As a case progresses through the morass of Family Court, who really wins?
The "family" doesn't win - despite the name, the grinding action of Family Court places families under such stress that most of them crumble under the strain. Those families that manage to stick together are subjected to pressures that erode their financial stability, their sense of justice, their feelings of security.
Children don't win. The very nature of so-called Family Court actions these days are adversarial - deisgned to promote competition between parents and alienation of parents from the children. The children are ultimately deprived of the love and care of one or both parents.
Parents don't win. Family Court fosters a "winners/losers" environment, rather than recognizing that it is in everyone's best interest to promote cooperation between parents instead of competition. The adversarial relationship is often escalated to the point that it consumes the lives of one or both parents.
The damaging environment that occurs in Family Court, often over an unnecessarily protracted period of time, manufactures long-term complications that often snowball into repeated trips to court over minor issues. These are usually accompanied by false allegations and other destructive behaviors designed to promote one parent at the expense of the other.
So who wins?
The court system benefits - they receive a stipend for every case that passes through their system. The more traffic (so to speak), the more income.
The family court lawyers benefit - for some of them this practice is their sole source of income, between divorces, child custody, and working as AFC, they secure their income from prolonging cases and generating repeat business.
Even the Jefferson County criminal court judge in the Jon Massey Case engaged in repeated returns to court in an attempt to prevail in his divorce in 1995 and again in 1996 - choosing to utilize the appeals process rather than more appropriately petitioning the court to modify. He had learned as a lawyer how to game the system to further his own desires.
The only winners are those collecting money - the more the case involves and the longer it takes, the more money they make.
When you factor in the CPS actions that process through Family Court, sometimes in conjunction with divorce and custody issues, the money changing hands increases exponentially - all at the cost to children and families.
It is time to stand up, speak out, and expose a corrupt system!
The "family" doesn't win - despite the name, the grinding action of Family Court places families under such stress that most of them crumble under the strain. Those families that manage to stick together are subjected to pressures that erode their financial stability, their sense of justice, their feelings of security.
Children don't win. The very nature of so-called Family Court actions these days are adversarial - deisgned to promote competition between parents and alienation of parents from the children. The children are ultimately deprived of the love and care of one or both parents.
Parents don't win. Family Court fosters a "winners/losers" environment, rather than recognizing that it is in everyone's best interest to promote cooperation between parents instead of competition. The adversarial relationship is often escalated to the point that it consumes the lives of one or both parents.
The damaging environment that occurs in Family Court, often over an unnecessarily protracted period of time, manufactures long-term complications that often snowball into repeated trips to court over minor issues. These are usually accompanied by false allegations and other destructive behaviors designed to promote one parent at the expense of the other.
So who wins?
The court system benefits - they receive a stipend for every case that passes through their system. The more traffic (so to speak), the more income.
The family court lawyers benefit - for some of them this practice is their sole source of income, between divorces, child custody, and working as AFC, they secure their income from prolonging cases and generating repeat business.
Even the Jefferson County criminal court judge in the Jon Massey Case engaged in repeated returns to court in an attempt to prevail in his divorce in 1995 and again in 1996 - choosing to utilize the appeals process rather than more appropriately petitioning the court to modify. He had learned as a lawyer how to game the system to further his own desires.
The only winners are those collecting money - the more the case involves and the longer it takes, the more money they make.
When you factor in the CPS actions that process through Family Court, sometimes in conjunction with divorce and custody issues, the money changing hands increases exponentially - all at the cost to children and families.
It is time to stand up, speak out, and expose a corrupt system!
1 comment:
Wonderfully written and I just have to add the popular opinion that the "Single Mom" is most commonly Big brothers victor in this battle. The children suffer the loss of the dad yet this is infrequently the mother. When CPS is the topic of discussion we have to be honest about the damage of having them used as a weapon rather than a shield.
Title IV-D I centivises broke states to follow fed mandated guidelines and give a kickback for every dollar collected when it matches the guideline support. DeadBeat dads have replaced the welfare state and this is simply something that should be intolerable for any parent.
The kids should come first and we have to seal the leaks before we can even begin to address the issue. Much of this has to do with emotional responses between the genders and from my side it is hard to fathom how men will carry on as ATMsfor a vindictive ex.
Thank you very much
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