Family Court: The Excuse For Injustice..

Time to get back to reality and expose the "Family Law Courts" for what it really is. A billion dollar business which can only be regarded as a feeding frenzy for  lawyers as it's purpose has demonstrated to be irrelevant as far as the "best interest of the child" is concerned. Feminists introduced that metaphor for the purpose of introducing their male-hate agenda. Meanwhile the divorce and litigation lawyers are growing rich of the backs of those who can least afford it.

Maybe some day, justice may actually be applied in that arena but not until it is completely dismantled and re-written but what are the odds when there are so many jobs involved and so many well heeled lawyers not willing to see their cash cow, nurtured..

It use to be the "snout in the trough" but that has been elevated to "sucking the golden teet"..

UK: Childhood casualties of the family courts

By Men's Activism News | Mon, Sep 27 2010, 10:52 AM
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Article here. Excerpt:

'Fathers still have the odds stacked against them when it comes to custody battles in the family court system, but are warring parents forgetting what and who they are fighting for?
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When Paul returned home from a six-month tour of duty in Afghanistan, he found his key no longer fitted his front door.

"My wife had changed the locks on the house I was paying the mortgage on, and my kids were inside with her new bloke," he said. "I can't tell you what I felt, trying to make sense of it all. It was a bad dream. She had a lawyer lined up to talk about money and they seemed stunned when I said I wanted contact.

"I had kids because I wanted to be a dad. I am a dad, not a sperm donor."

His little boys were then aged three and 18 months. He hasn't seen them for almost two years and struggles on with his legal battle.'

Canada: "It’s time to blow up Divorce Court"

By Men's Activism News | Mon, Sep 27 2010, 10:54 AM
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Article here. Excerpt:

'Ontario Chief Justice Warren recently recommended “dramatic” changes to the family law justice system that would deny litigants access to the courts if they didn’t go through mediation or arbitration first.

“(O)nly in the event that the alternative dispute resolution process is unsuccessful would access to the costly, time-consuming, adversarial and sometimes acrimonious court process be available to litigants” Justice Winkler said earlier this month in a speech marking the opening of Ontario courts for the current session.

Apparently fine-tuning the system is of little value and a new approach, “a fresh conceptual approach,” is required.

But a report on family law by the Law Commission of Ontario questioned the effectiveness of mediation. It’s no big surprise that our family justice system was found to be lacking, indeed the title of the report refers to our “Broken Family Justice System.”

Apparently mediation isn’t a cure for what ails the system. Mediation only works when both sides want it to work. Of course, mediation can be expensive and not all mediators are effective.
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Instead of more mediation, we need to deal with the high costs of litigation by lowering fees and providing more money to lower-income litigants. Flexible payment plans would also be nice.

So what’s the answer: More mediation, more money or dealing with the high costs of litigation? What if it’s none of the above?

If we recognize that the current system is costly, time-consuming and often acrimonious, why don’t we come to the obvious conclusion? Perhaps we need to blow up the system and build a new, improved system from the ground up. What better place to start than with our cherished adversarial system?'