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Fathers For Fair Custody advocates for laws and court practices that treat safe, capable fathers as full parents. Credible advocacy requires separating a policy argument from a claim about what a program or judge actually does.
Title IV-D funds child-support establishment and enforcement. That fact does not establish that the program directs custody decisions or systematically disadvantages fathers. Any claim about incentives or outcomes needs direct evidence, not inference from funding alone.
Courts must take safety allegations seriously and evaluate evidence fairly. False allegations can occur, but a general article cannot assume an allegation is false or diagnose a litigation tactic. Preserve evidence, follow orders, and get jurisdiction-specific advice.
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Community response
TANGIE · March 12, 2025
Please can someone help my son we don’t know how the law works with this situation my son has a daughter 8yrs old him or my family has not been able to see her for about four years my son file for visitation rights in 2020 which the court sent up in Richmond Va but the mother really did not honor the order always making excuses why my son or any family member could not see the child, telling me things like I just want your son to be a man, my son and I have tried different things though out the years to be able to see the child we did not know to go back to the court house we just found out he should have done some kind of motion. The mother is now in law enforcement and she has moved the case to that county where she is employed as some type of officer without my son’s knowledge last month my son receive a summons to come to court in the county where she works for law enforcement the mother is saying she wants full custody of the child because my son has not seen the child in four years no one is listening to him he has not seen the child because the mother will not let him the mother claims she has no way to reach my son but whenever she feels she texts me my son address is my address on file with the court as well so she does have contact information for him the mother has block all of us from communicating with her at court the judge said for my son and the mother to use a co-parenting app to communicate to set up visitation she is still making excuses why he can’t see or talk to his daughter it’s so much more to this story I’m afraid we are getting screwed over because she has the law official in that county in her favor and we really don’t know what my son rights are no money for a lawyer no one to help us everyone is talking down to my son I don’t have any right so I can’t ask questions I’m not the smartest person in the world but I’m pretty sure when you leave court they are supposed to give you some kind of paper work they only gave him a card for a mediator that has taken a week to call my son back who basically bashed him for not see the child then told him he had to hang up my son asked do I call you back he said no this is it(my son has some of this conversation recorded)we have no idea why my son was told to call him or what this mediator is for. When last seeing my granddaughter she was well now she sick with seizure all kinds of illness my son was told in court she is home school doesn’t he have rights to know of her wellbeing I am going to lose my granddaughter can you all direct me to someone or an agency that can help us please he has to go back to court on April 24 2025 it’s so much more to this story I cant type it all but one more thing the mother claims she needs full custody so she can apply for a passport for the child, again I’m not the smartest person, but I do have common sense you don’t need full custody to get a passport, something is wrong my son is being screwed out of his fatherly rights HEEEELLLLP PLEASE
This is for ALVIN COLE he can be reached at alvincole.95@gmail.com or tangelco@aol.com 804 939 0770