Divorce & Child Custody Articles

Are you asking for equal custody to avoid child support? States say yes but states get paid to say yes.

Every year the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (SCOTUS) issues a year end report with stats on the federal courts. Did you know that the federal courts employ 30,000 people? Did you know that half of federal civil appeals were filed pro se? One way to know something about how well the… Continue reading SCOTUS Year End Report

Divorce is scary business, especially when there is a child involved. Parents are hiring attorneys with the belief that the attorney is going to protect them. Your attorney will NOT protect your rights the way you think they will. You think you can just pay them a retainer and forget about your case, that the… Continue reading New Way to Divorce — Learn What Attorneys Don't Tell You

Going in to the new year, I encourage people to think before judging the parents who do not have equal custody with their child. Before you judge them you need to know that they were not represented properly in the family courts. I can assure you that their attorney did not insist that the court… Continue reading Before You Judge . . .

Parallel parenting is almost like the best of both worlds when parenting in an extremely hateful environment. Conflict is reduced naturally, Part Two of a Two-Part Series

Best interest of the child is an invidious and venerable phrase. It is one of the best marketing phrases ever invented. This phrase allows a judge in a family court to do whatever the court chooses, and if a parent challenges a judge, the court uses it to remove that parent from the child's life,… Continue reading TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY: BEST INTEREST OF THE CHILD LIE

I just wanted you to see the damage that false claims of sexual abuse cause, even after the person is exonerated. The charges were dropped against this pediatric dentist, but when I ran a Google search immediately after seeing the story on CBS News Channel 11, the search pulled up the claims of abuse before… Continue reading False Claims of Sexual Abuse Live On Even After Jury Acquittal

Blaming Mom – Single Parent Homes

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Tools for Creating Parenting Plan Calendars and Motions for Child Custody Suits. Doing these things can reduce litigation and result in a parenting plan that you can live with. All of this works even if you are dealing with a narcissistic parent or a toxic parent as well. Planning parent hood whether in a divorce, separated,… Continue reading Top Five Steps to Plan Parenthood after Divorce and Single Parenting

All over the U.S. fathers and mothers have come together to push equal parenting bills in an effort to get the courts out of their lives and to stop the courts from interfering in their children's lives. Jesse West, Sr, Founder of  “Dads Can Too,” and Ryan Allison, Member of Illinois Fathers for Equality, have come… Continue reading Illinois Proposed Equal Parenting Bill 4113

Attorney Admits the Family Law Process Does not Allow Them to Protect Parental Rights Attorney admits that they are not allowed to help parents protect their rights. Parents all over the United States are complaining to us that they cannot get attorneys to tell the judges that they have parental rights. They spend thousands of… Continue reading Attorneys Cannot Protect Parental Rights

Proposition 4 proposes a constitutional amendment to require that a court notify the Attorney General (AG) when a statute’s constitutionality is being challenged before the court rules on it. This gives the AG 45 days to decide whether they wish to respond and intervene. This does not control how the judge rules. This does however… Continue reading PROP 4 in Texas involves the AG in your child custody case!

Recently we had an interesting discussion with a very notable state court justice regarding family law. He introduced us to a method of achieving equal custody that we had never heard of before nor had ever considered, but as we have come to expect from this justice, it was pure genius. I’m not going to… Continue reading USING LEGAL JUDO TO GET EQUAL CUSTODY

David Hassellhoff has paid over 2.5 million in alimony. He has paid since 2006. Recently he filed to have the spousal maintenance eliminated stating that his ex-wife, Pamela, has failed to improve her job skills and is not seeking employment. Why has this argument failed for so many parents in family court in the past?… Continue reading Hassellhoff Wants his Ex to Get a Job so He Can Stop Paying Spousal Support

Myth: "Kids get bounced back and forth between two homes more in shared parenting than in a primary custodial arrangement, and it's not stable." Reality: The actual number of transitions is exactly the same for a child, whether they are on the infamous Siegenthaler schedule (which, interestingly was overturned on appeal – yet many judges… Continue reading Common Shared Parenting Myths – Part One of a Two-Part Series

DEFINING PARENTAL ALIENATION Many organizations would like parental alienation to be considered child abuse. But before that can happen there needs to be a discussion about how to make this a crime, and what constitutes the crime. In other words, what gets included as being criminal, you cannot make it criminal for parents to express… Continue reading Making Parental Alienation a Criminal Offense

A GAL is not your friend. And if someone has told you that they helped them in their case, remember this, a GAL can go either way, there are no guarantees that they will side with you,

"No you can't take the kids from me" says Brandi Worley in divorce tragedy just after she stabbed her two young boys.

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

You can use this defense against best interest determinations and against being forced to subsidize your ex's religous speech used to teach your child their own beliefs.

Compensatory Damages: $10,000, declaration of unconstitutionality, injunction against violating rights, and reasonable attorney's fees are all included.

If you prevail on this claim, you can receive damages relief from the state for the state actor's violation of your Religious Freedom and your child's Religious Freedom.

Free exercise of religion includes teaching you religious beliefs to your child which child custody orders substantially burden through prior restraint on speech and association.

Seeking relief under the code? This section of Chapter 110 is vital. You cannot delay. You cannot wait around and say "I will do it tomorrow or next week."

You must notifiy the judge of your court that they are violating TRFRA through child custody and support orders that substantially infringe your and your child's Religous Exercise.

Texas Courts are government agencies that grant benefits to parents in child custody which is NOT excluded, so this chapter applies to them.

Defining "Free exercise of religion" and "Government agency," telling us that federal precedent sets the standard for what is a compelling interest under this chapter.

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

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

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