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Pennsylvania Supreme Court Procedural Rules Committee

Committee members

The committee has 10 members. One seat is reserved for a court administrator, and two seats are reserved for the administrative judges of the family divisions of the Philadelphia and Allegheny County Courts of Common Pleas. The other seven members are judges and lawyers who are appointed by the Supreme Court to three year terms and may be reappointed for a second three year term. Currently, the members, with their appointment dates, are as follows:

Robert C. Capristo, Esquire, Chair, Allegheny County, 1/25/00 
Nancy P. Wallitsch, Esquire, Vice Chair, Lehigh County, 9/17/02 
Mark M. Dalton, District Court Administrator, Lancaster County, 3/1/95 
Mark B. Dischell, Esquire, Montgomery County, 6/25/03 
The Honorable Kevin M. Dougherty, Philadelphia, 9/12/03 
The Honorable Myrna P. Field, Administrative Judge, Philadelphia Family Division, 3/26/02 David N. Hofstein, Esquire, Philadelphia, 5/23/03 
Frederick R. Mogel, Esquire, Berks County, 2/19/03 
The Honorable Eugene F. Scanlon, Jr., Administrative Judge, Allegheny County Family Division, 4/26/02 
James B. Yelovich, Esquire, Somerset County, 2/19/03

 


Correspondence between Patricia Miles and citizens of Pennsylvania

The Domestic Relations Procedural Rules Committee is recommending that the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania amend the Rules of Civil Procedure relating to domestic relations matters as set forth below. This proposal has not been submitted for review by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Written comments relating to Recommendation 67 must be received no later than Friday, May 7, 2004.Comments should be directed to:

Patricia A. Miles, Esquire
Counsel, Domestic Relations Procedural Rules Committee
5035 Ritter Road, Suite 700 
Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania 17055 
FAX (717) 795-2175
E-mail: patricia.miles@pacourts.us

Before you read the letters and responses below Click Here for an example of what is covered under the Freedom of Information Act and Pennsylvania Right To Know.

 

Letters written and e-mail sent

Response received 
Letter from a custodial mother Response from Patricia Miles
E-Mail from Gary Bremer
Another e-mail from gary
Follow up to last response		 Response from Patricia Miles
Response
Here is a letter from Thomas.  For the record, Thomas is a little pissed off but then again so are a lot of other people.   No reply reported.
E-Mail from Sean Rafferty Response from Patricia Miles
E-Mail from Jay Todd and Attorney Wrona requesting information on the state's contract with Policy Studies Inc. which is responsible for the child support guidelines that Pennsylvania uses. Response from Patricia Miles

 
E-mail from Jay Todd requesting information on Procedural Rules Committee members and what the commitee bases it's recommendations upon. Response from Patricia Miles
Translation = the committee meets in secret and the public is not invited to the meetings where pubic policy is set and law is written.

E-mail from B
E-mail number two
E-mail number three
E-mail number four

 Response from Patricia Miles
Response number two
Response number three
There was no response to the fourth e-mail.  Take notice what Ms Miles says about extras.  Compare that with what actually takes place when it comes to extras.
E-Mail form Sean Rafferty on secret meetings No Response
E-Mail from Dave Vincent The only response that was received to this e-mail was that it will be forwarded to the committee.  Yeah OK.
Request for information from Domestic Relations Procedural Rules Committee Chairman from Jay Todd Request denied.  The committee is not subjected to the Freedom of Information Act.  All minutes and other documents are "internal" (secret) documents that do not have be shown to the public.  According to this response, this committee, that recommends highly intrusive public policy, doesn't have to answer to the public.
Request for information from the Department of Public Welfare from Jay Todd.   All or part of the information was provided by the DPW.  Waiting to find out what exactly was provided and refused before I post it.
Letter to Senator Lavalle about denial of information requested from Procedural rules committee and department of public welfare. No response to post yet.
Letter to Representative Veon. No response to post yet.
E-Mail from Brian Slusaw requesting information about complaints referred to PRC by the Office of Child Support Enforcement.  Apparently we now have information that there have been NUMEROUS complaints to the Office of Child Support Enforcement that the guidelines are EXCESSIVE.  We want to know how many people and what exactly people are complaining about.    Response from Patricia Miles.  It seems we have been given the same information over and over again and the legitimate questions are consistently dodged.  Everybody knows that the guidelines are rebuttable, however, in real life, they aren't.  Fathers are forced to pay what these corrupt guidelines say or go to jail.  You can challenge them only if you have the money but most of the time a Domestic Relations CLERK decides what the non-custodial parent (father) is going to pay.
Letter from Kevin Sheahen, secretary of NCFC No response submitted.
 

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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.