Military Dads & NCPs
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>> American soldiers after the loss of a comrade in Iraq. Potential future victims of America's family law system. |
The abuses of our family law system are horrendous enough when they are perpetrated against ordinary citizens, but they are are even more shocking when we learn how members of our armed forces are subjected to the worst assaults on their basic human and civil rights.
American military dads and NCPs are now fighting all over the world to defend the principles of freedom embodied in the Constitution. Unfortunately, when many return home and find themselves caught up in our family law system, they run up against laws straight out of the playbooks of Fascist dictatorships or communist nations.
NCPForce! is now working to expose these abuses and to rally all NCP's to the defense of our military personnel and veterans.
Cases of Abuse
The following cases have been publicized on His Side With Glenn Sacks, but there are many more cases like this out there which need to be addressed by a wider media and wider audience:
- Gary S. was a Navy Seal who fought terrorists in Afghanistan after the September 11th attacks. While he was away, his son was whisked out of the country with the help of a California family court. This real American hero now hardly sees his child and is reportedly near bankruptcy due to legal fees and court-ordered support.
- National Guardsman Joe McNeilly lost custody of his child after serving in Iraq for 15 months. Before going oversees to protect his fellow Americans, he agreed to cede temporary full custody to his son's mother. When he returned home from the battlefield, he was shocked to learn that the court punished him for his absence by permanently awarding full custody to the child's mother.
- Lt. Scott Keenan, an intelligence officer in the Naval Reserves, was sent overseas for three weeks around September 11th. Because of his deployment, he was unable to exercise all of his allotted parenting time with his children. A New Jersey judge rewarded his sacrifices for his country with a slap in the face by permanently reducing his parenting time by 20%.
NCPForce! is now documenting cases such as these in order to give them wider exposure and to educate the public about the issues faced by military dads up against the family law system.
If you are a military dad going through a divorce, or fighting for custody or visitation, or are having problems meeting court ordered support, we want to hear from you.
Please use the form below to contact us.
Complaints
Child Support Enforcement Destroys Life of
Military Reservist and his Family
"I'm a military reservist and I didn't get served the order for child support (originating in Virginia) until 3 years after the order was established. When I contacted Virginia child support authorities, they told me that it was too late to do anything about it unless I came to Virginia, which was impossible. I had no car, no money and no credit because they tagged my credit with the support order. I haven't been able to keep or get a job because of this. Now I owe $10,000 in back child support. My credit is ruined so I can't get a loan to pay it. I can't travel for better work because I don't have a car, or the credit, or money to get one. I've lost 6 jobs in 4 years because of lay offs and the economy. Right now I barely have enough to feed my 4-year-old son from a second marriage. My current wife and I aren't eating well and child support authorities told me "they don't care". I'm about to lose my job as a reservist because I can't travel to do it. I'm behind in rent. Utilities are about to be cut. My wife can't work because she is Canadian and so is my son, and even though he is my flesh and blood, I cannot even get food stamps just for him. My ex has cut off access to my other children. I'm about to end up homeless, jobless, and I don't know what to do anymore."
-- PG, Michigan
American Vet Denied Visitation, Persecuted By
U.S. AND German Government For Child Support
"I am going through a very complicated issue with my ex girlfriend who is a German National. My ex girlfriend is a 36-year-old woman that still lives at home with her parents. She got pregnant two weeks after we started dating and immediately demanded I buy her an apartment. When I wouldn't do that, she demanded we get married. I told her I only knew her a few weeks and we needed to take time before we jumped into something like that. She flew off the handle and refused to see me for months, and then she showed up at my work and started screaming that I abandoned her.
This insane behavior continued over and over the next few months, then she ceased all communication once again. I tried calling her when the baby was due to no avail; I finally got a text message giving me the stats on the baby girl. I asked to see my daughter, the mother refused.
Almost a year goes by from the time she got pregnant and I moved on with my life and got married. After I came back from my honeymoon I was asked to come over to the house to see my daughter. To my surprise, she had told her whole family she and I were engaged and she was wearing a fake engagement ring. I pulled her aside and told her I just got married and that's when hell began.
I am constantly harassed at work, I am paying too much child support and she constantly lies to the army stating that I didn't pay her, now she has gone to El Paso child services and has them garnishing my wages even though I have every single receipt of mailing on time. The El Paso child services has completely ignored my rights as an American citizen and has sided with a German national that I have multiple stalking orders against
To add insult to injury, she has now served me via the German government to pay her alimony even though we never lived together and were never married. She wants almost $1200 per month in alimony on top of the child support.
What makes matters worse; she won't allow me any contact with my daughter; no photos, no phone calls, no visits. And I have to put up with the constant lawsuits, harassment, and threats.
I am at the point now I want to go public and every conservative talk show host to show how an American soldier can be harassed by a national of another country and our own county wont give me the decency to defend myself. You may see this story on Fox one day. Its bad enough getting screwed my a foreign government but worse when your own tries to do it to you."
-- LMS, Colorado
Judge Threatens to Imprison Homeless Vietnam Vet
Over Child Support Arrears
" I am a Vietnam veteran and I was recently in a homeless veteran's shelter, disabled by a broken heel and working as best I could. I had been out of work for almost a year recuperating and found work with some temp agencies. Needless to say my back child support from two marriages caught up with me and I found myself before the judge. I explained my circumstances: that I was homeless and in a shelter, and that this was the reason I was behind on support. I also explained that I still wasn't certain that one of the children was really mine. The judge informed me that if I came back to his court I would be put in jail and he raised my commitment from $160 a month to $250. I'm still homeless."
-- CE, Delaware
Former Navy Man Squeezed By U.S. Embassy
in England for
Questionable Arrears
"I got divorced in 2001 and subsequently remarried and moved to London, England. I had some arrears that had built up due to the fact that I left the US Navy and my pay had been reduced. I requested a transfer of my case to the UK as this was my new residence. This transfer is due to a international agreement whereas the case would now be heard in the UK by Magistrates here.
The law states that this is fully allowed and I thought everything was okay. They reduced my arrearages based on evidence of my job change and set out a payment plan (court ordered) for support and arrearages. However, several years later, I was going to add pages to my passport at the embassy and they confiscated it, claiming that I had to pay off all of the arrears before they could release it.
I was shocked by this and called the Magistrates office to see how much I owed. They said around £2800. I don't have that kind of money. I then checked the website of the state of the original order, and was in even more shock upon discovered they'd put a tax lien on me for over $37,000! This was the figure that had to be paid to release my passport. I certainly don't have anywhere near that amount.
I then did some research. I contacted the State Department (on who's authority my passport was denied). They said for me to contact the state that had original jurisdiction. I called the state's governing office for child support, and they said the only person who could do anything was the county worker who originally dealt with my case!
I am disappointed with the laws that have given GODLIKE powers to one county worker. This woman, whom I believe has painted every father with the same brush (deadbeat) originally advised me to move back to the state of origin to make things (collection) easier. For the last five or six years I have paid support and am paying off arrears, but according to this county worker, a magical figure of over $37,000 has accrued. How is this possible?
I have taken the legal steps to try and resolve this issue by pleading my case to the magistrates here, as required, because it is my residence. The case is ongoing and I am so stressed out I feel sick all of the time. It has effected my work and my family. Well done, county case worker!"
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