Lary Holland: Official Blog, Links, and Resources

Lary Holland is to host the new GET OFF THE BENCH talk radio show on Wednesday nights at 8pm. This live interactive talk radio show allows callers from all over the nation to dial in and participate in discussions about family law, government policies over the family, administrative issues, and many other hot topics, for example, Do you know a Family Court Judge, CPS employee, or Friend Of The Court Counselor that did something wrong and got away with it?  Let us know!

Our goal is not to work against the system but to work through it and working together there is power in numbers to make a positive change. Tune in!  The only dumb question is a question not asked.

SPEAKING OUT - If you think kids aren't used by the system, you are cordially invited to re-think that. Attorneys fail children, government fails children, and services fail children. If they're supposed to represent children's best interests, chances are that is a cover for their own best financial interests. Standards are seldom followed when representing children. 

Join me on Wednesdays at 8pm LIVE to discuss the matters that are most important to you! Chances are good that the answers that I provide will open you to a whole new understanding about the family court and child protective services racket that is ripping children from good parents!

Tonight's show of GET OFF THE BENCH is covering the Lansing, Michigan Equal Parents Rally that occurred today, Title IV-D Services, and new upcoming fees associated with the federal program.

This mammoth luxury bus will be at the Lansing State Capitol Building from 8:30am to 11:30am on September 26, 2007 to support equal parenting! Will You?

CRISPE, Dads and Moms of Michigan, the Family Rights Coalition, A Child’s Right, Children Need Both Parents, Fathers for Equal Rights, Fathers-4-Justice, Parents for Children, Children’s Rights Council invite you to join us in defense of the traditional American family at this historic rally at our State Capitol during Equal Parents Week. Over 40% of Michigan’s population is being micro-managed by the family court system with disastrous consequences to our children, families and the state economy. Help transform Michigan from a wasteland of broken families into a promised land of healthy families and community renewal.

House Bill 4564, a bill to ensure equal parental responsibility, will result in a presumption of joint custody for fit parents and equal access for children to both their mother and father. Hearings on this bill are expected this fall. Your attendance at this rally will send a strong message in support of HB 4564 and serve as a demonstration of our will to be equal parents to our children.

The Equal Parents Week Rally has been organized to bring to the attention of our legislature, our executive branch, our judiciary and the general public that Equal Parenting is a civil rights issue whose time has come. America’s success was built on strong family bonds and the recognition that both a mother and a father are essential to raising healthy, moral and well adjusted children.

The Equal Parenting Symposium was a success and will be airing on local public access television in the coming week around the metro Detroit area. The most recent symposium was in the City of Pontiac, in Oakland County. Politicians, Professionals, and interested citizens from all over the state appeared for presentations by Jim Semerad (Dads and Moms of Michigan), Dr. Michael Ross (Family Rights Coalition), Lary Holland (Family Court Problems), Jay Fedewa (Family Rights Coalition) and Minister Ronald Smith (Children Need Both Parents, Inc.).

As video becomes available, it will be uploaded and shared here! Also an audio podcast will be available later this week of the speeches that were given and available for sharing and download. This event was a success and even more people are now educated about the funding mechanisms of our Friend of the Court systems, the steep rewards that are provided for the creation of absent parent households, and the devastating effects of family court on our economy.

Thanks for the Family Rights Coalition, and the other members of the symposium for helping make this event such a success!

My Open Response to Dr. Stephen Baskerville that is published here and at http://www.mensnewsdaily.com

Stephen and friends,

I am proud to call some of you my friends and others I am proud to say that you are not. Even if you are not my friends, I would support you and the goals within the realm of our shared desire to be with our children and to assure that our children will not experience what many of us hardened family court veterans have regretfully experienced.

I received Dr. Stephen Baskerville's Open letter and read through it completely. I was compelled immediately to check my now meager checking account. I had a mere $115.00 left over, after I paid some of my bills, that was to last until the upcoming Friday. Remembering again how I had tens of thousands of dollars in that same account before I met the family court system. Now, I have been in and out of work because of a serious accident in June that has resulted in some lingering effects to my head and body. My hospital bills and finances are catastrophic, and I am barely hanging onto my own home. I went to the ACFC website and immediately signed up for an Associate Level ($65.00) Membership Account.

