FairTax Movement Launched

Some of you may have followed on http://laryholland.com that the new Fair Tax Movement was launched. If you have suggestions, submit them through the site at http://www.fairtaxmovement.com.

The FairTax Movement is a site dedicated to encouraging an alternative tax reform structure that reduces government bureaucracy, invasive government practices, and increases government transparency.

This is just one of the many new launches occurring in 2010. Elections and issues are going to be highly contested and the fair tax, parental rights, and a number of other issues should be on the forefront of everyone's minds.

Actual Costs of Raising Child: Federal and State Child Support Guidelines

I wanted to take a moment and review Title 45 Sec 302.56 with you, which is part of the Title IV-D program. Title IV-D is a voluntary program that states may opt-in for federal grants and incentive funds for the operation of child support enforcement and paternity establishment programs. Please note that if a state fails to comply with a federal mandate, that it may be grounds for the state to lose federal funding or be forced to pay back portions of already received funding.

Federal Mandates require that State Child Support Guidelines be reviewed periodically, and upon that review that state guidelines must "consider economic data on the actual costs of raising children."

TITLE 45 -- Public Welfare CHAPTER III -- OFFICE OF CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT Part 302 -- STATE PLAN REQUIREMENTS
Title 45 §302.56 Guidelines for setting child support awards.

(h) As part of the review of a State’s guidelines required under paragraph (e) of this section, a State must consider economic data on the cost of raising children and analyze case data, gathered through sampling or other methods, on the application of, and deviations from, the guidelines. The analysis of the data must be used in the State’s review of the guidelines to ensure that deviations from the guidelines are limited.

For those of you that are monitoring your state's implementation of child support guidelines, the USDA regularly produces a report on the ACTUAL COSTS OF RAISING A CHILD IN SINGLE PARENT AND TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE HOUSEHOLDS.

http://www.cnpp.usda.gov/ExpendituresonChildrenbyFamilies.htm

You can view the historical data on raising children back to 1995. Further, since both parents have to maintain their own housing, you could strip this number from the actual cost of raising the child, and then divide the remaining total by two (for two parents) and that would be each parents' equal share for the actual cost of raising a child. You will find it is likely lower than what most child support guidelines are. You should raise this point, since the data is openly available.

Feel free to share your findings with me on this issues.

Parental Rights Amendment Supplemental Issues

There has been some basic confusion about the differences between the Parental Rights Amendment and how it might need to be altered regarding gender issues and also how some groups are relating it improperly to "equal custody" organizations.

My general thoughts that I am placing here so I won't have to keep retyping it, let me know what you think, are as follows:

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Parental Rights should be the steeple of child-custody disputes, but because an invasive, intrusive, and otherwise subjective standard for custody determinations has been allowed, parental rights remain under attack regardless to gender and not just on the international front lines. After reviewing Farnsworth v. Farnsworth the Court found, “a court cannot overlook or disregard that the best interests standard is subject to the overriding recognition that the relationship between parent and child is constitutionally protected.” Parental Rights are being set aside for a ambiguous and subjective notion called "the best interests standard" contrary to common sense and partly because people are not focusing on that god-given superior Natural right. In fact, because of the relaxed effort on making parental rights the most important issue, it allows the most fundamental and natural right to be whittled down in divorce, custody, child protective services, medical notification/versus parental notification, access to school records, home schooling, and more. These group of lobbies are a growing number, because government is "upsetting the balance of government authority versus parental authority" replacing governmental perferences over parental determination. Something that seems to be slipping the minds of organizations everywhere.

The purpose of the proposed amendment is much greater than just the treaty. In fact, it will affect many areas of concern in domestic law as well, but more importantly again it brings the focus to parental rights being protected. This will also give way to raising the standard of parental rights instead of continuing the slide and then crying foul that we don't have equal parenting rights. Equal parenting rights being a minor issue to the superior parental rights issue, because we need to at least recognize a right to be able to be reconcile to equality in an adversarial proceeding. Right now, people have succumbed to the propaganda of the BIC fictitious "standard."

