Divorce & Child Custody Articles

When a group is clearly not neutral, should your court be providing them as a resource? Should the Colorado Judicial government website list groups who are promoting the destructive idea that women are the better caretakers and that men who challenge this are abusers? This website claims: "Roughly 80% of divorces in our country involve uncontested… Continue reading Colorado Court Self-Help Website Promotes Biased Mother's Group

Is joint custody appropriate in situations such as Jude? The appellate court reviewed this question recently and rendered their opinion on April 3, 2017, just a few short months before Jude was killed by his mother in Orono.  Despite the high conflict between the parents, allegations of mental health of the mother, allegation of a… Continue reading Was Joint Custody Appropriate for Little Boy Jude Sandberg Killed by Mother in Orono?

Father, Jeff Sandberg, and his family have suffered a terrible loss. He has decided to turn his tragedy into an effort to change the laws in Minnesota. He has started these efforts even before his son’s burial. The law that he wants to change has to do with psych evals. This is somewhat interesting since… Continue reading Mother kills son after loses child custody dispute that was to end in equal 50-50 custody

H.B. 4691 Michigan Joint Custody Bill passes 6-3. Republicans for the bill and Democrats against. Many states are commending themselves for passing bills they call joint custody, shared, parenting, or equal parenting bills. But what is really going on and what do these really mean. Let's take a little closer look at 4691. It’s a… Continue reading Joint Custody Bill HB 4691 Passes Committee and Prohibits Parents From Living More Than 80 Miles Apart

A pro se mother got some of her gag orders overturned by a Tennessee appellate court in a recent case ruling. The mother says she used the constitutional principles she learned from the Palmers book, NOT in the Child's Best Interest. The appellate court stated that they had no "on point" case law to guide them… Continue reading Gag Orders in Family Court Overturned with Constitutional Law

We talk with Michael Ferrini about how children are actually harmed by the state ignoring proper procedure necessary allegations in order to properly protect the children.

Chair Dutton officially announces the death of the equal parenting bill HB 453 on May 3, 2017. And he makes an unprecedented public statement to all equal parenting proponents that as long as who they perceive as supporters of equal parenting are making threats (or what they perceive as threats — we have been told that… Continue reading Why Did Equal Parenting Bill HB 453 in Texas Die?

Jeremy Newman, Public Policy Director and Attorney Cecilia Wood for the Texas Homeschool Coalition’s hard work has paid off so far. They spent their time educating the house representatives that fit parents were losing their children to grandparents and CPS in violation of the constitution as interpreted by the Supreme Court of the United States… Continue reading Best Interest Bill HB 1899 makes it through committee!

Do I Qualify to File a Federal Removal in My Family Law Case? If you are in a divorce child custody suit and you are facing child support enforcement, you might feel that the child support enforcement is unconstitutional or has violated due process, or that your child support order violates constitutional rights. This does… Continue reading Should I File a Federal Removal?

Texas Representative Tony Tinderholt, is sponsoring a controversial pro-life bill 948 with real death threats. And even though he and his wife and baby have to have police protection! The Blaze and the Dallas Morning News reports that "In spite of the threats, Tinderholt intends to continue fighting for his bill."

Today through June 1, 2015 you should be sending an e-mail to all of the senators and house representatives. We have made it very easy for you to do this. Watch the video instructions and go below it to find all of the stuff you can copy into your e-mail! Copy the following to all… Continue reading REVIVING HB2363 Equal Parenting Bill…

Enforcing Parenting Time Just Got easier in Oklahoma with SB 1612!

True most parents are unable to agree after divorce. This however is not grounds for a court to allow the other parent to torture and terrorize you or require you to parent their way just to be able to have equal rights and time to your child.

Filing a motion for Declaratory Judgment in Family Court is bound to raise some eyebrows. Should you go down this path? I believe every parent should. It’s prudent for your case. I have been going through the destructive Family Court for more than seven years. I have followed the rules and jumped through the hoops.… Continue reading My Declaratory Judgment Journey – Part 1

Texas Representative James White has filed another powerful bill in the Texas Legislature this 85th session, HB 3883, relating to interference with possession or access to a child, with penalties. Noncustodial parents have been having difficulty enforcing their possession time with their children. It's expensive and they couldn't get help from law enforcement or the… Continue reading New Child Custody Enforcement Bill Filed in Texas Today HB 3883

The same reporter who sang ChanceTheRapper's praises when he won 3 Grammys last month, might be changing her tune just because the rapper has not agreed to pay child support. When it comes to child support, even journalists are not immune to the biases that have been perpetuated by the family courts. Mary Mitchell of… Continue reading Does ChanceTheRapper Know The Fight He Has Ahead of Him in Family Court?

Attorneys say that children should not have to worry about these adult issues yet the court is going to affect the time and access that child has with each of the parents, so yes the children will worry. The child is not divorcing the parents and should not lose time and access with one of… Continue reading Should You Coach Your Child Interview with the Judge?

