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Hal
was a Widower and had a daughter, Danica, from a previous marriage.
He then had two children with a new wife who left him when they were
toddlers. (She was reported to have taken up with her Courtenay
lawyer.) When our BC Family Courts put Hal
through
it's torments of Imputed Income,
Gleaned Wages,
State Imposed Homelessness,
and
Debtor's Prison, they imposed these same torments on his
daughter Danica, then a Tween. Hal points out the Support Tables
assume the only children to support are the Payee's children.
You can see where that left Hal & Danica: homeless and
dependent on the kindnesses of neighbors.
More...
Imputed Income
Jeffery Hal's Testimonial;
Hall Jeffery's Danica Petition
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"Desperate Husbands", by Stephen Perrine
2006-06-18 Keeping Divorced Dads at a Distance, Stephen
Perrine, Stephen Perrine, the editor in chief of
Best Life magazine, is
the author of the forthcoming "Desperate Husbands."(Thanks,
Paul Forseth)
EVERY other weekend for the past four and a half years, I've spent
three precious days with my two adolescent daughters. We play tennis
in summer, ski in winter, travel when the school schedule allows.
But no matter where we are, we're all keenly aware of the thin
membrane of secrecy that keeps us from being as close as we were
before their mom and I divorced. <Equal
Parenting eliminates this!!!>
Like most divorced fathers, I'm caught in
exactly the kind of nightmarish situation that experts on stress say
to avoid — a great deal of responsibility, but very little power.I'm
the major source of support for my children; my financial
obligations are set by the state, and my wages automatically
garnished. (If I lost my job tomorrow, and couldn't keep up with my
payments, a warrant for my arrest would be issued within two
months.) But my influence over how my daughters are being raised is
limited, sometimes by decisions their mother makes that I have no
input into, and sometimes by their allegiance to her when she and I
are at odds. ... They'll forget to tell me
some detail of their lives — or downright lie if they have to — so I
won't feel sad that I've missed something they shared with their
mom, or raise issue over some decision she's made with which I might
not agree. As a result, I sometimes come away from visits or phone
calls feeling shaken, saddened and angry. My ex and I
have been to court over support issues, and we've been to court over
custody issues, and the legal battles inevitably trap our children
in the middle and force them to choose sides. Sadly, this is exactly
what not to do if you want to foster a loving parent-child bond. In
a study by a child psychologist, ...
The first step toward fostering a father and child reunion is to
make private mediation of the parenting provisions (physical
custody, legal custody and visiting) the standard procedure.
Allowing parents the chance to negotiate their support — and
possibly give fathers more of a say in how their support is spent —
will decrease the vitriol, and let fathers feel more like parents,
not just paychecks.
Second, we need to enact and enforce
sensible penalties for interfering with visits. Jailing a mother
is no way to solve the dispute; neither are financial penalties
that hurt her ability to care for the child. But mediation —
perhaps compelled by the threat of financial penalty — might be
the solution. It's estimated that one in five children of
divorce has not seen his or her father in the past year. Without
substantial rethinking of our current support and custody law,
children will continue to be alienated from their fathers, and
lawyers will remain on hand to soak up the resulting legal fees.

Just this month, I received a summons to attend a custody
conference at the Allentown, Pa., courthouse, and another letter
informing me that an accounting error has left me short on
support payments, and that my passport may be suspended. I want
to shield my daughters from these harsh truths. So these are the
secrets I'll be trying to keep from them as we gather together
for Father's Day. What secrets will they be keeping from
me?
Stephen Perrine, the editor in chief of Best Life magazine, is
the author of the forthcoming "Desperate Husbands."
For more...
canadacourtwatch.com
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Arthur Brown of Port Alberni: ALS victim fights FMEP garnishing his
disability pension of "Child Support" for adult "Child" not living with her
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BC ALS victim Art Brown fights FMEP garnishing his disability pension of
"Child Support" for adult "Child" not living with
her mother
2007-06-24_Brown-FMEP-NoticeofAttachmentCover.pdf
2007-02-26_Brown-FMEP-NoticeofAttachment.pdf
2007-06-18_Brown-Ombudsman.pdf
2007-06-01 FMEP oversteps its moral bounds
"Please go to
www.albernivalleynews.com and read the article
called
"Nothing Left To Give" The man in the article is
my boyfriend's father who has been diagnosed with ALS. Please read it.
