****Child Custody Evaluators' Beliefs About Domestic Abuse Allegations:

Child Custody Evaluators' Beliefs About Domestic Abuse Allegations: Their Relationship to Evaluator Demographics, Background, Domestic Violence - Knowledge and Custody-Visitation Recommendations Final Technical Report Submitted to the National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice

Claudine Dombrowski at Battered Women, Battered Children, Custody Abuse - 15 hours ago

** Entire article follows below the excerpts or read here ** *EXECUTIVE SUMMARY* High rates of domestic violence exist in families referred for child custody evaluations. *These evaluations can produce potentially harmful outcomes, including the custody of children being awarded to a violent parent,* unsupervised or poorly supervised visitation between violent parents and their children, and mediation sessions that increase danger to domestic violence victims. Past research shows that domestic violence is frequently undetected in custody cases or ignored as a significant factor ... more »

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http://www.change.org/petitions/united-nations-human-rights-council-stop-the-human-right-abuses-in-the-us-family-court-system-against-children

excerpt "Why This Is Important

The United States is home to one of the greatest civil rights movement of its era, dating back to 1866 and 1964. The Constitution of the United States celebrates and enshrines Life, Freedom, Liberty and Prosperity. Congress asserted its authority to legislate under several different parts of the United States Constitution, principally its power and duty to guarantee all citizens equal protection of the laws under the Fourteenth Amendment; however, this has failed miserably in the land of the free and the home of the brave with the current court system, predominantly in family law.

Children are citizens of this country too and have rights and equal protection under the law; predominantly the right not to have their civil liberties stampeded across by the family court judiciary against the best interest of the standard and the right to have parents.


This Country is in a crisis; a family crisis and a child crisis that is exploding exponentially as there is no best interest of the child standard. There is Anarchy. Laws exist, they are already in place, children have rights and yet there is no best interest of the child standard. Instead there is a robotic machinery of a court system with mediators, judiciary, court evaluators and minors council that have so dissociated themselves from the human rights atrocities that are committed on a daily basis that they consider the current status quo normal.

It is not. Children are destroyed, and have lost their childhood and are a generation of lost souls. Families are mangled and are damaged irreparably by the robotic machinery of a court system. There is no common sense standard and no best interest of the child standard even though equal protection under the law is guaranteed under the US constitution.

Children have a right to not be damaged by the court system. They have a right to parents. They have a right to be protected from abuse and court abuse. They have a right to a speedy resolution of emotional and physical harm. That bill of rights is enshrined in the United Nations right of the child. Parents have a right to not be victimized and punished by a Court by the willful and malicious abuse of the law.
Immigrant parents who live in the United States have the right to custody and the right to care and nuture their children without being victimized and punished by a family court due to their legal immigrant status.

The 1st Amendment guarantees freedom of speech and the right of American citizens to protest outrageous human rights violations that occur on a daily basis against each other, their fellow immigrant residents and their children who are perpetually being legally raped, abused and scarred by a family court system that is constiututionally bound to uphold justice and provide equal protection under the law.

We call upon the Elders and the United Nation Human Rights Council to become involved as independant global thinkers to effect change and halt the catastrophic, malicious and vicious rape of human rights of children and their parents in the US family court system. The US constitution and the diverse UN treaties that the United States has ratified protect again the legal rape of rights. The court system that is sworn to uphold justice instead devotes its time to destroy children and their parents.

http://www.change.org/petitions/united-nations-human-rights-council-stop-the-human-right-abuses-in-t

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Anne Grant "Family Court needs a roadmap for the countless people struggling to find their way through these labyrinthine rules and procedures that often seem intentionally confusing and inconsistent from one judge to the next. Despite my worst fears, maybe this is exactly the time when we need an experienced teacher in charge,".

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Excerpts from 

"Chief Judge Bedrosian is changing the rules,"

Excerpts :

"I am glad to endure any reforms that mean Family Court is becoming more ethical and just. The three cases I mentioned in this post represent four children--now young women. This month, the youngest (in the Textron Case) turns 12, and the oldest (pictured above) turns 23. I have met them all. Because of them and others like them, I take these reforms personally,".

"I first opposed Judge Bedrosian at a Judicial Nominating Commission hearing in 1996 because of a decision that she later defended as conforming to the rules. I argued that her decision harmed the child pictured at the top of this blog, a victim of domestic violence. Judge Bedrosian criticized my “ignorance of the requirements of judicial conduct.”

"Ironically, her reform of the DR6 hits at the heart of that case and each of the other cases I have mentioned in this post -- the enormous financial inequities that set these three Family Court custody cases on such an unequal playing field. Parents who are forced to litigate pro se, or with pro bono attorneys, seldom prevail for long in this Court".

"Their abusers keep returning to assault them again and again. And where will they find the money to appeal to a higher court when decisions harm their children here"?

"The Court seldom sees these children or how much they suffer. It is good to find Chief Judge Bedrosian addressing problems related to children’s trauma and the bad practices that have prevailed too long in Family Court,'.

"She deserves credit and encouragement to keep working at those parts of this system that are most unjust, including:"

"1. The abuse of so-called “emergency” motions that
a. are not true emergencies or that
b. should be referred to Superior Court’s domestic violence court (without placing the financial and emotional burden of legal defense on alleged victims).

2. The abuse of ex parte motions that
a. prevent judges from hearing the other side in a timely manner
and
b. produce orders that spread misinformation in the community.

3. The failure of lawyers to complete paper work in a timely manner
a. when drafting orders after hearings,
b. when submitting documents to the other side for review before getting the judge’s signature, or
c. when completing paperwork for child support.

4. The Court’s use of clinicians that violates
a. HIPAA regulations,
b. ethics of mental health professionals, and
c. rules of the insurance industry against reimbursing for court-ordered services.

5. The need for judges to sanction lawyers under Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedurehttp://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcp/rule_11"

 http://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcp/rule_11


"Family Court needs a roadmap for the countless people struggling to find their way through these labyrinthine rules and procedures that often seem intentionally confusing and inconsistent from one judge to the next. Despite my worst fears, maybe this is exactly the time when we need an experienced teacher in charge,".

http://custodyscam.blogspot.com/2012/04/chief-judge-bedrosian-is-changing-rules.html