Divorce & Child Custody Articles

A vast wealth of information for parent who are fighting for their children and to remain meaningful parents to their children. The US Constitution does NOT permit parental rights to turn on marital choices between parents.

ARE FAMILY COURTS EXERCISING LEGITIMATE AUTHORITY?

This was a great concern of our Founding Fathers who were very concerned with tyranny of the majority.

Why aren't More Parents Fighting Back: Part 1?

According to the RAND corporation study "Rebellion and Authority" findings, the answer to this might be shocking – the cost is not high enough.

Placing the Child's Right to Stability into Perspective

Any right to stability that may exist only exists against government action NOT against actions of fit parents.

Avoid Bad Advice that Destroys your Rights and Your Children's Rights

You don't just throw your rights away and then expect to be able to protect your child’s rights! That’s what generations have been doing already

What do you do when there is no attorney that knows how to protect you?

Does your attorney have a duty to inform you of and to protect your constitutional rights?

Lie 1: Best Interests of the Child

The Constitution protects all individuals, male or female, married or unmarried, even where that power is employed for the supposed benefit of a member of the individual's family.

New Research Proves Opposition to Shared Parenting can be Harmful to Children (ACEs Study)

New Research Proves Opposition to Shared Parenting can be Harmful to Children (ACEs Study)

Breaking News!!! Texas has an Equal Parenting Bill introduced by Rep Gilbert Pena HB2363!

Ron Palmer and Stuart McMullen will be meeting with Representative Pena Thursday afternoon to go over some details that involve defining best interest of the child as well as adding some additional provisions that will keep the courts out of your pockets and out of your private decision making for your children.

Tool of the Day: Breaking Up The Family — Add This Caselaw Quote to Your Pleadings

Supreme Court on Breaking up the Family: I should have little doubt that the State would have intruded impermissibly on the private realm of family life which the state cannot enter.

Framing Your Case

If you and your children are being alienated, learn some basic steps you can use in the framing up of your case to help protect your family from the parental alienation tactics being used to strip children from a fit and loving parent.

Do I have rights in family court?

Watch this animated video to see what your rights are in family court.

Convincing Your Attorney

Break the pattern of family court abuse by convincing your attorney to actually perform their fiduciary duty of protecting your rights.

Help, I'm Being Alienated

Alienation. Video explaining how the alienated parent can reframe their case to defeat the alienator.

Simple, Easy Steps for Fighting False Allegations!

Facing false allegations of Child Abuse is horrendous but far too common. Defend yourself properly..

Monica Contreras Sexually Assaulted by Family Court Marshal – A Reason All Courts Should be Videotaped

Monica Contreras was sexually assaulted following a hearing in her divorce case. In August of 2011, Marshal Ron Fox sexually assaulted this mother in the Clark County Courthouse. Then he arrested her and had her child taken.

Attorney General Ken Paxton on Child Support

Is Texas Attorney General Paxton trading children for cash under Title IV-D?

Protect Your Rights in a Child Custody Case

How to protect your rights in your child custody case.

Washington State's Equal Parenting Law is Being Ignored!

Washington State has had an equal parenting law since 2002! Who knew?

Pre-Trial Motions

Video: Win Child Custody - Fast, Easy, Simple New Pre-Trial Motions

Arizona Appellate Court Opinion Rules that Family Court Violated Constitutional Parental Rights!

An Arizona appellate court opinion confirms what Ron and Sherry Palmer at Fix Family Courts have been teaching parents and attorneys about constitutional parental rights.

Father Told by CPS Baby Sleeping on Chest is Inappropriate

A father in Marion County, Indiana pleads with Facebook users to share the photo DCS took off Facebook and used it to keep a case open after they failed to find him unfit. The social worker with the Indiana Department of Children’s Services (DCS) agency told the father that the picture was “inappropriate.” DCS has had the child in their custody for the last 15 months.

Podcast: Ultra Vires Regulation of Domestic Relations - Separation of Powers Doctrine

hear from Ron why the Separation of Powers Doctrine matters in your child custody suit.

How the BAR association through their UPL committee protects illegal family law practices.

Your state's Bar Association fights against your constitutional rights because unconstitutional family law practices make more money for attorneys accross the board.

How to Defeat the Argument that Parental Rights are NOT Absolute

When they tell you your rights are not absolute, most people are befuddled at that point, “What do you mean my rights are not absolute? I don’t understand. Why are you taking my rights?” What you have to hit them back with is, “Yes, your honor, I know fully well my rights are not absolute, but my rights are absolutely protected by the First Amendment at strict scrutiny in terms of speech, Association, and worship.

Fundamental Right to Disagree

Taking children because parents disagree violates the First Amendment protected Fundamental Right to Disagree.

Can Dads Breastfeed?

Mothers complain to the court that because they are breastfeeding the father should not have overnights.

What do you do when your child says, "How come you ain't never liked me?"

The co-parenter app is an app that works similar to Our Family Wizard with some additional features. It has a button where you can get a mediator 24/7 to help you resolve a dispute with your ex and another button where you can find an attorney. The mediators are trained by a retired judge who helped develop the app.

Texas Equal Parenting Bills for 2019

Parents in Texas, this year 2019, have an opportunity to add an equal parenting plan and order to the Texas Family Code Standard Possession Order (SPO) section. Historically, the SPO has only contained one plan that gives a noncustodial joint custody parent First, Third, and Fifth weekends of every month and Thursday evenings.

Father Wins Appeal and Gets Criminal Child Support Conviction Overturned

Care and support refer to different obligations, in a 4-3 split decision, the state's high court reversed Nelson's conviction.

Attend Child Support Webinar on Inability to Pay

Inability to pay is a defense to child support enforcement that you can use to put a stop to the insanity and the constant threat of jail. Don't let the judge bully you any longer.

Jury sides with mother in Texas to allow hormone-replacement therapy on a 7-year-old boy – Father Loses Fight to Protect His Son James from Mother's Choice to Gender Transition his Son to a Girl

A father lost his battle to protect his son this week in Texas. Jeffrey Younger did not agree with giving his 7-year-old son hormone-replacement therapy to transition him from a boy to a girl. He felt his son was going through a phase.

Strategies: Establishing Clear Rules Of Law Parental Rights

Sherry Palmer with Fix Family Courts teaches parents how to navigate the family court process, invoke protections of your parental rights, protect the child, and protect your right to continue to make the choices you feel are best for your child, rather than have a court impose what they believe is in the best interest of the child.

Five Homeschooling Tips for Non-Custodial Parents and Parenting Time

As novel Coronavirus cases go up, non-custodial parenting time goes down. A shelter-in-place order does not mean that your children cannot see the other parent in person when they live close by.