2nd Major Win for Paternity Fraud Victims in CA!

warble writes "Paternity fraud victims have experienced a second major win, and they are just friggin out! As everybody knows, AB2240 was vetoed by Gov. Davis last year. As part of the veto, he issued an Executive Order to create a Paternity Workgroup. After five months of nothing, NCFM, LA took action and demanded that the Executive Order be carried out.

The result was that a workgroup, sponsored by the CA-DCSS, started in the last week of Feb. 2002. Prior to the first meeting of the workgroup, the opposition started a bill (AB252) that was designed to give them a means of subverting the efforts of the paternity fraud victims. This bill was worded such that it would have destroyed the efforts of the paternity fraud victims in seeking relief. It would have done this by directly attacking SB1030 and coercing the paternity fraud victims submit to the efforts of the opposition.

That strategy of the opposition has now been thwarted, and the opposition has been put on notice. The vote was close at 34 ayes and 30 noes. It is the abstaining votes that made the difference in this case. The paternity fraud victims are deeply grateful to the Dem's that abstained from voting in favor of AB252.

It is no accident that all Dem's voted in favor of AB252. We believe the opposition misinformed them because they were lied to and haven't heard the truth from the victims. The truth was that AB252 represented the interest of the opposition that was composed of a secret alliance who opposed AB252. Further, the alliance excluded the victims from voicing their objections to AB252 in the analysis that went before the Assembly Committee of Judiciary.

Finally, AB252 failed in that it did not provide any timelines, goals, directives, or specify which categories of paternity fraud were to be addressed by the workgroup. NCFM, LA has made it clear that we will continue to support the Paternity Workgroup despite its being stacked against the victims. This is to demonstrate good faith to the Dem’s and Gov. Davis. In addition, should the workgroup produce an actual product that has merit in relation to the issue of paternity fraud then Senator Ashburn will be most willing to amend SB1030.

Later!

Warble
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