Important Action Alert!!!

Write to Legislators NOW!!!

 

 

As regular readers know, the 2005 Ohio Child Support Guidelines Council Recommendations would result in large, unfair and harmful increases in child support orders without giving any significant relief to nonresidential parents who are expending significant funds directly on their children.  PACE opposes these recommendations. 

 

These have not been introduced to the legislature in the form of a bill yet, but now is the time to start educating legislators about the harmful effects of these recommendations. 

 

Attached you will find an informational sheet on the Guideline Council Recommendations and an instruction sheet for contacting the members of the House Juvenile and Family Law Committee to express your opposition to these proposals. 

 

PLEASE write your letters NOW!

 

I can't emphasize too much the importance of combating these recommendations.  Apart from being bad in themselves, passage of these recommendations would be a huge blow to the whole nonresidential parent movement in Ohio.  Here's why.  The past two Guideline Councils have recommended some increase in child support coupled with a very significant parenting time adjustment to recognize the expenses of nonresidential parents who are a part of their children's lives.  These recommendations never moved through the legislature.  There was a sort of deadlock between the residential parents groups which favored the increase in the child support tables but opposed the parenting time adjustment and organizations like PACE which favored the parenting time adjustment.  Now, the Child Support Office has decided that the way to break the deadlock is to ignore the legitimate concerns of nonresidential parents.  So, the new recommendations include the most aggressive, unfair increase in child support tables ever proposed to the Ohio legislature and a paltry, mean-spirited parody of a parenting time adjustment.  If you want the Child Support Office and the legislature to learn the lesson that the way to move a child support bill is to ignore the concerns of nonresidential parents, do nothing.  If you want them to listen to nonresidential parents, WRITE NOW!

 

Don Hubin