A Father’s Struggle for Justice and Shared Parenting

In June 2004, my son’s mother and I divorced after knowing each other since 1992. Later that year, I reconnected with my daughter’s mother, whom I had first met in 1990. We reunited in November 2004, began living together in January 2005, and welcomed our daughter in 2006.

We became engaged in Paris in October 2007, but by June 2008 our relationship ended. I moved out and focused on my career, my son, and family responsibilities. As a District Sales Manager for a multinational company, I traveled internationally during the week, leaving weekends as my only time with my children. Despite the breakup, my daughter’s mother and I remained friends, and I continued to share time with my daughter until her second birthday in October 2008.

That day, after celebrating together as a family, her mother told me: “Since she didn’t need her father, Zoraya doesn’t need you.” From that moment, she began denying me access to my daughter.

Court Battles Begin

In October 2008, I was served with a Temporary Restraining Order. At the hearing, both of us admitted to Judge Don S. Cohn that there had never been any acts of domestic violence. The petition was dismissed for “No Just Cause.” Yet, the court failed to address how I would continue seeing my daughter, leaving me in limbo.

Determined to secure my parental rights, I filed a paternity suit in December 2008, requesting child support, shared parental responsibility, and reasonable time-sharing. Despite this, my daughter’s mother continued filing restraining orders, supported by fabricated police reports and false allegations.

Judicial Missteps and Alienation

In February 2009, Judge Dennis ordered both parents to attend Family Court Services for co-parenting and alienation intervention. Days later, another restraining order was filed against me. Despite evidence and witnesses proving the allegations false, Judge Brennan imposed a one-year “No Contact” order.

This decision devastated me. I lost my job due to the excessive court orders and the impossibility of balancing compliance with my professional responsibilities. More importantly, I lost precious time with my daughter.

A Fit Parent, Denied Normal Parenting

After years of hearings, supervised visitation, and thousands of dollars in legal fees, the Final Judgment in July 2010 confirmed that I am a fit parent. It granted shared parental responsibility and child support obligations. However, “normal and reasonable” time-sharing was conditioned on compliance with every court-ordered program, despite no evidence that I was ever a danger to my child.

Meanwhile, my relationship with my son remained strong and uninterrupted, proving that I am a loving, responsible father.

The Larger Issue: Parental Alienation

My case highlights a broader problem: parental alienation and the misuse of restraining orders to sever a child’s relationship with one parent. Despite compliance with every order, I continue to face barriers to being part of my daughter’s life.

This is not just my story — it is the story of countless fathers and mothers who are unfairly denied meaningful contact with their children. Family courts must recognize that shared parenting is not only fair but essential for the well-being of children.

Persistence in the Face of Opposition

The opposing party has complained to the Court that I filed three petitions: the initial paternity suit and two follow-up petitions for modification. That is correct — and so what? It is my right to file petitions when there are substantial changes, and there have been.

The Court and the opposing party should know by now that I will never give up on my daughter. I will file as many petitions as necessary to ensure she has a normal relationship with her father. Instead of criticizing me, they should reflect on their reckless disregard for the harm they have caused Zoraya and me.

A Family Court Services Report dated January 29, 2013, regarding 12 supervised visits, stated:

“After greeting, Mr. Inguanzo immediately engaged Zoraya in conversation and play. Father and daughter discussed different topics such as school, science, books, a trip to France, physical education, Zoraya’s older brother, and other relatives, holidays, etc. Mr. Inguanzo also practiced speaking Spanish with Zoraya. Mr. Inguanzo frequently demonstrated physical affection, to which Zoraya allowed and reciprocated. Mr. Inguanzo displayed behaviors indicative of being nurturing, patient, and attentive to Zoraya’s needs. Zoraya appeared to enjoy her father’s company. Zoraya and her father displayed a very good level of interaction.”

This report, authored by Ms. Laura Escober, L.C.S.W., with observations from Ms. Maria Puentes, M.S.W., and Mr. Rafael Castro, Ph.D., confirms the bond between father and daughter. Yet, I have not seen or spoken with Zoraya since January 24, 2015.

This is how the system has failed my daughter. It is why this blog was born — to expose the injustice and to fight for the day when the Court finally recognizes the opposing party’s intentional interference and restores my rightful place in Zoraya’s life.

A Call for Reform

Much of what I have enjoyed most in life is being threatened by governmental actions that fail to protect our God-given rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Those entrusted to safeguard families are, in many cases, doing the opposite.

