What would prevent you from wanting your rights protected?

I presented this video Live on Facebook for parents who decide to mislead other parents into thinking that getting sanctioned or blocked from filing is reason not to make the arguments that you have rights and you have the right to expect that the court serves the function of protecting these rights.

What would prevent you from wanting your rights protected?
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Fix Family Courts Channel • Duration: 23:19 (1399s) • Recorded: Nov 9, 2019
Author: Fix Family Courts
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Published: Jan 1, 2024
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Overview: What would prevent you from wanting your rights protected?

I presented this video Live on Facebook for parents who decide to mislead other parents into thinking that getting sanctioned or blocked from filing is reason not to make the arguments that you have rights and you have the right to expect that the court serves the function of protecting these rights.

I don't mind parents informing others that these things happen just as long as they don't mislead them. This particular parent had half assed their attempt at using the rights, made excuses why they didn't have time to learn the arguments, and had not even been able to figure out what had happened in their case, had not participated in most of their hearings in their case, and had already pissed the court off by filing numerous other things before discovering our materials and was already being shut out of the courts and denied everything they were requesting and threatened with sanctions.

In standard family court litigation, fit parents are routinely told that trial judges have unbounded discretion to divide custody and assign possession schedules. However, controlling Supreme Court jurisprudence strictly establishes that natural parental rights cannot be denied, stripped, or nullified without proving unfitness under strict scrutiny. Understanding these core constitutional protections empowers parents to hold attorneys and trial judges accountable to the law.

Executive Summary & Key Takeaways

  • ✓ Exposes the procedural and constitutional defects in standard family court custody proceedings.
  • ✓ Explains why fundamental parental rights are protected under the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause.
  • ✓ Equips parents with actionable legal arguments to counter judicial overreach and preserve the record for appeal.

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Full Presentation: What would prevent you from wanting your rights protected?

Complete presentation (23:19) covering core parental rights and strategic legal arguments.

Constitutional Principles & Controlling Precedents

This presentation directly implicates fundamental constitutional guarantees and controlling appellate precedents:

Cited Judicial Precedents

Troxel v. Granville, 530 U.S. 57 (2000)
Recognizing that fit parents are presumed to act in the best interests of their children, and that the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause strictly limits judicial interference with parental decisions.

Constitutional Protections Invoked

Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection Clause
Companion Article Why Parents Are Hesitant to File for Family Rights Protection and Why They Must Persist
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Why Parents Are Hesitant to File for Family Rights Protection and Why They Must Persist

Parents face a tough choice in family court. They want to shield their kids from harm. But threats from judges and lawyers stop many cold. Attorneys refuse cases. Judges warn against raising constitutional rights. Opposing counsel pushes for sanctions. These fears chill parents from fighting. Yet kids suffer real risks in the system. Stranger danger hides behind court robes. You can't back down now. The stakes hit your family's core.

Section 1: Unacceptable Dangers Exposed to Children by the System

Kids face hidden threats in courtrooms. Judges pull them into private chambers alone. No parents watch. No oversight exists. This setup mirrors dark scandals like priests in the Catholic Church. State laws let guardians ad litem or amicus curiae meet kids solo. No adults nearby. How does that keep children safe?

One court expert even faced abuse claims against a child. Professionals claim safety, but trust breaks easy. Parents lose power to guard their own. When courts ignore your rights, you can't step in. Government picks take kids away unchecked. Nights pass in worry. What happens next door? This danger demands action over fear.

Your role stays key. Fight to restore control. Let no official act unchecked.

Courts push back hard. Judges hold power tight. They won't hand it over. File motions, and expect heat. Attorneys hear threats and quit. Judges yell about jail. Sanctions loom from foes. This tests your grit.

State your case bold. Argue for changes to old laws. Say extension, tweak, or flip them fits now. Courts lack due process safeguards. Substantive rights crumble. Write this clear in papers. Judges who get it build your record. Bad ones rage. Plan for both.

History shows pushback proves your point. Power clings. You expected easy wins? No. Silver bullets fail. Train for the hits. Tolerate threats like past fighters did.

  • Expect sanctions or blocks.
  • Study your state's rules on frivolous claims.
  • Note federal law shields attorneys more than you.

Prep beats surprise.

Section 3: The "Movement" Mindset: Learning from Historical Rights Struggles

Rights battles scar deep. Voters faced jail. Kids got seized. Civil rights folks sat at counters. Hot coffee splashed laps. They stayed calm. No fists flew. Narratives tried to kill support. Yet they pressed on.

You're in that line. "Best interest" rules stack bad precedent. Like Jim Crow or slavery laws. Case after case cements wrong. Overturn it step by step. Not first try wins. Rosa Parks? Not the starter. Many arrests built change.

Reframe your view. Child support fights feel wrong? Courts boot you from home first. They block direct care. Then guilt you for resisting theft. Reset. You provide fine before. State creates need. Fight the machine, not your duty.

Women jailed for votes. Slaves chained longer without push. Don't quit now.

Section 4: The Role of Diligence and Education in Effective Advocacy

Half efforts flop. Copy motions blind. Skip your facts. Courts call them junk. Frivolous tags stick. Learn your keys. Tweak for your case.

Attorneys scare easy too. They skip study. Sanctions scare them off. Bail mid-fight. Federal rules protect lawyers from silly claims more than pro se folks. Check state twists. You drive if they fold.

Do it right or sit out. Complainers mislead. "It failed me!" they post. Often? Lazy prep. Evolve arguments. We shift from declaratory to pretrial frames. Teach others. Dodge repeats. Courts hate rehashes.

  • Master "frivolous" tests.
  • Avoid same pleas twice.
  • Join groups for full tools.

Half-ass quits hurt all. Full push wins ground.

Section 5: Quantifiable Successes Proving the Strategy Works

Wins stack up. Supervised visits gone. Gag orders lift. Bad temp orders flip to equal shares. One-parent rules fall, like in Sanders cases. Statutes struck unconstitutional.

Leverage shifts fast. You stand tall. Not beg mode. Foes settle. Other parent agrees now. Cases drop from court. Two parents out last three weeks. Third nears. Posture changes talks.

Control returns. No rights use? Child support hits anyway. Authority shrinks to foe's level. Sanctions fly for small slips. Discovery fights? Same pain. Rights build appeal base. Errors clear on record.

Not using them? You lose default. Push gives ground.

  • Overturn kid-choice visits.
  • Cut gag costs, dodge broke.
  • Gain driver seat.

Proof lives in results.

Conclusion: Taking Responsibility for Rights Enforcement

Threats chill but don't stop real change. Courts punish anyway. Discovery skips, pleas struck—same fines. Rights fight builds true base. History nods yes. Every shift needed grit. Threats prove power shakes.

Kids risk alone time with strangers in robes. You hold the shield. Inaction hands control away. Learn deep. Tweak motions. Teach kin. Push past first loss. Appeals wait. Wins grow.

Join the fight site. FixFamilyCourts.doc/membership. Grab tools. Share wins. Stand for your crew. Control your path. Kids safe. Rights live. Start now.

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well good morning everyone hopefully I have a good connection so if you are not able to hear me please let me know we're going to try to discuss what I was posting about last night and that had to do with what would make you not want to file for protection of your family rights because a lot of parents are running into problems with attorneys refusing to file them hopefully we're not going to have this connection problem again but judges threatening you telling you not to pursue your arguments regarding your constitutional rights and we're also going to talk about the dangers the courts are exposing your children to so if your attorney is

saying that if you file these the judge is going to you get angry with you or punish you the judge is saying don't bring up your constitutional rights or they'll put you in jail or opposing counsels filing to have you sanctioned would any of those things make you stop fighting and this is super important that you guys respond because we need other officials who are working in these areas and legislators who are making the laws see and understand if you are being chilled from arguing and protecting your rights right and let me talk to you about why it's so important to protect these rights your children are being exposed to some monstrous things they are being put in

judge's chambers with judges whom you don't know you have no idea what they're doing with your children this is no different than than Catholic churches with priests you have state laws that are allowing amicus guardian ad litems to have come read access to your children completely alone no adults present no parents present nothing how is this safe for your children so if nothing else you are trying to protect your child from stranger danger I don't care whether they're safe they're claiming they're professionals lots of people claim they're professionals and Miller that a particular court-appointed expert has sexually abused a child so you as a parent are being placed in a position where you cannot protect your child

whether it be protecting them from some behaviors of your your other you the other parent isn't even what I'm talking about your are not you're not able to protect them from the acts and behaviors of the government officials who are charged with protecting your rights to be able to protect your time so that's the reason a lot are filing these arguments when your rights are not respected you can no longer protect your child and there's nothing worse then going to bed stressed every night wondering what the government appointed official is going to take your child somewhere alone maybe some of you guys haven't thought about this because it hasn't happened to you or you haven't

[Applause] [Music] let me know so I don't see anyone posting that they can hear me so so what would make you not file to protect these rights right all these things that I've mentioned have happened if any of these are gonna scare you off by the way don't use these motions because I hear some parents they complain after they file some of the motions and then they say oh my gosh I got threatened or now I'm being sanctioned or threatened with sanctions well do you guys really think that these judges and these other attorneys are just gonna roll over and go okay go ahead and take away the abuse of power that I've been exercising go

ahead and limit me first not what government official has ever ever done that right so if you think for one second that they're just gonna let you win this piece of cake silver bullet as soon as you file you are sorely mistaken and you don't need to be using these motions you need to learn if you're not part of if you're not a member in our site and you're filing these motions then you need to take it upon yourself that you're not following the process that you don't know the right thing frivolous they're gonna try everything they can to shut you down they're gonna try to make it harder for the next

people behind you to file because they're going to say see that last person it didn't work for so you shouldn't all there with that and then where do you left with you with government abuse you are left with abuse of power you're left with judges taking over the rights to your children placing them in dangerous situations so if you ask me it's worth putting up with these threats and in whatever retaliatory things that they're gonna try to do they recognize that you are pursuing a claim that extension modification or reversal of existing law is necessary those are valid claims those have merit you may want to put those in put them in your motion that

you are arguing for extension modification or reversal of existing law and that it's necessary and one thing that we argue in our motions is that it's lacking the proper procedural protections they're violating your substantive rights so they're violating procedural law due process okay hopefully you can still hear me I know we're getting interrupted in this feed I'm not sure how to resolve it I'm actually inside so I'm gonna try to okay I'm still here hopefully you guys are too so some are judges recognize what you're doing and will allow the arguments so that you can develop the record corrupt judges are gonna throw fits and punish you so let me help you

with a different perspective on fighting for these rights instead of going into this thinking that you're not going to get beat up or punished you need to change that you are gonna get beat up they are going to try to put all right hopefully so with me okay so if women okay so we're talking about fighting for your rights and parents getting upset because they get threatened with sanctions when they file motions or materials that we have well I don't know what you guys expected this has happened in every movement right women blacks Mexicans gays the people who fight for Jim Crow laws slavery and for rights to vote they were scared off

they were beat up they were killed that was I'm getting really tired of this connection interruption people who were fighting for rights to vote had their children taken and thrown in jail right how is that okay it wasn't fun it happened so you are gonna get punished you are going to get threatened and if you can't handle that then don't do it right just take what they give you just be under their control if you're not okay with that then you're gonna use materials that are effective that are eventually going to win they have been winning in some areas by the way getting rid of supervised visitation and getting rid of gag orders getting rid of bad

temporary orders and going back to their original orders where they had equal rights these do work they just take some finessing some tweaking for your keys you have to learn about how your right apply to you you can't get the education you can't just copy emotion you present it and expect it to do the work on its own so that's the problem that people are having is their half-assed and not really taking the time to do what's necessary to learn how to do this it's as simple as that it's just that you are movements people in movements they had to learn how to conduct themselves sitting at the lunch counters they had

to learn how to tolerate having hot coffee thrown in their face and thrown on their lap and not react back didn't turn around and punch him in the face right the reason they had to do this is because there was there were narratives out there that were trying to get so that nobody would support their fight for exercising those right the people the lunch counters they were exercising rights you were fighting for rights that you're already entitled to so you're fighting to be able to exercise your rights a little different than the movements who had to fight for rights women when they didn't have any rights where they couldn't wait they actually had to fight for rights

what other people have already fought for these rights and the reason you're having so much problem exercising them is because not enough people took the time to learn with their work or to care about their rights and fight to exercise them earlier so now bad precedent has been created so you're fighting to overturn bad precedence not unlike slaves slaves had to overturn bad precedent people that fought to overturn Jim Crow laws they had to overturn bad precedents because there was a lot lots of case law that supported those bad laws or doctrines right so the same thing is happening with you best interest is creating bad law and bad doctrine I was talking to a