It is about the battle he is now in against BC's Family Maintenance
Enforcement Program for his adult daughter. He need's all support he can
get. Thanks"
"My
name is
Arthur Brown and I was diagnosed with ALS which is
also known as
Lou Gehrig's disease Feb. 2006. This disease is
terminal and progressively gets worse, and we usually only live between
3-5 years after diagnosis, if we are lucky. THERE IS NO KNOWN
CAUSE OR CURE FOR ALS!!!! Here is my story, written by
Heather Reid, Reporter for
Alberni
Valley News."
Past Victims of
BC Courts &
FMEP




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2007-05-25 Nothing Left to Give (Art Brown's
Disability pension gleaned by FMEP) "Last
year, Arthur Brown was diagnosed with
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (also known as
ALS or
Lou Gehrig’s Disease) and put on disability. In
addition to fighting for his life, he’s now embroiled in
an argument with B.C.’s
Family
Maintenance Enforcement Program (FMEP) over monetary
support for his adult daughter... ALS is a neuromuscular
disease that progresses rapidly. According to the ALS
society of Canada, 90 per cent of people with the
disease die within five years of diagnosis.
“Stress makes it worse,”
Berkeley said.
"Brown is the father of two adult
children: a son who’s 21 and a daughter who turned 19
last October. He and the children’s mother divorced 10
years ago, but Brown stayed involved in his kids’ lives.
Brown .. assumed that when his youngest reached
adulthood that the payments were finished, and given his
poor health, stopped sending the monthly cheques to his
former wife last October. But stopping support payments
isn’t that simple. Brown received a form letter from a
provincial agent explaining that unless his divorce
agreement explicitly states that support payments end,
he would have to continue paying. Two examples cited
were if the young adult still lives as a dependent in
the other parent’s home, or attends school full-time."
More:
Nothing Left To Give!!! - Alberni.ca Forums
2007-06-08 Art Brown heads to court;
"Brown faithfully made support payments for his two
children in the 10 years after his marriage dissolved.
He’s never questioned that responsibility. In October of
2006 his youngest turned 19, and Brown stopped sending
cheques to her mother. He’s since learned that
that’s not how it works. ... The
enforcement program’s website (www.fmep.gov.bc.ca)
states that payments may continue beyond the age of
majority if the child is living with and dependent on
the custodial parent or attending post-secondary school
full-time. Brown says that none of these conditions
apply to his youngest adult child. The FMEP
maintains that Brown’s former spouse has to agree to
stop the payments, which she has so far refused to do."
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2007-05-25_Nothing Left to Give By Heather Reid,
Alberni Valley News,
May 25 2007
Two years ago Art Brown was a
healthy mill worker who suffered from some stiffness in his legs. A
year later he was diagnosed with ALS, and now must use a wheelchair.
Last year, Arthur Brown was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral
sclerosis (also known as ALS or Lou Gehrig’s Disease) and put on
disability. In addition to fighting for his life, he’s now embroiled
in an argument with B.C.’s Family Maintenance Enforcement Program (FMEP)
over monetary support for his adult daughter.
“I ran out of money,” Brown said from his Beaver Creek home, where
he gets around in a wheelchair and has a friend, Helen Berkeley,
assisting with his daily living. ALS is a neuromuscular disease that
progresses rapidly. According to the ALS society of Canada, 90 per
cent of people with the disease die within five years of diagnosis.
“Stress makes it worse,” Berkeley said.
For years, Brown lived with pains and stiffness in his legs and feet
that he attributed to arthritis. Last January Brown collapsed on the
job at a local mill. That incident lead to the ALS diagnosis. The
disease has progressed so that Brown can no longer walk, although he
still has the use of both of his arms. He has a special pocket sewn
into the shin of his pantleg for a cellphone. It’s there so he can
call for help if he falls out of his wheelchair while his caregiver
is away.
Brown is the father of two adult children: a son who’s 21 and a
daughter who turned 19 last October. He and the children’s mother
divorced 10 years ago, but Brown stayed involved in his kids’ lives.
Brown says he never questioned providing support payments to his
kids, and never missed a payment. He assumed that when his youngest
reached adulthood that the payments were finished, and given his
poor health, stopped sending the monthly cheques to his former wife
last October.
But stopping support payments isn’t that simple. Brown received a
form letter from a provincial agent explaining that unless his
divorce agreement explicitly states that support payments end, he
would have to continue paying. Two examples cited were if the young
adult still lives as a dependent in the other parent’s home, or
attends school full-time.
