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War On Women, The Family, Fathers and Children

  War On Women,

   The Family, Fathers and Children

  For over a decade now I have spent a significant amount of time writing, advocating, and creating awareness of the lack of child protection in my state. It seems on any given day, from local to national news, web or print, children are being put in dangerous circumstances while “standing” in silence. My question has always been, “How can this be? Is this really possible?”

  Over years, after researching and investigating child abuse, neglect cases, and child fatalities, I was continually pointed to the Family Courts as the source of the problem. I had to ask myself, “What could the Family Courts have to do with “causing” the lack of child protection?” So as I investigated that question further, those in Family Law and Child Protection kept directing me to child custody outcomes. After I was able to compile a significant amount of information, I was able to co-author a child protection bill that became law in 2005. One of the things I was discovering through my research was that more individuals within Family Law were implying there was collusion taking place with the judiciary, guardian ad- litems and private practice child custody studies.

  At this point you must be asking, what does child protection have to do with "the war on women"? A lot…Its coming.

A document surfaced around Feb. 2004 called the “Standard Periods on Physical Placement”. I read and re-read this document, to try to find out what this policy’s intent was and was it a contributing factor in “blocking” child protection. At first glance I had to ask myself, “Could this be the document that those in Family Law and Child Protection kept directing me towards, regarding child custody outcomes and also manipulation of non-custodial placement schedules?” I knew that there was more to this.  I just could not pinpoint it. Many non-custodial parents would come to me over the years and say, “What can I do? The custodial parent is keeping me from protecting my child from the significant others abuse.” With all of my investigative research in the child protection arena, I knew this statement was very real. I would explain to these non-custodial parents that it was not just the custodial parent, it was the system’s pursuit of matches and incentives that is keeping you from protecting your child. Some non-custodial parents would get frustrated because they would think I wasn’t advocating for their position or that I didn't understand their child's plight, but I did. I also knew in the back of my mind that it was not just a custodial parent trying to “alienate” good, loving non- custodial parents from protecting their children from significant other abuse… it was well beyond. What many loving non-custodial parents didn’t understand was the dynamics of Social Security Act Title IV_D, child support incentives (Wisconsin Chapter DCF153) and the Standard Period On Physical Placement being used to block them. 

  For many years, I sat back and thought I need to ask some hard hitting questions of some very “powerful” people within the judiciary. I sent a letter off asking a judicial official about the “Standards Periods on Physical Placement”. What I received back in a response was absolutely the shock of my life! It was a denial that the practice or policy even existed. What this individual didn’t realize was two things: (1) I had the clerk-stamped "Standard Periods on Physical Placement" in question and (2) I had recently learned that another local judicial official “spoke out” against the practice of using the “Standard Periods on Physical Placement” in family cases. At this point I realized there was something within the Family Law arena that “they” wanted to cover-up. At this point my gut instinct told me that I had not even scratched the surface. I combed through every last document I had and recounted every person I spoke with to find that common denominator…all of which led me back to the “Standard Periods on Physical Placement”. I decided to push all the information I had out of view, except for this one document. I needed to figure out what piece of the puzzle, within this document, I was missing. One thing that was apparent, was the pre-designation of non-custodial and custodial schedules, which I thought was odd. I decided that I needed to write to the second judicial official that I was told “spoke” out against the use of the “Standard Periods on Physical Placement”…I had a great deal of respect for this individual. I sent out a letter to this judicial official, not really expecting a response. Sometime later, if you can believe it, I received a response. The answer back, although vague, was very “telling”. It reaffirmed their position on the “Standard Periods on Physical Placement” usage. After receiving this letter, what was once big, was even bigger. I now needed to see where else this document was being used. To my astonishment, after the denial in the first letter, I found it being implemented within other family law cases. At this juncture, about 2009, I was disheartened for what I had discovered. I still did not conclude what this document's agenda really was. I did know “powerful” people were at odds with each other over its use. Still I could not get my head “around” it. Clearly, Many in Family Law were willing to speak out, but not “on the record”.

  I set this document aside for a couple of years and tried not to think about it. Although Family Law attorneys, county employees, etc. were pushing me to continue, I felt I needed to step away for a bit, and clear my mind. I didn’t decide to revisit it again until the “Standard Periods on Physical Placement” appeared again, years later in a couple of family cases, where both individuals were acquaintances of mine. What was significant in one case was that it was a high earner career mom. It was no surprise to me that she was paying child support as I had seen so many women’s names appearing on warrant list for non-payment of child support (Meyer vs.Teasdale Ruling). As this seems to be a current trend. But when I heard the placement schedule, alarm bells went off. Knowing this it forced me to go back and look at the "Standard Periods on Physical Placement" once again. I was not happy about doing this. I spent a significant amount of time reviewing what I had looked at hundreds of times before. I still believed it was being used to generate entitlement matches and incentives, but I still felt in my heart there was something much more “sinister” at work. Could this be a war on women?

