Pages tagged with Family Court
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Home Court Disadvantage
Pacific Sun, May 29, 2009
Critics of the Marin County Family Court system claim it is rife with corruption and cronyism, and in general not following the law in the determination of custody cases. As a result of this controversy, state Senator Mark Leno is asking the Legislature's Joint Legal Audit Committee to investigate family courts to see if there is a problem. More
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La Jolla Mom Says She Kidnapped Daughter To Protect Her
KGTV 10 News, April 23, 2009
When the family court gave overnight visits to the father, despite his known use of child pornography, Joyce Murphy took her daughter and ran. "I thought, either I go to jail or I protect my child." Murphy and her daughter were caught, the mother jailed; the daughter returned to the father's custody. Now, six years later, Murphy's ex-husband is behind bars after molesting 3 other young girls. Murphy feels vindicated, but it's bittersweet. "I blame the entire family court system," she said, "because they are not held accountable." More
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La Jolla Mom Says She Kidnapped Daughter To Protect Her
KGTV 10 News, April 23, 2009
When the family court gave overnight visits to the father, despite his known use of child pornography, Joyce Murphy took her daughter and ran. "I thought, either I go to jail or I protect my child." Murphy and her daughter were caught, the mother jailed; the daughter returned to the father's custody. Now, six years later, Murphy's ex-husband is behind bars after molesting 3 other young girls. Murphy feels vindicated, but it's bittersweet. "I blame the entire family court system," she said, "because they are not held accountable." More
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La Jolla Mom Says She Kidnapped Daughter To Protect Her
KGTV 10 News, April 23, 2009
When the family court gave overnight visits to the father, despite his known use of child pornography, Joyce Murphy took her daughter and ran. "I thought, either I go to jail or I protect my child." Murphy and her daughter were caught, the mother jailed; the daughter returned to the father's custody. Now, six years later, Murphy's ex-husband is behind bars after molesting 3 other young girls. Murphy feels vindicated, but it's bittersweet. "I blame the entire family court system," she said, "because they are not held accountable." More
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La Jolla Mom Says She Kidnapped Daughter To Protect Her
KGTV 10 News, April 23, 2009
When the family court gave overnight visits to the father, despite his known use of child pornography, Joyce Murphy took her daughter and ran. "I thought, either I go to jail or I protect my child." Murphy and her daughter were caught, the mother jailed; the daughter returned to the father's custody. Now, six years later, Murphy's ex-husband is behind bars after molesting 3 other young girls. Murphy feels vindicated, but it's bittersweet. "I blame the entire family court system," she said, "because they are not held accountable." More
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La Jolla Mom Says She Kidnapped Daughter To Protect Her
KGTV 10 News, April 23, 2009
When the family court gave overnight visits to the father, despite his known use of child pornography, Joyce Murphy took her daughter and ran. "I thought, either I go to jail or I protect my child." Murphy and her daughter were caught, the mother jailed; the daughter returned to the father's custody. Now, six years later, Murphy's ex-husband is behind bars after molesting 3 other young girls. Murphy feels vindicated, but it's bittersweet. "I blame the entire family court system," she said, "because they are not held accountable." More
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La Jolla Mom Says She Kidnapped Daughter To Protect Her
KGTV 10 News, April 23, 2009
When the family court gave overnight visits to the father, despite his known use of child pornography, Joyce Murphy took her daughter and ran. "I thought, either I go to jail or I protect my child." Murphy and her daughter were caught, the mother jailed; the daughter returned to the father's custody. Now, six years later, Murphy's ex-husband is behind bars after molesting 3 other young girls. Murphy feels vindicated, but it's bittersweet. "I blame the entire family court system," she said, "because they are not held accountable." More
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Protesters say NJ court denies justice to women
New Jersey Jewish News, April 30, 2009
More than 100 women, many active in several local and national Jewish organizations, picketed outside the family courts in downtown Newark Monday, demanding that its judges give more equitable treatment to alleged victims of physical and mental abuse. Organizers charged that judges often side with men and tend to disbelieve women’s allegations that they and their children have been physically and sometimes sexually abused by former husbands. More
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2 Boys Found Dead: Mom Rips Family Court
Chicago Tribune, March 31, 2009
"I feel that the judicial system failed me," said Amy Leichtenberg, whose missing sons bodies were found Sunday near a Christmas tree farm. "I pray that the courts listen to the warnings from other parents like me." Leichtenberg detailed her estranged husband's threats against her family and how she fought unsuccessfully to keep him from having unsupervised visits with their two sons. More
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Several bills seek to reform family courts
Capitol Weekly, February 12, 2009
Democratic lawmakers are crafting a package of bills to reform family courts in California. One Assemblymember is seeking an audit of the family court system, while another has submitted a bill that would limit the types of testimony that can be used in custody proceedings. Several other Democratic legislators are currently evaluating whether to introduce bills addressing other facets of the family courts.
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Battered Mothers Custody Conference Interviews
BU Today, December 1, 2008
Garland Waller, an assistant professor of film and television in the Boston University College of Communication, has produced a short film about mothers who lose custody of their children to their abusive partners. In 2007 and 2008, she attended the Battered Mothers Custody Conference and teamed up with two other filmmakers to record more than 12 hours worth of interviews. The result is a 14-minute film short that will be shown at the sixth annual Battered Mothers Custody Conference More
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Breaking the Silence: Children's Stories
Tatge/Lasseur Productions, March 30, 2006
This powerful PBS documentary chronicles the impact of domestic violence on children and the recurring failings of family courts across the country to protect them from their abusers. In stark and often poignant interviews, children and battered mothers tell their stories of abuse at home and continued trauma within the courts. More
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Small Justice: Little Justice in America's Family Courts
Intermedia, October 1, 2001
This program explores the family court system which routinely takes children away from the protective parent and puts them in the care of the person the children have named as their abuser. It describes how fathers use and sacrifice their children in order to control and punish the mothers, and how the courts, often unwittingly, help those men. By following the stories of three dedicated women and their lawyers the program exposes a systematic legal failure to protect those who need protection the most. More
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Family Court Crisis: Our Children At Risk
Center for Judicial Excellence
Family Court Crisis: Our Children At Risk, a 42-minute documentary addressing the serious systemic breakdown of our family courts, features personal testimony from individuals who have experienced the pitfalls of our family law system and expert evaluations of what has gone wrong. More
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Girl, Interrupted
San Francisco Weekly, December 18, 2002
Alanna Krause believes that much of her hellish childhood could have been avoided. Now she's suing her father, her therapist, and her lawyer in an effort to prove it. How did it come to this? More