Family Court Crisis
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We are asking for oversight hearings into the systemic failure of family courts across the country to protect children. When a battered mother leaves an abuser and attempts to protect her abused children, the family court gives custody to the batterer 70% of the time. www.leadershipcouncil.org. No agency or organization intervenes. This is the same dynamic as domestic violence, where "might makes right".
The collusion among state actors is blatant.Oversight is lacking in part because the appellate process is prohibitively expensive. The result of this surreal process is that children's lives are being ruined.
The U.S. is now a country designated as a human rights violator. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights is calling for U.S. legislation to greatly improve the protection of women and children from domestic violence. http://www.law.miami.edu/hrc/hrc_gonzalez_usa.php
We call upon our elected representatives to investigate and remedy this shameful situation.
The collusion among state actors is blatant.Oversight is lacking in part because the appellate process is prohibitively expensive. The result of this surreal process is that children's lives are being ruined.
The U.S. is now a country designated as a human rights violator. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights is calling for U.S. legislation to greatly improve the protection of women and children from domestic violence. http://www.law.miami.edu/hrc/hrc_gonzalez_usa.php
We call upon our elected representatives to investigate and remedy this shameful situation.
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This is also something that is happening with fathers trying to protect their children from unfit mothers. Too often, the court fails to realize that mothers can be detrimental to children. And the stereotype exists where fathers cannot properly care for children, which, in this day and age, is unfair.
The person that wrote about Kenneth P. Sherman and him writing orders and not filing them. We have the same issue and Kenneth Sherman was involved in ours also. I would love to hear from you, we may possibly be able to assist each other. You can e-mail me at : 1madmama@yahoo.com
Our family has been destroyed by this man and is actions. Maybe we can make a difference in what is going on here. Thanks for your post.
Our family has been destroyed by this man and is actions. Maybe we can make a difference in what is going on here. Thanks for your post.
This happened to my child and me. We went from being my child's father's victims to being victims of a system that I had entrusted to protect my child and do the right thing...in the name of truth and justice. The family court system miserably failed my child and myself. If I had known that we would have been treated so badly by family court with total lack of regard for the safety and welfare of my child I would have stayed with my abusive husband. At least I would be there for our child. After allowing the father to keep me tied up in court for YEARS, this abusive father (and REGISTERED CHILD SEX OFFENDER) was granted custody of our minor child. I still fight for a law in SC against such BLATANT DISREGARD FOR THE "BEST INTERESTS" OF THE CHILDREN OF OUR STATE AND BEYOND! I also would like to see abused mothers to be treated with respect and compassion instead of becoming a VICTIM OF THE SYSTEM for trying to protect her children!
I am in a custody battle with my ex who is an attny. despite his violence the courts have seen in court and his history of suing people and abusing his license and violating custody orders he is still allowed 5050 and now trying to gain full custody as i am run into the ground with high attny fees.
I took our child and left our home because of abuse by my husband of both our child and myself and because I found out that my husband had kept a secret from me, that he is a child sex offender. I trusted that the system would protect us. Instead, the family court nightmare that we suffered was something that I never could have imagined! After over 15 years of fighting to protect our child from an abusive father, a family court judge awarded this child sex offender father cusody on a false allegation against the mother that had already been ruled by a prior family court judge as "no finding of abuse or neglect by the mother". Something needs to be done to fix this "very broken system". as we hear it referred to time and time again with no efforts made to correct it. Children are being placed in harm's way, and the claim of the family court to serve to "the best interests of the children" is seriously lacking to say the least. Also, the treatment of abused women and children in South Carolina family court is deplorable!
This is a serious crisis where the children of our country are slipping through the cracks and no one will help them. Please help where you can - even by forwarding this link to your email contacts so that their little voices will be heard.
I'm signing this because I believe most of what is said here. One thing I do not like about the current laws is they label all guys as abusers, and all woman and children as victims. Growing up I have known women that were abusive to there husbands and children, children that abused there parents, and also grown men that were abusive also. One major problem I believe we have is the fact that people aren't being punished for lying under oath. If we punish people for lying under oath, the truth is much more likely to come out from both sides thus protecting everyone, and helping them to get the help that they may need. Thank you, Robert T. Scoviak P.S. please read my petition against Perjury and if you agree with what I'm saying please sign that as well. http://www.petition2congress.com/6075/stop-perjury-on-all-levels-in-court-procecut-all-that-lie-under-o/
As I have been learning more an more, I have realized that not only did I not get told or allowed any of my rights to,either be notified of certain actions in which to intervene , or even given any kind of a chance to be reunited with my child Someone tell me how in the matter of a couple hours .. By the actions of all involved besides me THE MOTHER, And with one action and not being notified of such action.. that led to me losen custody of my then 3yr.old.. Of all the laws I and statues and stes that are to be followed , none were followed , ignored , And I never got one chance to no what the intial allegation was or to respond r resolve .....My case does not involve my batterer it involes a third party , another county, my pfa was used when it fit te courts needs but ignored when it could benefit me.. ( ignoring my exclusive temporary custody of my daughter ) That i was there to witness when i was finnally told of the granting of emergency custody , @8 pm. fri night and told I was to be at a hearing the following tues, I was told over the phone by my oldest daughter who petitioned the court., And as I learn more and more about what is to take place, and didn,t . and the people involved.. ( an aunt of hers who works at the courthouse as a judicial secretary and had a copy of my pfa and order in her HOME SAFE... I realize that i never had a chance.withalot of legal dancing and juggleing they made sure of it....
A South Carolina Family Court judge granted custody of my minor child to his REGISTERED CHILD SEX OFFENDER AND CONVICTED ABUSER father after the father made a false allegation against me, the mother, to gain custody (of which a family court judge found me NOT GUILTY and another judge granted him custody anyway.) I have done nothing wrong unless trying to protect my child is a crime, that of which I would surely plead "guilty". I fought all the way to South Carolina Supreme Court, only to be told that SC Supreme Court refused to hear our case with no reason given. I will not stop fighting for a law against such blatant child endangerment until a law is passed against REGISTERED CHILD SEX OFFENDERS being granted custody of minor children in South Carolina. Hopefully other states either already have this law in place or will follow suit. Why make a CHILD SEX OFFENDER register and then place a minor child in his care? I fought for 15 years only toward the protection of our child, and I have been lied about, slandered and dragged through court to the point of financial ruin only trying to do what is right for our child and other children of our state. I don't want my case to be the open door for other innocent children to be placed in harm's way by a system that is supposed to be in place to protect the innocent. Please raise your voices over this failure by the system to protect OUR CHILDREN from such thieves of innocence! It is the duty of each parent and each state to protect our children, and if there is any doubt to ERR ON THE SIDE OF CAUTION...FOR THE CHILDREN!
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