A self-censored chronicle of family court dramas, lived by parents who lost all or some visitation with or custody of a child or children based on perjury and/or other false courtroom evidence
By "Family Courts", it should be clarified that it means all courts dealing in private family matters...ranging from actual "family" courts that adjudicate child visitation / support / custody, marriage / separation / nullity / dissolution to juvenile dependency courts, and in other instances, probate courts when the issues revolve around guardianship, conservatorship, stepparent adoption, etc. Nowhere in the judicial system is family advocated...truly advocated. It simply does not...
Children's rights should include life with both parents. By Phyllis Schlafly Debates about same-sex marriage and gay adoptions always include the argument that a child has the right to both a father and a mother. .... If that is true, why is a child...
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Parent’s rights have been recognized as being “essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness by free man.” Meyer v. Nebraska, 262 US 390; 43 S Ct 625, (1923).
Even when blood relationships are strained, parents retain vital interest in preventing irretrievable destruction of their family life; if anything, persons faced with forced dissolution of their parental rights have more critical need for procedural protections than do those resisting state intervention into ongoing family affairs. Santosky v. Kramer, 102 S Ct 1388; 455 US 745, (1982).
Parents have a fundamental constitutionally protected interest in continuity of legal bond with their children. Matter of Delaney, 617 P 2d 886, Oklahoma (1980).
The liberty interest of the family encompasses an interest in retaining custody of one’s children and, thus, a state may not interfere with a parent’s custodial rights absent due process protections. Langton v. Maloney, 527 F Supp 538, D.C. Conn. (1981).
Parent’s right to custody of child is a right encompassed within protection of this amendment which may not be interfered with under guise of protecting public interest by legislative action which is arbitrary or without reasonable relation to some purpose within competency of state to effect. Regenold v. Baby Fold, Inc., 369 NE 2d 858; 68 Ill 2d 419, appeal dismissed 98 S Ct 1598, 435 US 963, IL, (1977).
Parent’s interest in custody of her children is a liberty interest which has received considerable constitutional protection; a parent who is deprived of custody of his or her child, even though temporarily, suffers thereby grievous loss and such loss deserves extensive due process protection. In the Interest of Cooper, 621 P 2d 437; 5 Kansas App Div 2d 584, (1980).
The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires that severance in the parent-child relationship caused by the state occur only with rigorous protections for individual liberty interests at stake. Bell v. City of Milwaukee, 746 F 2d 1205; US Ct App 7th Cir WI, (1984).
Father enjoys the right to associate with his children which is guaranteed by this amendment (First) as incorporated in Amendment 14, or which is embodied in the concept of “liberty” as that word is used in the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment and Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. Mabra v. Schmidt, 356 F Supp 620; DC, WI (1973).
“Separated as our issue is from that of the future interests of the children, we have before us the elemental question whether a court of a state, where a mother is neither domiciled, resident nor present, may cut off her immediate right to the care, custody, management and companionship of her minor children without having jurisdiction over her in personam. Rights far more precious to appellant than property rights will be cut off if she is to be bound by the Wisconsin award of custody.” May v. Anderson, 345 US 528, 533; 73 S Ct 840, 843, (1952).
A parent’s right to care and companionship of his or her children are so fundamental, as to be guaranteed protection under the First, Ninth, and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution. In re: J.S. and C., 324 A 2d 90; supra 129 NJ Super, at 489.
The Court stressed, “the parent-child relationship is an important interest that undeniably warrants deference and, absent a powerful countervailing interest, protection.” A parent’s interest in the companionship, care, custody and management of his or her children rises to a constitutionally secured right, given the centrality of family life as the focus for personal meaning and responsibility. Stanley v. Illinois, 405 US 645, 651; 92 S Ct 1208, (1972).
We only support organizations who show an understanding that children need both parents, and that either parent is equally capable of the choice to perpetrate hate or declare peace.
It's Fatherless Day again, while you are enjoying Fathers Day with your children, many of us will be wondering where our children are, we are worried if they are ok, and even praying that they are alive and well. Over the years you have acknowledged the importance of Fathers in their Children's lives. You have asked that we "Step Up" even chastised us for not doing so but in all too many situations, those are not the facts. The facts are, the majority of us would do anything to share in our Children's lives. As you are very well aware, Federal funding to the States through the Social Security Act's Title IV-D, Title IV-E and VAWA programs are preventing us from participating in our Children's lives. These Federal programs provide billions of dollars in funding to separate children, a full 85% of the time nationally, it is the father from their lives... This is a terrible injustice and nothing short of child abuse. The adverse effects of Fatherlessness directly correlates with literally every social ill that we suffer today. Just like the Women's Rights Movement, just Like the Civil Rights Movement and just like the Gay Rights Movement, we all knew their efforts were true and correct yet we waited and watched as the toll on society became unbearable before our government finally stepped up. Today, at this point in time in history, literally generations of families have been destroyed. All too many Americans have no idea what it is like to be a part of a family, they have no idea of the importance of family, many do not even know who or where their family members are. Do you think this is in the best interest of our Children? Do you think this is in the best interest of America? Mr. President, It's time for you to "Step Up", we need a full scale investigation into these federal programs as well as the family and juvenile courts of America. We need to open up not just a Senate Investigation and Advisory Committee but we also need for you to open a positive dialogue with, "We The People". Our country, our society, our families and our children are waiting and depending on you.