We invited Phyllis Schlafly of Eagle Forum as well as other key conservative groups to speak on these issues, ironically Nancy Schaefer is part of the Georgia Eagle Forum, and they are both in full support of US Rep. Hoekstra's upcoming amendment. I too, am behind this amendment 100%. Phyllis also agrees with the points regarding Single Issue Lobbying Organizations versus Multi Issue Lobbying Organizations getting the job done. Any SILO is easy to come under attack from opposition and should consider merging, supporting, or supplementing MILO efforts, especially where economic support is weak in specific SILO areas. I am focusing efforts on as many of the MILOs that come together on this one federal issue, because it is the first of three that will be introduced this year and will gain the support of some of the largest women's conservative groups and more, because this is no longer a gender issue.

If referencing the "gender and marital status" do you mean "without regard to gender and marital status," I think that would just be used to attract glbt lobbies, which doesn't interest any of the major conservative groups. That would have to be carefully clarified, and probably not in a public forum until the language was set.

I strongly support the efforts of Nancy Schaeffer, Phyllis Schlafly, US Representative Pete Hoekstra, the Home School Legal Defense Association, and many others in both the domestic and international aspects of the Parental Rights Amendment. It gives us something strong to talk to the media about, to educate families about, and to implement a base policy that "Parental Rights Should Be Respected and Protected By All." Of course that means parents, government, and more should respect, and the government to enforce equal rights, which will take the courts out of micromanaging and revenue generating and put them back into the role of independent while limiting their direct involvement in the family. This is step one to other key legislation that will bring us closer to EQUAL parenting where two parents both are demanding their time to direct the care, education, and upbringing of their own children.

While I agree that the United Nations CRC is checkmate, I believe the Parental Rights Amendment is much much larger than the International issue, including child protective services, and many other domestic intrusion areas. Just as our parental rights have been whittled, we too shall reverse the damage by whittling back at them their authority to minimize the importance of family and the relationships between both parents and their child(ren).

US Congressman Pete Hoekstra and Phyllis Schlafly of Eagle Forum Discuss Parental Rights on Get Your Justice Live

Helping Parents and the Courts Make Better Decisions Regarding Custody and Divorce!

Save Our Kids! Mike Mastracci, Esq. and Get Your Justice Live Provide Alternative to Family Court

If you know someone who is separated or divorced and struggling with co-parenting issues make sure that they check out this free 6 week internet radio series called "Save-Our-Kids!" Learn about collaborative law and the alternatives to the current family law court system. Tuesdays at 8PM (6 Week Tele-Seminar Series)

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Baltimore, MD. Attorney Mike Mastracci has said it thousands of times, "Stop Fighting Over the Kids: Resolving Day-to-Day Custody Conflict in Divorce Situations" and it is sound advice that has many attorneys scratching their heads at the simplicity of it all. With the help of Lary Holland, Host and Producer of Get Your Justice Live™, Mike Mastracci is able to deliver a message that just might save thousands of kids, judges, and professionals from being forced into the middle of heated courtroom proceedings between separating parents that have children.

Help Redistribute Get Your Justice Live

We need your help in raising the distribution and reach of the official Get Your Justice Live show. It is easy. You can help with myspace blogs, myspace comments, blogger blogs, email, and more just like to the right.

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New Resources for Non Profits

Here are a variety of resources for those nonprofits that still haven't gotten everything underway when raising awareness about our parental rights. We discussed these tools on Get Off The Bench on one of the Monday Night Free Advocacy Calls. These tools have their definite uses and the resources listed have many funding opportunities for your organization as well, whether it be technical help, grants from private foundations, or marketing donations.