It is time to stand up against parental alienation and demand fairer family laws. Children deserve relationships with both parents, free from manipulation and false allegations. Judges and lawyers may come and go, but parents remain constant in their children’s lives.

I continue to fight for justice in my case (Case No. 2008-029595, 11th Judicial Circuit, Miami-Dade County, Florida). My daughter deserves to know her father, and I will never stop being there for her.

When Family Courts Fail Fathers, Children Pay the Price

By any measure, I am a fit and loving parent. The courts themselves have acknowledged this. Yet for years, I have been denied the most basic right of fatherhood: time with my daughter. My story is not unique — it is emblematic of a broken system that too often allows parental alienation to masquerade as justice.

#StandupforZoraya

In 2008, after my daughter’s second birthday, her mother began denying me access to her. What followed was a relentless cycle of restraining orders, false allegations, and endless hearings. Judges dismissed claims of domestic violence as unfounded, yet still imposed restrictions that kept me from my child. Even when official reports documented the warmth of my relationship with my daughter — noting our conversations about school, science, and family, and her joy in our time together — the system continued to erect barriers.

The opposing party has criticized me for filing multiple petitions. Yes, I have filed three: the original paternity suit and two petitions for modification. And I will file as many as necessary. That is not harassment — it is persistence. It is the refusal of a father to abandon his child. The real question is not why I continue to fight, but why the courts tolerate reckless disregard for a child’s right to both parents.

This is not just about me. It is about the thousands of fathers and mothers across the country who face similar battles. Family courts too often enable one parent to erase the other, reducing children’s lives to half of what they should be. This is not protection — it is abuse, carried out under the color of law.

The consequences are devastating. Children deprived of meaningful relationships with both parents suffer emotionally, socially, and academically. Parents who care deeply are left broken, financially drained, and stigmatized by false accusations. Meanwhile, the system congratulates itself on “protecting” children while ignoring the harm it perpetuates.

It is time for reform. Family courts must stop enabling parental alienation and start enforcing shared parenting as the default. Judges must be held accountable for decisions that sever parent-child bonds without cause. And lawmakers must recognize that the reckless disregard of parental rights is not just a private tragedy — it is a public crisis.

I have complied with every order, attended every program, and paid every fee. The courts themselves have declared me a fit parent. Yet I have not seen or spoken with my daughter since January 2015. That is not justice. That is cruelty.

Children deserve both parents. Parents deserve fairness. And society deserves a family court system that protects relationships instead of destroying them. Until that day comes, I — and countless others — will continue to fight. Not out of anger, but out of love. Because no child should ever grow up believing that one parent simply disappeared.

If You Seek a Bio-chemical Cause for Mental Health Disorders, You will become the “Little Train that Couldn’t”

If You Seek a Bio-chemical Cause for Mental Health Disorders, You will become the “Little Train that Couldn’t”

By Linda J. Gottlieb, LMFT, LCSW-r

If You Seek a Bio-chemical Cause for Mental Health Disorders, You will become the “Little Train that Couldn’t”

My opinion on the origin of mental illness is controversial to many in my profession. I maintain that emotional disturbances are situationally and not bio-chemically caused. But this position did not originate with me. It originated with my mentor, Salvador Minuchin, the world-renowned, highly respected child psychiatrist. Dr. Minuchin (as with his contemporaneous psychiatrists who founded the family therapy movement, such as Murray Bowen, Don Jackson, Jay Haley, Carl Whitaker, Nathan Ackerman, John Weakland, et al.) does not accept an intra-psychic or biochemical cause of mental disorders. Resulting from 65 years of practice, Dr. Minuchin affirms that traumatic situations; unhealthy relationships; and dysfunctional family dynamics, such as the PAS, cause mental health disorders. Diagnosis of mental health is not a science! There is no empirical evidence for any mental health disorder. You cannot inject the brain, withdraw serum, and have it analyzed. Any psychiatrist or mental health diagnostician worth his/her salt (and even those who are not worth their salt) must acknowledge that diagnosis of emotional disorders is based merely upon “impressions.” 

Mental health patients are guinea pigs when they are prescribed an array of psychotropic medications and subjected to a host of invasive procedures, such as ECT. At least Dr. Minuchin’s assessment for the cause of mental disorders offers optimism while remedy is benign and unintrusive: if you discard unhealthy relationships and situations, you will be symptom-free. A symptom free life is therefore possible without being subjected to invasive medications and procedures. Dr. Minuchin has recognized that he is a salmon swimming upstream when he articulates this; but think about it: if his analysis was to become the norm, then 90% of the psychiatric community would need to become educated about relationship therapy. And it would also be more costly for the health insurance industry, which would then have to incur the expenses of reimbursing for more protracted relationship therapy instead of for the quick fixes of drug therapy. No wonder there is such resistance to accepting this not so novel assessment of mental health diagnosis—-in spite of 60+ years of empirical evidence and scientific support for this perspective.