 Many things come to me, when I least expect it. and "it" finally did! right in my face. What I believe, is one of many intents of the “Standard Periods on Physical Placement”, is to covertly and silently “strip” public assistants moms of equality and punish high earner career moms for establishing shared placement "50/50" with the father so both parents can have careers. How did I come to this conclusion? I was thinking about my daughters as high income earners being forced into a "Standard Periods on Physical Placement" order and how it would not only instantly impoverish them but also destroy any career ambitions, dreams of shattering a glass ceiling and being equal to men within the business world. Example: General Motors, NASCAR or Yahoo.  If they decided to share placement 50/50, they would get punished with a high child support order and the every other weekend "Standard Periods on Physical Placement Order. Such a blow would set them back an easy 10 years or longer to establish themselves on a career path that would "afford" them the "American Dream" lifestyle.

I know many have said, “But Joe, we have all these great programs for single parent moms: W-2, Snap, Badgercare, Foodshare, Housing, and many more programs to help these moms out”… What they don't tell these moms is that it wont help them out of poverty. These public assistance programs only insure cyclical incentives and match's to agencies if they can keep these single parent moms chained to poverty. They know anyone on these programs could never financially ever get their heads above water, let alone having any aspiration to launch a small business, establish a solid career path, or shatter a glass ceiling. We all know, that this lifstyle would be taxing on any person mentally and physically. I have worked with many “powerhouse” women over the years. I know nothing was ever given to them, they fought and scratched during every waking moment with a determined resolve. It takes decades of conditioned focus to establish that kind of will and confidence. I believe that these public assistance agencies think if they coach a single parent mom long enough. Poverty will envelope them like smoke in the night. They can smell it, but could not react to the speed in which it was consuming their conscience.

  I believe in the future if my hunch is right, we will see an Appellate or Supreme Court challenge. Where could this challenge come from? Based on trends, it’s most likely it would come with the full-force and fury of a determined, strong-willed, self-assured, non-custodial career mother who has been subjected to paying an unprecedented child support order, jailed for non-pay of child support (Meyer vs. Teasdale) while being judicially silenced by the every other weekend “Standard Periods on Physical Placement”.

  This legal challenge won’t be of Family Law itself, but of the forged underpinnings of judicial activism that has created. This imbalance of equality against career moms is in the pursuit of matches and incentive revenue streams.

The charge of inequality would be difficult for an Appellate and/or Supreme Court to ignore. I believe a decisive ruling in favor of equality of this magnitude, not seen since the sixties and seventies, would forever set an unequivocal precedent of equality, not seen within present Family Law. This will force legal, constitutional, and academic scholars to challenge the constitutionality of decades-old family law decisions…moms and dads alike.

  True equality is 50/50. In our state, whoever thought it was a wise decision to flip the script and “punish” non-custodial career moms, for wanting to step out from the shadows of poverty and shatter the glass ceiling, is going to wish that the “Standard Periods on Physical Placement” was never contrived. In closing for those who spent locally a decade plus intimidating and retaliating against those of us who uncovered this silent war on women, families, fathers and children, you have some explaining to do within our community.

Deadbeat Dad's And The Minority Myth The Cause & Effect Of The "The Meyer v. Teasdale Ruling"

After years of investigative research I have concluded that the deadbeat dad label is officially a myth. From 1998 to present, it has taken all of these years, turning over every lead and document to debunk the dead beat dad myth and find the catalyst that has unfairly labeled many great dads and moms. During this period I never really knew how close I was to the inner circle until the intimidation and retaliation became a relevant concern.

From lawmakers to the news media, the research I was doing was interesting but not news or election worthy subject. Most often dead beat dad stories have been cheered with applause but for all the wrong reasons. Even with our investigative reporting and mounting supporting documentation they stood firm that dads have no relevance.

For decades, many in state and county government have known that creating a so called deadbeat dads, shattered families, and poverty is very profitable for county budgets (Social Security Act Title IV (B) – (D). During my research I found supporting documents that not only would raise entitlement fraud-waste-abuse issues, but flagrant oath of office improprieties that would indicate the need to reopen thousands of family law cases.