Using Twitter as a messaging alert system for your organization. Coordinate instantanoues rallies, protests, demonstrations or even mass coordinate telephone calls with your contact list. Instantly notify via sms, email, and other methods at a single click of a button.
http://www.twitter.com

POWWOWNOW - Create a local telephone conference with web board for free to discuss your important issues in a community forum. Start a parental alienation support group, divorce support group, or other group designed for peer support and advocacy. Everyone can do one.
http://www.powwownow.com

Organizers DB will help you keep track of donors, volunteers, and email lists for your nonprofit organization. This application is completely free for your organization.
http://www.organizersdb.org

Grassroots ~ their mission is to "adopt" 10,000 nonprofit organizations with the intention of providing around $10,000 per year of services to each organization for FREE. Sign up and get your benefits.
http://www.grassroots.org/

Learn How to Build Your Nonprofits Brand in Eight Words or Less
http://www.gettingattention.org/nonprofit_tagline_report.html

Non Profit Guides for grants writing and proposals.
http://www.npguides.org/

The 3 Effective tools Article that will help your nonprofit organization excel.
http://www.help4nonprofits.com/NP_Mktg_3EffectiveTools_Article.htm

Introduction to Community Engagement
http://www.help4nonprofits.com/NP_Mktg_Marketing-vs-CommunityEngagement_Art.htm

The 3 Most Effective Tools for Community Engagement
http://www.help4nonprofits.com/NP_Mktg_3EffectiveTools_Article.htm

Friend Raising versus fundraising.
http://www.help4nonprofits.com/FriendRaisingBook.htm

Story About Building Relationships
http://www.help4nonprofits.com/ToM-204.htm

Not Your Dad's Divorce
http://www.newsweek.com/id/174790

Non Profit Organizational Assessment Tool Volunteer Management
http://www.uwex.edu/ces/cced/nonprofits/management/assess7.cfm

You can spread the word about Get Your Justice Live: The Nation's Most Popular Family Court Talk Show

You can add the item to the left very easily to your blog, myspace, and other websites by using "code."

I have the code that you need listed at this website address so you can simply cut and paste it into your comments, blog posts, and more!

If you have any questions... Just let us know. You can also post comments to this entry with where you are promoting the show. We look forward to growing with you in fighting the system.

Children Need Both Parents: Parental Rights and Due Process

I took some time to compile a website called "Children Need Both Parents" because I am tired of the government intruding into everyone's personal lives at the invitation of one parent. I am not discounting domestic violence and a multitude of other factors and allegations that require criminal government intervention. I am however, setting an objective standard that leads the way to protecting the parent-child relationship and working towards "co-equality" of competing parental interests. Raising evidence standards before a parent's relationship with their own child is diminished through no criminal act is a necessity.

Check it out:
http://www.childrenneedbothparents.net

It includes information linking to Professor Donald Hubin's "Parental Rights and Due Process," a solid proposed State Constitutional Amendment to Protect Parental Rights, and a Federal Constitutional Amendment proposal for the same. There are also links indicating the benefits of two parent involvement throughout the site and sample language to introduce in your own states. We have to limit government intrusion where one parent attempts to usurp the other parent's role in their child's lives.

Parental Rights must be respected and protected, and government must not intrude and assist in the usurpation any longer. Parents are co-equal unless a steep evidentiary standard is employed to intrude, but that has not been the practice in CPS, Child Custody, Child Support, or Divorce cases where parents are encouraged to destroy each other in a winner take all battle sometimes to the death.

Google: Family Court is a Deadly Business; Guess what, I wrote it. Check it out and see what is really happening across America. Be sure to tell people, like your family members, legislators, and even local officials about what is happening everywhere.

Freedom of Information Act Links

I have compiled some useful resources on Freedom of Information Act Laws, Anti-Slapp (Anti- Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation), and other informative links that will help citizens stamp out government corruption by having the tools necessary to get at critical information not otherwise known to the general public. This helps keep government in the sunshine for all the public to see. Do your part and file one today, you might even be able to do it for FREE.

Listen to the various discussions on this episode of the Get Off The Bench Advocacy Call. It's free and it is to help you and your organizations.


http://www.gwu.edu/%7Ensarchiv/nsa/foia/resources.html

United States Department of Justice FOIA Information Website
http://www.usdoj.gov/oip/index.html

Public Citizen Freedom of Information Clearinghouse
http://www.citizen.org/litigation/free%5Finfo/

State by State Freedom of Information Act Laws
http://www.foiadvocates.com/records.html

How to Make a Freedom of Information Act Request
http://www.foiadvocates.com/howto.html

