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MY LONG DISTANCE LIFE
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Father
Suicide Directory
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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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Jonathan England, lost three girls & wife to Lesbian
lover
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 2005-03-31 Canadian Children Unwillingly Forced to Return
to Britain to Lesbian Mother and Partner
In September 2003
Jonathan England and his
wife Marla moved to the UK with their three daughters, who are
Canadian citizens.
The Englands, however, had only lived one
year in the UK before Mrs. England abandoned the family to enter
into a lesbian relationship. She and her lesbian partner are now
attempting to get custody of the three girls, ten year-old Leah,
Hannah, 7, and Nicola, 5.
On Sept. 9, 2004, England took his daughters back to Canada to
visit his sick mother. After arriving in Chatham, he decided to
stay. His wife, Marla England notified the United Kingdom's High
Commission, invoking the
Hague Convention and demanded the girls be returned. The
Convention, to which Canada is signatory, states that custody
battles must be fought in the country where a family makes its
"habitual residence."
An Ontario judge, ruled that the girls must, under the
Convention, be returned to their mother's care in the UK.
However, the girls
themselves refused to be taken away from their father.
On Friday March 11, when they were to be taken to the Chatham
police station to be turned over to their mother, the girls
refused to leave. A second attempt was made on March 13, and the
girls, screaming and crying, refused to get out of the car. When
the girls arrived back with their father, Leah said, "I told you
I'd be back, daddy."
Ten year-old Leah said, in an interview on March 14,
"We
really, really don't want to go."
The reprieve, however, was a short one.
Judge Lucy Glenn, yesterday ruled that the children must be
returned to Britain where a judge can decide custody. The girls
were calm when they left Chatham's Integrated Children's
Services building with their mother yesterday.
Jonathan England's lawyer had presented
a
report by a clinical psychologist who concluded the girls would
"be seriously, psychologically harmed" if forced to go to
Britain.
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2005-03-31 Father distraught after
losing daughters;
"A social worker was brought to their school Thursday to
meet with students and teachers struggling to cope with
their departure, added Todd Lozon of the St. Clair
Catholic District School Board. The girls twice defied a
court order to go with their mother last month. They
made it clear they wanted to stay in Canada with their
father. .. The place that the children want
to be is in Canada, Mr. England maintained Thursday.
... "They are Canadians. .. Mr.
England and his daughters had been living in the United
Kingdom for a year when they returned to Canada in
September for a 10-day visit with Mr. England's ailing
mother. But that visit turned permanent when he learned
his wife had left him for a woman."
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'I want my daddy', Three <Niagara> girls at the hub
of a legal dispute are handed to their mother <and her
new lesbian lover
2005-03-31 'I want my daddy',
Three <Niagara> girls at the hub of a legal dispute are
handed to their mother <and her new lesbian lover, rules
Justice Lucy Glenn>
CHATHAM -- The
England sisters walked into a children's services
building here with their father yesterday afternoon, sad
and sobbing. When they exited through a back door with
their mother three hours later, they were quiet and
subdued. And with that, the heartbreaking
international legal saga that's swirled for months
around Leah, Hannah and Nicola England ended, their
father obeying a judge's order and handing the girls
over to his estranged wife, who will take them back to
Britain for the custody fight.
"Daddy, daddy," Hannah, 7, sobbed as Jonathan England
led his girls into Chatham's Integrated Children's
Services building, where Marla England waited. "I
want my daddy."
Shortly before 5:30 p.m. Marla England and her parents
-- David and Roberta Barrett of Niagara Falls -- emerged
with the girls, who were calm, in stark contrast to two
previous unsuccessful exchange attempts. Marla
England wouldn't comment on her plans for her daughters.
Jonathan England and his relatives, who fought hard to
keep his daughters here, had already left by then.
