
Chris asks…
What is a “Termination of IWO”?
I’ve been paying child support on my son for 12 years now, and missed maybe 1 payment in that time. His mom over the last couple of years has said she plans to re marry and have her husband adopt him. I have 0 contact with them because she lives across the country and today I received a child support paper with the ‘Termination of IWO’ checked and no other information. Google is no help and lawyers want 40-50 dollars just to explain what it means.
1. has my order been suspended/canceled?
2. he’s on my insurance will he still be covered if the child support is stopped? (i would like him to be covered)
3. do i still have to pay the retro child support?
He very much has a father figure that has raised him but i’ve never denied my obligation and responsibility. so one may understand my confusion upon receiving such a paper out of nowhere.
Phil answers:
IWO is Income Withholding Order. I assume termination of IWO would mean that they are asking your employer to stop withholding child support… Or it has been stopped by you and they are suing for it to continue? You may very well have to get a lawyer to look at it. I would assume though that you can go to the county court and ask them what it means without paying a lawyer.

David asks…
should we have bought this house, 1966 remodel?
2 years ago my wifes realtor friend told her she better by now, i told her we should save our money and wait, she wanted to remodel and i said i dont want to, she said she would divorce me if i didnt buy it, this house is costing us an extra 1000 a month over renting, i am 50 and will never see it paid off,,,30 years,,she said its good for the kids when we die, i told her we could get a 3 million dollar life insurance policy for about the same and the kids would be better off, we will never get that out of this house, who was right
georgie girl, my kids already get college,, geez smart answer dummy
Phil answers:
And your point is??
Why don’t you flip the house take the money, bank and it get the life insurance?
That way you can continue renting and paying off someones else’s house and help them put their kids through college.
Smart move big guy.

Paul asks…
If you consider yourself a Christian, can you give me your opinion of something?
read something on a blog for Christian voters that I found so profound and intelligent, that I thought everyone should read it.
My question is: after reading this, what do you think of her statement?
It’s quite long but, I urge you to try and read at least most of it. The poster is responding to another blogger who stated that now that McCain has chosen Sarah Palin as her running mate, Christians should vote for him. Below is her response.
Here is the original link
http://www.new.facebook.com/topic.php?ui…
Donna Brooks (Columbus, OH) replied to Dennis’s poston Sep 5, 2008 at 5:53 AM
Shane, you are being hoodwinked by the right-wing again. When I was in college, I and my Christian friends voted for Reagan and were so excited because we wanted to see Rove v. Wade overturned. Here we are, a quarter century later, and they are still using that same carrot to get Evangelicals all riled up to vote against the Dem candidate. Can’t you see that it’s manipulation?
The Republicans have had CONTROL of ALL 3 BRANCHES of government for 6 out of the last 8 years. From 2000-2006, the Repubs had a majority in Congress, a so-called “pro-life” President, and 7 of the 9 judges on the Supreme Court were appointed by your Republican candidates. Yet, no legislation was ever passed to challenged Roe v. Wade. Why not? Could it be because right-wing Evangelicals are like Pavlov’s dogs, and once the meme “Republicans-good; Democrats-baaaaaaad” is implanted in their heads, then all the far right has to do is play the “Dems – baaaaaad” abortion tune and Evangelicals HAVE to dance with their candidate, regardless of ANY OTHER CONSIDERATIONS!!
This administration and the Republicans in Congress who have loyalties to party over country has: broken laws, lied to the American people hundreds of times, violated the Constitution, ignored subpoenas, attacked any efforts to hold them accountable as “partisan” and “unpatriotic”, started a war against an enemy who did not attack us, has approved of TORTURE, indefinite detentions without charges or access to a lawyer, has broken our treaties with other countries, has plunged millions of Americans into poverty with their HORRID economic policies, has filled the coffers of Big oil, pharmaceutical companies, insurance companies, Wall Street investors, and the Saudi Royal family (an oppressive Islamic dictatorship, BTW), blocked all efforts to have a health care plan so that the 45 MILLION Americans who can’t afford healthcare can have it, has subsidized the meat, nuclear, & oil industries,– which are DESTROYING the Earth and its ability to sustain life as well as God’s other creatures, and fired Federal attorneys who were independent and refused to prosecute only Democrats!!