Parental alienation is not junk science. Watch as Dr. Berglas testifies to the California Board of Behavioral Sciences to urge...

College funds are being stripped from children to pay the family courts. Courts are appointing Guardian ad Litems and AMCs in Connecticut who had unlimited authority, total immunity, and could bill without limit. Parents were threatened with jail if they did not pay. This was the picture in Connecticut 3 years ago. This father decided… Continue reading Removing Immunity from Guardian ad Litems

TFLF (Texas Family Law Foundation) continues to make arguments against equal parenting bills in Texas. This year it's HB 453 and last year it was HB 2363, even though the current laws have been shown to hurt children and parents. Representative White asks The Family Law Foundation President JoAl Cannon Sheridan questions about the equal… Continue reading State Bar lobbyists Oppose 50/50 Bill in Texas – Watch Testimony Here

This Bill, HB0153, sponsored by House Representative Mark Jennings, is just waiting for the President of the Senate and then the Governor to sign. Once that is done, this bill goes into effect on July 1, 2017. Parental rights receive protection in Wyoming.

Parent withholding your child? Are you being alienated? This mother finally got a Texas District Attorney's office to enforce the penal code regarding child custody interference. They arrested the father yesterday, March 2, 2017, and she was able to go and pick her children up immediately. Penal Code 25.03 says that a person is interfering… Continue reading Mom Gets Texas D.A. to Enforce Penal Code for Child Custody Interference and Arrest Father

I was very moved today to write about the pathology of the Family Court to Representative Urban of Stonington, CT after hearing her speak on NPR's "Where We Live" and share the trauma that this inflicts on children in Connecticut: (The following is what I posted on Facebook. Go to the end of this article and… Continue reading Please Read My Letter – A Parent's Plea to NPR

The Texas Family Law Foundation (TFLF), a lobbying arm of the Texas State Bar, made a recent attack on parental rights bill, HB 453 in Texas; a Bill that puts an equal parenting time option into the family code. TFLF circulated a flyer to the members of the 85th legislature warning that if the legislators passed… Continue reading Texas State Bar Lobbying Arm Caught Misleading Legislators

Did you know that as soon as your son signs the Attorney General's paternity acknowledgment form he subjects himself to being jailed for a felony. Attorney General, Ken Paxton, in Texas is indoctrinating children into the child support program in their high school health classes through a “Parenting and Paternity Awareness (P.A.P.A.) program”. Failure to… Continue reading Attorney General Indoctrinating High School Students Into Child Support Program

The Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE) says that Child Support is "good" for children and their most successful program to date. And one of the writers on the ABA blog writes that child support "IV-D only exists because of Deadbeat Dads.

Virtually all of the parental rights bills that were submitted to the Judiciary Committee for the 2017 legislative session in Connecticut have died in committee. "AGAIN"  These are bills that Connecticut citizens have been trying to get passed for years and have had to unnecessarily recycle them, year after year. The bills all encompass the basic principle… Continue reading A sad day in Connecticut

You can get this packet for free from The National Family Law Policy Center here. Take with you when you are discussing why and how equal parenting protects children.

Are the days of having to prove why you deserve equal custody of your child coming to an end? Looking through the history of the child custody laws in the state of Washington, you might not think so. Over the years, Washington residents have had several changes to their child custody statutes and no doubt… Continue reading Prove to Me Why You Should Get 50/50…

Virtual Round Table is a new podcast with Stephen Krasner, guest blogger for Huffington Post, and Zena Crenshaw-Logal, J.D. Zena, around time marker 8:30 asks Stephen whether the court is "erring on the side of caution" and whether or not the court is justified when they create delays in order to keep a mother away from… Continue reading Should a Court Protect a Child from a Not so Great Parent?

This is a continuation of the last blog I wrote yesterday on how the Standard Possession order statutes managed to turn into minimum possession orders and weaved their way through the Family Code in Texas to whittle away at parental rights. So we have written 4 new Bills that several people are carrying to the… Continue reading Status Quo in Family Code Statutes are Going to Have to Change

According to Appellate Judge Puryear, the legislators never intended for the Standard Possession Order in Texas to be the standard default possession order. Judge Puryear states in a concurring opinion made in 2005 that the joint managing conservator statute § 153.001, mandates "only minimal restriction on either parent’s possession or access," id. § 153.193. Puryear says… Continue reading Was the Standard Possession Order ever Intended to be Standard?

Judge Puryear, a Texas appellate court judge, believes that "preponderance of the evidence" standard is too low for determining infringement of the care, custody, and control of a child. What is Preponderance of the Evidence? Preponderance is a very low standard used by judges to decide minor disputes like in small claims court where no… Continue reading Appellate Judge in Texas Believes that Clear and Convincing Evidence is Required in SAPCR