Posted on 05/05/2015 8:41:21 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad
Perhaps there is some better explanation in their minutes. But I doubt it.
This is the final meeting where on this proposal.
http://www.lsli.org/files/minutes/11-2014%20-%20November%202014.pdf
Storm the statehouse with riot police to arrest all who voted for this atrocity.
Here is their 2013 budget
http://app1.lla.state.la.us/PublicReports.nsf/5862E970818E03C286257C7500770326/$FILE/000371EC.pdf
Total expenditures/expenses 999,455 page 7
State appropriations 972,666
OOOO. I like the way your are thinking. Got a few free Storm Troopers?
“May the 4th be with you !”
Fresh out of riot police, I shall have to use the power of the pen... well, keyboard.
Lets see:
http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/opb/pub/FY15/FY15_Executive_Budget.pdf
SCHEDULE 24 - LEGISLATIVE EXPENSE
Schedule 24 - Legislative Expense includes 6 budget units:
House of Representatives,
Senate,
Legislative Auditor,
Legislative Fiscal Office,
Legislative Budgetary Control Council,
and Louisiana State Law Institute.
page 20
24_951 House of Representatives....$27,607,568
24_952 Senate..................................$20,728,093
24_954 Legislative Auditor................$32,694,389
24_955 Legislative Fiscal Office........$2,430,297
24_960 Legislative Budgetary Control Council......$18,149,643
24_962 Louisiana State Law Institute......$1,033,509
Legislative Expense .....$102,643,499
page 181
24_962 — Louisiana State Law Institute
General Fund (Direct) $1,033,509
Hear, hear!
I simply do not understand this. It sounds horrifying just based on the title. I am willing to be wrong but this looks like an absolute nightmare. Am I missing something?
The first paragraph of your post about LSLI tells me most of what I needed to know. Academia.
What in the ‘H’ is academia doing involved in governance! They are allegedly educators, not a governing entity. They have no business in the arena of politics other than perhaps as observant students.
Handing the creation of laws over to what is mostly liberal academia is not good governance. It’s more akin to passing on responsibility. Quite similar to our Congress passing their responsibilities to bureaucracies.
They even force men to pay child support when they KNOW the kids are not his.
Not so sure that is what is going on. This sounds like a stealth ploy by the Gay/Lesbo activists who want the other parent out of the way when they hook up with a previously hetero married person. Very messy when children are involved, and the other bio-parent is upset about the horrible impact on his/her child. Nothing is as it seems any more.
I took a quick look at the law before and it looked like parental rights get terminated at divorce, but then it sounded like the court appoints something similar to a guardianship for the children called a “tutorship”. I have no idea what that is, though.
I am not a lawyer, but the article looked interesting so I did a little reading and I’m confused.
A summary of SB134 is here: http://www.legis.la.gov/legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=944744. The Senate bill, with comments, is here: http://www.legis.la.gov/legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=944623.
It seems to say that parental rights (of BOTH parents) terminate at divorce. This is existing law, the bill does not change that. Per Louisiana CC 131, “In a proceeding for divorce or thereafter, the court shall award custody of a child in accordance with the best interest of the child.” Other sections, not being modified, reference both sole and joint custody arrangements.
Can you point to the section in this bill which is causing concern?
It is like I’m reading a outer limits story, nothing makes sense
If you are going to get a divorce and you have children, get the heck out of that State! This further discourages marriage!
How the hell did it pass?
I find it hard to believe that the Louisiana Senate would vote 37 to 0 in favor of anything that most FReepers would be against. What is the problem???
I'm curious to hear from Pikachu_Dad since my reading of the bill indicates that Louisiana is merely trying to update the language for the times. For example, there are instances in the current law where the father is charged with making decisions for the child. Under the proposed updated law, both parents are responsible.
I don't see anything nefarious in the bill. Hopefully Pikachu_Dad can point out the offending section.
Oh I’m phucking pinged. Thank you, I somehow missed this.
For those who asked what they are missing, it is simply a clarification of long standing Louisiana law and a cleaning up of civil code and it’s ancillary (r.s. Chapter 9) language.
The concept is that joint parental authority is derived from the marriage. That joint authority, including the right to represent a child as embodied in civil code chapter 5 is terminated upon death, incapacity of a parent or divorce (when the judgement of divorce transfers it to one or both parents individually, as determined by the best interest of the child).
There is no change in the law, no sinister motive or hidden agenda.
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