Although this may come as a shock to many readers, our current state of psychiatric diagnosis is NOT science. If it were, then psychotropic medications would not need to be persistently adjusted up or down in dosage, completely changed, and/or supplemented with other medications. The simple explanation for why medications so frequently fail to achieve a reduction in symptoms is because symptoms do not result from a chemical imbalance. Just compare the administration of medications for medical disorders: when, for example, an antibiotic is given for an infection, it is highly probable to be effective in resolving the symptoms. And if Dr. Minuchin was to be asked, he would likely explain that it is a patient’s history of having taken psychotropic medications that subsequently caused her/his chemical imbalance: in essence, such medications had upset a NORMAL chemical balance. Do not take my word for it: read the many books by Dr. Minuchin and the previously referred- to psychiatrists—-all of whose writings are listed in the reference at the conclusion of this article.

Dr. Minuchin’s opinion is supported by the recent research of Dr. Irving Kirsch, psychologist at Harvard University, who discovered that a placebo was equally as effective as were antidepressants in treating mild to moderately depressed patients. It was only the small percentage of highly depressed patients who responded better to antidepressants.

Two fundamental problems in our present family court system

We have identified two fundamental problems in our present family court system and have provided tentative solutions for them:

1. Lack of judicial accountability: in many areas of the country, especially in Florida, up to 80% of judges do not have to appear on the ballots when their term is over, so if they are doing a bad job, there is no viable way for the public to get them out. As a matter of fact, it looks like the worst a judge is, the less likely he/she will be challenged in elections.

Solution: constitutional amendment that will require all family court judges to appear on the ballots even if they have no one running against them (merit retention vote). Since judges may feel that we are targeting them, we have legislators willing to help us put an amendment that will even require all elected officials to appear on the ballots for a merit retention vote. I was told that this measure would be even easier to pass in Florida or even across the USA for we could get massive support from voters to strengthen our democracy. What elected official will argue against giving the people the power to decide if they are doing a good job or not? Only the ones that are doing a bad job, of course, so they would think twice before opposing such a measure. Accountability is essential to fixing this problem. The Pink Slip Project, at Newjudge.com, aims at this effort in Florida. Similar efforts are possible all over the USA, and around the world, if we unite to make this possible.

2. Inability to enforce judicial accountability: So, even if judges appear on the ballots, how can we make sure that we are able to vote off any judge not truly working towards the best interest of children and families?

Solution: The creation of a national organization to defend children and families in the USA. It will require presence in all states, and local branches in all judicial circuits. Its function will be to evaluate the performance of judges, and have volunteers ready to mobilize come election time to vote off any incompetent judges.

If you agree with these ideas and are willing to work towards these goals, send us a message, so we can have your name added to the Merit Retention Constitutional Amendment Coalition (MRCAC) group in Facebook, or you can provide your contact information to NewJudge1@gmail.com. United we can extirpate this cancer once and for all. 

Thank you in advance for your support.

We will be standing up and speaking up for our children.

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The Dysfunctional Family Court System Organizational Chart:

See Power Point (follow links by right clicking on text) and PDF charts. If you doubt this is actually going on, please watch Divorce Corp. documentary to dispel all doubts, and find out about one of the greatest scams in American history:

Over twenty people testified of the complete dysfunction of our family courts in Miami:

https://vimeo.com/121221867 and all across the State of Florida:
https://vimeo.com/channels/878408

LRSP Public Meeting Miami-Dade February 23, 2015 -- from The Florida Courts

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Why is it so important we reform Family Law?

See Report:

Why these problems constitute a sophisticated form of Racketeering, something a friend of mine recently named the “cartel of Family Courts”?

A corruption that is killing our children here and around the world:

CORRUPTION

Here in Florida, the number of children who have died under the mafia of the Family Court system is increasing at an alarming rate. Count went from 490 to 533 (+6 in a matter of days) in only a few months:

Thank you Miami Herald for standing up for our children.

We must unite to put an end to this madness. If you are tired of seeing innocent children die under the care of the family court system, help us Raise Hell, and stand up for them.