.. David Barrett drove off, effectively ending an
emotional day that started with
Justice Lucy Glenn ruling the girls leave Canada
almost immediately. ... Jonathan and Marla
England, BOTH CANADIANS, moved to Britain in September
2003 with their three Canadian daughters. ONE YEAR
later, while Jonathan England and the girls were
visiting ONTARIO, their mother moved in with her British
lesbian lover. England and the girls stayed here
-- which,
Glenn ruled, broke the international Hague
Convention.
Because the marriage dissolved in Britain <HAH!>, the
girls -- Leah, 10, Hannah and five-year-old Nicola --
must return there for the parental custody fight, she
ruled. In a last-ditch effort yesterday to keep
the children in Canada, Jonathan England's lawyer
pointed to a report by a clinical psychologist who
concluded the girls would "be seriously, psychologically
harmed" if forced to go to Britain. Glenn heard
Leah and Hannah had threatened suicide if they are
forced to return. The judge wasn't swayed from her
decision. The fact remains the children were
"unilaterally and unlawfully retained in Canada by their
father," she said. The judge said Jonathan England
was given the opportunity to return his children to the
United Kingdom himself, but didn't. "I am,
of course, very concerned about the mental health of the
children," Glenn said, adding the ordeal may have been
easier on the girls if their father had co-operated from
the beginning. "The children have said all
along that they don't wish to return. . . there were no
serious reasons given to satisfy the court," she said.
Thirty minutes before England took his daughters to the
designated drop-off site on Grand Avenue, his quaint
Chatham bungalow was filled with laughter.
Leah and Hannah skipped through the house and lay on the
backyard grass with their cousin, talking quietly.
Their bags -- which sat half-unpacked in the hallway for
weeks -- were stuffed with their belongings again.
Nicola, the youngest, seemed unaware of what was
unfolding. "Look at how clean my room is," she
cheerfully told a visitor. .. The
girls had been unaware of yesterday's court date until
their father arrived at to Georges P. Vanier elementary
school unannounced. "As soon as we showed up at
the school, they knew. They just started bawling,"
family friend Sean Moore said. ...
There was no official word on when
the girls will return to Britain, where
Marla England lives with her partner, Amanda Cambridge.
Jonathan England, who plans to fight in the U.K. for
custody of his daughters, didn't know when he would hear
from them again. "He has no way, means or format
(to know) how he's ever going to contact them again,"
David England said.
"It just seems incomprehensible."
Jonathan England, three girls - Google Search |
Custody battle ends in tears
for 3 sisters,
March 31, 2005
2005-03-31 Custody battle ends in tears
for 3 sisters
Three southwestern Ontario
girls are back with their mother Thursday after
a bitter international custody battle ended with
a judge ordering them to return with her to
Britain. On Wednesday, Ontario Court
Justice Lucy Glenn ruled that Leah England, 10
and her sisters Hannah, 7, and Nicola, 5, should
be returned to their mother Marla England.
The three children have been living in Canada
with their father Jonathan England since
September, when they arrived with their father
for a 10-day trip to see their sick grandmother.
When England learned his wife was going to leave
him for a woman, he decided not to return to
Britain.
On Wednesday, Glenn ruled that their father
violated international law by keeping the girls
in Canada. All three girls were born here,
but the family lived in the United Kingdom for
about a year. Under international law, that
means the U.K. is now their "habitual
residence," and custody decisions must be made
there. After the court ruling, the
two youngest cried and clung to him when he took
them to a Children's Aid Society building in
Chatham, Ont., to be reunited with their mother.
Return could lead to
psychological harm: expert
Hoping to keep the girls in
Canada, Jonathan England's lawyer had cited a
report by a clinical psychologist who said the
girls would "be seriously, psychologically
harmed" if forced to go to Britain. The
lawyer told the judge that Leah and Hannah had
both threatened suicide if they were forced to
return. Nevertheless, the judge ruled
Jonathan England broke the law when he failed to
return his daughters to Britain.
The girls' father vows to fight for their
custody overseas.
Jonathan England, three girls - Google Search |
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