Fathers will pay less for child support Sydney Morning Herald Minimum child support payments are to be raised, but most fathers will find themselves paying less, after the federal cabinet approved the biggest revamp since the inception of the controversial system. Instead of payments being calculated as a percentage of taxable income of the child […]

A Stuff News Release advises the launching the out of the blue campaign, for male depression and suicide, then links to a website about female and gay depression.

Insert (I can’t blame men for leaving NZ, when I see these engineered political cover-ups, I wonder why I would even want to exist on the same planet as these people. Perhaps we could have a conference about the number of men that have committed suicide in the last 6 months while being pursued by […]

So who has been hunting male lately? I would really like to know, how many of those missing men are in another country? and how many are in a coffin?

You can call me sexist, bigoted, biased, or anything else that takes your fancy, but I doubt you find a convincing argument supporting the appointment of a female Police Commissioner to resurrect the Police Force from its current regrettable position

One thing the family court cannot afford is for the name Von Dadelzen to become a household name, outside of Napier, as it may well bring some light to the goings on in the Rolly Young case, and how it ever ended up in the Napier Family court in first place.

He is living in his car with his dog in the electorate for which I am a candidate. I have spent time with this man during the week.

Child Support might better be referred to as issue tax. It is nothing more than a crippling pole tax most often levied on the biological father, accompanied by a sinister mythology in the way it is portrayed.

Review at The Wild Duck Passengers on a Modern Day Underground Railroad: Are They Deadbeats, or Freed Slaves? …fathers in both the US and Canada, bankrupted by the effort to obtain Equal Protection in Family Courts on both sides of the border, are accepting offers from a heretofore secretive organization helping these victims flee the […]

Media Release Parents for Children Child Support Act Creates Unjust and Inequitable Situation for Student Loan Borrowers Parents for Children have been supporting a father, who has a student debt, though the Family Court child support departure order process. The dad was seeking a variation to the rigid child support formula assessment (a Departure Order) […]

New rules aimed at making it easier to settle paternity disputes are under fire even before they’ve come into force. Critics say couples will not always be able to prove who fathered a child because one partner will still be able to say “no” to DNA tests. … “You’re convicted without a trial at the […]

The Government will close a loophole that enables DPB recipients to block the collection of child support payments. Social Development and Employment Minister Steve Maharey revealed the planned change yesterday, after being questioned about assertions by National that more than 200 fathers on the Domestic Purposes Benefit refused to “name” the mother of their child […]

By Kate Legge, The Weekend Australian Thirty years after the introduction of no-fault divorce, Australia is experiencing a grand correction of the 1970s revolution that provided unhappy couples with an escape clause and introduced benefits to help single parents. Changes that brought adults greater freedom are being corrected at the shrine of personal responsibility. Sole […]

A radical new formula for calculating how much divorced parents should contribute to raising their children is the centrepiece of an overhaul of the nation’s child support system to be released today. Under the more controversial of two models being proposed, the biological parents’ incomes would be combined and fathers would then pay a percentage […]

The current focus on DNA paternity testing to deal with child support disputes should not divert attention from the real problem — the growing burden of child support debt and the disheartening number of parents who blithely abdicate their responsibilities towards their children, writes The Press in an editorial. … The fact that the amount […]

A pro-fathers’ group wants to see DNA testing at birth to help men who are paying for children that are not theirs. … The suggestion comes as the Ministry of Social Development is reportedly having to pay $10,000 to a Christchurch man who was forced to pay for another man’s child. Spokesman for the Union […]

A Christchurch man who has won a 21-year battle against bureaucracy will continue to seek compensation after being forced to support another man’s child since 1984. The Ministry of Social Development has agreed to pay Gordon Dowler $10,000 after a battle that has dragged on since 1984, first with Social Welfare and then with Inland […]

Ross Hill opens bills with what has become a familiar dread. There are the standard accounts – power, phone, credit card. And then, inevitably, the letter from the IRD, demanding $220 a month in child support for an 11-year-old Australian girl he has never met. The letters started coming 15 months ago, but since then […]

Law Commission recommendations on paternity testing unacceptable to parents and children

Child Support Rip Offs Family Court Fiasco Prostate Posturing Educational Bias No Men’s Ministry… Men Don’t Like This ! ! ! Join the second Men’s Convoy, and take the message about redressing the balance of family dysfunction to the streets and Parliament. Convoy starts Auckland Saturday 5th March 2005 at 1:00 pm and concludes at […]

The document below was released under the OIA. Please note that the lack of consultation with stakeholders as seen in the document. Inland Revenue National Office Freyberg BuildingAitken Street PO Box 2198 Wellington New Zealand Telephone 04-472 1032 Facsimile 04-474 7217 POLICY ADVICE DIVISION 18 August 2004 Associate Minister of Revenue (Hon David Cunliffe) cc: […]

Am I the Father? Paternity Testing Advice in New Zealand — This is potentially very important to you! It is the right of every child to know for sure who its true father is. It is just as important for fathers to know who their true children are. Yet there is a very high likelihood […]

Maharey defends penalty on solo mums Media Release 10 September 2004 Jim Nicolle NZ Child Support Reform Network DPB recovery is not Child Support “Given the fundamental flaws of the Child Support Act 1991, it is not surprising that mothers refuse to lodge a so call Child Support application,” commented Jim Nicolle, spokesperson for the […]

Labour tells us ” its on the radar” .The ACT Party responds with a call to “scrap the Ministry of Women’s Affairs” . Let me take you back to Monday 6 September : Over tea last night Jim, Kerry, Jack and myself discussed the Men’s Picnic on fathers day at Parliament. It was a great […]

Politician and Official agree, so called Child Support is a Tax On 15 August 2004 the Hon Paul Swain,Associate Minister of Revenue and John Wright, Under-Secretary to the Minister of Revenue, issued a media statement. Fairer tax treatment proposed by discussion document. I would suggest that you read the statement. In summary it’s a media […]