April 14, 2003
Honorable Senator Roy Ashburn Re: Senate
Bill 1030
State Capitol, Room 2068
Sacramento, CA 95814
Fax: (916) 322-3304
Dear Senator Ashburn,
I encourage you to aggressively move this bill forward and
thereby free innocent victims and their children of the oppressive burdens
imposed by an incorrect default paternity judgment.
For more details on my particular case, please go to www.florida.paternityfraud.com.
I would be most happy to discuss the issue of paternity fraud, and how it
affects second families, in particular, causing the creation of an elite group
of children (non-biological) at the expense of the biological or step-children
in a subsequent relationship. My 18
year old daughter would also be happy to discuss how paternity fraud has
affected her life. I can be contacted at the above address and phone number.
In 2000 I wrote a bill on Paternity Fraud that was sponsored
in the Florida House and Senate.
I have presented the paternity fraud issue before The Florida
Commission on Responsible Fatherhood, and have been a participant and speaker
at many of their public hearings.
In America, a man is supposed to be innocent until proven
guilty. In paternity fraud, the man is
guilty, even is there is concrete proof of his innocence. Paternity Fraud must
be stopped, for the interests of all the children.
I am writing this letter in support of SB1030. For too long
innocent families have been victimized by incorrect default paternity judgments
and paternity fraud. With the advances in technology we are able to determine
the actual paternity of a child. We need to update our paternity laws to
account for modern advances in science. Like a person on death row, we should
be using DNA testing to provide relief to innocent victims of incorrect default
paternity judgments. It is my understanding that SB1030 will do the following:
1. Permit a victim of paternity fraud and an incorrect
default paternity judgment to seek an affordable remedy at law.
2. Permit the victim to have arrearages of an incorrect
order to be vacated
3. Allow a victim of an incorrect default paternity judgment
a reasonable chance to challenge a judgment that would otherwise be final by
allowing a judgment to be set aside within two years have a wage garnishment or
the actual discovery of an incorrect default paternity judgment.
4. Provide a remedy to the excessive 79% default paternity
judgment rate in Los Angeles and statewide.
Please pass SB1030, free the innocent victims and bring
truth and justice back into the family court system.
Thanks you,
Nadine G. Mendelsohn-Ziskind
Exec. Director: Florida Citizens Against Paternity Fraud www.florida.paternityfraud.com
Director: Citizens Against Paternity Fraud
www.paternityfraud.com
Co-Chair, Legislative Committee: DADS of Florida www.dadsofflorida.org
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