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

In order to enforce the collection of child support arrears 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. This statute, MCL § 750.165, violates the constitutional prohibitions against Cruel & Unusual Punishment, Debtors Prison and Excessive Bail.

There is a disincentive for correcting unconstitutional violations in the creation and collection of child support, including child support arrears, as it means a reduction in Title IV-D funds to the State.  Moreover, a pecuniary interest links the State, its counties, the county circuit courts, the judiciary, the friend of the court, and Michigan’s Office of the Attorney General as the State of Michigan shares the profits from Title IV-D in the form of incentives with them based upon their production of and performance in collecting child support (see The Reformer In Re Title IV-D for further detail). 

The federal government through Title IV-D has spent, and is spending billions creating a juggernaut of unconstitutional procedural and substantive laws, in particular the facially draconian MCL § 750.165 (see below for details).  Title IV-D hasn’t just created a disincentive to correct unconstitutional procedural and substantive laws, it is funding a cesspool of lawlessness and waste.

I respectfully suggest the following that will strengthen families, return birth rates to their natural level, 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 parent is wilfully absent, or 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 Fourteenth Amendment, gender discrimination is not being practiced therein;

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, then they will 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, with much appreciation for the long overdue return to red blooded American values!

Sincerely,

Paul H. Deering, Contributing Writer

www.thereformer.com