Cracking the IV-D Code
Fixing
the IV-D due process problem is the key to a successful father’s rights
movement designed to extract the state from private domestic relations.
The rule of law commands that fathers are afforded due process before the
state interferes in the privacy inherent in a father and child relationship.
Citizens Rule has compiled overwhelming evidence that the states have
denied millions of fathers (and some mothers) due process protection before it
took control of their children under the parens patriae doctrine.
The heart of the due process problem is the failure of states to include any due
process protection for parents conscripted into the IV-D program, based solely
on an application filed by an estranged ex-wife or former partner.
State child support enforcement programs do not provide a forum in which
one parent my contest the other parent’s allegation that their children are in
need of state protection. The state
has unconstitutionally infringed on the natural guardianship right of fathers by not allowing these men to contest the need for state
intrusion into their private domestic relations.