How to Get FOIA Fee Waivers
http://www.foiadvocates.com/fees.html

Citizen Access Project
http://www.citizenaccess.org/

Searchable Information Sources (all 50 states) Citizen Access Project
http://www.citizenaccess.org/search.html

Project on Government Oversight
http://www.pogo.org/

Report Corruption on Project on Government Oversight
http://www.pogo.org/report-corruption/

Society of Professional Journalists Foia Information and Anti-Slapp Lawsuit Issues
http://www.spj.org/foi.asp

The National Archives for Records Managers Website (Government training and guidelines site for maintaining records, master this and master getting more access to information no matter where it is in the government bureaucracies.)
http://www.archives.gov/records-mgmt/

Federal Records Officers - Complete Federal List
http://www.archives.gov/records-mgmt/agency/officers-lists.html

Is it really our ex’s fault?

The answer is NO and you are about to learn why. It is not Ex-spouses, Ex-Girlfriends, and Ex-Boyfriends that are causing/creating the pain that other parents suffer. It may feel that way because that is the person that is seen as the adversary and who is believed to be in control of the situation. The first thing that has to be noted is that parental alienation, divorce, and separation is not even about YOU or YOUR children... this is about EVERYONE and EVERYONE'S CHILDREN. "It is infinitely more valuable to fight for the rights of others than to fight for your own." It is the government's fault for creating, empowering, and allowing these situations and actions by one fit parent against another fit parent that is crippling the parent-child relationship. In some cases, it is even causing death. (See Family Court is Deadly Business: 2007).

The reality is that the system is completely at fault because it does not respect or protect parental rights (IE: parents are actually competing for the love of their children in selfish ways trying to cut one off from the other in adversarial proceedings, typically without real cause) and further the system does not protect the presumptive co-equal rights of parents. Parents should maintain a co-equal status unless there is proven by clear and convincing (or higher) evidence that one or both parents are unwilling, incapable, or otherwise unfit to be a parent. The subsequent relationship between the parents should have little bearing on the parent-child relationships if the government is protecting that relationship and allowing parents to do their individual jobs. This thinking prevails even when the parents don't like each other because there should be no mechanism to continue adversary proceedings unless there is clear and convincing cause. People work with other people that they do not like in the common work places across America all the time and they are still able to complete their jobs. Parenting is much like a job and that mutual respect should be enforced between co-equal partners/parents.

The issue of co-equality is real and must be established in legislation as the protection mechanism that our government should be involved in. Government is supposed to protect inalienable rights, not enable whiny people to fight back and forth for profit or vengeance... greed/selfishness/emotions encourages people to fight back and forth because the system provides the tools, resources, and arena to do so. If people are not provided the options, there are no options to take. Many would argue there is a reason why co-equality shouldn't exist because their ex did this or that or another thing... THAN PROVE IT WITH A HIGH STANDARD OF EVIDENCE and ensure due process and equal application of the law for ALL. Some want that lower evidence so they can say things without backing them up and get away with it. It is wrong. We must maintain a high evidentiary standard that presumes co-equality and enforces the inalienable parenting right above state ideology to control our children. It is a parent's duty to raise, care, and control the upbringing of their own offspring.

Government is instead sidestepping protecting inalienable rights and moving right in to take care of our children because they derive intense profits for their bureaucracies, without first proving there is a need by a high standard of evidence before intruding. They have parents too wrapped up in shooting at the wrong targets with the wrong bullets while the government collects steep federal incentives while claiming to protect one person or another from some unproven bad force. Government in essence is failing to protect the parent-child relationship, thereby enabling bad parents to continue being bad parents at the expense of an entire generation. The government is failing to punish parents when they are attempting to trample the presumed co-equal rights between fit, caring, and willing parents and instead providing the tools necessary to battle. Parent against parent where the losers are one parent, the children, and the taxpayer is destroying entire generations.

Because the government is failing to protect the co-equal status, parental alienation is allowed to exist. Because many parents want to alienate the alienator rather than be coequal with their former spouses/intimate partners they strive for fighting to the death like many that are wrapped up in their personal cases instead of advocating for the government to protect BOTH parents access to their children. People either want to fit themselves into a victim class to obtain a benefit or fit their ex-partners into a false/bad light in a winner take all philosophy to family court. Instead of making sure their government is creating a truly equal playground where all people are responsible for their own actions and inactions the government is encouraging the deprivation of one parent-child relationships, while being completely subsidized by the nation's taxpayer.

