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Editorials -- April 3, 2002

Parent, children hurt by agency's decisions 

To the Editor: I am writing in response to the article about a man who was arrested on an array of charges for allegedly planning an attack on the courthouse. It was mentioned that he may have been upset over a domestic relations decision.

Although he was preparing to handle his dissatisfaction in the wrong way, if these allegations are true, there is clearly a message being sent.

I don't think anybody would be upset with domestic relations if its decisions were fair and honest.

The current system of removing children from the father, or mother in some cases, along with an unaccountable, excessively large portion of money they call "child support," can have a drastic effect on the losing party's behavior.

I remember reading of a father who committed suicide over a domestic relations decision.

These biased and unfair decisions also have a detrimental effect on the children.

Our elected state representatives are ignoring calls to get these issues addressed with legislation because the matter is a "political hot potato."

There are two active petitions for judicial impeachment in Pennsylvania that I know of and both are a result of "domestic relations decisions" that violate constitutional rights and show unethical judicial conduct.

An honest and courageous judge in Georgia recently found the "income shares guidelines" for child support to be unconstitutional. In his decision, he states that these guidelines produce arbitrary, excessive awards. These are the same guidelines that are in use in Pennsylvania.

I believe that the standard domestic relations decision that leaves the parent who has his or her money and child confiscated by the state and handed over to the "winning" parent is devastating and unconstitutional.

There is no such thing as equal protection under the law as it pertains to custody decisions. Ask any good parent who tried to fight for equal time with his or her child in court. The "rules" make it very hard to accomplish once custody has been awarded to one and visitation to the other.

The problem is that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's procedural rules committee is making the domestic relations rules, and not the Legislature. These guideline child support awards are set at unreasonable amounts because the more money the state confiscates from a parent who is ordered "non-custodial," the more money it receives in federal block grants.

Dave Vincent

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