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.

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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.

Weaponized Family Court System,

"There is no crueler tyranny than that which is exercised under cover of law, and with the colors of justice "
– U.S. vs. Jannottie, 673 F.2d 578, 614 (3d Cir. 1982).

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Obstruction Of Father/Son Relationship

COLLUSION OF DOJ WITH THE JUDICIAL BRANCH IN VIOLATION OF SEPERATION OF POWER

• Letter to Congress on the Denial of the Right to Impartial Judicial Review of Misprison of a Felony
• 2008-Opposition to the Appointment of Eric Holder as Attorney General of DOJ
• 2008-Criminal Compalint for violation of 18 U.S.C. Secs. 4, 241, 242, 1513 etc.
• VIOLATION OF SEPARATION OF POWER BY THE COLLUSION OF THE VIRGINIA COURTS AND BOB McDONNELL
• OPEN LETTER TO MEMBERS OF THE U.S. SENATE
• FATHER'S/SON RIGHTS
• THE REASON FOR THE SUIT AND NOTICE OF FEDERAL TORT CLAIM
• CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS, VIOLATED 18 U.S.C. SECS. 1001 & 1204
• Court of Appeals Confirms Duty to Protect Father's Rights Under Treaty
• PETITION FOR INVESTIGATION OF ABUSE OF JUDICIAL AUTHORITY
• RICO/Bivens and Federal Tort Complaint Against Judge J. G. Roberts et al.
• July 2005--Recent act by Judge J. G. Roberts and the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
• August 2005 CHIEF JUSTICE JOHN G. ROBERTS INTENTIONAL FALSE STATEMENTS TO CONGRESS
• Exception to Judicial Immunity
• MISC. MATERIAL IN SUPPORT OF ACTION AGAINST JOHN G. ROBERTS
• 2005 Letter to Congress on Collusion of DOJ with Judicial Branch
• NEGLIGENCE OF NCMEC

A form of child abuse has been associated with anxiety, depression, criminality and even suicide in child victims.

A new billboard campaign will spotlight a form of child abuse called parental  alienation.

Parental Alienation is associated with anxiety, depression, criminality and even suicide in child victims.

The billboard image shows a child being pulled out of the loving arms of her father while declaring:

"I am not parental prey. Help me keep mommy AND daddy."

Introduction to Parental Alienation from Stan Korosi

Nearly half of all marriages end in divorce. When they do dads are being made increasingly irrelevant in the life of their kids, often as a result of spite or malice, with tragic consequences on children, families and communities.

Parental Alienation-What is it? How Does it Happen? How Does it Affect Children? from Stan Korosi

A form of child abuse has been associated with anxiety, depression, criminality and even suicide in child victims.

A new billboard campaign will spotlight a form of child abuse called parental  alienation.

Parental Alienation is associated with anxiety, depression, criminality and even suicide in child victims.

The billboard image shows a child being pulled out of the loving arms of her father while declaring:

"I am not parental prey. Help me keep mommy AND daddy."

SOURCE: Canadian Association for Equality

Introduction to Parental Alienation from Stan Korosi

Nearly half of all marriages end in divorce. When they do dads are being made increasingly irrelevant in the life of their kids, often as a result of spite or malice, with tragic consequences on children, families and communities.

Parental Alienation-What is it? How Does it Happen? How Does it Affect Children? from Stan Korosi

Parental Rights to End at the School Door?

In a recent article of the Fairfax (VA) Times [1], a school board candidate wrote,

“some members of the School Board argued the school’s duty in loco parentis – to stand in the parent’s place – essentially means that parents’ rights over their children end at the school door. No parent in Fairfax County would agree.”

You probably wouldn’t agree, either. Unfortunately, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals already has. In its 2005 case Fields v. Palmdale [2], the court held that the parents’ fundamental right 

“does not exist beyond the threshold of the school door.”

In Palmdale, the issue was a graphic sex-ed curriculum. In Fairfax, it was interrogating students without notifying parents. But whatever the issue,

“once parents make the choice as to which school their children will attend, their fundamental right to control the education of their children is, at the least, substantially diminished. (Fields v. Palmdale)

This should not be the case. Please act now to reverse this assault by big government courts against parental rights.

