BOYCOTT Michigan!
Abolish Michigan’s criminal/felony child support laws!
A National plea goes out to Boycott Michigan Business (see list below)as an effort is under way to stop Michigan from prosecuting its citizens with Criminal felony’s convictions for child support.
The State of Michigan is convicting its citizens with felony, child support charges and sending them to prison for up to 4-years at the expense of taxpayers. The majority of these people are non-violent, low income citizens who can’t afford attorneys. Some have no other criminal history. Some are Veterans and most are likely un-employed. Yet Michigan continues to aggressively pursue these Felony laws, convicting those who are paying and those who cannot pay, wasting your Federal and State tax dollars. It would be much more efficient to train these low income people to become productive, responsible working class citizens, instead of sending them to prison to learn to be real criminals.
In Michigan, child support felons face additional consequences in addition to their child support obligation; cost and fines in excess of $2000.00, prejudice exclusion from certain lines of work and difficulty in finding a job in others; prohibition from obtaining certain licenses; exclusion from purchase and possession of firearms and ammunition.
The impact of these felony convictions and incarcerations on children and families is enormous since the family structure, financial responsibilities, emotional support systems, and living arrangements are greatly affected in many cases. Long term incarceration radically disrupts parent-child relationships and family networks; and restoring these relationships upon release poses a unique set of burdens on the families and Communities these prisoners come from. Some are irreparable.
These people may also enter incarceration with varying degrees of cognitive deficits that influence criminal thinking and behavior, such as pro-criminal attitudes, pro-criminal associates and impulsivity. Furthermore, while incarcerated, individuals may develop coping skills for the prison environment that are not appropriate or desired on the outside. Examples would be social withdrawal, dependence on institutional structure, and adherence to the exploitative norms of prison culture.
With that thinking in mind, Michigan felony child support laws could conceivably create criminals by means of desperation, meaning some will break the law to comply with it in attempts to meet their obligations. One county prosecutor alone, out of 83 Michigan counties convicted over 200 people with felony child support over a 4 year period. You do the math! The cost to house these people in Michigan prisons is in excess of $28,000.00 per year, per Inmate. Who pays? The taxpayers! Do not let Michigan’s Governor Jenifer Granholm and Attorney General Mike Cox fool you. Michigan’s annual Felony dispositions have increased from 25,000 in 1988 to over 50,000 today, (approximately the same time period that the felony child support laws were introduced). It’s costing tax payers more for these felony prosecutions than they are getting in return for felony child support.
Is this what we as, American citizens really want for these people? Remember, these are Parents and Grandparents to our future. Let’s not allow more problems by alienating family ties to secure a prison budget. It would be cheaper too sentence these people to community college for a 4-year degree thus promoting higher education.
Let me make it absolutely clear that child support enforcement is necessary to the well-being of family and society alike. Michigan has very effective misdemeanor laws that deal with child support collection, and very good community programs to get people back to work. Sadly these programs become ineffective once a person is convicted with felony charges as they are no longer eligible for them, leaving the person to fend on their own without access to certain job service programs or community placement programs.
Michigan families are in desperate need of your participation. Help send a message to Governor Jenifer Granholm, Attorney General Mike Cox and Michigan law makers by getting involved in this movement. Abolish all felony child support laws in Michigan. Restore family values in Michigan and stop wasting tax dollars on programs that injure families and our future as a whole.
There are three ways you can help:
1: by directly boycotting the below Michigan businesses or any business that does business with them. (Note) please be sure to inform that or those businesses of your reason and intentions for boycotting, as it is not the goal to harm the business but to promote a trickle up effect to the government level.
Ø Boycott these: Post cereals/ Kellogg’s cereals /Wal-Mart /Michigan Automobile manufacture products.
2: Write your Congressmen, Senators, and Legislators (you are their boss). Demand they stop spending your Federal and State tax dollars on Michigan’s felony child support laws and to expunge all Michigan’s criminal child support convictions. People with child support felonies in Michigan are in Great financial and legal trouble. Demand they halt pending and future prosecution of any felony child support proceedings. Ask them to pass Federal legislation for misdemeanor extradition for child support across state lines when non-custodial parents flee to avoid paying.
3: Please, by all means, forward this copy to someone you know so word can be spread to the nation’s taxpayers. These laws are crippling Michigan Families and industry and costing taxpayers millions.
Get together and get out there and Protest Michigan’s Felony child support laws, but do it legally! If you are from Michigan get out and get petitions signed to abolish these laws.
I think the idea, is for the parents not paying. Especially if they have the ability to. The get a chance to decide which is the better choice, being responsible and paying for your child or go to prison. Most somehow, someway find the money! While some aren't prior criminals, some are. Also, many of these cases are self employed parents who purposely work as self employed to not have to pay their support...Prison is not the first option, trust me.....it's the last when nothing else has worked! Although I do agree, perhaps a work program is more in line than prison. You'd probably be surprised at how many parents not paying would hate this....Fine, you can't pay, here is a job, work it, and now you can! You can't pay regularlly as a self employed person, here is your solution!!!
ReplyDeleteAfter fleeing Michigan to avoid paying child support, a gentleman gets caught up and pleads guilty to a felony in another state. A month after completing his DTP program he complains to Michigan Friend of the Court about not seeing or speaking to his child for over 2yrs. He states he continually calls (a wrong number that belongs to a relative) at a particular number with no success in speaking to minor child. He did not mention failing to call the minor child at their number. Part of his probation of completing DTP was to obtain and maintain full time employment (which he never reported or made a payment to Michigan Friend of the Court. Where's the justice for the child? This is still coming out of the Taxpayers pocket to help support the child.
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ReplyDeleteHello, would you please contact me at my email address. I am a mother that does count on child support, and I completely agree with you. I have seen both sides of the Friend of the Court. I have wrote everyone I can think of writing, and maybe I have left some people out that you may know about. Thank you for your time,
Tracey
starting_over_73@yahoo.com
You, my friend, are a douche. It is the responsibility of both parents to support the children that they brought into the world. Michigan only applies a felony to those who do not support their children even after other civil means are completely exhausted. Perhaps you should actually READ the law and how it is mandated to be executed, if you are literate enough to do so.
ReplyDeleteFriend of the Court is an institution created to pit one parent against the other for the mere purpose of profit! Children need BOTH parents in thier lives, period! The responsibility should be equal & shared custody. The courts envolvement should be minimal!! At the time of conception mom & dad were both seen to be fit and responsible until a marital breakdown/seperation. REVENGE is played out when the court partners up with the custodial parent to prosecute and enforce action against the NON-Custodial parent weather he HAS the ability to pay "or" not. Most courts take into consideration the claim that the non-custodial parent is avoiding paying for his children based on a questionere presented to the custodial parent known as Appendix "B" in which the answers should be considered as heresay. To allow the custodial parent granted the POWER to provide information about the non-custodial parents income is obsured. There should be some factual basis for claiming an income. The fact of the matter is, MOST/ALL cases that are prosecuted for non-payment/failing to pay are because the Payer clearly does not have the Ability to pay the amount owed. Michigan Supreme Court is reviewing cases now on the claim of defense "Ability to Pay" Goodluck to those of you whom are victims of legislation !
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