Child Support...A System With Victims On Both Sides
2008-03-28
The reason why I became a lawyer is the same reason I am a Truth Fighter, and that is to shed light on the truth in a system I feel needs much improvement.In an effort to continue my mission, today I am launching www.ChildSupporttv.com. This site has been set up to bring attention to an issue that has victims on both sides, custodial parents and non custodial parents
It is a system that imprisons non custodial parents and in some states charges them with a felony for back child support, even if the parent is living below the poverty level and a system that leaves 62% of custodial parents without child support leaving them and their children to live below the poverty level.
Childsupporttv.com has been set up to give both sides a place to tell their stories and empower themselves with the tools to understand their rights. It has also been set up to put pressure on the powers that be to work on reforming this system that even victimizes our soldier’s who come back from the war to find their licenses suspended and bank accounts garnished over back child support from orders that existed before they went off to war.
Half of uneducated African American men ages 25-34 are non-custodial fathers. The child support they struggle to pay usually does not go to their children, but instead goes to the state to reimburse the cost of public assistance, including welfare, for the mother and children. This is demoralizing for low-income men struggling to make a difference in their kids’ lives. Some of these fathers even live with their children and their children’s mothers, yet their wages are still garnisheed to pay child support to the state.
Many minority non custodial fathers have spent time in prison, often for nonviolent drug offenses. Under the current system, these men rack up thousands of dollars in child support arrearages while they are incarcerated. Interest accrues rapidly, and upon release many ex-offenders struggle under a staggering debt they could never hope to pay off. Some even return to jail for nonpayment.
Log on to childsupportv.com and tell us your story and empower yourself with knowledge how to navigate this system. We want 1,000,000 Americans to tell us their story so we can put pressure on Congress to work on reforming this system.
Each and every week we will also Take It To The Nation, to get your opinion on a story concerning Child Support.
As we learn more about the system I will bring in experts from government agencies as well as non profits to help us find solutions to this issue that effects all Americans regardless of color or economic status.
Warren Ballentine ESQ.
http://www.truthfighters.tv
Child Support Facts
1. A non custodial parent's passport can be taken away for owing $2,500 in child support
2. When soldiers go off to war their child support orders remain the same, even though their income has dropped
3. 1 in 3 Custodial Parents not receiving Child Support Are Poor (census bureau)
4. Women below the poverty level are the least likely to be awarded or to receive child support. Black and Hispanic mothers are even less likely to be awarded support or to benefit from payments
5. In some states not paying Child Support can be considered a Felony, even if the parent is living below poverty level and cannot afford it.
6. In 2005, the 6.8 million custodial parents who were due Child Support under the terms of legal awards or informal agreements were due a total of $ 38 billion dollars in child Support payments and received a total of $ 24.8 billion. (census bureau)
7. Over 30 million Americans are in the Child Support System
Child Supporttv.com is a partnership between Warren Ballentine, The Peoples Attorney and national talk show host and Reach Marketing and Advertising Inc.
www.reachmarketinginc.om.
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November 2nd Black Out
2007-10-18
WARREN BALLENTINE “THE PEOPLE’S ATTORNEY” IS CALLING FOR ALL AFRICAN AMERICANS TO PARTICIPATE IN A NATIONAL BLACKOUT”
WHO: Warren Ballentine “The People’s Attorney” and radio “Truth Fighter” is calling for a National Blackout throughout America, on Friday, November 2, 2007.
WHAT: Attorney Ballentine is calling for a National Blackout that is necessary for African Americans, and is long over due. Especially with all the present injustices that are being allowed and accepted in America right now. From the situation with Mychal Bell and the Jena 6, Genarlow Wilson, Megan Williams, and all of the nooses being hung all over America lately. Until we have federal legislation in place regarding these hate crimes, as African Americans we need to band together to show our “Economic Power” by refusing to spend ANY money that day from fast food restaurants to gas. More on Jena 6 www.JENA6TV.com.
WHY: As African Americans we spend an estimated 715 billion dollars a year, and if we were to stop spending for one day that is 2 billion dollars that will not in the system.However, we ask that you don’t make a mad dash to the stores days prior or on the days following. If the stores have a major increase in sales right before or right after the Blackout than we will not create the impact we are striving for.
WHEN & Friday, November 2, 2007
WHERE: Nationwide Blackout for ALL African Americans
Syndication One, a joint venture of Radio One, Inc. [NASDAQ: ROIAK and ROIA] and REACH Media, Inc., is designed to develop African-American targeted programming. While there are more than 1,200 talk shows currently available to radio audiences nationwide, there are few programs that offer listeners a daily dose of ideas, issues, analysis and information targeted to the African-American audience. Syndication One offers its listeners timely, relevant, probing and entertaining programming, addressing a wide range of issues from a broad spectrum of viewpoints.
Radio One, Inc. (www.radio-one.com) is the nation's seventh largest radio broadcasting company (based on 2006 net broadcast revenue) and the largest radio broadcasting company that primarily targets African-American and urban listeners. Pro forma for recently announced transactions, Radio One owns and/or operates 60 radio stations located in 19 urban markets in the United States. Additionally, Radio One owns Magazine One, Inc. (d/b/a Giant Magazine) (www.giantmag.com), interests in TV One, LLC (www.tvoneonline.com), a cable/satellite network programming primarily to African-Americans and Reach Media, Inc. (www.blackamericaweb.com), owner of the Tom Joyner Morning Show and other businesses associated with Tom Joyner. Radio One also operates the only nationwide African-American news/talk network on free radio and programs "XM 169 The POWER," an African-American news/talk channel, on XM Satellite Radio.
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