dad yesterday and he said it doesn't it feels terrible to fight against taking care of my child and he was relating to child support they were making him feel bad to fight against child support because they said child support was to benefit and take care of his child we had to reset his perspective and asked him if he ever abandoned his child if he ever failed to provide for your child directly he said no they kicked him out of his house he lived with his child the first 20 months of parents are being parents are having disabilities created on there they are taking away your ability to directly support and provide for your child and then when you

fight them trying to steal your money to give it to somebody else is when they try to make you feel bad and that's when you have to reframe it and reshape your perspective and reset your mindset on it so you wouldn't be enjoying rights today if others had fought and won them for you so that's why you're doing this is sorry was interrupted so that's why you're doing this because you don't want to continue that bad cycle that you don't want to perpetuate the bad precedents that they've said in the race that they've taken away that's hurting you and hurting your children so if any of you were saying that it's too scary or you

think that it's better to try and appease them and let them play games with you and your child's rights go right ahead but let's not mislead others let's not be posting out there hey these don't work right could you imagine if all the women who were thrown in jail and have their children taken away said forget it okay I give up this doesn't work so I'm not gonna fight for women's rights did you imagine if people didn't fight slavery it would still be in practice today so don't mislead others don't post up on our pages or anywhere else because if you post on our pages and you're misleading I'm going to take it

down not because people are being sanctioned but because you're misleading them if you're not continuing to fight and learn how to overcome whatever it is they're let's learn from it let's do what we can to overcome as much of it as we can there may be punishments that we're just going to have to tolerate in order to push these right through and well the rights of your entitled to be exercising so in order to break through their abusive power and their abuse of authority preventing you from exercising these rights you're just gonna have to tolerate some of this but there are things we can do on some of it right so you can make your pleadings better you

can learn these arguments better you can address the statutory things that are allowing them to punish you you can educate others you can teach others not to make same mistakes that you made if they truly were mistakes right like we're not perfect there are lots of arguments that we change and evolve which is why our motions have evolved which is why before we just had declaratory judgment motions now we have pretrial framing motions and by the way guys we're not attorneys we don't practice law we're not a substitute for attorneys we are trying to help you help your attorneys make these fights and arguments and what's happening now like opposing counsels are filing for

sanctions when your attorney tries to help you they're trying to get the judge to punish your attorney for trying to help you and what we find is sometimes these attorneys most times they're not taking time to learn these arguments either so they get scared and they might bail on you and bail out all the more reason you need to learn this yourself and by the way attorneys cannot be sanctioned as frivolous I don't know if you know this josè litigants can now this is federal so you have to check your state laws but in federal they cannot so part of protection for you having an attorney if you are protected from some of these

things that you aren't otherwise protected from seems kind of backwards to me but the other thing you're not protected from is if you make the same pleas on the same issues and you're just restating at different ways that can be considered repetitive and they can kick you out as not having merit and being frivolous for things like that so you do need to learn more about what is frivolous what is without merit what are they considering to qualify for those things and if they are wrong then you have ground to stand on Peola fight for them to punish you that's a different story but if they're wrong they're wrong lots of parents have been

shut down or lost at trial court levels at the first appellate court levels and then maybe one and at the states of pretty poor levels maybe they lost all the way through maybe it took a hundred people before they won like Rosa Parks she wasn't the first person to get arrested for refusing to move to the back of the bus was she so it took many people doing this and many people being punished before they either got a bad law overturn or before they could exercise their right without being punished right so that's the way it works mmm so again if you're not taking necessary steps to continue your learning or use the arguments if you're

not a member if you're not understanding your keys and you're just throwing these motions in your court like a Hail Mary then you should not be making these claims at all because you will make it harder for other parents for doing the work that's necessary to advance these arguments and you're causing attorneys to hesitate on this which they do already because you're not the only one getting denials are threatened with sanctions so you got to make it easier on these attorneys you got to do your homework so why else would you fight for these one I told you that people are making little successes right there getting back orders overturned they're getting

the orders overturned that are authorizing children to determine when they see you or whether they see you they're getting unconstitutional statutes overturned like in Ray Sanders or Saunders however you say it the one parent doctrine is overturned they're getting other successes like temporary bad temporary orders overages they're getting rid of gallons which gets rid of a ton of expense that drives you into bankruptcy so fighting for these rights is worth it your rights give you the ability to change your posturing in the case so using these motions using these argue arguments you're able to reap posture you're able to gain leverage that you otherwise may not have you don't constantly have to be on the

