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Judge Paul von Dadelszen was interviewed on National Radio Nine to Noon on Wednesday 11 June 2008 in his role as Acting Principal Family Court Judge. His confident, resonant voice made him an ideal replacement for his slick ad-man boss in progressing dangerous abuse by the state as if it were beneficial.

I thought it worthwhile to report on the learned judge’s statements and to offer some comment. It’s a long post but worth the effort to see how the system is thinking. The judge’s actual statements are in italics while my descriptions and comments are not. (more…)

Miriam Long is an IRD Administrative Review Officer based in Wellington.  It has become increasingly apparent that Miriam Long appears to hold a grudge against male liable parents. I have dealt with a number of Dads who have been at the reciving end of Miriam Long’s administrative review decisions.

I am in the process of coordinating a complaint to have Mariam Long stopped from hearing administrative reviews.

If you have experienced the Long hand at an administrative review please leave a comment and I will contact you back.

If you are a dad taking part in an administrative  review of Child Support Tax and you are told that Miriam Long is your Review Officer demand another Review Officer.

Regards

Scrap

And when the broken hearted people
Living in the world agree,
There will be an answer, let it be.
For though they may be parted there is
Still a chance that they will see
There will be an answer, let it be.
Let it be, let it be. Yeah
There will be an answer, let it be.

(Lennon/McCartney)

After reading Garth George’s NZ Herald column on Gutless politicians (the majority of our politicians being men), I felt the need to say something.

To the Editor

Dear Sir,

If this is your Headline I am sure Mr George will forgive you for not understanding his faith. If however it is Mr Georges Headline he may choose to pray for forgiveness for his trespass against others.

His role as a self confessed Christian is not to issue abuse, but express understanding in a manner that others may choose to follow.

The law around abortion is a fiction. It does not exist in law, but by the conscience of parliament. It is a moral death warrant for a birth certificate that does not exist.

In a representative democracy our vote also contains our conscience and every abortion, none of which are within the law are the responsibility of each and every one of us.

Ignorance of the law may have new meaning for many people.

First post, I’ll try to be brief …

As I see from reading through the wealth of information available here.  I have a realistic view of what can and can’t happen when a loving Dad who seeks 50/50 care of his beautiful children, tries to review how much child support is due from him.

However; it’s late, and I can’t sleep, and I know there’s many people here who know the same truth, that some things in this life aren’t fair.  So excuse me for venting.

I am currently negotiating a full 50% share of nights and days caring for my two gems, Louis (5.8) and Elliot (2.5).  At every turn I find roadblocks to enabling me to care for my two sons.

IRD: We’re very sorry sir, but there’s nothing we can do, someone has to pay the Crown for the DPB she’s claiming.  Even if she chose not to claim, we’ll make her claim.  Pity though.

WINZ: Yeah good one, you really think we can help you, even if you didn’t earn what you earn, she already claims DPB for your two young fellas.  Pity though.

My only hope, is to negotiate with my ex-wife that it’s in the boys best interests that she seeks work, rather than rely on DPB and the Child Support I have faithfully paid every month for the last three years.

Next stop Administrative Review … because unfortunately the cost of setting up house again is getting the best of me.

Second stop Full Custody … if I’m going to see them for half the time and still have to pay Child Support, why not have them all the time and put that money into an account for them?

Nite all, thanks for listening.

First time writer. I just wanted tell my brothers story on this site as he cannot do it for himself as he is in jail due to FALSE allegations of sexual abuse & rape. My family & I are absolutely devastated by the guilty verdict the jury delivered, but after reading some of the listings on this menz sight I was horrified to find it seems to be the normal way things go for Men. My brother comes up for sentence soon & I’ve been doing a bit of research on ways to help him, as we know he’s innocent!. His so called TRIAL was a F—N shambles, I would love to tell you all the details but im afraid as he will be appealing the conviction & sentence & i don’t want to do anything that might f–k up his appeal. It seems to me that the justice system is so F–ked up that any female with a bee in her bonnet can accuse anyone with no evidence & even when the accused has evidence to prove his innocents it doesn’t matter cos if you’ve been accused you MUST BE GUILTY.  I am ashamed to admit being female after finding out how EVIL some bitches can be, as it was my brothers x wife’s & her daughter that accused him. We know they only did this because of the custody battle that has been goin on for years (he lost all those too!) as hes been trying to get visitation to his biological daughter. I rang a mens ph councilling line hoping that i could get my brother someone he could ring & talk to but he gets lock up for the night at 4.30pm & this councilling service doesn’t start til 6.30pm, which was rather disappointing so if anyone out there knows of another such service I would be grateful if you let me know, also any advice or info would also be gratefully recieved.

Judge questions legality of abortions
Abortion law ‘being used too liberally’
Decision raises fears over abortion
Decision raises fears abortion will be harder to get
Editorial: Abortion reality check overdue

WHO THE %^&*($ DO THEY THINK THEY ARE!