Outside the visual field of most people, a very dangerous form of cancer has been growing and is threatening to destroy the very own fabric of our democratic societies, the cancer of lack of elected official accountability. This cancer is caused by the violation of one of democracy’s most basic principles, the ability of people to vote for their elected officials. Nowhere is this cancer most evident than in the metastasis currently observed in our existing family court system, where judges regularly brag and call themselves reelected without even having to appear on the ballots.

Just because no one decides to run against a judge or any other elected official for that matter, does not automatically mean that they are actually doing a good job. As a matter of fact, this could be entirely the contrary. If not, just ask the Cuban people how many candidates have run against the Castro brothers in more than 50 years of their tyranny? As a matter of fact, the current practice of automatically reelecting government officials when there are no challengers, without having to appear on the ballots, is perhaps one of the most dangerous diseases to a democracy, for it surely breeds corruption and destruction of any democratic system that embraces this practice. If in doubt, just take a look at the state of affairs of our family court system.

We have identified two fundamental problems in our present family court system and have provided tentative solutions for them:

1. Lack of judicial accountability: in many areas of the country, especially in Florida, up to 80% of judges do not have to appear on the ballots when their term is over, so if they are doing a bad job, there is no viable way for the public to get them out. As a matter of fact, it looks like the worst a judge is, the less likely he/she will be challenged in elections.

Solution: constitutional amendment that will require all family court judges to appear on the ballots even if they have no one running against them (merit retention vote). Since judges may feel that we are targeting them, we have legislators willing to help us put an amendment that will even require all elected officials to appear on the ballots for a merit retention vote. I was told that this measure would be even easier to pass in Florida or even across the USA for we could get massive support from voters to strengthen our democracy. What elected official will argue against giving the people the power to decide if they are doing a good job or not? Only the ones that are doing a bad job, of course, so they would think twice before opposing such a measure. Accountability is essential to fixing this problem. The Pink Slip Project, at Newjudge.com, aims at this effort in Florida. Similar efforts are possible all over the USA, and around the world, if we unite to make this possible.

2. Inability to enforce judicial accountability: So, even if judges appear on the ballots, how can we make sure that we are able to vote off any judge not truly working towards the best interest of children and families?

Solution: The creation of a national organization to defend children and families in the USA. It will require presence in all states, and local branches in all judicial circuits. Its function will be to evaluate the performance of judges, and have volunteers ready to mobilize come election time to vote off any incompetent judges.

If you agree with these ideas and are willing to work towards these goals, send us a message, so we can have your name added to the Merit Retention Constitutional Amendment Coalition (MRCAC) group in Facebook, or you can provide your contact information to NewJudge1@gmail.com. United we can extirpate this cancer once and for all. 

Thank you in advance for your support.

Children in joint custody arrangements had less behavior and emotional problems, had higher self-esteem, better family relations and school performance than children in sole custody arrangements. And these children were as well-adjusted as intact family children on the same measures, said Bauserman, "probably because joint custody provides the child with an opportunity to have ongoing contact with both parents."

These findings indicate that children do not actually need to be in a joint physical custody to show better adjustment but just need to spend substantial time with both parents, especially with their fathers, said Bauserman. Also, joint custody couples reported less conflict, possibly because both parents could participate in their children's lives equally and not spend the time arguing over childcare decisions. Unfortunately a perception exists that joint custody is more harmful because it exposes children to ongoing parental conflict. In fact, the studies in this review found that sole-custody parents reported higher levels of conflict.

It is important to recognize that the results do not support joint custody in all situations. When one parent is abusive or neglectful or has a serious mental or physical health problem, sole-custody with the other parent would clearly be preferable,[/caption]

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.” –Ronald Reagan

The Pink Slip refers to the American practice, by a personnel department, of including a discharge notice in an employee’s pay envelope to notify the worker of his or her termination of employment or layoff.  No one, who has heard that just in the last 6 years more than 490 children have died under the care of the Florida Family court system, could argue that this system has failed our children.  Most people, however, erroneously mainly blame the Department of Children and Families (DCF) for their deaths, but miss the real culprits of this catastrophe, incompetent Judges. Yes, you heard it. 

Most, if not all of these cases went before a Judge who was ultimately responsible for what happened in his/her court. In most instances, these Judges ignored the evidence presented or accepted as truth clearly false evidence by “professionals” such as in the well-published case of Nubia Barahona, where the opinion of an incompetent psychologist was “enthralled” by the judge who ultimately failed to protect Nubia. We believe that the omissions committed in Nubia’s case as well as in other documented cases, such as the one of the well-documented case of Dr. Jimenez’ kids, were likely intentional and may represent a form of organized criminal activity, as established by the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.