Brown says that his daughter left home after graduating from high
school in the summer of 2005, and to the best of his knowledge she
hasn’t received support from her mother since then. The daughter
attended university in Victoria during that school year, then moved
to Nanaimo to live with her grandparents, planning to continue her
studies there.
“We gave her an education fund when she started school,” said her
maternal grandmother Julie Domino.
According to Brown, his daughter remained at her grandparents, but
stopped going to school full time last fall. Brown said that she
worked four days a week and attended two night classes each week. He
also said his daughter has told him she hasn’t received financial
help from her mother since she left home two years ago.
But that’s not the same information that Brown’s ex-wife provided to
the family maintenance program. In a form Lori Brown filled out in
October 2006, she says that her daughter will be enrolled in school
full time, that she doesn’t live in her home but that she pays rent
to her grandparents.
“She’s never paid a cent in rent,” Brown said of his daughter. He’s
written to the FMEP many times detailing his circumstances and
pointing out what he says is incorrect information from his former
spouse. All Brown has received in return have been form letters from
the FMEP with the last saying that they would withhold government
payments.
Brown is worried that that could mean garnisheeing his disability
pensions. “My life, my health, is the only thing now. My kids are
doing all right,” Brown said.
As it is, Brown can’t afford to have chelation treatments to remove
heavy metals from his body, which some ALS sufferers feel alleviate
symptoms of the disease. The naturopathic treatments aren’t covered
under medical services.
When all his monthly expenses are paid, he has $7.84 left over each
month.
Brown is mystified by the FMEP’s decision. “Everywhere I’ve gone,
I’ve been treated like dirt,” Brown says of his attempts to
communicate with the FMEP. “That whole system needs to be torn to
pieces and rebuilt,” he added.
Chris Beresford, director of Family Maintenance Enforcement Program
for all of B.C. admits that the system isn’t easy for people to
understand. While he wouldn’t comment on an individual case, he did
say that, “if both parents agree that support payments should stop,
then the payments stop.”
The parent with that power, Lori Brown, refused to comment on the
situation. Arthur Brown said that even his daughter told him she
didn’t want the payments to continue. His daughter declined an
interview.
Brown said his relationship with his daughter is good. She sent an
e-mail in April asking him to keep his eyes out for a job for her in
Port Alberni. The note closes with x’s and o’s.
Brown’s only recourse to have the family maintenance payments halted
is to take his ex-wife to court. But he’s overwhelmed with the idea
of having to deal with a court case as well as his failing health.
“I’ll help my daughter any way I can,” Brown said, but added that at
this point in his life financial support isn’t possible.
reporter@albernivalleynews.com
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Brown,
Art: FMEP thieves Pension
2007-06-08_Art Brown heads to court
By Heather Reid, Alberni Valley News, Jun 08 2007
Art Brown is getting help with his fight with the Family
Maintenance Enforcement Program (FMEP).
In recent weeks, Brown and his full-time caregiver Helen
Berkeley have been trying to get someone to hear Brown’s
case for ceasing child support payments to his adult
daughter.
“We had the (B.C.) Ombudsman call this morning,” Brown said.
Now, a friend who works in government administration has
come onboard to help file documents for a court case to
determine the matter.
Brown faithfully made support payments for his two children
in the 10 years after his marriage dissolved. He’s never
questioned that responsibility. In October of 2006 his
youngest turned 19, and Brown stopped sending cheques to her
mother.
He’s since learned that that’s not how it works.
The enforcement program’s website (
www.fmep.gov.bc.ca )
states that payments may continue beyond the age of majority
if the child is living with and dependent on the custodial
parent or attending post-secondary school full-time.
<SCAM!!!> Brown
says that none of these conditions apply to his youngest
adult child.
The FMEP maintains that Brown’s former spouse has to agree
to stop the payments, which she has so far refused to do.
It’s not that Brown wouldn’t like to continue to help his
adult daughter financially – it’s that he can’t.
Brown hasn’t been able to work since he was diagnosed with
ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease, a year and a half ago. He has
been getting by on a disability pension, but the powers that
be have demanded that he continue making payments decided
years ago under very different circumstances. His condition
is terminal and sufferers are typically given three to five
years to live once diagnosed.
“The FMEP was put in place to collect monies from deadbeat
parents, not dying men,” Brown says.
Brown says the FMEP made good on its threat to garnishee his
disability income on June 1. He’s learned that there’s a
lein on his Beaver Creek home.
“There has to be some accountability,” Berkeley said.
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