CPR

 

Center for Parental Responsibility - MN

PO Box 130776, St. Paul, MN  55113

Voicemail: 651-490-9277  Email: info@cpr-mn.com

 

Mtg Notice and Weekly CPR Update FOR September 12, 2003

(see information provided below the meeting notice)

 

YOU ARE INVITED TO THE NEXT CPR MEETING:

Mark your calendar for the next CPR meeting! We’d love to see you there.

 

WHO: We need YOU! We would appreciate your attendance to provide you information and help make a difference, and advocate Family Law Reform. Be an activist for non-custodial parents! (The NCP is usually the dad.) If you are a non-custodial parent with custody, child support, or paternity battles that have inflicted havoc in your life; or if you are a mom, sister, second wife, girlfriend, grandparent, or any friend who knows a non-custodial parent you would like to help get a fair shake; or if you simply feel called to help make a difference in reforming Minnesota Family Law, please attend this meeting and learn how to navigate “the system”.

 

WHEN: Sunday Sept. 21, 2003 5-8pm

WHERE: William Mitchell College of Law, 875 Summit Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55105-3076, (651) 227-9171; signs will be posted at the SE entry way; and the front desk will have the exact room location.

DIRECTIONS: Hwy 94 just west of downtown St. Paul to Dale. South on Dale to Summit. Right on Summit. Parking lot and entry way on the corner of Summit and Victoria.

PARKING: FREE parking on the street.

AGENDA: 5-7 pm - Guest Speaker, Mini How-to Seminar, bill update, committee update, SOS for members. 7-8 pm IV-D overview: develop a greater understanding of how the government is involved in your case.

 

WHY:

You’ll be able to get answers to difficult questions and find out what advocacy work is being done to protect your rights in divorce and paternity actions, and what you can do to be a part of this effort. Let us know how CPR can help YOU.

 

 

Weekly CPR Update FOR September 12, 2003

 

THINGS TO KNOW!!  THINGS TO DO!! THINGS YOU CAN DO TO HELP!!

 

THINGS TO KNOW!! 

 

SUPPORT – Support Group: We support you in your efforts to get fair decisions regarding child support and custody and parenting time. We are looking to offer a monthly support group. We are looking for a leader of this group. Pro Se Documents: we can provide you pro se forms and assist you in filing out forms, since they can be confusing and judges rule against you if they aren’t filled out correctly. Organizing Your Information: we can provide you assistance on how to organize your story, your requests, your earnings history, and other information to help save you time, help reduce your attorney bill, and help the court understand what you are asking. Individual Law Suits: dads are suing; CPR watches these cases closely to share successes with other members. Test Cases: we carefully watch and support individuals challenging the system in new and unique ways. Two parents want OUT of the government child support system and having challenges. We carefully watch appeals to the MN Appeals Court. Several cases under appeal.

 

ADVOCACY – Two bills promoting change in Minnesota.  Update on HF 1031/SF 974 Eligibility Standards: the MN legislators are still being contacted; we still hope to get this bill off the table; MN rules and federal change being advocated; the Governors Office has committed to try understand this $130 million a year savings idea. More and more legislators on board. Update on Equal Shared Physical Custody Bill: progress underway to establish a presumption of 50/50 physical custody in MN so they can’t take your kids away so easy. We have both DFL and Republican support. Labor supports this bill. Update on July MEDIA ADS Pioneer Press Ad: a huge success, with over 60 responses. A strategy is underway to individually and collectively challenge poor and bias judicial decisions. Update on Sept MEDIA AD City Pages: new ad to solicit more bad judicial decisions. Update on DHS Data Requests: we encourage you to get directions from CPR on how to find out everything the state child support agency is collecting on you. Many dads are disturbed by the details in their file, previously unknown to them. Update on Court Watch: CPR can provide a volunteer family advocate for your next hearing. You let us know when your hearing is.

 

EDUCATION – NEW brochures available for members

Ask Your Lawyer Series: Get out of the system using the 42 USC 1301 d Family Protection Provision

Ask Your Lawyer Series: How to get your drivers license back

Ask Your Lawyer Series: What to do now that you have been mislabeled Voluntarily Under/Un employed

Information is Power Series: filing a perjury charge

CDs available: The Importance of Fathers, 1st Amendment, and IV-D

Articles: the website is being developed – all significant articles will be put on the website for easy access by topic.

 

RESEARCH – Update on DHS Research – many members are tenaciously pursuing information from the DHS to take the mystery out of policies, procedures, etc. – this persistence is paying off. Citizens are holding them accountable. Wayland Campbell is no longer Director of DHS Child Support Enforcement and Collections. Update on HF 1031/SF 974 Eligibility Standards – research continues to mount which supports our data. Interest of attorneys peaked for potential law suit. Clarifying the Child Support Arrears Problem: the DHS is using the state arrears of $1.1 billion as a weapon to hold over people’s head. We have completed the research to show the problem is not as bad and is not reflection of “dead beat” dads, as the DHS propaganda promotes. Case Law: our case law continues to build which will help you and can be made available if your attorney is willing to receive the research or if you are willing to work pro se.

 

 

 

THINGS TO DO!!

  1. write your story (for legislators, for the media, for your attorney, for you) – CPR can provide details and direction and assistance where needed
  2. become informed on “how did I get in this mess: what is IV-D?” – CPR can provide an overview CD, a written brochure
  3. get involved on ONE CPR Committee to help in an area where you have time and talents.
  4. meet with your local representative and senator – tell them your story – CPR can provide details and direction and assistance where needed
  5. Email info@cpr-mn.org with your questions, concerns, suggestions, or volunteer to help the organization.

 

 

THINGS YOU CAN DO TO HELP!!

As a 100% volunteer organization, we need volunteers to help make things happen and effectuate change.

1)      Do you know someone in the sign business to help fulfill our marketing plan?

2)      Do you know someone who is a good writer and editor - we have a lot of writing projects.

3)      Do you know someone who knows fundraising and grantwriting.

4)      Do you know someone who can make reminder phone calls to call people and invite them to the monthly meetings?

5)      Join a CPR committee to find out what you can do to help.

6)      Find CPR new members and/or other citizens interested in this issue.

 

 

 

"In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing."

 

Theodore Roosevelt

26th President of the United States