What part of all that is Christian?
You will never hear this on right-wing so-called “Christian” radio. They are just a propaganda machine for the far-right. These people are LYING to you, man!! They are the party of BUSINESS, of SELLING, of MARKETING, of ADVERTISING. It’s all packaging. Like Jesus said, they are white-washed tombs,– beautiful on the outside, but inside fill with decay and the bones of the dead!
Sarah Palin is hardly a “real treat” for Christian voters. Your ONLY consideration is that she is “pro-life“. I am really disgusted that a party that is so PRO-KILLING has done such a good job of marketing themselves as being THE “pro-life” party.
Consider abortion, for example. Abortion in the U.S. was on a steady decline the entire time that Bill Clinton was in office, but then started steadily increasing under Bush. An increase of 50,000 MORE abortions in Bush’s FIRST TERM. Why? ECONOMIC POLICIES. People are STRUGGLING economically. Even I am struggling just for food and shelter,– for the first time in my life!! In the 90′s, EVERYONE did better, — the wealthy, yes, but also the middle class and the poor, who were able to climb out of poverty. I didn’t have an economic care in the world in the ’90s, but I didn’t know how good I had it until now.
Conservatives are all about using FORCE, FEAR, and PUNISHMENT to *make other people do what they want*. Is that the way of Jesus?
For example, they want to PUNISH women who get pregnant by forcing them to carry the baby to term, but they insist on abstinence-ONLY education, on blocking access to birth control, and they don’t do anything to help them get pre-natal health care or to help them after the child is born. The conservative paradigm is “you’re on your own”. Right-wing talk radio even MOCKS children who came to testify to the need for healthcare for the 11 million children without it in this country. Don’t let them fool you. These people aren’t “pro-life“. They are pro-pregnancy, and I think it stems from a deep misogyny that says that women who have sex must be punished.
If they really wanted to prevent abortions, then they would advocate for insurance companies and assistance programs to pay for BIRTH CONTROL, and NOT VIAGRA.
Look at Sarah Palin. She advocates for abstinence-only education, cut funding for programs in Alaska to help pregnant teens, wants to have the government decide how many kids you are going to have, wants to remove the protections for the Polar Bear as an Endangered Species, and wants to open ANWR for drilling for oil. Drilling more holes and destroying more of God’s earth to feed our ADDICTION to ease, comfort, convenience, and THINGS is not good national energy policy, nor is it good stewardship.
Her policy isn’t about getting us independent from “foreign oil”. It’s about bringing home PORK to Alaska. Oil is a finite resource. Solar and wind energy are completely CLEAN, will never run out as long as the Earth is here, are FREE, and abundant. Yet Republicans have subsidized (with taxpayer money) nuclear energy and Big Oil for decades, while eliminating incentives for wind and solar. WHY? Maybe it’s because corporations can’t CONTROL the flow of FUEL with solar and wind, the way they can with extractive industries, including uranium. Whoever controls the fuel, controls the price.
Oh, Sarah Palin also has a bounty on wolves shot from airplanes. $150 for each front left foreleg. Do you think that pleases God? More “collateral damage”?
Look also at the double standard:
Could you imagine how the conservatives would be attacking Hillary or Barack Obama for bad parenting and not being able to even manage their own household if one of THEIR daughters became pregnant as a teen? Yet they manage to turn this same situation into some kind of VIRTUE for Sarah Palin?
So conservatives are “pro-life” as long as you are human, Christian, American, wealthy enough to afford health care, and unborn.
Once you’re born, that’s it. It’s everyone for himself.
There’s more if you go to the link. It’s very long, but there are many more great points.
Phil answers:
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What a great question!
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I agree with you that Solar and wind energy are completely CLEAN, will never run out as long as the Earth is here, are FREE, and abundant.
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I agree with you that conservatives are “pro-life”
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I agree 100% with you that Sarah Palin is “pro-life”.
They say Sarah Palin is ‘AMERICA’S HOTTEST GOVERNOR’
Palin is a former “Miss Wasilla” who was elected the town’s mayor at age 32.
Palin is Alaska’s first women governor, the state’s youngest chief executive, and one of the most beloved governors in the state’s history.
Palin is the Commander in Chief of the Alaska National Guard !
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Good Luck !
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