Respectfully, Donald Tenn Fathers 4 Justice -- Log in or register to post comments
La práctica judicial impone la custodia materna -- visoatCUSTODIA PATERNA - *MÉXICO* Aranzazú Ayala Martínez escribe el artículo fuente. La escritora se apoya en el testimonio de un letrado de familia que conoce, parece ser, bien lo que sucede en el día a día en los tribunalesde México. Se centra en una población, Puebla, pero al final del artículo manifiesta que aún sin conocer que sucede en el resto de ciudades, cree que muy posiblemente existan los mismos prejuicios que en Puebla. Por lo vista allí aún continúa vigente ese apartado de la normativa legal que indica que ase pondrá bajo la custodia de la madre a los hijos menores ...more »
“Borrando a Papá”
ilumina lucha de padres por sus hijos en Argentina
viso at CUSTODIA PATERNA - Un documental estrenado en Argentina que visualiza una realidad contra la que se disponen de miles de millones para que el sistema que da vida a dicha realidad persista. No són leyes las que consienten y permiten que el menor resulte huérfano de padre vivo, no, en el artículo se presenta al motivo como una trilogía compuesta por un sistema para alejar a los menores de sus padres formado por jueces, asociaciones y psicólogos. El documental que lleva por nombre "Borrando a papá" fue primero cancelado y después tras su emisión ha sido censurado por la justicia... more »
Recently, I had the ambivalent experience of reading a Court Order in a case with clear cut Parental Alienation. The Court ordered a Custody Evaluation by a forensic evaluator with deep experience with parental alienation. The report was very thorough and the recommendations were very clear. Given the severity of the circumstances (which had been allowed to simmer for years due to procedural delays), it was recommended by the evaluator that custody be given from the alienating parent - who was clearly identified as such - to the targeted parent, in order to effect a remedy and to ge...more »J Michael Bone, PhDatJ Michael Bone, PhD - 3 years ago
Increasingly, even as we become better and being clearer and more precise as to what will help remedy a parental alienation case, it appears to be the case that Judge's often hesitate to follow such recommendations. Very often, the targeted parent will have been accused falsely of being in some way dangerous, unstable or otherwise suspect as a parent. Since the court should always carefully examine any potential danger that such a parent might represent, it should then also recognize that the fact remains that parents are falsely accused of tendencies and acts that are not them. In ...more »
"...Just add Dad, the magic ingredient. It's hard to know where wishful thinking becomes deliberate deception. But this...
Posted by Children's Rights on Wednesday, August 19, 2015
Dr. Karin Huffer is the author of "Legal Abuse Syndrome" has had PTSD recognized and approved to allow special accommodations in the courts. Her work is phenomenal
As advised by lawyers, separating and/or divorcing parents often make false allegations of domestic violence (DV) in the form of a restraining order to evict an innocent parent from the home, interfere with contact with child/ren, and then file for temporary custody (virtually never temporary). False police reports are often obtained and used in DV Court...called "information only reports", but contain a fabricated incident of DV and thus a serious crime if and when exposed.
Judge
Manno Schurr Brings Nursing Background to Courtroom
Judge Valerie R.
Manno Schurr, 11th Judicial Circuit of Florida. Miami-Dade Circuit Judge
Valerie Manno Schurr had been a nurse for a dozen years when she passed the
Florida Bar exam. She kept working in the operating room.
"One day we had a new surgeon come in, and they said, 'You
know there's a lawyer in the room. You better be careful,' " she said.
After the operation, "the head nurse came to me and said, 'You know you
made that guy very nervous. He didn't like that there was a lawyer in the
room.' "
The Miami Beach native pursued nursing right after graduating from
North Miami High School, urged on by her sister, who was already a nurse.
"I couldn't decide what I wanted to do, and she said, 'Why
don't you go to nursing school? It's a great job. You're going to love it.' " Manno Schurr
recalled. "And I did. I really did. Nursing is a wonderful, wonderful
profession."
She started in oncology at Mount Sinai Hospital.
It was emotionally trying. Her mother died of breast cancer at 37
when Manno Schurr was 5. Caring for cancer patients took its toll.
"You're just trying to prolong their lives," she said.
