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Divorce courts are bankrupting families and putting men in debtor prisons

By Alliance Alert

Matt Gurney writes at the National Post: "Jeff Dolan spent Father?s Day in jail, locked away for failure to pay child support. Deadbeat dads don?t garner a lot of sympathy. But you don?t need to study Jeff?s case for long before you realize that he?s anything but a deadbeat. Instead, he?s a man hopelessly ensnared in a crushing bureaucratic machine: He?s in jail because he couldn?t pay child support, but he couldn?t pay child support because he was unemployed ? and he was unemployed because the court took his driver?s license for failure to pay child support ? after he went bankrupt paying his court costs. ... Courts, in their earnest efforts to do right by families, are destroying them, instead." | Via Wintery Knight.

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on June 25, 2010 (boomark / email).