Term: Answer
An Answer is a Respondent's or Defendant's written response to an initial court filing such as a divorce suit or a child custody petition
Best Interest of the Child
The Best Interest of the Child, is perhaps the best marketing slogan ever created and it is used to destroy lives and punish children every single day
Fiduciary Duty
Your family law attorney has a fiduciary duty to act in your best interests NOT in your child's best interests.
Guardian Ad Litem
An agent of the Court who you have to pay to speak against your interests and hide the court's corruption
Habeas Corpus
The Great Writ in American law that can be used in child custody cases to challenge the violation of a custody order
Marital Discrimination
This is a type of impermissible discrimination that is based on people making marital choices that the government disfavors
Parenting Plan
A court order restraining the times, places, and manner in which a parent and child may speak, associate, worship, and share family privacy with one another
Per Legem Terrae
A term from the Magna Carta of 1215, found in clause 39 which is sometimes called the law of the land clause
Stability, the Right of
An invented 'right' that the child custody courts and some state legislatures apply as a tool to wield against fit parents in favor of the state