Just like any government of elected officials, Judges work for the people to equally and impartially dispense justice for all. When some judges, however, fail to do their jobs as is clear to anyone familiar with our dysfunctional Family Court system, we have an obligation to legaly remove them from office. Fortunately, here in Florida, our Constitution has provided a remedy for the people to just do this. We the People, have the power to fire them, and that is exactly what this project intends to accomplish.

Florida can be a catalyst of positive change in our judicial system by exercising a clause in ARTICLE V, Section 10, 3(b) of the Florida Constitution: “…a circuit may initiate the local option for merit selection and retention or the election of circuit judges, whichever is applicable, by filing with the custodian of state records a petition signed by the number of electors equal to at least ten percent of the votes cast in the circuit in the last preceding election in which presidential electors were chosen.” 

For instance, to cause a sweeping reform of the 11th circuit court of Miami-Dade County, the biggest in Florida, and where a great number of these deaths occurred, it would only take 88,803 signatures, or 10% of the votes cast at last presidential elections. At the same time, to make our efforts last for future generations, the petition requests a constitutional amendment to make all circuit and county judges to appear for a merit retention vote at the general elections at the end of their 6-year period in office.

Here are the steps to successfully hand all incompetent judges in the Family Court system of Florida a Pink Slip:

1. Identify the incompetent judge (s) by name, or you can find some of these Judges here: The Shame List.
2. Prepare a petition form such as this: (click for .doc format), and download and print an explanation page of the project here: and at http://newjudge.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Pink-Slip-Project-Bilingual.pdf
   Note: Please send signed petition forms to this address: 2433 SW 147th Ave., Miami, Fl 33185.  
3. Get your family and others who have been negatively affected by the incompetence of these Judges to help you get the 10% of signatures needed in your district. These coming elections, for instance, would be a great opportunity to get many signatures.
4. Tell your testimony to others and how this has negatively affected the children involved. We must emphasize that the ones suffering the most are our children, and that it is our obligation as adults to protect them, and that is exactly what you are doing there requesting someone’s signature. It’s all about our children. They should not have to pay for the incompetence of these Judges. Remember that Judges are non-partisan, so you should be able to get support both sides of the isle.
5. Once 10% is reached, file all the signed petitions with the custodian of state records. Be ready with additional signatures since some of the signatures may be contested or questioned, so let us not give them an excuse. Note: This will get the incompetent judge(s) to the ballot where the people will have the opportunity to vote them out, so you will need to keep the pressure on until he/she is gone.
6. Probably in parallel with the petitions or soon thereafter, put adds in news papers with job listings searching for Judges who meet circuit court qualifications and who are willing to serve in these vacancies, and support the best candidates to appear on the ballot once incompetent Judges have been fired. If not, the existing Governor at that time may be able to prospectively fill vacancies if a Judge is not retained.

Pink Slip Project - 2017 from Childrens Rights Florida

Note: Let us know your experience with the dysfunctional Family Court system of Florida by sending us an e-mail to: NewJudge1@gmail.com. United we will win!

How we came to find out about this huge problems and why we think you should be concerned?

Events Leading To The United We Stand For Freedom Petition.

How To Fix Our Dysfunctional Family Court System from Childrens Rights Florida

Circuit Court Qualifications:

1. Elector and resident of the circuit upon taking office.

2. Must be a member of the Florida Bar for the preceding five years.

3. No judge shall serve after attaining the age of seventy years except upon temporary assignment or to complete a term, one-half of which has been served.

Important links:

1.  See Senate Joint Resolution 1188 to prospectively fill vacancies if a judge is not retained: .

2.  Q&A about Florida judges and judicial elections:

3.  MIAMI-DADE COUNTY JUDICIAL DIRECTORY WITH THE YEAR A JUDGE COULD BE UP FOR REELECTION (if  and only if, anyone files to run against them. Close to 80% of the time, this does not happen, and they are automatically “re-elected”. This is what the Pink Slip Project is trying to prevent):

4. A guide to Florida voters:

5.  A guide to Florida voters:

6.  490 children counted as dead under the Family Court system:

7.  Many more children, like Nubia Barahona, have not even been accounted among the 490:

8.  The Nubia Barahona report:

When are we as AMERICANS going to stand up and no longer allow CPS to kidnap and murder our children?

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