*** Quoting Danny Ceppa from a message to Nancy Backus ***

DC> Kids do have rights.  But, they should not supercede proper 
DC> parental rights.  I know of too many disenfranchised dads that 
DC> have not just lost visiting privileges but have gone to jail 
DC> for being a proper parent.  

Agreed.  On disenfranchised Dads, I have one in my shop.  His ex-wife is
¨Japanese.  He came home after an 8.5 month deployment to find her 4 months
¨pregnant and wanting a divorce.  She's trying to use Japan courts to also
keep ¨his kids from his previous marriage.  Technically she's not 'ex' yet
but she ¨moved back to Honshu.  He had to get court orders to send his kids
back to his ¨first wife (San Diego) and he's paying her child support. 
Fortunately the ¨situation with the first wife is a good one. (Just couldnt
handle Navy life, ¨wasnt set for the kids alone at the divorce but is now
recently widowed from ¨her second husband and set for such, just needs help
with the money).

The problem is the guy's second wife wants to be paid child support too,
for ¨his previous kids, and the one comming.

                                       xxcarol

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