our son ID had exprired in April 03, X would not sign papers to get him another one. I would like to use the base for son medical. X is behind $1855.00 on medicial & wont pay, its court ordered but he doesnt care. X had scraped off my Base sticker while my car was in my yard. I made a police report but it was covered up by sheriff office he works for. Called the base there is a number for anyone going through the same with spouses. They will send X paperwork, in 30 days if he doesnt sign they will send my son his ID. If you need any help with getting ID for your children the phone is #1-901-874-3362.

You can get your car registered and you can get an ID card even if you do not have privileges. This allows you to get access to base facilities for your children who do have privileges.

As far as making out the police report and it being covered up by the Sheriff's office he works for, call the state Attorney's General's office, explain the how they are covering it up and ask if they know what state agency regulates county sheriff's offices and find out if there is anything that can be done.

<small>[ November 13, 2003, 06:45 PM: Message edited by: SwH ]</small>

Am not sure of your situation as far as the miltary part goes.

If your XH is retired from a branch of the service and you were married 10 years or more while he was active duty you should be getting a protion of his retirement.

Also if he is retired there is a form that you fill out that will garnish his retirement pay for child support. I shared this info with someone else not to long ago so will just paste what I had given her.

It is form DD FORM 2293, Jan 2002 that is at the bottom left side. The title is "APPLICATION FOR FORMER SPOUSE PAYMENTS FROM RETIRED PAY" Item #3 REQUEST STATEMENT. States "I request from the retire pay of the above named Uniformed Service member based on enclose court order. I request payment of: (1) Child support in the amount of $________________per month."


I do not know if this will help or not, but wanted to share with you. If you go online and put in DFAS the form should be available. You do have to send in a certified copy of the divorce and doecumentation stating the amount of child support.


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14 yrs of our 17 yrs M was military time. Under 20 yrs of M it is left up to the state to divide or not. My attorney told me that the Judge was X dad friend from long ago. X later told me yes they were old buddies. X was giving me the retirement the Judge said HE read somewhere you couldnt take a mans retirement and wouldnt rule on it. We are talking about brewton Al a small town where everone is kin or grew up together.

reported the sheriff officers in Brewton for the coverup but the guy who is in charge of attorney generals office under Gov Riley is X best friend. He was made to resign as chief of police for covering up X stealing & A on the job. local NAACP got him out of office. IT is all covered up, nothing on his record or X. called & made a complaint only to have X call me & let me know he knew about the complaint. X friend works for the dept of the attorney generals office that handles police complaints.

Did you lawyer even ASK about a change of venue or judges? That sounds like a clear conflict of interest and the judge should't have even taken that case.

Yes I ask my attorney about getting the Judge to remove himself. But was only told that he would never win another case in town. I also ask 3 more attorneys and got the same answer. Small town with only 2 Judges no one wanted to Go up against him. Out of town Attorney said just them being the outsiders would go against me. The system is not a fair one, its not how much money you have, its who you know.

See if you can talk to a JAG lawyer. I was under the impression the judge has no control over the retirement. It was decided at the federal level that a wife is entitled to a portion of retirement depending upon the amount of time they were married. If that's case you just contact the federal pay office on the local base.
Does Al have a state office to enforce child support, etc.? You might contact them. You might also contact the FBI. If the sheriff is not doing his job I think you might have recourse at that level to make them toe the line. Or Federal Marshall's office might have power over local.
Your ex cannot deny his children their ID cards. So follow up on this.
There is an organization in WashDC for exwives. You might contact them and see if they can help you out. Shoot as much as ACLU hates Alabama, they might provied you with a lawyer to help you out.

Small town Al? Maybe you should take out an ad in the local paper, "This man does not take care of his children" "This judge allows man to get away with not taking care of his children"
Might get their attention. run it by a lawyer first, so you can't be sued for maligning their character.
Good luck. will watch for your posts.
Texasgirl

Under 20 yrs of M it is left up to the state to divide or not.
All awarding of retirement is left up to the state, even if over 20 years of marriage and service.

I was under the impression the judge has no control over the retirement. It was decided at the federal level that a wife is entitled to a portion of retirement depending upon the amount of time they were married.
Completely incorrect.
It was ruled a the federal level that the states make the ruling on military retirement.
A judge may rule that a spouse may get a portion, depending on time married, time in service & time overlapping of both. However, the spouse is not "entitled" (meaning given regardless of anything else) to it. It can be awarded though.

If that's case you just contact the federal pay office on the local base.
They can do nothing without a divorce decree granting xx percent of retirement.

Write to the state Bar Association, tell them the situation with the Judge and his relationship, and he refuses to remove himself from the case. File a formal complaint if you have to. (Judges also have a law degree don't they. I'm sure the Bar Association must have some control here).

Write to a Senator or Representative in a different area, explain the relationship with the Govenor. Find out who represents your district, are they all related? Will that give you some action.

Find out is there anything you can do to correct this.

I wonder, if you could write to the Dept of Justice, get their opinion on this matter. I have no idea if it will be successful. Could it hurt anything?