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Governor Gray Davis Condones Gov't Fraud with Veto!
Paternity Fraud Bill Vetoed by California Governor!

SACRAMENTO -- Even though DNA evidence has been used to free falsely
convicted murderers, California Governor Gray Davis, in vetoing AB
2240
today, has decided that men will still have to pay child support for
children
whom DNA tests have proven are not theirs.

Many counties fail miserably at ensuring that only men who fathered a
child
are required to pay that child's support. In Los Angeles County in
2000,
for example, almost 80% of the paternity judgments were assigned by
default, meaning that men were mandated to pay as much as 18 years of
child support without ever having their day in court.

Many of the men assigned default paternity judgments were never
properly
served summonses to appear in court. Many of these men never knew they
were "dads" until their wages began to be garnished, and have never
even
met the children they are required to support.

This aggressive pursuit of assigning paternity at any cost has
ensnared
thousands of innocent men mistakenly identified as having fathered
children
who do not belong to them.

The prevalence of paternity fraud has reached startling proportions.
According to the American Association of Blood Banks, almost 30% of
the men tested for paternity are not biologically related to the
children they
allegedly fathered.

The Paternity Justice Act AB2240 was designed to rectify these
injustices
by relieving men from having to pay child support for children who
are not
theirs.

Dianna Thompson, executive director of the American Coalition for
Fathers
and Children, testified in favor of AB2240. She says: "To make a man
pay
child support for a child that DNA testing has proven is not his is
an outrage.
Davis' veto of AB2240 hurts innocent men and their families."

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parenting.
For more information go to: http://www.acfc.org/

 

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