It’s good to see that there are people taking action to defend their rights as a father.
I only wish that F4J would come to Chesapeake, VA and protest to bring awareness to the discrimination against fathers taking place in its Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court.
I haven’t had overnight visits in more than a year because of a temporary sole custody order that Judge Willis in Chesapeake, VA ordered last February when my ex-wife snatched my kids up from Atlanta where we lived at the time and carried them to Virginia.
In February 2007 I filed for divorce and custody of my children in the Fulton County courts in Atlanta where we lived for 5 years before my wife took the children. That same month, Judge Willis in Chesapeake, Virginia in violation of Federal Law stole the jurisdiction away from the Georgia courts and gave custody without visitation to my wife that I was finally granted a divorce from in December of last year.
That wasn’t enough. I have 3 children. One was actually born in Georgia, and not in Virginia like my other 2 children. My wife and kids lived with me continuously from 1996 until my wife took the children and left in Feb. 2007. In 1999, even though I wasn’t separated from my wife, the Chesapeake Juvenile and Domestic Relations court issued an order for child support in the amount of $311 per month. Once again, it was the dishonorable Judge Willis that issued the order. So, the Department of Child Support Enforcement in Chesapeake, Virginia got a judgment in the amount of $33, 000 against me. They claimed I owed back child support from Feb. 2007 dating back to 1999 for the support of my oldest daughter Alexis. Well, I told them and demonstrated to them by presenting tax returns and medical bills as well as school records that Alexis, and my wife lived with me all those years. I was the only one working, and I did support my child. They levied all my bank accounts and garnished 65% of my wages. Needless to say, I became homeless in Atlanta because I couldn’t pay my bills after they illegally took money from my accounts that I didn’t even owe.
It took 6 months to get to court. The dishonorable
Judge Olds in Chesapeake, Virginia ruled to give me a credit for $26, 000, but I was already homeless, I was forced to move in with my sister in North Carolina and I still hadn’t seen my kids for almost a year.
Then,
Judge Olds set child support for the amount of money that I was earning in Atlanta, not what I currently owe in North Carolina. So, I still can’t afford to rent my own place. I live with my sister, and I can’t have a bank account. My employer takes 65% of everything I earn. The order in October last year issued by
Judge Olds is a temporary support order and not a final order. So, I can’ even appeal it. My ex-wife is still collecting welfare in Virginia, not working and the legal system thinks its better to take all my earnings and leave the children with her. So, I’ll finally be able to get my support adjusted in May of this year, 2008, which is the date that the dishonorable
Judge Olds, in Chesapeake, VA set for our final support hearing. This is after living a year and a half on just 35% of what I earn. And, after having been made homeless by a bogus collective judgment obtained by DCSE in Virginia in the amount of $33, 000.
Here is where I am. I finally have a custody and visitation hearing, a year after my wife snatched the kids from me and left me in Chesapeake, Virginia on March 19, 2008. That is this week. I hope this judge orders that I can at least have normal scheduled and overnight visitations with my kids whom do love me very dearly as their father, still. But, I don’t have my hopes up, because I’ve been treated like nothing more than a criminal and a prisoner by this court in Chesapeake, VA thus far.
I hope someone in J4F can help me. I want to sue the Chesapeake court and the DCSE for violating my rights in the Federal Courts. I’ve investigated it, and it can be done. The jurisdiction for this matter would be in Norfolk, VA. With some support and encouragement and a little coaxing and perhaps hand-holding, I could file the papers myself as a pro-se litigant. I’d love to see the looks on Judge Willis’s and Judge Old’s faces as they stand in front of a Federal Court Judge and have to explain what the hell they were doin.