Why did I sign up for an organization that is having problems? Because Stephen asked me to with his letter. HE has my support, because I believe that he fully understands many of the issues that we have struggled on a local and regional footprint to bring to the forefront. I may not agree with everything and may have some personal differences to Dr. Baskerville's ideologies but I would assist Dr. Baskerville whether an organization was behind him or not. I would do so with my last dollar and every bit of my other resources and expertise because of the things that we do agree on.

I don't fully believe that the problems we are faced with are limited to just the family court system. I believe that the problems that we are faced with are systemic of a constituency that loses sight of what our country was founded upon. We need to again stand together and rise above the apathy and personal issues that we have for or against one another and look to the issues that we can work together on. The system thrives on division, and we are often times the best ones at supporting the very thing that tears us down simply by not rising above the personal issues that keep us apart in our "demands for change."

I have always stayed away from other organizations because I could not fully agree with any single one of them. So today, I join the ACFC and hope that others will follow. I stand with Dr. Baskerville and with other parents that want to help shape the world into a better place for our children and subsequent generations. I love my children, and I don't want them to have to endure the feeling of their children not being able to be with them. It's bad enough that they already feel the pain of not being with one of their parents.

Dr. Stephen Baskerville has my support, and together we will all help change the course of society for our children.

Lary Holland
http://www.laryholland.com
800-319-4955 x3

A recent I-Team investigations by John Mercure, TMJ4 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, seemed very irresponsible by falling prey to printing the same bureaucratic spin that is being released all over the country by concerned child support collection officers that are trying to keep their comfy government jobs at the expense of the taxpayers. Instead of rebutting the article, I took a moment to look up some statistics regarding Wisconsin's Title IV-D child support program.

• Most child support collections are made for families who have never been on assistance! The program was originally intended to recuperate money expended by the federal government to the states for their welfare programs. Now the taxpayer is caught funding a glorified collection service for middle and upper income feuding families!
• The most effective form of collection is through income withholding orders through Fiscal Year 2006. Income Withholding Orders are an automated task that doesn't require employees.
• The Financial Data Match program is a computer generated list that is matched up electronically by the State's data contractors. This sweeps money from obligors' accounts automatically and doesn't take additional employees.
• Federal and State Income Tax Off-Sets are another highly effective method of collection child support according to the federal government reports on Child Support collections. This again does not take additional employees.
• Wisconsin's Total Administrative Expenses, which as of today are unaudited and likely to be plagued with immense overspending, total $108,692,436.00! At least $777,010.00 of the administrative expenses weren't even for Title IV-D / Collection services.
• NON-TANF (should be income ineligible to receive government services at taxpayer expense) collections continued to increase in Fiscal Year 2006, While the collections on cases that are Welfare cases DECLINED according to federal reports.
• Wisconsin has a central child support distribution center for receiving and distributing child support funds and the local county offices no longer perform this intensive function.

The program should become more efficient over time and require less employees and the middle and upper income feuding families should be removed from the program, instead the program is getting larger and claiming to need more funds to operate. The State should not focus their programs on revenue generation but on aid to needy families. This will save the taxpayers immensely. An equal custody mandate would go along way in solving expense problems as well.

A final note on child support is that the I-TEAM should be focusing its attention on ensuring that the State of Wisconsin doesn't steal money from these poor children by not distributing collected child support. In Fiscal Year 2006 there is NET UNDISTRIBUTED CHILD SUPPORT COLLECTIONS OF $8,210,847 according to the Federal Child Support Preliminary Report for 2006. Of that Net UDC at least 8.6% of it has been completely unresolved. If this money is not distributed within one year from the date of collection the state is allowed to escheat the money into its own budget as program income, taking it out of reach of the children it was collected for! This makes it worthwhile for the State to sit on the money. Why not locate these parents and get this money distributed before it is stolen from these poor children!

