TESTIMONY
Testimony: Dionis Fernandez, Founder of Father's Pickup, on Struggles for Fathers' Rights
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Dionis Fernandez, founder of Fathers Pickup, shares his personal journey and the collective struggles fathers face in the court system regarding child support and custody rights. Highlighting systemic issues and proposing solutions for equitable treatment, Fernandez emphasizes the importance of both parents' involvement in their children's lives.
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Hello.
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My name is Dionis Fernandez.
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I have a woman called Father's Pickup for Father that are fighting to be part of the Children's Life.
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I just did a now profit organization and now and my 501c, what I do is I go to all the 5 bureaus and I speak to father that has been going to court, paying child support, hire my lawyers and we still don't get the justice.
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We deserve to be part of our children's life.
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I've got 3 years fighting to see my child.
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Going to court, and they're not giving me the right that I deserve.
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And there's a lot of fathers out there paying child support, and we don't know where the money is going.
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We shall have like a full stamp sample So we know the money is being given to our child, not the more I'm using the money to our hair and things like that.
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The Lord just changed the flower to the that fathers and mothers single divorced still can have joint custody.
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It's going on effect July 1st, and I believe that should be able to do this here because it's very important for the children to have their father in their life.
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When you go to court, they always talking about the mother.
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And the father and they're not able to cope parents, so it's supposed to be wasn't the best interest of the child, but they always talking about mom and father issue which That's the past.
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They're not working things out, so they always gonna be talking about demos.
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They're gonna talking about child because we're missing being in her children's life.
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We're fighting to do everything we can.
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We cannot temper the the taste, phone calls, and fathers are going this 3 for years and it's tough for us to change this and for us to be part of our church's life because we are fathers and we great fathers and we deserve to be heard and we deserve to get the 5050 joint custody, the same as the mother because it's important for the mother to be there.
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So so as the father too.
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Thank you.