Dear Equal Parenting Supporters and
Child Advocates,
Two critical bills are now pending at the NH
Senate after having passed the NH House of Representatives and may be voted
on at any time. The votes on these bill could occur literally
any day now.
HB529, relative to parental
rights and responsibilities, would ensure that both mother and father are
treated as comparable parents from the outset in child custody
proceedings. In the absence of an agreement between the parties,
this bill would require the courts to make detailed findings on the
record of the evidence used as a basis if the court was to
order that comparable parenting rights and responsibilities should not be
granted to both parents.
HB1580, relative to the child
support formula, would modify the NH child support guideline so as to apportion
child support fairly as a measure of both parents' income and the amount of
parenting time during which each parent is responsible for the care of their
children. This bill would stop the current practice whereby one parent's
household (the obligor's) is impoverished while an excessive amount of child
support is ordered to be sent to the other parent's (the obligee's)
household. This bill would provide an appropriate amount of support in all
shared parenting arrangements for both parents' households so that both parents
can adequately care for their children.
HB529 and
HB1580 are both at this moment at a critical stage as they
are considered by two separate committees at the NH Senate. Both
have now had their public hearings and could be voted on by committee any
day.
If you have yet to contact the Senate members
of the committees below then please recognize if you don't provide your
support for these bills promptly you may not get another chance to do
so. Even if you have already contacted the committee members you may
want to consider contacting them again using another method. If you
have sent email already then please consider making some phone calls. If
you have telephoned already then consider sending email.
Telephone calls are the most effective means of
expressing your support for these bills. Email is a useful tool as
well, though not as effective as phone calls.
Please also consider contacting other Senate
members besides those on the two committees below, as these bills will go to the
entire Senate for a vote after they are voted on by committee.
RIGHT NOW is the time to express your support
for reform of the extremely dysfunctional NH family law system. These two
bills ask for nothing more than fair and equitable treatment for both mother AND
father, in addition to the children who deserve TWO meaningful parents when
those parents are fit and desirous of remaining an integral part of their
children's lives.
Once the votes on HB529
and HB1580 have passed the opportunity to effect meaningful
reform may not come again for many years. PLEASE ACT
NOW...
Contact information for the Senate members is
below. NHCUSTODY.ORG apologizes if you have received this message
more than once. If so, then please respond to info@nhcustody.org and provide the address
where more than one ACTION ALERT was sent so that we may correct our
distribution list.
Regards to you and your
family,
Marc
To express support for
HB529 please contact the Senate Judiciary Committee
members:
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Joseph A. Foster
9 Keats Street
Nashua, NH 03062-2509
Phone: (603)891-0307
email: joseph.foster@leg.state.nh.us |
|
Robert E. Clegg Jr.
39
Trigate Road
Hudson, NH 03051-5120
Phone: (603)880-6193
email:
senclegg@aol.com |
|
Bob Odell
PO Box 23
Lempster, NH 03605-0023
Phone: (603)863-9260
email:
rpojr@aol.com |
|
Robert J. Letourneau
30 South Avenue
Derry, NH 03038
Phone: (603)434-1038
email:
N/A |
|
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David Gottesman
18 Indian Rock Road
Nashua, NH 03063-1308
Phone: (603)889-4442
email: david.gottesman@leg.statenh.us |
You can also support HB529 by contacting
all NH Senate members:
To express support for
HB1580 please contact the Senate Ways and Means
Committee members:
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Lou D'Allesandro
332 St. James Avenue
Manchester, NH 03102-4950
Phone: (603)669-3494
email: dalas@leg.state.nh.us |
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Robert E. Clegg Jr.
39
Trigate Road
Hudson, NH 03051-5120
Phone: (603)880-6193
email:
senclegg@aol.com |
|
Robert K. Boyce
22 Frohock Brook
Road
Alton Bay, NH 03810-4335
Phone: N/A
email: robert.boyce@leg.state.nh.us |
|
John T. Gallus
292 Prospect Street
Berlin, NH 03570-2137
Phone: (603)752-1066
email: john.gallus@leg.state.nh.us |
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Bob Odell
PO Box 23
Lempster, NH 03605-0023
Phone: (603)863-9260
email:
rpojr@aol.com |
You can also support HB1580 by
contacting all NH Senate members: