The Center for Children's Justice - Pennsylvania Chapter

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Dear sir:

My name is Phil. I live in the Erie, PA area. I really enjoyed your website :) Great address to the strangle-hold the PA judicial system has put on all us who are affected, mostly in the pocket, by the un-just guidelines... forced fed down our throats !!!

In short, here's my story... 15 years ago I married my ex-wife. She was/is a widow and @ the time we met, her daughter was only 3 years old. I adopted her daughter and after 6 months, our marriage was over due to my ex-wife's acts of adultery and prescription drug/alcohol abuse!

Her first husband was killed in a work related accident. She subsequently sued Dow Chemical and rightfully so. She received a large sum of money up front and receives monthly payments as well. Her daughter will receive $20,000 on her 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st birthdays. She'll receive her first payment in October of this year.

I pay around $400/month and have for the last 15 years! There are some close to me, that say... I was "set-up"! Well... in any case, the system has given my ex-wife all the tools to suck money out of my pockets. Like you, if it wasn't for my family... I might be living in the streets! I have a decent job, I work for the PA Dept. of Corrections. I recently re-married my dream partner... quite a special lady :) :) :) We want to buy our own home but the support payment is fouling my income to debt ratio! I have rented since my divorce & I own nothing... imagine that!

My ex-wife had 3 more children with some man who's been in/out for county jail... no doubt I've supported him throughout the years! They finally got married but the value system sure wasn't there for my adopted daughter. Her & I don't even communicate. Last year, she had a baby! No doubt the lack of a family value system in her home contributed to the chain of mistakes... a sad-sad-sad situation! I've footed the bill, my ex-wife hasn't worked in years... yet she drives a Mustang & owns a home with a in-ground swimming pool! Sometimes I wish I was the one with the vagina !!!

Ok, sorry to vent! ...but if you have any suggestions, I'd love to hear them!

Respectfully written, Phil

p.s. I wonder if I still have to wait till my adopted daughter graduates to terminate my support. She receives her first $20,000 in October '02, but doesn't graduate till June '03.

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This web site is strictly for your information about what is happening in our state; Pennsylvania.  Information and opinions on this website are NOT "legal" advice but ARE friendly advice from people who have been through the local domestic relations office and are very familiar with the crimes against humanity that office is getting away with strictly for PROFIT at the expense of fathers and their children.  Feel free to copy and repost any information on this site unless said information is credited to a web site other than Pennsylvania Family Court Reform (this website).  In this case, you must ask permission from the author, and since it's been our experience that most of the people that support our cause are good people, they most likely won't have a problem with it.  It's time to reclaim our state and our rights as Americans that are being trampled and ignored by a select portion of our state government, who's sole interest is PROFIT from federal grants for "child support" collection, at our expense... our JUDICIAL branch.