To: President Donald Trump; Vice President J. D. Vance; DOGE Administrator Mrs. Amy Gleason; and, Attorney General Pam Bondi.

We can strengthen families and increase birth rates by reducing billions in federal government spending and waste; by reducing federal bureaucracy, and by stopping the greed, fraud and criminal activities at the State level that is funded by Title IV-D of the Social Security Act (hereinafter Title IV-D).

Title IV-D Federal Funds to the States is the Root Cause of the Problem

As the members of your administration may very well know, Title IV-D was originally passed (1975) to reduce federal spending to single mothers where the father had voluntarily abandoned the family and children – typically in low income, inner city, single parent families. Title IV-D would pay the States to find the fathers and collect child support payments thereby reducing federal payments to welfare recipients on public assistance, and placing the responsibility back on both parents where it belongs.

However, the States learned that they didn’t have to wait for single parent families (where one parent had voluntarily abandoned their children) in order to collect Title IV-D funds, they could manufacture them. It was simple; in divorce cases use the “custodial / non-custodial” legal fictions and award the “custodial” parent the physical care of the children, and limit the parenting time for the non-custodial parent (involuntary absent parent), and then order the latter to pay child support. Voila! States could annually bring in billions of Title IV-D funds from the federal government. The very program that was created to reduce federal spending has become a monstrous, lawless, counterproductive federal expense, and an incentive to rob children of a meaningful relationship with one of their parents, typically the father.

Title IV-D Funds Discrimination, Declining Birthrates & Unconstitutional Laws

In order for States to obtain Title IV-D federal funds, parental rights to directly support their children are routinely violated. And in utter disregard for the 14th Amendment’s mandate (“No State shall. . . deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. . .”) men are routinely discriminated against in divorce cases. In the vast majority of divorce cases men will loose their life’s work, their home, their savings, and their future earnings. The women of divorce are typically awarded the home (that for the most part was paid for by the husband), women will be given custody of the couple’s children at an approximate rate of 9 to 1 with men having to pay child support (violating their right to directly support their children). The U.S. Supreme Court has made it clear that before a State can interject itself into the parent child relationship it must be established by law that the parent is unfit, unwilling or unable to fulfil their parental duties (In Re Troxel) And, a divorced parent cannot be treated any differently than a married one (Quilloin v. Walcott Et Vir. 434 U.S. 246, 98 S. Ct. 549, 54 L. Ed. 2d 511, 1978 U.S. LEXIS 52, (1978)).

This brazen gender discrimination against men in divorce cases has resulted in men’s refusal to father children. This is commonly known as the “marriage strike” and “men going their own way” (MGTOW), and it can be viewed on most social media sites.  No husband, no marriage, no children.

I digress briefly into my own case as it is a well documented online example of the waste and corruption Title IV-D is funding – and it is just the tip of the iceberg.

I had shared economic custody by the Judgment of Divorce (JOD). This meant that I was directly supporting my children and enjoying the father-child companionship on a weekly and sometimes daily basis. The Oakland County Circuit Court judge, John J. McDonald, openly stated: “I don’t care about your right to the pursuit of happiness.” He then disregarded the JOD, ordered child support and began the series of Show Cause hearings with its repeated threats of incarceration. All of this was funded by Title IV-D. (For further details see: https://thereformer.info/the-oakland-county-divorce-court-scam/).

In order to enforce the collection of child support and increase Title IV-D funds to the State, at least one State (Michigan – the highest Title IV-D recipient) passed an egregiously unconstitutional criminal statute, that being MCL § 750.165. The criminal statute facially violates the constitutional prohibitions against Cruel & Unusual Punishment, Debtors Prison and Excessive Bail. (see Open Letter No. 3 at: https://thereformer.info/open-letter-3-to-president-trump-re-debtors-prison-cruel-unusual-punishment-excessive-bail/ for greater details). And as the public defender program of Michigan was overseen by and appointments made by the judges, this made public defenders reluctant to bring effective representation in divorce and child support related cases. Moreover, correcting the constitutional violations also means decreased case loads and decreased revenues for Michigan attorneys.

The Attorney General’s office of Michigan has used MCL § 750.165 to arrest and extradite defendants from outside their State knowing full well that in accordance with the Sixth Amendment no crime was committed within their jurisdiction (neither defendant nor victim was in the State). The circuit court judges of Michigan, in utter contempt and disregard for the constitutions they swore to uphold, have ignored their duty to establish that the alleged crime was committed in their court’s district. And they have routinely altered the circuit court records in an act of fraud upon the court to falsify the record of jurisdiction (see: https://thereformer.info/the-malicious-prosecution/). This isn’t just fraud upon the Michigan county courts, it’s fraud upon the federal government to obtain Title IV-D funds. Moreover, exercising the power of a court that is in want of jurisdiction is usurpation of State judicial office, which according to numerous federal court rulings is treason (see: www.thereformer.com/open-letter-2-to-president-trump-re-usurpation-fraud-by-michigan-to-obtain-title-iv-d-funds/).

This begs the questions; How many billions of Title IV-D funds were paid to the States, especially Michigan, under this or similar frauds? And how many billions can be recouped to the federal treasury?

Cut Title IV-D Funding and End the Waste & Depravity

What then is the answer to strengthening families, increasing the nations birthrate and resolving the above described depravities? Will paying women to increase child births help? Many women, especially those in middle adulthood, regret not having children and the loving families they could of had. Rather, it is men that are on a marriage strike and going their own way (MGTOW) as they will not risk loosing the better part of their life’s work, their homes, their right to the companionship and direct support of their children, and spend nearly two decades paying outrageously high child support (the higher the support the more Title IV-D funds the State collects). Not to mention having to live with the injustice of gender discrimination. So paying women to increase birth rates is not a solution.

As it is men that won’t engage in interpersonal relationships and father children due to the threats of injustice described above, I respectfully suggest the following that will strengthen families, increase birth rates, reduce wasteful federal government spending, reduce criminal behaviour at the State level, and bring us one step closer to constitutional, limited, transparent and accountable government:

1. Joint custody must be the assumption of law in any and all States that are to receive Title IV-D funds;

2. Title IV-D funds are only to be paid to the States for child support enforcement when and where: A) a parent is wilfully absent; or, B) where a parent is proven to be unfit, unwilling or unable to provide direct support;

3. Before Title IV-D funds will be paid to a State, that State must show, in accordance with the 14th Amendment, that gender discrimination is not being practiced;

4. Criminal investigations need to be pursued against those involved in the usurpation of State judicial office, including: A) fraud upon the court, i.e. falsifying the jurisdiction of the court when it is in want of jurisdiction; and, B) fraud in obtaining Title IV-D funds;

5. The recovery of all Title IV-D funds to the U.S. treasury that were obtained by fraud, as covered in item number 4.

When men know they are safe in marital relationships, when they know they will be treated with due process and equal protection of the laws as fathers, they will then return to fathering children, birth rates will return to normal, billions of tax payer dollars will stop being wasted, depravity at the State level will stop being funded by Title IV-D, and we will be another step closer to a balanced federal budget.

All the best to our President and his administration, with much appreciation for the long overdue return to red blooded American values!

Sincerely,

Paul H. Deering, Contributing Writer

www.thereformer.com