Archive for the "Family Courts" Category

06.Aug.2010 Presiding Judge Requests Audit of Marin County, California Family Courts

For Immediate Release: August 5, 2010 Contact: Kathleen Russell Cell: 415-250-1180 Presiding Judge Requests Audit of Marin Family Court AOC Audit About the Alleged Destruction of Marin County Mediation Files To Be Complete By Mid-August SAN RAFAEL- History is repeating itself in Marin County. It was recently confirmed that the Superior Court of California in [...]

03.Aug.2010 California Mothers: Talk to the White House Advisor on Violence Against Women Tomorrow

Wow, what a great opportunity!  Please make your way to Anaheim if at all possible and let Lynn Rosenthal what a disaster it is out here.  The Center for Judicial Excellence has set this up…here is their press release: BREAKING NEWS: WHITE HOUSE ADVISOR ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN TO HEAR FROM FAMILY LAW ADVOCATES AND [...]

Children of Divorce: Nobody Cares About the Heartbreak They Endure

If this story below describes the turmoil of a child who is shared between parents, imagine what children go through when they are kept from the parent that protected and cared for them.  Yes, I know…  WETZSTEIN: Child of divorce left up in the air By Cheryl Wetzstein The Washington Times 5:40 p.m., Monday, August 2, [...]

17.Jul.2010 What Can You Do To Help Solve The Crisis In Family Courts?

Special Bulletin by the Leadership Council: What can you do to help solve the crisis in the nation’s family courts? April 14, 2010 According to a conservative estimate by the Leadership Council, each year more than 58,000 children are ordered by family courts into unsupervised contact with physically or sexually abusive parents following divorce in [...]

20.Feb.2010 “Deprogramming” Children with So-Called Parental Alienation Syndrome is Science Fiction

From The Pocono Record: By JOAN DAWSON June 10, 2009 In the past few decades, a term called Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) or Parental Alienation (PA) has been used in family courts to describe a situation where one parent poisons the mind of the child against the other parent. While it is true that some [...]

14.Feb.2010 Support Group for Victims of Janelle Burrill Continues to Move Forward

UPDATE (2/20/10):  We have new information.  If you are a victim of Janelle Burrill and would like to participate in the support group, please get in touch with us through rightsformothers@gmail.com.  Also see: California Whore of the Court Janelle Burrill Has Board Certification Revoked Janelle Burrill, of “Mothers, Interrupted” fame, continues to destroy children’s lives [...]

13.Feb.2010 Richard Gardner’s Questionable Ethics Led to the Development of “Parental Alienation Syndrome”

This is from The Association for Women in Psychology: PARENTAL ALIENTATION SYNDROME Julie R. Ancis, Ph.D. Parental Alienation Syndrome, which is being proposed for inclusion in the DSM-V, has been generally defined as a child’s denigration of a parent without justification. The creation of “Parental Alienation Syndrome,” otherwise known as PAS, is partly the result [...]

California Judge Robert Lemkau to Mother of Murdered Child: “One of You is Lying and I Think it’s You”

Three judges failed to protect young Wyatt, and repeatedly called mother Katie Tagle a liar.  All of these judges need to be punished for their lazy, biased actions that led to the murder of the young child. There is a candidate running for the judicial race for Judge Robert Lemkau’s seat that sounds very promising.  [...]

11.Feb.2010 Mother Slammed by Kansas Judge Patrick Walters for Trying to Protect Her Children

A movement needs to be started around this country to get into each state legislature a protective parent act, such as those enacted in New York and Alaska.  This would prevent mothers like Tammy Youngquist from losing all contact with her two young daughters after daddy allegedly did some pretty nasty things to one of [...]

Family Courts Implicated in Infants’ Murders

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 10, 2010 Contacts: Rita Smith, NCADV 303-839-1852 ext. 105 Kathleen Russell, CJE 415-250-1180 Family Courts Implicated in Infants’ Murders Two Young Boys Killed by Two Divorcing Dads in Past 10 Days Points to Massive System Failure SAN RAFAEL- National and local advocacy groups are expressing outrage over what has become a [...]

09.Feb.2010 Idaho Father Murders Young Son, Kills Self to Avoid Child Custody Battle

Coming off of the murder-suicide in California by Stephen Garcia of young Wyatt and himself, I am just getting this new website up, and here we go again.  This is from KTVB in Boise, Idaho: Coroner identifies father-son in Meridian murder-suicide by Edgar Linares Idaho’s NewsChannel 7 Posted on February 9, 2010 at 8:30 AM [...]

How Did This Waterboarding Dad Get Custody of Young Child?

From The Atlantic: 08 Feb 2010 10:21 am A US Soldier Waterboards His Own Child The British Daily Mail – a populist right-wing paper – reports: A soldier waterboarded his four-year-old daughter because she was unable to recite her alphabet. Joshua Tabor admitted to police he had used the CIA torture technique because he was [...]

01.Feb.2010 California Judge Denies Protective Order to Mother…Bam! Father Murders Young Son and Kills Himself

Just as other mothers who have feared for the lives of their children, and try and seek protection for them, dear Katie Tagle was turned away.   Now her young son Wyatt is dead.  From SFGate.com (San Francisco Chronicle): SoCal father, son dead in apparent murder-suicide Sunday, January 31, 2010 01-31, 18:38 PST HESPERIA, Calif. [...]

14.Jan.2010 Domestic Violence and Legal Abuse: Are You Suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder?

I am delving deeper into the subject of  Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), continuing in the discussion of Karin Huffer’s Legal Abuse Syndrome and use of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).  The first thing that needs to occur in pursuing accommodations in court with help of the ADA is to have a PTSD diagnosis.  [...]

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