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Search results for "Child Support" ...
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Tea Party, Rep. Joe Walsh Sued for $100,000 in Child Support
A freshman Chicago U.S. Representative , tax-bashing Tea Party champion, owes more than $100,000 in child support to his ex-wife and their three children, according to documents his ex-wife filed in their divorce case.
Tags: Joe Walsh; Tea Party; Chicago; Congress; Child Support
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Native Americans Tribues Shield Parents from Child Support
Many mothers in California, and around the country, can't get child support payments from Native American fathers or tribal casino employees. That's because tribes are sovereign nations and don't have to honor state or federal child support orders. Without the child support payments, many of the mothers survive on food stamps and welfare.
Tags: Native Americans; child support; welfare; tribes
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The Forgotten
This story is an inside look at the systematic warehousing of more than 17,000 adults and children in Serbia's mental institutions. Dateline NBC gained unprecedented access to remote, government-run facilities and found alarming and sometimes life-threatening conditions. The institutions are remnants of Serbia's communist past and symbols of a deeply ingrained prejudice against the mentally disabled and their families. Serbia's medical establishment continues to advise parents to put their mentally disabled newborns into institutions, and the government provides virtually no support for those who choose not to. In mental institutions throughout Serbia, Dateline found adults and children crammed into fetid rooms and metal cribs, their bodies emaciated, atrophied and disfigured. Some residents appeared to be children but they were actually young adults whose growth had been stunted by years of institutionalization. One of our most disturbing discoveries came while staying overnight in a dangerously overcrowded institution. There we learned that children are routinely tied to their bed railings for long periods of time - a practice that one disability rights organization says meets the legal definition of torture under international law.
Tags: mental health; Serbia; child abuse; patient abuse; patient rights; mental institutions
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Hunting Felons
KCTV investigates the Missouri Department of Conservation policy that allows felons to obtain firearm hunting permits. The policy exists, despite federal law which prohibits felons from owning any firearms. However, the investigation did find that the Department of Conservation does have a policy which prohibits people who are delinquent on child support payments from buying a permit.
Tags: Missouri Department of Conservation; firearm hunting permits; FOIA; House Conservation Committee; legislation
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Food for the Taking; Food bank practices more loose than first disclosed; The hunger market
The San Diego Union-Tribune investigated the San Diego Food Bank, the only major charity distributing donations of the America's Second Harvest network in the region. Although hunger was at an all-time high, the food bank tolerated widespread theft of tons of donations over many years. Many of the stolen goods were sold at swap meets and in discount stores around San Diego County, and hundreds of tons a year were shipped into Mexico. The reports also explored the nutritional value of donations; much of it is not edible and some food that is distributed lacks nutritional value. America's Second Harvest, the national food-distribution network, has done little to reform its San Diego affiliate. The investigation also found that the top five participants in the food bank's Charitable Food Distribution Program are charities run by people whose backgrounds include a felony conviction, bankruptcy, court orders for child support and multiple lawsuits. The last story explored the national charity's strong-arm tactics used to secure donations from corporations.
Tags: Charitable Food Distribution Program; America's Second Harvest; San Diego Food Bank; charity; hunger; Zeev Buchler; Jim Greene; Neighborhood House Association
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Missourians Behind Bars: More Serving Time As Taxpayers Foot Bill
Missouri's prison population has doubled since 1990..and so has the prison budget. Reeves gives examples of inmates who serve time for things like not paying child support; he questions the wisdom of keeping them locked up, costing the taxpayers money instead of working to support their families. Reeves also explores alternatives to prison and compares Missouri's situation to other states.
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"A crisis in foster care: Hardships prevalent for those raising children's children
This investigation found that nearly a third more New York grandparents are raising their grandchildren than a decade ago, and of those, a disproportionate number have fallen into poverty. An unresponsive child-welfare system has forced these grandparents into making a tough decision: Place their grandchildren into foster care and become foster parents themselves in order to receive government aid, or ignore the foster care system and scrounge to support their families.
Tags: grandparents; grandchildren; foster care; poverty; census; child welfare; adoption; Children and Family Services; Department of Social Services; Department of Health and Human Services; guardianship; CAR; computer-assisted reporting
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Strom Thurmond's Secret Daughter
These stories offered the first confirmation that Strom Thurmond (the nation's former leading segregationist), fathered and secretly supported a mixed-race child throughout his political life. The first story features an exclusive interview in which the daughter, Essie May Washington-Williams, confirmed the relationship. Follow-up's included the Thurmond Family's acknowledgement of the truth and provided details of how the relationship and exchange of money worked.
Tags: Strom Thurmond; segregationist; Essie May Washington; DNA Tests; NAACP; African Americans; paternity claim; mixed-race
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Penned In
This story is about the conviction and 40-year sentence of John Michael Harvey for the rape of a four-year old girl. Harvey protests his innocence, and so does the jury foreman, the judge in his trial, appellate attorneys, investigators, and even the findings of a lie detector. Even the victim says he didn't do it, and that her family members and the prosecutor coached her into saying Harvey did it. Since Harvey's conviction, the victim and her mother have signed affidavits professing Harvey's innocence. The trial judge wrote a letter supporting Harvey's parole, and the jury foremen says he made a mistake. He's going to testify on Harvey's behalf at the appeal.
Tags: rape; child abuse examiner; prosecutor; forensic examination techniques; Texas Court of Criminal Appeals; Texas Department of Criminal Justice; policy on sex offender treatment; parole division policies on sex offenders; sex offenders; wrongful conviction; child molester; wrongful conviction; appeal
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"When Dad Won't Pay"
Story follows trends in child support enforcement and explores reasons behind deadbeat parenting. Traces several states' efforts and legislation, as well as the problem of interstate enforcement.
Tags: deadbeat; child support; custody; noncustodial; parents; payment; divorce; visitation