Many within family law have seen it play out in court rooms and in chambers and have done nothing, even knowing one day this story would break. The very best within family law stood by observing clear and calculated activism that stripped due process and the right to fair and equitable representation. Knowing the culpability factor, why would so many in family law lack the courage to speak out?

The catalyst to creating a deadbeat dad. 1) An every other weekend periods of physical placement template that strips due process 2)Compromised representation  3) Willing guardian ad litem to look the other way  4) Designate the every other weekend parent as noncustodial to create a solid child support order that triggers W2 Programs with no due process  5)Implement the full force of DWD Chapter 44 / Social Security Act tile IV d  6)Create unprecedented poverty on the non-custodial parent so they can’t pay their child support
 7) Create commitment order for non-pay of child support. 8) Bench warrant with no hearing / no due process for non-pay of child support. 9)Weaponize Wisconsin Circuit Court Access by impressing upon employers and the public a presumption of guilt with vague and unfounded statements against the non-custodial parent. 10) To add insult to injury the IRS finally comes along not realizing the whole process was rigged and implements the final blow... Thinking only that you where trying to shirk responsibility, when your just trying to survive.

There have been recent changes in the status quo, but this doesn’t change the fact that many great child support paying dads and moms, amazing children, lively hoods, college funds, small businesses and reputations have been decimated by gaming years of family law for federal funding payments. The state has a duty after the Meyer .vs Teasdale ruling to make many, if not all of these parents whole again. For those who are willing to challenge my findings come out from behind closed doors, I will be waiting in the town square….Usurping the legislative process is not law its activism and true equality has no bias.

The truth behind "Standard Periods of Physical Placement"

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It's time to unveil the most controversial document ever provided by a family law attorney. I will unveil in great detail all the inner workings of the document,the hundreds of families impacted by it and the unthinkable revenue streams generated by creating mass poverty programs.

Everything is Relative to the Strength of the Family

It’s time for both parties to get serious about education. The continued political posturing is only going to continue our downward trend against other developed and developing nations.

What is disappointing to me is that Democrats claim they are the party of Education and the Republicans claim they are the party of fiscal responsibility and strong family values.

From my perspective, the verdict is still out. If the Democratic Party truly values education then why are Democrats continuously writing legislation and/or ignore Children and Family Services and Family Law Legislation that is creating “generational poverty” and shattering traditional families like fine crystal? This generational poverty is decimating the family beyond repair and emotionally crushing children’s spirits.

These family legislative initiatives are directly impacting the classroom. What’s causing it? Performance and incentive measures, through the Title IV B-D programs and Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development's DWD chapter 44, which is the bounty on the family here in Wisconsin. This is why I have stated for years that the very lobbyist,special interest groups and Democrats that claim they strongly support teachers and education is the very same party that is slip-knotting many educators by writing Family Law and Children and Family Services Legislation that has for decades brought a counter-balanced crushing blow to education and test scores i.e. Milwaukee School Districts.

The above mentioned revenue streams flow directly back into county budgets for payrolls and admin. costs. All the matches, incentives and performance measures on the family are all paid for by the American taxpayers.

This conduct that has been taking place for the last two decades is directly impacting the classroom and education. The “Race to the Top” and performance-based-pay is the biggest insult you can inflict upon the educational system, under these unprecedented dynamics mentioned above. All the while, Arne Duncan is saying Obama really cares about education...really?

As a Fiscal Conservative Republican I ask my fellow Republicans, “What part of this you don’t understand”? If Republicans and Democrats had a meeting of the minds that created legislation to stop the incentives that shatter traditional families and children, in a bi-partisan fashion, it would only net a win-win for everyone. Immobilizing the lobbyist and special interest hang-over within education from both sides is paramount. Stronger families, elimination of generational poverty, and the positive impact on education would have a breathtaking result. Who doesn’t want to see America’s children be strong, confident, and prosperous? Isn’t that the American dream? Prosperity through the strengths of a traditional family and a great educational experience is the only way to achieve this.

This “dream” can happen, but policy makers need to take note. For starters, the funding that’s being generated through the Social Security Administration Title IV B-D and the incentives that both create generational poverty and shatter traditional families could be shifted over to education. Then the funding that is presently being created through property taxes would be significantly reduced by millions of millions of dollars because Social Security Administration Title IV B-D has billions...

