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Government creating a fatherless society : Comments

By Warwick Marsh, published 15/3/2012

Taxpayer funding for those who want to send the laws of nature into free fall.

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Mr George Christensen, MP for Dawson, made a speech to the House a week ago calling for the overhaul of the Child Support system so there's a nexus between child support & court orders. His point being that access to children in accordance with court orders (or, where none are in place, fairness) should be a condition of child support being ongoing.

Mr Christensen gets my vote as Minister for "The Status of Men and Family issues" in the next Federal Government - second?

Fathers dragged into family court have been slapped with impossible child support judgements, deprived of the means to earn enough to pay those judgements, and now can be jailed for contempt for being unable to pay.

The current system of enforced so-called "child support" and asset redistribution based on child custody arrangements, necessarily creates a perverse incentive structure that rewards the creation of broken homes. That is, one subsidizes the activity.

Remove incentives for divorce for women. Child support, alimony, marital home without buying husbands half, and any other unequal distribution of marital assets or debts.

One major change that would make the whole system better is: "no fault" divorce = "no-fault" custody: automatic 50/50 physical and legal custody.

If you want more than that, you have to accuse the other parent of something and get a criminal conviction in court on that something. I think this alone would make a lot of women put a little more thought into the choices they make in life.

The "Other Measures" in the Family Violence (sole custody) amendments will make child support & enforcement bloody. These are known in the USA as the Bradley Amendment which denies bankruptcy protections for child support defaulters, overrides all statutes of limitation - arrears can never be discharged - and forbids judicial consideration of obvious inability to pay - like if you are a POW in Gan.

It is outrageous that "bad" laws known not to work should be imported and guillotined through the Senate without scrutiny - purely for profit to GALP voters.

Any suggestions for improvement will be greatly welcome.
Posted by Howard Beale, Sunday, 25 March 2012 8:51:20 PM
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