Like the courtroom, many people will choose to bicker and fight continuously over MICROCOSMIC disagreements in communication style in public forums if they are allowed to. This is much like people fighting over differences in parenting styles in the courtroom and trying to impose one parent's will over the other in an effort to control. The name of the game is that parental rights must be respected and protected by all, including the legislatures, the judiciaries, and more importantly all parents.

In the wise words of the Human Torch... "FLAME ON!"

More updates from Lary Holland

We had Alan Karmin from RADAR on Get Off The Bench Wednesday Night (October 1, 2008) on a very important show exposing the Violence Against Women Act, Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and False Allegations Hurting REAL Victims of Domestic Violence.

Alan Karmin: Domestic Violence Awareness Month

Alec Baldwin is at it again and shows up in the Harvard Law Review under the title "Alec Baldwin Takes on Family Family Law. Check it out over at Family Court Reports.

Alec Baldwin Takes on Family Law

Spread the information far and wide and let people know about what is happening in THEIR AMERICA!

First The Raised Your Taxes and Now They Want to Raise Your Children

First They Raised Your Taxes and Now They Want to Raise Your Children http://www.laryholland.com/serendipity/archives/539-First-They-Raise-Your-Taxes-and-Now-They-Want-to-Raise-Your-Children..html

Michigan Equal Parenting Rally: Michigan Legislators Ready to Press The Button http://www.laryholland.com/serendipity/archives/538-Michigan-Equal-Parenting-Rally-Legislators-are-Ready-to-Press-the-Button.html

Michigan Legislators and Family Rights Organizations Set to Rally on September 23, 2008 http://www.laryholland.com/serendipity/archives/537-Michigan-Legislators-and-Family-Rights-Organizations-Set-to-Rally-Tuesday-September-23,-2008.html

If you want to help out with major action, there is a call to action on the first blog entry above. We need more people to start getting involved with simple action or through contributions to those that are exhausting their resources for the movement. Either take the action or contribute to help us take the action, we make it real simple. It is time to stop waiting for someone else to solve the problem and become part of the solution.

If you don't want to do these tasks today, help me blow out a couple of more fax blasts to all the legislators and their employees, sponsor our telephone campaigns, and assist with mailers to them by pledging a dollar amount to help by sending an email to laryholland@sbcglobal.net and a secure online invoice will be generated for your one time credit card contribution. Be sure to include your pledge amount.

You can also go to our website at http://www.laryholland.com and subscribe for 10.00, 15.00, or 20.00 per month to keep things happening. We need your action or your contribution today. If you want something to happen, you will make it happen. Take the action so I don't have to.

LEE PAS Foundation, DC FESTIVAL 2008 Coverage

An amazing representation from the LEE PAS FOUNDATION at the DC FESTIVAL 2008. More information to be found at http://www.familycourtreports.com.

Restraining Orders Out of Control

Forget the 4th amendment. Just fill out a form and the cops will show up by surprise and pull your husband out on the street with only the clothes on his back, forbidden to contact you even directly for at least a week.

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Complaint lodged against family law judge.

Locating bad judges is the name of the game. Removing them from the bench? Our children and their children will thank you. Kudos are in order for Tim Fittro of Men and Women Against Discrimination in West Virginia. MAWAD files complaint against sitting Family Court Judge for admitting to the legislature that he doesn't follow the laws.

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Other ways to immediately get involved to make a successful civil rights event!

Other ways to immediately get involved to make a successful civil rights event in Washington DC at Upper Senate Park this year. (August 15 & 16 2008)

1. Watch this website frequently. You will notice “recent posts” on the left hand side of this site on all of the pages. You should view these to determine where you need to spread information to and how to do it. Note that the topic might only say “myspace” and spread the information through myspace. If it says “group” then spread the information to yahoo groups or support groups. Likewise, “media releases” go to general media. Finally, if it is an “official statement” then that answers questions from the top. Spread all the information far and wide.

