Divorce & Child Custody Articles

TOOL OF THE DAY: Hope CATEGORY: Family Law Reform Hope is one of the most powerful and energizing emotions. Without hope people fall into despair, depression, and helplessness. Have you ever watched a show and found amazement in human strength in a story of someone overcoming all odds? Most of the time, the person didn’t let the… Continue reading DAILY TOOL: Why Should You Have Hope When Family Courts Just Keep Winning?

TOOL OF THE DAY: Standard of Proof CATEGORY: Family Law Due Process Preponderance of the evidence vs. Clear and Convincing evidence might be how you know it. After this post you will be on your way to schooling even the best of them on why the standard of proof used in your family law hearing… Continue reading DAILY TOOL: Standard of Proof

Sherry and Ron B Palmer map the way for parents to find their way out of the tyranny, bigotry, and lies of the family courts. “We are helping parents all over the United States stop the abuse of power. Let’s not lose another parent-child relationship to these family courts.”1 That means that this battle must… Continue reading Mapping Your Way to Win Child Custody Hearing and out of the Family Court Tyranny…

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… Continue reading DAILY TOOL: Solving the Family Court Puzzle…Organizing and Collaborating.

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"

"Ideas are very often tainted by people's personal ideologies" The complexity perspective, James B. Glattfelder hopes allows for some common

The biggest problem that family law has had is that not enough parents have known their rights or how to argue them.

What do you do when, a Family Court judge cherry picks findings to fit the view of the world they prefer would exist.

TOOL OF THE DAY: Joint Custody…5 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… Continue reading DAILY TOOL: Joint Custody…5 steps to avoid falling for it.

Is our country on the verge of a new epidemic left over from an old regime? Bankruptcy, joblessness, and incarceration have become synonymous with divorce and child custody proceedings. Could outrageous child support awards be one of the culprits? Deadbeat dads are the scourge of our nation, or so the government would have you believe. Married… Continue reading Is Excessive child support destroying families and our national economy?

Tina Swithin brings up some really good points and some suggestions in her most recent article but also presents a couple of suggestions and ideas that are contrary to...

Parents who are fit in marriage do NOT become unfit just because they choose to enter into a divorce or because they are forced into divorce by the other parent

After providing a lengthy discussion of the existing precedent the US Supreme Court as recently as 2000 has said that: “In light of this extensive precedent, it cannot now be doubted that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment protects the fundamental right of parents..."

What Divorce Lawyers Do in Their Own Divorce and Why from an article called "What do Divorce Lawyers Do In Their Own Divorces" by J. Richard Kulerski, attorney and partner in the Law firm of Kulerski & Cornelison. There were several things that caught my attention.

Did you know that you can block the Divorce Court from determining custody based on the best interest of the child standard? There is a basic procedural step that your attorney and the Judge are simply skipping over as they rush to assume that the Divorce Court has authority to take your child from you.… Continue reading How to Limit Divorce Court Power to deny your parental rights – procedural due process?

You can go to jail for not paying child support. We all know that. But did you know that you can go to jail while you are paying child support? Friday, a father in El Paso, Texas, April 1, 2016, was arrested at the courthouse while filing for a temporary restraining order against the mother for… Continue reading Is There a Limit to How much Child Support can be Taken from My Paycheck?

The Supreme Court of the United States hears many gay rights cases but no parental rights cases. Does the Court hate children?

On Thursday March 12, 2015 as many of you know Ron Palmer and Stuart McMullen had their meeting with Representative Pena regarding the Equal Parenting Bill HB2363 and putting the Protecting Parent-Child Bonds Bill as a rider onto HB2363. First, Ron and Stuart went by Rep. Dutton’s office (Chair of the Juvenile Justice and Family Issues… Continue reading Update on the Texas Equal Parenting Bill HB2363

TOOL OF THE DAY: Equal Shared Parenting CATEGORY: Family Law What if your judge doesn’t believe in equal shared parenting? And what if the experts he relies on don’t either? Your judge is probably going to believe any therapists, GALs or custody evaluators before they believe you. And they might have been influenced by columnists/family… Continue reading DAILY TOOL: What if My Judge Does Not Believe in Equal Shared Parenting?

