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TOOL OF THE DAY: Child Abuse?Lowered Standards have Hidden Costs CATEGORY: Family Law Due Process This must have been shocking when this father found this video on his son's IPAD. The mother is very young. And she obviously has very poor coping skills and no tools or skills for raising two toddler boys. She certainly gave me
TOOL OF THE DAY: Imputed Income...Bad for Children CATEGORY: Family Law (Child Support) What is imputed income? This is where the court can order you to pay child support based on an imaginary amount of money (earning potential), money you might have been earning in the past, money they believe you are capable of earning in
TOOL OF THE DAY: This was a very expensive lesson to learn on the spot. So here are a few sample questions you could ask an expert before
TOOL OF THE DAY: Organization and collaboration tool?wikis for the family court process. CATEGORY: Family Law Organization If we are to understand what needs fixing, we have to understand what is broke, right? And we all know that the family court process is definitely broken. But what is broken and what is not is not
TOOL OF THE DAY: example of how to testify in a way that integrates your rights without ever having to say the words "I have these rightsƒ?? or "it is my constitutional right to the care, custody, and control of my child.ƒ??
TOOL OF THE DAY: Activism: ?As long as I am unable to exercise my Constitutional right to vote, I do not have command of my own life. I cannot determine my own destiny for it is determined for me by people who would rather see me suffer"
TOOL OF THE DAY: Joint Custody"Ý5 steps to avoid falling for it. CATEGORY: Family Law Did you know that the US Supreme Court has ruled on several occasions that the right to be a parent is one of the most fundamental rights of our society? Did you know that this right only applies to you
"Ideas are very often tainted by people's personal ideologies" The complexity perspective, James B. Glattfelder hopes allows for some common
TOOL OF THE DAY: they are using our children as cash cows or what some may call a "cash for kids" or a form of "child trafficking" scheme. The reason that this practice has gone on this long is that it has been veiled well in an embedded culture, and has been protected by the notion that this was protecting children from poverty. We know now that this is not true.
TOOL OF THE DAY: Child custody, child support, and alimony modification all seem to have separate sets of rules when it comes to family law. Some of the rules are in print and some are learned culturally. So how are you supposed to navigate the waters? First, it is in my experience that even trained professionals in the field tend to navigate these by the seat of their pants.
What do you do when, a Family Court judge cherry picks findings to fit the view of the world they prefer would exist.