The next step would be to put a huge emphasis on faith-based initiatives to strengthen traditional families, which only cost millions rather than hundreds of millions and billions. A faith-based initiative would then reduce the billions of taxpayer dollars being funneled in and out of the Social Security Administration Title IV B-D programs.

America we need to understand that “The Race to The Top” will bring many consequential and civil liberty concerns within the underlying agendas that have not yet been revealed. This education reform by both parties will have many of the same hallmarks of the health care reform cram-down. We won’t know the full extent of the damage until it’s too late.

The criteria set-forth within the “Race to the Top” creates compounding tension, when animosity is already high, towards many traditional teachers and administrators across America. This move by the progressives (From both parties)is a premeditated and very stealth-like move to give the perception that it’s appeasing the masses, while throwing the last remaining traditional teachers and administrators overboard in an effort to divert attention away from the real agenda.

The consequences for the unchecked and three tiered “Race to the Top”, through the performance and incentive push will overshoot its perceived intended target , thus having the potential to forever change the founding principles of American history, the freedom to say the Pledge of Allegiance and the little bit of Biblical history being taught within some schools.

It’s possible that once the majority of states have been injected with “The Race to The Top” anesthesia, there could be a full-on assault to strip out centuries of history that dates all the way back to our Founding Fathers and beyond. Under these present education reform measures it makes one wonder if textbooks and digital media publishing companies will be forced to leave out priceless historical content that will bring a hyper-censoring effect upon education.

Both parties need to pause for just a moment and reflect on past and present reform agendas that have gone without a challenge. If we don’t, greed and corruption, driven by incentives and performances measures, that have historically trumped logic and commonsense, will be the direct result.

Many of these unchecked education reforms will historically come with decades of rolling conflicts that are impossible to ever reconcile. Our present leaders have shown no matter your party affiliation, if you’re not on board, you will not be heard.

EVERYTHING is relative to the strength of the family and great traditional teachers and administrators are the launching pad to prosperity, not poverty.

Another Assault on Traditional Families

Many ask, what inspires you to continue to expose the underpinnings of the financial crisis? Most know my inspiration was influenced by the moral character and integrity of one ambitious community banker. This inspiration also deepens when I see the lack of compassion for American families, small business owners and taxpayers who are being forced to choke down 99.99% of the moral hazards created by the financial industry.

It’s seriously naïve to solely blame Wall Street banks for the origination and appraisal fraud. The hypocrisy and moral hazards are much broader. It’s feared that community banks and credit unions will cause a more serious financial crisis in the future. See link: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/35347057#35347057

Capitalism isn’t the problem it’s the lack of prosecutions. A return of trust and confidence in the financial system is a matter of setting a precedence .Think of it this way: You’re at the bank with a large deposit. Upon your arrival, you realize the bank is being robbed. Do you continue into the bank and become a part of the crisis, or return the next day when the bank is safe and sound? If Washington can’t trust banks and the banks can’t trust banks then how can banks expect American taxpayers to? My point is this, forcing American taxpayers into situations that will leverage future generations, is unthinkable, especially when the bad guys are still in charge and lobbyists and politicians are waiting in a gold-plated getaway car.

Presently the growing consensus is that strict accountability through prosecution would guarantee confidence within the financial system. It’s overdue for the good banks to force bad banks into a perp walk through the town square, American taxpayers deserve their “pound of flesh”. I understand the whole brotherhood thing, but seriously now, we can’t move on to systemic job creation until the financial system functions properly.

I’m curious to see which 2010 candidate for Wisconsin Governor will be courageous enough to protect Wisconsin families who have been inadvertently impacted by the moral hazards of the financial industry.

Hold true to your family, for they will offer a much deeper joy then any banker or bill collector. In the end the wisest “saving plan” through these unprecedented economic times will be your family. To see the wholesale assault on Wisconsin families go to W.C.C.A.; enter institution's name and brace yourself.

From Family Court to the Classroom

In the last twelve months we have heard a great deal about “Race to the Top” and performance-based pay for teachers.President Obama has even gone as far as praising Eastern Asia for their academic excellence. Could this phenomenon of academic excellence be attributed to their emphasis on the family? The “Race to the Top” sounds like a grand concept but here in America families are shattering like fine crystal every day.

For decades, Washington and The Republicans have failed miserably to connect the fracturing of traditional families, the Federal entitlement funding therein and its impact within American classrooms. Many American educators today are totally unaware of this Federal funding machine (Social Security Act Title IV –B & D Codes) that is waiting to decimate a traditional family. For decades, Family Law and the Democrats have been in direct conflict with the education system and certainly with both the proposed “Race to the Top” and performance-based-pay concepts. Additionally, we’ll never truly know how counter-productive the pro-poverty initiatives will be until we reach a crisis point within our educational system.

Presently, lawmakers seem to be placing blame squarely on the shoulders of many great Administrators & Educators across America, without making the connection to Family Law, Judicial Activism and Children and Family Services legislative agenda. I believe these are some of the main factors contributing to our declining educational ranking amongst developed nations… not just teacher performance. In order to really see an increase in organic test scores of American children we need to prevent incentivizing the shattering of traditional families that is creating generational poverty.

Many American educators are currently well aware of the emotional impact on children of divorce (ACE Study). Most often their emotional trials play out within the classroom. So I will depart on this thought: You have 35 children with varying emotional backgrounds in a classroom, 15 come from a traditional family, 15 from a “shattered” family and 5 at-risk children. A teacher has approx. 60 minutes to administer an effective curriculum experience @ $15 to $35 per hour (Includes Benefits). Let’s take a well-accredited Child Psychologist, and then put him or her in the same classroom for 60 min, not at $150-$400 an hour but for $15- $35 an hour for one school year and demand them to “perform”.

Many, if not all of these well-accredited Child Psychologists, wouldn’t make it past lunch on the first day! You ask why I use 35 children. It’s because in the next five years the “Race to the Top” and performance-base-pay will potentially run great traditional teachers right out of the education field if the connection fails to be addressed. This Exodus will in turn increase classroom sizes. We need to recognize that the judicial activism that takes place within the Family Courts is directly impacting many traditional educators and their beloved classrooms. “Everything” is relative to the strength of the family and educators shouldn’t be the punching bag for the improprieties of the Family Courts that generates huge revenue streams for state and county budgets on the backs of shattering families. We have known for centuries, educators are the launching pad to prosperity, not poverty. Eastern Asia may have schooled us once again.

Equality vs. Funding
Part 1


As we all know, for decades there have been long standing issues of inequality. In our most recent decade we have seen significant improvements, but the issue of equality still bares new and more complex challenges than ever before. One of the most perplexing challenges comes from within Family Law. It has been known for decades that significant and legitimate concerns of inequality have been leveled against the Family Courts. This imbalance has consequently shattered millions of children and families.

It has been thought for years that the custodial parent has all the power within a family court action. The truth of the matter is family court rulings are “weaponizing” the custodial parent, in order to procure Federal funding for administrative costs for county agencies through incentives and performance measures. I have stated for years, based on my facts and findings, that it is not the custodial parent that is causing the perception of inequality; it’s the aggressive pursuit by county administrators that shatters the family beyond recognition, thus creating generational poverty that maximizes this “funding machine”.

Over the years lawmakers across the United States have proposed revisions to Family Law that has come with significant resistance or has just flat-out fallen on deaf ears to the idea of equality. Many lawmakers are unaware of the judicial activism that hides behind the shadows of judicial discretion (Sword and Shield Precedent). This type of activism reveals the significant disregard for the emotional brutality inflicted upon shattering children and families in the pursuit of Federal incentives and performance measures.

Some of these well known funding mechanisms are known as: CSPIA Act of 1998; Title IV-D, Federal Performance Incentive Pool /Federal Entitlement Programs and DWD 44, not to mention the direct correlation to the CDC’s “Adverse Childhood Experiences Study” which creates impending cyclical dynamics that triggers a whole host of other State and Federal legacy programs.

The most recent phenomenon is the increasing number of non-custodial mothers. In this new phenomenon there looms potential for a monumental challenge within Family Law; these challenges will consequently up-end the funding mechanisms that have shattered families for decades. Where will the challenge come from? Based on trends, it’s most likely this legal challenge will come with the full- force and fury of a determined, strong, self -assured, non-custodial mother who has been subjected to paying an unprecedented child support order while being judicially silenced.

This legal challenge won’t be of Family Law itself, but of the forged underpinnings of judicial activism that has created this imbalance of equality in the pursuit of State and Federally funded revenue streams.

The charge of inequality would be difficult for an Appellate and/or Supreme Court to ignore. I believe a decisive ruling in favor of equality of this magnitude, not seen since the sixties and seventies would forever set an unequivocal precedent of equality, not seen within present family law. This will force legal, constitutional, and academic scholars challenging the constitutionality of decades-old family law decisions as well as Appellate and Supreme Courts questioning the many pareidolia characteristics of the continued inequalities beyond the equal and civil rights movement of the twentieth century.