The Columbus Dispatch has endorsed HB 121, a bill to protect military parents’ child custody rights which is modeled in part on AB 2416, which we helped pass in California last year. In their editorial they explain:The bill would protect military parents from having custody arrangements altered while they are overseas. The law also aims to help deployed parents stay in touch with their children, accommodating visits during leaves and letting a close adult - a grandparent, for example - to fill in for them while away.We suggest you write a Letter to the Editor of the Columbus Dispatch, a 200,000 circulation newspaper in Ohio’s capital, by writing to letters@dispatch.com.
In April, Fathers and Families of Ohio Executive Committee Chairman Donald C. Hubin laid out the case for HB 121 in his op-ed column Custody agreements should survive deployments (Columbus Dispatch, 4/6/11). Hubin explained:
