thus, owing child support can lead to non-visitation.
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My friend has a child support hearing coming up. She wants to know what should be said in order for her to get what her child deserves. (The man has been giving false information in order to get out of paying Child support) Please help.
Documentation is huge. Photos of his new car, or new stuff should help. If he has a myspace type site… snag photos that ensure that the site is his and then print out his blog that describes what he does with his free time.
If he employed by a company then he can’t really lie about it because he is required to provide all of his salary information as well as his most recent W2 which he probably only got in January.
If he’s self-employed or works under the table that can be a trickier thing to nail down and as I said the more documentation the better.
Also check out how his expenses weigh in against what he’s claiming to make and toss that in with any new things he’s bought recently.
You can contact me through here if you want more information about it… I had the same trouble and the judge was very impressed and my ex VERY disappointed with the outcome. He had to retropay from when I had first filed and it was at almost double the rate he had been paying up until that point.
Best of luck,
–Lee Ann