2. Using social networks is critical. You must send out information from this website so that everyone receives the same information. Sign up at some of the social networks like http://www.friendster.com, http://www.myspace.com, http://www.facebook.com and spread self-authored articles that cover the link www.dcfestival2008.com. You can make all the difference just by getting involved with this. Link into all the forums you have access to!

3. Getting Involved means acting. Talk to everyone about this civil rights issue. Use this site as your resource. Spread information at each of the mini events leading up to the historic DC FESTIVAL 2008.

4. Target any type of site that allows comments about parenting issues, news article sites, and professional organizations. Write your own post and include a link to this website: http://www.dcfestival2008.com. If you have a blog, be sure to add this site and let us know immediately, we will add you to our list of sponsors when we receive your letter of support described in #6 of this list.

5. Plan to attend the event! If you can’t attend, you can pledge a donation via email to dcevents@familycourtreports.com and you will receive a credit card invoice via our secure provider. Send the email with PLEDGE: $#.## in the subject line with the amount you with to pledge. It is that simple and goes a long way if you can’t make the event.

6. Get your letter of support of this national civil rights event faxed whether you are an individual, organization, agency, or association. Support letters should be faxed to 989-764-5920 or emailed with a PDF attachment to dcevents@familycourtreports.com. Address them to “Write to Parent” 5119 Highland Rd. #229 Waterford, MI 48327. Include your endorsement as well as the focus of your organization. 1-2 pages. These will be delivered with our national messages to all of Congress.

7. Contact organizations that you would like to see at the event! Exhibition tables are extremely reasonable and we are accepting registrations via our toll-free line at 800-883-9619. Organizations can also fly their banners behind their table or in front.

8. Contact political candidates and ask them if they support our national event! The best way to determine if you are going to vote for a candidate is if they believe in the same issues. Make your issue a voter issue! Support letters should be faxed to 989-764-5920 or emailed with a PDF attachment to dcevents@familycourtreports.com. Address them to “Write to Parent” 5119 Highland Rd. #229 Waterford, MI 48327.

9. Volunteer to help fill a position. Send an email to dcevents@familycourtreports.com if you have time to help. Positions are available in a variety of areas. Every person extends the reach of our national event. There is something for everyone to do. Start by doing some of the things listed at this site and report back to dcevents@familycourtreports.com.

10. Get connected into other groups, organizations, and agencies and spread the word. Network this website and our issues. Simply send copies of our press releases, myspace posts, and more to groups that believe in limited government and protecting parenthood.

There are many other activities that you can assist with. You can subscribe for our weekly conference calls to discuss the issues at this link! Be sure to select DC FESTIVAL 2008 on the check list for announcements.

Parents Rights Organizations From Across The Nation!

Oakland County, Michigan ———- Children’s andParent’s Rights organizations from across the nation are scheduled toencroach on Washington DC this August 15 & 16 at the Upper SenatePark. Why? Because government policies do not reflect what is trulybest for children and good parents.

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GET YOUR JUSTICE LIVE is Get Off The Bench: Shows The Real Weapon of Mass Destruction

Get Your Justice Live is an interactive internet talk radio show that focuses on reforming the judiciary, with a special focus on the anti-family courts within the United States. GET YOUR JUSTICE LIVE EVERY WEDNESDAY (8:00pm) and SUNDAY (8:00pm).

Call In: 724-444-7444 TALKCAST ID: 39517
Do you know a Family Court Judge, CPS employee, or Friend Of The Court Counselor that did something wrong and got away with it? Let us know!

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Our goal is not to work against the system but to work through it and working together there is power in numbers to make a positive change. Tune in!

TEACHER STUDENT EPIDEMIC

The great affliction of student namely female teacher having romantic relationships with there student. A lot of those being in Florida.

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Brian Holladay and Drew Baden Prepare for National Summit

Two Supporters of Equal Parenting prepare for the 2008 National Fatherhood Summit in Grand Rapids, Michigan earlier this year. Fathers-4-Justice and many other awareness groups promote the need for children to have equal access to both fit, willing, and caring parents.