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brighn
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Custody laws
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Aug 25 21:47 UTC 1994 |
The Miranda/Smith/Cashen custody dispute has prompted lawmakers to
start revising custody laws. In what ways would you change the current laws
if it were within your power to do so?
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popcorn
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response 1 of 39:
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Aug 28 12:47 UTC 1994 |
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aaron
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response 2 of 39:
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Aug 28 17:28 UTC 1994 |
Child support isn't about the parents' rights. It is about the child's
rights.
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headdoc
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response 3 of 39:
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Aug 28 18:14 UTC 1994 |
One of the biggest problems is trying to determine what is in the best interest
of the child. I have many colleagues who are forensic psychologists and they
do child custody evaluations in an attempt to help judges and hearing
officers decide who would be the better primary caretaker. I read their
reports and listen to their horror stories and would never, with all my
years of experience working with children, want to be in the position of
shifting through and making that decision. One thing, I believe is that the
decision (who will be primary caretaker) is too important to be left to the
whim of one person.
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katie
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response 4 of 39:
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Aug 28 19:24 UTC 1994 |
Ack, Valerie, I disagree with you in a big way.
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brighn
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response 5 of 39:
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Aug 29 04:42 UTC 1994 |
I would agree with #1 in theory, but it's too easy for a father to abuse
that system. If a child is conceived through mutual consent, or through
carelessness (which, by my reasoning, leaves only TRUE accidents, like a
pinhole in the condom), the father has certain responsibilities to the
resultant child even if he doesn't want the fetus carried to term (and
is willing to pay for the abortion). The True accidents is where the
issue grows truly fuzzy.
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ryan1
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response 6 of 39:
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Sep 16 21:26 UTC 1994 |
"."
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popcorn
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response 7 of 39:
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Sep 17 13:19 UTC 1994 |
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ryan1
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response 8 of 39:
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Sep 30 00:56 UTC 1994 |
Why are you welcoming me? I've been here forever. Don't you remember me?
I am a FW for this conference. You added me to the list.
Would you happen to have a split personality?
Ha Ha <joke>
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brighn
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response 9 of 39:
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Sep 30 20:39 UTC 1994 |
She's welcoming you because of the "." which is what newusers
do by accident (indicating their newbiness). I guess she's just
not used to your sense of humor (?) yet.
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ryan1
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response 10 of 39:
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Oct 1 11:57 UTC 1994 |
Are you a mind reader?
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popcorn
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response 11 of 39:
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Oct 1 13:49 UTC 1994 |
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brighn
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response 12 of 39:
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Oct 3 03:24 UTC 1994 |
(Gee, Ryan, I guess I am a mind reader. :-)
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ryan1
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response 13 of 39:
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Oct 3 19:43 UTC 1994 |
The funny part is, that there is no funny part. Since when did a dot
get someone into a fight with another?
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popcorn
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response 14 of 39:
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Oct 4 13:19 UTC 1994 |
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ryan1
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response 15 of 39:
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Oct 4 19:22 UTC 1994 |
O.K. So it wasn't quite a fight. I made the the "." Just because I
couldn't figure out what to say.
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roz
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response 16 of 39:
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Oct 13 01:25 UTC 1994 |
You can tell that we really feel like family -- with brothers and sisters,
this would be a fight. But on grex, it's just drift. Hmmm, maybe I ought
to start asking my kids not to drift . . . <g>
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ryan1
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response 17 of 39:
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Oct 13 19:37 UTC 1994 |
Or to drift each other!
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ljmax
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response 18 of 39:
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Oct 20 02:26 UTC 1994 |
This is indeed a snoe[Dsnowed-in discourse.As a newby, i have no clue where its
at re: grex or for that matter BBSs. First day online.... But as a Dad, I agree
thast childs interest rules;but what child isn't at risk[A".""."" ."
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brighn
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response 19 of 39:
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Oct 20 05:58 UTC 1994 |
Thanks for the input, and welcome to Grex!!.
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ryan1
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response 20 of 39:
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Oct 23 00:17 UTC 1994 |
Yes, welcome.
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otter
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response 21 of 39:
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Jan 14 17:29 UTC 1996 |
My brother-in-law has found the worst divorce lawyer in history. (This all
happened before he married my sister.)
Not only does he have full-time custody of two teen-agers, he pays their
mother $400. monthly for child support.
Hello?!?
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aaron
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response 22 of 39:
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Jan 14 17:37 UTC 1996 |
That's not his lawyer's fault. He can go to Friend of the Court, any time,
to challenge that payment.
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bubu
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response 23 of 39:
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Jan 15 23:10 UTC 1996 |
I don't know that He could go right through Friend of the Court. A buddy of
mine just got his child support payments lowered. He had to go before a Judge
to have it taken care of...
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aaron
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response 24 of 39:
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May 5 17:19 UTC 1996 |
No kidding. Any modification has to be approved by the judge. You go
to Friend of the Court, they prepare an order, and it gets submitted to the
judge.
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