John Mercure's email address is jmercure@todaystmj4.com.You can voice your opinion on the subject to him via email or peruse his blog, which has a few child support issues listed at http://www.todaystmj4.com/bloggers/mercure. Let me know if you get a response to your inquiries and I would be happy to post them here at this site.

Has California's Senators voted unaminously to bring back indentured servitude? The California Political Desk in the California Chronicle today reported that the State Senate "today unaminmously (38-0) passed legislation to help increase the number of child support payments collected in San Mateo County," which further states "...would establish a program in San Mateo County to provide judges with the discretion to order an unemployed child support obligor to seek work at the time of the initial hearing determining such support." ("Yee's Bill To Strengthen Child Support Laws Approved." California Chronicle 6 Sept. 2007)

Basically, I call laws like the above a "Minority Report Approach" to legislation, based on the Tom Cruise movie Minority Report. The premise of the movie was that three "pre-cognitives" could see into the future and determine a crime before it was committed and arrest the individual before they engaged in the criminal activity. Only one problem, the "pre-cogs" didn't always agree so the "system" would cover up the mistakes of the pre-cogs. Also, the movie raises an interesting philosophy that since an act was not committed yet, could they be found truly guilty of the crime "before it even happened?" In Tom Cruise's case, he demonstrated that the future was not always certain. In the above California Legislation, California Senators are attempting to force someone to perform an act before there is even a crime, as required by our Constitution. But...this is family court right? Now remember that child support is merely a civil debt and no crime has been committed leading up to the order of such debt to be paid to another party.

For those of you unfamiliar with the Constitution, the document that
restricts governmental powers, there was an Amendment that completed
Ratification on December 6, 1865. Under US Const. Amendment 13 Sec. 1 "Neither
slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for a crime
whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within
the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." Either California isn't part of the United States, or California and other states
are trying to take more authority than what they actually have. The

The U.S. Supreme Court, in United States v. Kozminski (1988), has defined involuntary servitude as "compulsory service by the use of physical restraint or injury, or by the use or threat of coercion through legal process."
Essentially the program as defined above, as well
as the many court orders forcing individuals to participate in
government welfare programs without compensation because there exists a
civil debt or other civil judgment, is nothing more than a return to
the slave trade and indentured servitude that was outlawed just a mere
142 years ago.

The Kalamazoo Gazette, August 27, 2007, published a letter to the editor from Darrick Scott-Farnsworth. Darrick Scott-Farnsworth is the Executive Director of A Child's Right, an organization that supports the concept of equal custody and equal parenting.

I have personally met Mr. Farnsworth and value his opinions. He poses an interesting argument, and his argument is certainly well-supported by the facts regarding Michigan's, and this Nation's, various policies over the family. Most of the policies regarding family in America are focused on failing welfare services and creative schemes for states to acquire more federal funding.

Michigan fails children, fails parents, and essentially cannibalizes its' population for the survival of various bureaucracies.

The funding mechanisms behind state programs largely contribute to longterm negative consequences, like single-parent households and multiple-generations of welfare participants living off the tax rolls, instead of positive outcomes and participant productivity contributing to the tax rolls. We need to reshape this Nation's welfare policies to become entirely gender neutral and eliminate the rolls associated with the sexes. Making rolls equal will certainly be a step in the right direction that will force self-accountability and productivity on both sides of the "great divide."

Custody changes could help women

Some feminists and politicians complain about there being a pay gap between men and women, but fight tooth and nail against actually promoting any legislation that would truly do anything about it. It has been common knowledge for years that women, on average, do not make the same amount as men doing the same type of work because women tend to take more time off to raise children.

It is also common knowledge that children are denied equal time with both of their fit parents when it comes to custody disputes, with the majority of cases and custody time being awarded to mothers.

This denying of parenting time to fathers exacerbates the continuing pay gap between sexes because fathers are being coerced into maintaining full-time employment to make ends meet and pay bloated child support.

Furthermore, the government has fostered the overall belief that it is more important for men to work and earn then it is for women.

We must get the laws changed to recognize parents are equal and that children need both of their parents to develop and thrive. We must raise the importance of the father in the home by having a presumption of equal child custody law.

Darrick Scott-Farnsworth