Then, pass this on! Every parent of a public school student needs to know the extent to which the courts have robbed them of their rights. Add the message to your Facebook page, or use the button to add it to any social network.

Every child has the right to be raised and represented by parents who love them, and not by disconnected government bureaucrats. Help us to preserve that right today!

When truth is buried underground it grows.

When truth is buried underground it grows, it chokes, it gathers such an explosive force than on the day it bursts out, it blows up everything with it.

Emile Zola Quotes

Lying In Family Court by Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq. 

When I became a family law attorney/mediator after a dozen years as a therapist, one of the biggest surprises was the extent of lying in Family Court: lies about income, assets and even complete fabrications of child abuse and domestic violence. Why would people lie so much, I wondered? How did they get away with it? The following is my psycho-social analysis of what I believe has become an epidemic: 

Men lie: It was a sad phone call from a relatively new client. He informed me his father had just died. He had quit his job and was moving back east to wrap up his father's affairs. He asked me to tell his wife's attorney that he would not be able to pay child support for their three young children for a long time. (There was no support order yet.)

The next day, his wife's attorney called me back and described how upset his wife was to learn of her father-in-law's death. So upset, that she had called his father -- and had a nice chat!

Women lie: A mother involved in a custody battle told the court in dramatic detail about physical abuse at the hands of her husband. She even submitted reports of visits to doctors and emergency rooms for her bruises.

However, a court-ordered psychological evaluation determined the allegations were false. The court agreed and awarded custody to the father. A few weeks later the mother picked up the children from school and disappeared for a year. She was caught, sent to jail for parental kidnapping, and the children returned to the father

Societal Increase in Lying

Surveys show that lying has increased over the past decade. In 1999 alone: the President was tried in Congress for perjury; a popular journalist in Boston was publicly fired for fabricating heart-rending stories; and a scientist was exposed for falsifying research on a high-profile safety issue.

TAKE ACTION NOW Demand Congressional Oversight Hearings on Family Court's Child Custody Practices

CHILD ABUSE FROM THE BENCH

• By: Geoffrey Cole
• Target: The governor of the State of Florida, Miami, FL

All of us at one time or another find ourselves in front of the family court. THE FAMILY COURT in Dade County is abusing children; either by ignoring their cries, as in this case, or by appointing Guardians that take money , are personal friends of the Judges and who just want a pay day.

WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN? These people believe they are protected by the law, no one can stop them and they are G-d's. Well, we have given them this power...WE VOTED THEM INTO OFFICE. PLEASE HELP STOP CHILDREN ABUSE IN THE DADE COUNTY FAMILY COURT. SIGN OUR PETITION AND ASK THE Govenor office to Investiage Judge Scott Bernstein and Dr. Miguel Firpi.  

Demand Congressional Oversight Hearings on Family Court's Child Custody Practices

• By: Donna Kuge
• Target: President Barack Obama

There is a cover-up occurring in another powerful, venerated, institution, which in many ways mirrors the practices that facilitated the Catholic Church child abuse scandal. For decades, in Family Courts across the nation, women who have tried to protect their children from an abusive father have been attacked and battered by a ruthless system which dismisses or ignores physical abuse, verbal threats, and even documented criminal histories of fathers in a obsessive effort to attain their stated goal - joint custody at all costs. Money too, fuels the atrocities in the courts.

This isn't about good fathers, it’s about the money used to facilitate abusive men. Father's Rights groups (often fronts for male supremacists and abusive men who want to control their families or strike back at the mothers) have fought vehemently to cement shared custody as the default mandate in Family Courts and although their agenda seems reasonable and their image as good, fit fathers benevolent, it belies an ugly essence of hatred, misogyny, and revenge.

These cases are often euphemistically described in the media as "high-conflict," but the reality is that the father is often abusive, controlling, and dangerous, something that Family Court refuses to acknowledge as they push for shared custody.

Endemic legislative policies and procedures in Family Courts endanger and destroy children's lives, and in the worst cases lead to their murders. Family Courts operate with impunity and no oversight, disregarding existing laws designed to protect victims of domestic or child abuse. Institutionalized policies and doctrines countenance and enable the perpetrators while the system covers up illegal rulings and criminal conspiracy by imposing gag orders, fines, threats of loss of custody time, or jail time on women and their children and serve to justify enforced, continued contact with the abuser.

