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  ABOUT Ohio Council For Fathers Rights...



Our main goal is equality in family law.  We wish to grow large enough that
politicians must listen to us, or face the prospect of losing an election due to
our block vote.

This is not an unrealistic objective. However, we are realists. This is an
incredible undertaking and will require a tremendous amount of effort from us
and you.

Please don't misconstrue our message. We fully support paying custodial
parents reasonable amounts of child support.  In contrast, a professional
athlete paying $5000/mo in child support is simply ludicrous.

Furthermore, we take issue the "adversarial style" system where the State of
Ohio actually has financial incentive to bankrupt loving fathers with child
support orders that are financially unbearable.

What would we like to accomplish?
  • Legislative change; Present child support statutes are simply unjust.
    With the current "adversarial" system in place, the non-custodial parent
    (mother or father) in many cases bears the entire financial burden of
    raising their children.

     The non-custodial parent paying support and providing medical
    coverage along with paying the tax dollars on the support payments isn't
    receiving equitable treatment.

  • Having criminal records expunged in cases where the non custodial
    parent met difficult circumstances, fell behind in support, and is now a
    convicted federal felon as a result of circumstances truly beyond their
    control.

  • Providing enough resources on this site to enable the Pro Se defendant
    to adequately defend themselves in court during legal proceedings.  By
    tracking cases here, hopefully you can learn from our mistakes.

  • To retain legal counsel to assist in presenting resources and possibly
    writing a column on this site.

  • Redefining indigence. How many of you have been Pro Se in
    proceedings where you faced incarceration for contempt for instance,
    but were denied legal aid because you "made too much money." Anyone
    with an exceptionally high support order that results in bankruptcy, is
    constantly behind in bills, lost their home and lives out of a car IS
    indigent.

  • Enacting legislation that forces the non custodial parent to pay tax on
    child support dollars received. One can hardly argue it's equitable for a
    non custodial parent to pay $27,000 child support over a 2-3 year period
    and also have to pay all taxes associated with said payments.

  • To provide the desperately needed moral support to those who have
    reached their end and are now considering what was once the
    incomprehensible, the unimaginable - suicide.

     Suicide not out of anger, rage, mental illness or vindictiveness, but rather
    a conscious choice to be made simply because it's the     only logical
    choice. You have no more outs. You've lost everything, your job, your
    home, your car, your children and even the means to support yourself.

    As each day passes, the pressure only intensifies. You've stepped
    through it all using logic. Looking ahead you see a future that offers more
    of the past, only worse.

We've been there. It's a road well paved by the thousands before you who   
made that journey and came through by the support of those who have walked
those endless miles in your shoes.

We offer you hope, with that hope you will once again learn to dream. Please
call us at 513.662.6237 or email us at  admin@ocffr.org.
 Please visit our blog at http://ocffr.org/blog/