New Mexico Attorney Lawyer

So what would drive second wife Shelly Barreras spend half of its 2006 Thanksgiving Day atop a Billboard top 50 meters above the ground in Albuquerque, New Mexico?

The facts are not in dispute. Essentially, the first woman Viola Trevino new meaning to paternity leave for the fight against fraud, if a “virtual daughter” is based on a sample of DNA from their ex-spouses of the adult daughter. With the help of accomplices, it creates a child who never existed, but it came with a birth certificate, social insurance card, a Medicare card and a request for judicial assistance , The child reaches the sum of $ 20000

No matter that the ex-husband Steve Barrera had a vasectomy, a year before the alleged “birth” of the left, with a zero the number of sperm. Barreras made several attempts to direct recording with the New Mexico Department of Human Services, without success. With its “business as usual” attitude, which is always ready “Child Support Enforcement Division went to Barrera and collected and collected and compiled. Finally, it was forced to use to get media exposure Governor Bill Richardson to request an investigation, its national agency not only across resisted fraud, but trying to define.

The immediate problem led to a Thanksgiving Day for Shelly Barreras atop Billboard Albuquerque, is that Governor Bill Richardson’s alleged promise to return the child obtained by fraud, grants never materialized.

Large long-term problem and lies far from picturesque Albuquerque and is much more difficult to resolve. The most critical long-term problem are two assumptions in each state, the Child Support System: The mother is still a victim, whose veracity of the basic needs are still under-funded, while the father is always hidden d ‘assets and money wasted want cars in bulk and women.

Unfortunately, the general public, elected officials and legislators across the nation have gained in these conjectures fraudulent such a degree that in the last four decades, they were child subsistence higher prices for mothers d year to year.

What makes this whole process so tragic is that empirical research shows clearly that if children are involved, divorce is almost always by mothers, are aware that it is almost certain that custody for children. Even after the divorce, mothers are generally financially better than fathers, if the tax benefits specific to the deprivation of liberty and direct assistance to mothers of children of divorced fathers are in factorisé What is most critical is that research empirical reality is the exact counter-part false assumptions on which the family court judge and the state of family allowances authorities empowered to act.

So what?

First, the state of New Mexico and Shelly must clearly Steve Barreras of the stolen money he fraudulently among them and must pay more promptly. Secondly, Governor Bill Richardson, rumours that there is interested, above, should not count on the vote of all men, a woman climbing to a 50-foot Billboard, a woman, May sympathize with her. Thirdly and most importantly, it is long past time to reform the child support formulas of each State for the relocation of their models on the basis of income shares “model based on actual costs to raise a child - these costs are divided between the actual costs, mothers and fathers when their children are in their supply.

We all have a debt Shelly Barreras coordination thanks for attention to this problem and provide the world a better place to live - a poster at a time.

Gordon E. Finley, Ph.D. is a professor of psychology at Florida International University in Miami.