The sensational cases that are covered in the media, where abusive fathers fight for custody and obtain custody then shoot, stab, beat, strangle, drown, throw the children off bridges or high rises, burn them to death, or “merely” rape, sodomize or otherwise physically abuse their children (two out of thousands of examples are, "Killer wins custody of children after 10 years in prison; guardian fights decision," and "Slaying Suspect's Wife Warned of Risk to Children" , are seen as anomalies and unavoidable atrocities, but in reality it is the fundamental flaws in the institution, the systemic practices and policies, and the endemic graft of complicit cottage industries that result in the murders, suicides, and continued abuse of children.

Just as Fathers Shanley, Porter, and Geoghan were seen as aberrations ("bad apples") in the Catholic Church scandal rather than manifestations of a debased system, the media does not link the vast numbers of cases which follow the same identical pattern to the individual cases covered in the stories, thereby unmasking an appalling system that is awarding rapists, registered sex-offenders, domestic violence abusers, drug addicts, and even convicted murderers joint or sole custody of their children. These cases are symptomatic of the underlying dysfunctional and corrupt processes of all Family Courts in every state in this country (and the many other places around the world). 

There are many highly esteemed authorities who have correctly identified the Family Court “epidemic of judicial abuse” and extortion by court assigned experts, all operating without accountability. Congressmen John Conyers, Jim Costa, and Ted Poe have hosted Congressional Briefings on this issue. Former Attorney General Eric Holder stated at the National Summit on the Intersection of Domestic Violence and Child Maltreatment on June 2009, “Why are mothers who are the victims of domestic violence losing custody of their children to the courts…?”

Florida Parents have fewer rights than those accused of criminal offenses.

"These are my Babies" is just the first of a series of videos that will be used to train parents that take classes to learn their rights so that they don't face the loss of their child and their resources at the alarming rate that has become common in divorce and child custody modification suits without the same level of protections that a common criminal would receive.

Hostile attorneys are causing parents and children to lose their fundamental rights, and may be causing children more harm.

Where do you start to protect yourself and your child?

1. You get this book
2. Then you take these classes

If you want to talk to Sherry or Ron B Palmer personally contact them here:

If you want Mike and Melody to make a video for you for your business you can contact them here:

We have workshops coming up in Florida, Sacramento, Dallas, and Washington D.C. info@fixfamilycourts.com

As per Administrative Order No. AOSC14-66, I would like to request a detailed investigation as to abuses of power and violations of conduct displayed by three Judges involved in Case No.: 11-21207-FC-04, FAMILY DIVISION. I believe that their actions clearly amount to violations of public trust, neglect of duty, and ethics which, as recently stated in this unprecedented administrative order by Florida’s chief justice, Jorge Labarga, shall carry consequences to those involved.

Say NO to PAS

Her reply, I believe, amounts to Contempt of Court of Administrative Order No. AOSC14-66 issued by Florida Chief Justice, Jorge Labarga. I am planning to file a motion for Contempt of Court before the Florida Supreme Court, and anyone who has received a similar response from their circuit chief judge should consider doing the same. We need to make these judges accountable for their actions or lack thereof. This is the only way they will start to pay attention to We, The People. Say NO to PAS

Did your Chief Judge ignore Florida Chief Justice administrative order No. AOSC14-66? Mine did, so she is in contempt of court.

    

Chief Judge

See original letter sent to 11th Circuit Chief Judge, Bertila Soto, here: Say NO to PAS

December 22, 2014

Honorable Bertila Soto
11th Judicial Circuit, Chief Judge
Lawson E. Thomas Courthouse Center
175 NW 1st Ave. Room Number CHC 3045
Miami, FL 33128
(305) 349-5720

Dear Honorable Bertila Soto,

I am a born-again Christian man, who for the Glory of God in Christ Jesus, became an American Board of Family Medicine certified physician (from UM/JMH, with highest medical training score in the program, among top in the nation, named team player of the year by my 2013 class, highly praised by my peers and our community in general), an Electrical Engineer (from FIU, Cum Laude), an ex-Olympian, and a father of four, two of which came from my first marriage.

If I had not lived it in my own flesh, I probably would have never believed what I am seeing unfolding in our Family Courts today.

