CALL 4 HELP IN NEW HAMPSHIRE/ACTION ALERT

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We haelped in Iowa last year with great sucess. We need to do the same now. More crutial then ever...

Copy and paste, send to legislators and the media.


 
Dear Child Advocates and Equal Parenting Rights Supporters,
 
 
HB529, the presumption of equal parenting rights and responsibilities bill that was retained by the New Hampshire House Children and Family Law Committee earlier this year must be acted upon shortly by this same Committee or it may be swept under the legislative rug only to disappear.
 
The opponents of equal parenting rights for both mothers and fathers would like nothing better than to sweep this bill under the rug and have it forgotten.
 
Instructively, the opponents of equal parenting rights have influenced the top family court judge in the state to recently write a letter to the House Children and Family Law Committee, along with the Senate Judiciary Committee where the bill will be considered if it passes the NH House, asking the legislature to not pass HB529.
 
Judge Edwin Kelly, the adminstrative head of the New Hampshire Family Courts recently wrote a letter to the members of the House Children and Family Law Committee and the Senate Judiciary Committee requesting that HB529, for the presumption of equal parenting rights and responsibilities, not be passed into law.
 
It is extremely inappropriate for the the state's top family court judge to be lobbying the legislature in opposition to equal parenting reform.  The crux of Judge Kelly's reasoning in the letter is to equate an explicit presumptive (though rebuttable) protection of equal parenting rights and responsibilities to the word 'magnitude'.    Judge Kelly proclaims that the legislature shouldn't pass parenting protections law that rises to the 'magnitude' of HB529, while at the same time the family court judges and marital masters in the state are denying NH's children equal access to their father in 75% of all child custody orders.
 
http://www.nhcustody.org/NH_custody_statistics.htm
 
 
In arguing against the passage of HB529 Judge Kelly is not only violating the separation of powers [between the Legislature and Judiciary], he is also explicitly lobbying against statutory language that would merely reiterate the Constitution's 14th amendment equal protection clause.
 
Judge Kelly's letter, which gives the term 'judicial activism' a new meaning, is attached to this message.    
 
HB529 needs to be passed, and it needs to be passed now.   Judge Kelly's actions are amongst the most instructive examples of how the opponents of the presumption of equal parenting rights have gotten a foothold in the the New Hampshire Family Courts and continue to influence the adminstration of 'justice' during child custody proceedings.    
 
 
Now is the time to contact the legislature in support of this bill and to tell them that it is absolutely inappropriate and unacceptable for the state's top family court judge to be lobbying them in opposition to the bill.    Our elected officials need to hear what the public thinks about this breach of ethics.
 
Another message will follow immediately after this one and include much more information related to how Judge Kelly and the entire NH family court system is being influenced by the opponents of equal parenting reforms.    The fox is truly watching the henhouse in the NH family courts.    
 
If the public does not let our elected officials know that we expect them to pass HB529 right now then they may succumb to the pressure of the opposition, including the NH judiciary itself, and continue to allow the forced separation of child and parent without cause and without explanation.   There is little time left.   Please act now...
 
 
Please use the following legislative contact list when you email your letter in support of HB529:  
 
[email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
 
 
You may also want to consider copying your message to the NH media.   Our elected officials need to recognize that the entire state is watching what they do with HB529 and with the authority and responsibility that has been given them by the NH voting public.   Many of these media contacts are already familiar with the issues, however, they need to know the level of public interest in these matters.   Here is a media contact list:
 
[email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
 
 
More information will follow shortly.
 
 
Regards to you and your family,
 
NHCUSTODY.ORG
 
 
 
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