"I wanted to take care of a patient, get them better and never see them
again. These people kept coming back and coming back. They come in. They get
diagnosed. You give them chemo, and they would get worse and worse and
worse."
Even though some were cured, she said the work was still painful
for her. After two years, she got reassigned to the intensive care unit, then
the recovery room. "Then I got cross-trained to work in the operating
room," Manno Schurr said.
"I did paperwork. I'd get the patient from the holding area,
check the band—'Are you so and so? Are you having this surgery?' You have to
make sure that everybody knew what we were doing," she said.
She served as the operating room's official historian and monitor,
recording every event and keeping track of every instrument and piece of
equipment used.
"I would do: Time patient in the room. Time patient on the
table. Anesthesia started at this time. The time of the first incision,"
she said. "And then when they would start to close, I had to count
everything."
The operation couldn't end until every item was accounted for,
down to every single sponge—even if it meant, as she once did, getting down on
her hands and knees and searching under the operating table to find it.
Dual Career
In 1989, she said, "I started getting restless. I just wanted
to do something else. I knew a bunch of people that were at UM law school. …
Actually, we went to the law school, and I sat in the back of the room. They
didn't say anything. They let me do it. And I said, 'I think this is very cool.
I think I want to do this.'
"The next thing I know," she said, "I'm a law
student."
Manno Schurr kept working as a nurse and as a clerk at a law firm
steps from the Flagler Street courthouse.
"I went to night school, and I had a job Saturday and Sunday
that I worked from 7A to 7P" in the ICU units at local hospitals, she
said. "I went to school at night."
After Manno Schurr graduated, she said, "It took me a couple
of years to get a job." When she did, her years of experience in hospitals
paid off.
"I got a lot of work doing medical malpractice," she
said. "That's what people wanted me to do."
In 1996, she left to form a general civil litigation practice with
her husband. In 2004, she ran for county court and lost. She ran again for
circuit court in 2006 and won.
"I loved being a nurse," she said. "I loved being a
lawyer. Now I'm here, and I love it. I'm very happy."
Still, she kept her nursing license active until just a couple of
years ago, and she keeps her nursing honor society pin in her chambers. And she
said her years of nursing still pay off in the courtroom, in more ways than
one.
"I've been in every division. I started off in dependency; I
went to criminal and civil. When I was over there in civil and I was trying a
medmal case and the doctor was testifying on the stand, it was great because I
knew everything that was going on," she said.
Now in the family division, Manno Schurr said: "Everybody
who's on the bench, all of us, we bring to this job all of our experiences in
life, and it makes you a better judge. I think that being a nurse gives me a
lot of compassion, especially in this division. It gives me a lot of compassion
for people."
JudgeManno-Schurr is my 8 year-old Paternity - Family Court Case Presiding Judge.
The 5th Judge to preside over my simple case; an unwed biological father
seeking to maintain contact with his daughter Zoraya (Google and Judge
Manno-Schurr is enabling Child Abuse via Parental Alienation.
On
March 25th, 2015, in a special set hearing at the Family Courthouse, Judge
Manno-Schurr interrupted my testimony while on the witness stand to notate the
court reporter‘s record saying…
Judge
Manno-Schurr: "the father (me) is
turning red in the face, yelling at me, and pointing his finger at me" Stuart
Abramson (for Petitioner), objected noting the record: "the father has been diagnosed with PTSD
your honor".
Judge
Manno-Schurr (this is why you should rethink this article) said: "Mr. Inguanzo were you in the
military?"
Petitioner
Testimony: "NO your Honor...YOU AND
THIS CASE HAS CAUSED THE PTSD ACCORDING TO MY DOCTORS"
How about that for a Registered
Nurse!!!
WE SUPPORT DVI - THE INSIDE STORY BY MR. TOM LEMMONS
Congressional Testimony: Glen Gibellina to Bill Windsor of Lawless America
Parents have a fundamental constitutionally protected interest in continuity of legal bond with their children. Matter of Delaney, 617 P 2d 886, Oklahoma (1980).
Parent’s interest in custody of her children is a liberty interest which has received considerable constitutional protection; a parent who is deprived of custody of his or her child, even though temporarily, suffers thereby grievous loss and such loss deserves extensive due process protection. In the Interest of Cooper, 621 P 2d 437; 5 Kansas App Div 2d 584, (1980).
“Separated as our issue is from that of the future interests of the children, we have before us the elemental question whether a court of a state, where a mother is neither domiciled, resident nor present, may cut off her immediate right to the care, custody, management and companionship of her minor children without having jurisdiction over her in personam. Rights far more precious to appellant than property rights will be cut off if she is to be bound by the Wisconsin award of custody.” May v. Anderson, 345 US 528, 533; 73 S Ct 840, 843, (1952).