defensive people will gain more confidence and they're able to succeed and sometimes get of the courts we've had at least two parents and last three weeks be able to get their cases out of the courts and actually there's a third one working on it right now so it may be cancelling the motions that you Bob for modification to get out of the court it may be getting agreement from the other parent that you couldn't get otherwise but now that you've posture differently they decide they want out too so you're in the driver's seat with these arguments and this change this changes the dynamics in the interactions and the communication is something that you sorely needed if you

have ever been through this and you're helping parents and without making these challenges you have nothing to stand on all you can do is beg them and hope that they pick it and once they've pretty much picked the other side it's very rare that anyone gets it overturned but not so when you make these arguments so the people threatening you do so so they can keep you under their control some say so they don't have to do the work right they don't want to show their work they don't want to have to justify what they're imposing on you they using your rights means they have to learn something and use it and they're lazy

and they don't want to go so the people threatening you do so because they don't want you to take away their unabridged control over your life if you want control back over your life you're gonna have to fight for it bottom line how many of you didn't use your right and you've been charged with child support so by the way not using your rights you still get punished don't you so how many been charged a child support but yes or no how many before you see your child and you didn't use your rights how many had your Authority rendered to an inferior parent when you didn't use your rights how those not punishment

people spend lifetimes trying to overcome the damage these courts create how is that not punishment so look at this correctly and you're right a parent pissed me off when they said hey guys be careful about filing these you might get sanctioned they might block you from filing things in your courts yeah they might they might have done that anyways without these they might have already been doing that and usually the parents that are posting those ones who half-assed it they didn't even look father to learn all of the arguments they claim they didn't have money to continue learn it that they didn't have time that they couldn't find an attorney to do it for them if you're

not gonna take responsibility don't complain right that's how I that's where I stand on that so how many of you no longer have as many rights as you had before you walk through that door you didn't use your rates but you still got charged some attorneys fees or maybe all of them from the other parents so using these rights is not changing that if you're still getting punished you're still getting punished rate what using your rates does means is it gives you a solid effective weight to stand on a foundation to argue that more than just saying hey I think they used the wrong opinion against me you won't have a leg

to stand on an appeal when you do that it's very very hard to overturn a judge's opinion or bias that you ask to use their opinion or bias you ask them to use their personal preferences and pick one of you so these rights change that they change how you're framing your argument and they give you more to argue as error if you have to go that far I'm telling you some parents don't many parents don't there are lots of people who've used these we don't hear back from again they get successes and they don't need further help now may or may not end up being you just don't count on it and keep learning okay so how many of

you got sanctioned because you didn't comply with discovery you didn't feel it was their business to give them your financials you didn't feel something was fair you not pleading stricken from the record because you didn't give in to something the judge told you to give in to so they sanction for all kinds of things so don't just blame it on using your rights because that will scare people away from the one thing the only thing that actually protects you and their children so the courts sanction for all kinds of things walk all kinds of things but how unless you force and push for this change right has anything else meaningful regarding rights ever in the

history of America changed without a push and without people being punished or threatened for making that push for challenging leaders and authorities and people who had control over them so just ask yourself about that so if anyone wants to ask a question let me know I'm gonna have to jump off here but but please do get a membership it's a fix family courts doc um slash membership and help others make progress in this area if you're teaching others we've got lots of materials in there for you to teach others and thank you to everyone who is standing strong and who are making a difference in this and everyone who's doing their best to try to use

these and we will never knock you for doing your best trying to use these the people that we get upset with are the ones who complain and half-assed and didn't keep trying to figure out what else they could do and keep trying to figure out solutions some people file RICO suits we don't really we're not really participating in not because we don't believe in them but because that's a whole nother argument but there are people out there doing those and we have bought them we think every effort to challenge these abuses of power is worth every ounce of your time we just have to focus and spend our time in the area where we're good at and

things that we know and we focus on implementing constitutional protections so I hope that you will share this and help others reframe their perspective and get these challenges into their cases without them you will have nothing without them you will be forever subject to their control so if you want to take control of your life back you will start learning these and using these and I hope to see you in the membership we look forward to serving as many people as possible as many of you who want to fight we are here for you all right talk to you again later thanks so much for showing up and sharing this video bye

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