FEAR! If you cannot walk into that court room and say you will not give in then you are not ready to win your child custody hearing and you will be subject to the worst kind of bullying, abuse, bigotry, intimidation and loss you have ever known.

Divorce Corp the movie meticulously documented behaviors that anywhere else would be considered organized crime.

No judge and no government agency anywhere on this earth is better situated to protect and nurture a child than that child's own fit parents.

In this video, Ron and Sherry discuss the sample motions and how they can be used to improve outcomes in your case.

Have a child custody case coming up? Has anyone talked about what rights are at stake here? The last time I sat in a courtroom waiting for the family cases to be heard, I got to hear the criminal docket first. The judge asked every single person at the beginning of their criminal hearing if… Continue reading New BREAKTHROUGH Motions for Protecting Proper Due Process in Family Courts

Your attorney, even the good ones, are deeply trapped by this corrupted system. We are not.

Just spoke with a Dad yesterday who spent three months incarcerated for something that was a simple procedural issue. (That’s a separate issue.) Despite his incarceration, he declined to have the mother put in jail when she violated the orders. To this day however she has continued to interfere with his and his children’s ability… Continue reading ENSURE COMPLIANCE while SHOWING COMPASSION

SUPPORT PARENTS THAT ARE WILLING TO MAKE THE TOUGH DECISIONS AND STAND UP FOR THEIR PARENTAL RIGHTS Unfortunately, this mother, Katina, didn’t know her rights or how to assert them. That hasn’t stopped her from exercising her right to protect her child to determine what’s best for her child. Now is your chance to show… Continue reading TIME TO STAND UP FOR MOTHER JAILED FOR STANDING UP FOR HER RIGHT TO DETERMINE BEST INTEREST OF HER CHILD

Sadly, many attorneys and divorce court judges use this excuse to take on power that is NOT theirs by right. The idea that a right can be eliminated just because it conflicts with another right would make rights themselves meaningless. Religious rights guaranteed under the First Amendment are often in conflict with the rights of… Continue reading Destroying Divorce Court Lies: Divorce Courts Lie When They Claim That Parental Conflict Negates Parental Rights

Sherry and Ron B Palmer are one of the speakers and trainers for D.I.V.A.S. DIVORCE 101 launching this Saturday in Flower Mound, Texas! They are one of the very few constitutional scholars, authors, coaches, and instructors to parents and attorneys all over the United States. They have launched a class that teaches parents how to… Continue reading DIVORCE 101 Launching in Dallas Texas D.I.V.A.S.

There seems to be dispute as to what your rights are when you enter a family law courtroom. You really don’t have time to wait. You need to find what can help you now! DURING my research I came across a groundbreaking method that could save your child from being put in the middle by the… Continue reading What are Your Rights in Family Law Courts?

TOOL OF THE DAY: Equal Shared Parenting Bills and contacts CATEGORY: Family Law Thank you LW4SP for compiling all of the Bills circulating throughout the United States. Click on this LINK TO BILLS FOR EQUAL SHARED PARENTING.  

Families all over America are grateful for the soldiers who have sacrificed their own comforts and sometimes even their own life to protect the one document that protects your rights and liberties, the Constitution. It’s the Constitution that protects your right to be free from government interference into your private family life, your right to… Continue reading Rally Honors Those Who Fight and Have Fallen to Protect Rights in Divorce

Many highly respected advocates like National Parenting Organization (NPO) for parental rights have been giving high praise to some of the new shared parenting bills. One in particular is the new Missouri Bill HB1550 that goes into effect this month, August 28, 2016. This Bill has some very good provisions in it which we will… Continue reading The Rotten Deal – Shared Parenting and Joint Parenting Bills are NOT Delivering