As my dealings with the three Judges I am reporting in this letter exemplify, some Judges routinely ignore the rule of law, the constitution, due process, and common sense, and selectively enforce the law for their own interest or that of their friends calling it “the best interest of the children.” In my experience with a dysfunctional Family Court, I am appalled to find out that the moment one walks into it, one is immediately stripped away of our constitutional rights, such as our rights to freedom of religion, speech, self-incrimination, due process, jury trial, and equal protection.

It is a place where parents have fewer rights than known criminals in other courts...

...for if a criminal cannot afford an attorney, one is assigned to them; a place where the law provides more rights to protect one’s property or debts than to protect one’s children. In all cases, parents are left at the whims of Judges who regularly have conflicts of interests, whose campaign funds or the certainty of not having someone run against them is owed to the same attorneys who come before them.

As taught to view medicine by Dr. Lynn Carmichael, one of my heroes and founder of Family Medicine, from an integrative medicine perspective, I believe that the problems in our Family Courts represent not only a judicial emergency, but a true health crisis. As my case also exemplifies, the negative effects of our currently dysfunctional Family Courts routinely lead children and adults to suffer not only from serious mental issues such as major depression, anxiety, post traumatic stress disorder, and many others, but in a large enough number of unfortunate cases, can also lead to suicides, homicides, and a number of other serious crimes, not to mention, the enormous economic cost that it brings to our societies from broken homes and lives.

While attending medical school in Nicaragua, my ex-wife absconded for two years with my two kids (Mario was 7 y/o and Nicole was 4 y/o at that time), with the intervention of the American Embassy, the U.S.A. State Department, Miami-Dade police investigators, and even the FBI, I was able to recover them and restore shared custody of my kids by Judge Robert Scola. As ordered by Judge Scola, for about a year, my whole family and I worked very hard to reintegrate the children to our lives. I also immediately recruited the help of a licensed children’s psychologist for intensive weekly therapies, and my children adapted well to their new environment. My Son, Mario, for instance, went from failing third grade and scoring in the lowest quartile in his FCAT to becoming an A/B student, scoring in the top quartile in the FCAT, and being given the honor of student of the month (one of the proudest moments of his and my life).

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ParentalRights.org Announces New Vice-President

-- June 7, 2016

ParentalRights.org is excited to announce this week the election of our new Vice-President, former NFL running back and 2005 league MVP Shaun Alexander. Raised in Kentucky, Shaun became a star at the University of Alabama, setting several school records during his years there. Then he was drafted nineteenth overall by the Seattle Seahawks in the 2000 draft of the National Football League. As a Seahawk in 2005, Shaun led the league in rushing yards, rushing touchdowns, points scored, and Pro Bowl votes. He also led his team to Super Bowl XL, the team’s first–ever Super Bowl appearance.

Having retired from football after the 2008 season, today Shaun focuses on his family and on encouraging families and fatherhood through a variety of programs. He recently launched his "Finish the Game" podcast series in which he challenges especially fathers to be present in the lives of their children. He has also taken on the role of vice-president of ParentalRights.org with the hope of becoming the face of the organization.

We know many of you have been thinking the same thing we have over the last several years: Americans agree on parental rights, but they don’t know our organization exists. Many don’t know the state of parental rights has deteriorated so far, and very few are aware of our effort to fix it.

If we could just get the word out, nearly all of America would be on board.

It is our hope that Shaun can get us in front of a whole new audience, to draw attention to the plight of parental rights today.

“I believe parents with a clear focus can train up their children to impact the world,” Shaun recently wrote. “I want to inform, encourage, and help allow parents to be that great trainer to their children.” With us, he believes the Parental Rights Amendment is a necessary protection for that to happen.

You will be hearing more from and about Shaun over the next couple of weeks, to say nothing of the months ahead. He will be posting interviews, writing letters, and hosting events to draw attention to the parental rights cause.

We are grateful to add his passion, enthusiasm, and desire to win to our board and to our effort. Together, we can secure the liberty of loving parents to make decisions for their children through the Parental Rights Amendment. And with Shaun on our team, we believe we are one big step closer to seeing that goal fulfilled.

Sincerely

Michael Ramey

Director of Communications & Research.

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