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Oh bleep. How did that section get dropped?

Here ya go...

And the law authorizes such seizures by a disgruntled spouse for such specious reasons as:

Ordinary life activities:

458-E:6 I (5) Obtaining ‘travel documents’ (read that definition!) for their child to go to Disney World, or a football game in another state, or even a weekend at the beach?

458-E:6 I (1) Becoming unemployed during the current recession? (aka ‘Abandonding employment to a divorce attorney)

458-E:6 I (2) Selling a house or terminating a lease (car or house !). (Note: These are activities ALL New Orleans residents engaged in after Katrina)

458-E:6 I (4) Closing a bank account. (Note: Just what exactly is an ‘unusual financial activity’?)

Requried parenting duties:

458-E:6 I (6) Picking up their child’s medical records. (Note: This law applies to CUSTODIAL as well as NONCUSTODIAL parents)

458-E:6 I (6) Picking up their child’s school records. (Note: This law applies to CUSTODIAL as well as NONCUSTODIAL parents)

458-E:6 I (6) Picking up their child’s birth certificate (Note: This law applies to CUSTODIAL as well as NONCUSTODIAL parents)

Natural family circumstances:

Deconstruct the meaning of these two lines in the law:

(f) Lacks strong familial, financial, emotional, or cultural ties to the state or the United States.

(g) Has strong familial, financial, emotional, or cultural ties to another state or country.

So how does any ordinary good parent avoid triggering these two aspects of the law?

How many relatives do they need to have living in your state to meet the ‘strong family connections to NH’? One, five, fifty?

How much money do they have to have to meet the financial aspect of having a ‘strong financial connection’ to your state? $10,000? $100,000? $1,000,000

How on earth do they meet the ‘emotional’ connection to NH? Just what on earth does that mean? Do they have to cry for your state football team? If they don’t are they a potential child abductor?

And what is up with the ‘cultural’ connection? What do they need for a strong cultural connection in your state? Does that mean they can not be in a distinct minority community?

Now just in case you missed any Americans with the first part, now they must also meet the reverse test.

Having ‘strong’ family ties to another state is grounds for being considered a ‘child abductor’? How many sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles, or grandparents do we need living in another state to fall prey to this aspect of your law?

In Wallet v. Caulfield - Louisiana First Circuit court of appeals overturned a loopy judge who thought that a man who had a sister who lived in Brazil was sufficient grounds that to declare him an international flight risk. The appeals court would have put the flight bond on the mother or on both parents - who had a pattern and practice of moving away from the dad (3 times).

By the way, ‘child abduction’ is a FELONY - so you will be having the state courts in CIVIL court labeling people as ‘potential felons’. THIS IS NOT GOOD.

So perhaps the parent’s families all live in your state. They are still not safe. What about those ‘financial’ ties to another state? Better not own any vacation property in another state.

And what about the emotional ties to another state? What does that mean? Can you not be a fan of a football team in another state? I guess not.

And what about those infamous ‘cultural ties’? What on earth does that mean. How big a cultural community from your roots must exist in another state before good parents fall prey to this aspect of this horrendous law?