Suggesting that abortions are too easy to get in this country! I mean, i ask you!
We all KNOW that abortion is nothing to do about the woman’s choice. We all KNOW that the 18,000 or so abortions are almost entirely because of the risk of serious mental harm to the mothers, should the pregnancy continue! There is NO WAY the abortion laws are being flouted, or that abortion, even with two medical practiioners signing off, is anything about abortion on demand!
Abortion is a last resort! These mothers will have mental health issues, otherwise!

Surely all that money spent funding abortions would be much better spent developing a whole new mother-victim industry, as the 18,000 or so mothers EACH YEAR suffer the mental harm of having a child! Surely these mothers must live with the anguish of having averted their own mental pschosis! After all, all those men should have kept their zips up, after all - it’s their fault, really!

I tell you what, I am ever so grateful (sic) that our women-folk bore some 350,000 less children over the last 20 or so years, rather that having all those mental-health-issue women in our homes and on out streets. Just as well the would-be fathers of all those children didn’t matter.

The late Dr. Bill Sutch is again in the news with the release after several decades of his Security Intelligence Service (S.I.S.) file.

The N.Z.Herald of June 6th quotes current SIS director Warren Tucker as saying that “while the (SIS) had long regarded Sutch as a security risk it had never considered him to be a Soviet agent” etc.

Soviet agent or not, the indications are that he was a subversive influence in N.Z. for all that. So it would seem that the N.Z. Left owes much to Dr. Sutch, even if, for example, one was to judge only by the testimony of one notable N.Z. leftist activist, Christine Dann.

Dann was interviewed on Radio N.Z. on 18th September 1985 re her new book ‘Up From Under‘ where it was disclosed that she was one of the founders of N.Z’s “Women’s Liberation” movement. She recalled there that the seeds for such radicalism were sown through a visit to her school by Dr. Sutch, where he discussed such matters, and how she subsequently became deeply politicised. Nor, presumably, would she have been far from the only young person so radicalised by him.

Just how deeply involved Dann was to become was well spelt out in 1979 with the publication of her highly revealing article ‘Radical Feminism and the N.Z. Political Scene‘ which was published in the July 1979 issue of The Republican. (more…)

Question - How much child support does a female non-custodial parent who earns $197,000 pay?

Answer - The minimum- about $630 a year

Question - How much would a male non-custodial parent who earns $197,000 pay for one child?

Answer - The Maximum - about $17,000 a year for one child

Thanks to IRD a female non-custodial parent who earns $197,000 gets away with paying the minimum.

United Future Leader Peter, i’ll sleep with any political party, Dunne is allowing this to happen on his watch. United Future made a conscious choice to get under the political covers with Aunty Helen and become the Child Support Tax Fuhrer and this is what his Tax Police deliver!

Keep your eyes on MENZ for more Child Support believe it or not.

Regards

Scrap

I have through tenacity taken a case to the High Court for opinion, a case that was deemed previously to be mere formality by opine from Lawyer instructed to assist the Court.

Judgement is still waiting, after double the anticipated timeframe extended by the Justice.

I had previously requested from all and sundry under previous posting to provide your own  case histories under “anonymisation” to present to the Court to determine under the wider umbrella that could the activities of IRD Child Support be fair, equitable and just for all parties etc….

I was able to incorporate a few from examples provided to me by Parents for Children.

This and other forums were extended invitation to participate and witness this day at the High Court.

Crown Law tried to have them excluded.

For the supporters who did attend they were admitted.

The context of thsee proceedings changed when perhaps constitutional matters were invoked.

Although not codified, New Zealand has been recognised to have assumed a constitutional administration upon cessation of its Dominion Status

Ultra vires describes activities of officials within an organization or polity that fall outside the constitutional or statutory authority of those officials.

Ultra vires gives a legal justification for the forced cessation of such action, which might be enforced for the people with the support of a decision of the judiciary, in a case of judicial review. A violation of rights by an official would be ultra vires because a (constitutional) right is a restriction on the powers of government, and therefore that official would be exercising powers he doesn’t have.

When an official act is unconstitutional that act is null and void, and the nullification is ab initio, that is, from inception, not from the date of the finding. It was never “law”, even though, if it had been a statute or statutory provision, it might have been adopted according to the procedures for adopting legislation.

Sometimes the problem is not that a statute is unconstitutional, but the application of it is, on a particular occasion, and a court may decide that while there are ways it could be applied that are constitutional, that instance was not allowed or legitimate. In such a case, only the application may be ruled unconstitutional.

This paragraph falls wholly within parents who have shared parenting and many others who bang their heads against a wall of IRD personnell being stoic towards maintaining  their position and bureaucracy.

I reiterarate my indebtedness toward IRD Chid Support is alleged to be approx $177 however the principle behind my own circumstancs extends beyond financial factor.

Likewise the fiscally punitive action taken against many of you with your different  tales of woe needed to be adressed, perhaps if  mine bea suceessful it may provide an avenue  to follow.

However, this does not excuse an apathy generally shown by the many of you involved otherwise called“sheeple” (copyright Jim Bailey)

Kindest Regards

Paul Catton

East Auckland Refuge for Men and Families

(09) 940 6236