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Major Media Opportunity on National TV Show--Is This You?
Fathers & Families was contacted by a major national TV show which is doing a story on the problems with the child support system and is looking for child support obligors to be on the show.
The network is specifically interested in individuals whose income has declined significantly over the past year but have been unable to get courts to modify your child support obligations.
If this is you, learn more by clicking here.
4 Fathers & Families’ Supporters’ Letters Published in Boston Globe
“As a family law attorney for two decades, I know very well that it takes months to get a hearing to modify child support, and that it is very difficult to get support recalculated.”--Deborah Sirotkin Butler
A recent article in the Boston Globe detailed the problems faced by child support obligors in the face a bad economy, and featured a Fathers & Families supporter who was jailed because his diminished income prevented him from paying his all of child support. The story also discussed Fathers & Families' highly-publicized lawsuit against the new, higher Massachusetts child support guidelines.
In response to our Call to Action last week, many of you wrote Letters to the Editor, and the Globe published four of them. Given the Globe’s traditional antipathy towards fathers, the repeated coverage Fathers & Families has garnered and these letters are quite an accomplishment, and reflect our organization’s growing strength...
Divorced mom Erin Johnson told the Globe, "If I used their child support formula, my ex would be living in a shack"...
Griffin-Sebuliba Case--Once Again Feminist 'Family Courts Award Custody to Abusers' Claims Don't Hold Up
"Various feminist groups have gone to bat for Griffin, claiming that the judge had granted custody to an abuser..."
April Griffin had a son with Matthew Sebuliba, and when Sebuliba requested joint custody, Griffin followed with a series of actions her own attorney called “outrageous.”
She claimed, apparently without evidence, that Sebuliba had physically abused her. She claimed that allowing him to change the child’s diaper was “against her religion.” Child welfare workers stated that Griffin became hysterical during a supervised visit by Sebuliba, saying the child was not breathing, and demanded that 911 be called. EMS personnel determined that the boy was fine.
After Sebuliba won custody, Griffin hid the boy in violation of multiple court orders. She spent 8 months in jail for contempt of court, during which the child never was found.
Once she was released from jail, the police eventually were able to locate the child in September, 2008. The boy was diagnosed with...
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Fathers & Families’ Ned Holstein & Glenn Sacks discuss problems faced by Child Support obligors during the recession and other family law issues on:
The Booth on WXBR 1460 AM in Boston (4/17/09)
 The John Oakley Show on AM 640 in Toronto, Canada (4/15/09)
Mickelson in the Morning on WHO News Radio AM 1040 in Des Moines, Iowa (4/15/09)
The Bill Meyer Show on KMED AM 1440 in Southern Oregon (4/15/09)
 WJBO 1150 AM News Radio in Baton Rouge, LA. (4/14/09)
The Lincoln Ware Show on AM 1230 The Buzz in Cincinnati. (4/14/09)
 The Steve Deace Show on WHO News Radio AM 1040 in Des Moines, Iowa (4/14/09)
Plus: WERS 88.9 FM in Boston Covers Fathers & Families’ Child Support Lawsuit (4/14/09)
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