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Bi-Partisan Rally in Support of Shared Parenting SATURDAY NOVEMBER 5, 2005 NYC (NY Bills A-330 and S-291)
Mothers for Shared Parenting will be holding a rally November 05, 2005 from 10 AM to 4 PM in two locations: outside of New York State Democratic Party Offices, located at 60 Madison Ave (at 27th Street) and also outside of New York Republican County Committee, located at 122 East 83rd Street
Media inquiries should be addressed to: Ashley Clark, 631.384.1222 or email anniej83@hotmail.com
P. Ditty gets some relief from 2nd department: Support increase from $5000 per month (per stipulation) to $35,000 per month, modified down to $21,800. READ THE DECISION AND OTHER NEWS
TOP NYS JUDGE: Divorce Contract Skewed Toward Women - Recent Pataki appointee Robert Smith, addressed the Family Law Section of the NYS Bar in January.
The majority of Judges on the New York State Court of Appeals are women. The Chief Judge is a woman. Most divorces are filed by women. Most appeals are brought by men. Most appeals are decided in favor of women. In the Second Appellate Department (Long Island, Westchester, Putnam, Dutchess Rockland and Orange) the majority of Judges are women and the Presiding Judge is a Woman. Numerous cases exhibiting nearly identical fact patterns are routinely decided in favor of the wife, using inconsistent reasoning to ignore the similarity in fact patterns. Oh and nearly every one of these untenable decisions is unanimous virtually barring review by the Court of Appeals.
IS THIS JUST A COINCIDENCE?
DAILY NEWS ARTICLE NY LAW JOURNAL ARTICLE
Below are links to documents that are simple, clear and provide factual, legal and political evidence that shared/joint parenting or equal parenting should be presumed in the absence of a finding that one or both parents are unfit. The current bill number is no longer A1123 it is now A.330 (Weisenberg) in the Assembly and S.291 (Johnson). All the documents below are equally relevant despite the old bill number. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THERE HAVE BEEN TWO IDENTICALLY MATCHING BILLS (Assembly & Senate). A great step in the right direction. A330 appears to be a major improvement over Sidikman's old A1123 and it's many lone predacessors! GREAT JOB LEGISLATORS!!!!!!
Link to committee listing on Assembly web site.
List of all contact info for committee members - THIS IS YOUR URGENT CONTACT LIST!
A 1123 will reduce unpaid Child Support
A 1123 will protect children from Domestic Violence and Child Abuse
A 1123 is supported by leading Feminists
A 1123 is supported by psychological research
A 1123 is the will of the people
FROM TIME MAGAZINE - APRIL 2004:
"Achieving a society in which men raise children as much as women do is crucial." Gloria Steinem
More News - Daily Updates (click here)
May 4, 2004 The Coalition for Father's and Families NY will host "LEAD" Legislative Education and Awareness Day at the Capitol in Albany, NY. Check our message list to arrange car pools, learn more or to find Bus Transportation. Thanks to Family Law Reform Now for the bus charter. Make your reservation now!!
March 2004 Men's issue talk show expanding to New York. Columnist and radio host Glenn Sacks who has had articles published accross the nation and is presently syndicated in Los Angeles and Seattle has plans to move into the nations #1 market, NYC Metro. Stay tuned to Silent Majority for details.
March 2004 Is new Court of Appeals Judge Smith already out of office? June Maxam's Website
January 2004 Chief Administrative Judge for Matrimonial Matters distributes Proposed Parenting Plan to Supreme Courts Click here for your copy (right click to save/download)
January 2004 Nassau Judge Iannacci appointed to Supreme Court Matrimonial Part (check archive for stories).
Fall 2003 Check Daily Update Link for news. Pro-Child/Family Judge beats incumbent in Nassau with our support - Hon. Angela Iannacci
June & July 2003 More on divorce corruption, judicial incompetence. Click Daily Update link above.
May 7, 2003 Business as usual for Clarence Norman and Brooklyn Democrats? One stop shopping for Judgeships? From Village Voice
April 30, 2003 Investigations and policy changes underway in Brooklyn. Should apply state wide! From law.com
April 26, 2003 Brooklyn Divorce Judge Arrested for taking bribes to fix divorce & custody cases. NY Times
Mar. 25, 2003 Roger Green, keeping things interesting. Thanks to Frederic U. Dicker Ph: 518-465-9624 Fax:518-465-9625 of The NY Post for staying on top of the Assembly Children & Families Committee Chair who has no car, no license and thousands in State mileage reimbursements. See the article.
Mar. 6, 2003 Did a group of high income privately paid law guardians form business group to appear as if they have the support of The Children's Rights Council (CRC)? According to law.com these lawyers who are the recent targets of OCA (Office of Court Administration) rules to curb political patronage and financial abuse of litigants, have formed The Committee for Children's Right to Counsel (CCRC according to their PR firm's website). This somewhat anonymous group of lawyers, apparently angry that a $50,000 cap has been placed on the amount of court appointed work they may each receive in a year has engaged a PR agent who specializes in "spinning" crisis situations for troubled corporations & law firms. The majority of private pay law guardian appointments in this state are made when people with assets fight over money in a divorce. Since New York is one of the few states that continues to put it's legal industry ahead of the interests of it's children (ignoring the billions in costs to the government and economy that result long term), fit parents are encouraged by the State (legislature, judiciary and bar association) to fight over custody of their children. The courts are clogged with fit parents contesting custody. In most cases fathers want joint custody and the mothers want sole custody. The State's policy is no court ordered joint custody, it is winner takes all, sole custody or bust. Mother's win over 90% of the time and if a father objects, in the complete absence of any allegations of unfitness Judges appoint a privately paid law guardian to become the "lawyer for the children" at the expense of the parties. These law guardians generally bill $5000, $10,000 per case or more where the assets are available and do little more than, rubber stamp whatever temporary decision was made by the Judge prior to appointment. Most of these attorneys have no special psychological or other training and in fact, learn on the job (at the financial and emotional expense of the children they supposedly represent). Because they are court appointed their work and fees are outside the control of the parties. There are law guardian panels, but they are made up of judges and family lawyers, who for the most part also lack any special qualifications and suffer the affliction of being trapped in the lavish & carefree lifestyle of matrimonial jurisprudence. Family Law: a place where even the least moral and competent attorney can earn $100K's per year with no accountability. As Yakov Smirnoff says "What a country!!!!!"
Appointment of independent counsel (law guardian) with no vested interest in the welfare of the children when one or both parents are fit is offends the conscience of law abiding citizens, the constitution of the United States and the decisional law of the United States Supreme Court. With increasing out-of-wedlock births and divorce, the notion that somehow parents in this situation are not capable of protecting their children's best interests is absurd. This is nothing more than the expansion of the legal industry and lining it's pockets with the tears of children and parents. That parents argue or disagree is still not grounds for court intervention. In fact, the acrimony that occurs is frequently if not mostly due to the baseless policies of the State. Simply ordering equal custody and parenting time in instances where one parent wants to and is willing to comply to insure stability of the children is sufficient. If the other parent disagrees, it is that parent who should risk losing custody. There is no current, objective evidence, scientific, economic or otherwise that supports the actions of the state as being "in the best interests of the children" although that is the legal excuse that is offered.
While there are many good law guardians who are needed in certain unfortunate cases, the majority of private pay law guardians appearing in middle and upper income divorce cases seem to be attorneys who would not otherwise build a law practice in a competitive market where their clients have the ability to control and scrutinized their performance. They are the Judge's "yes men/women", who receive easy appointments and enjoy the shield of these same Judges when litigants question their qualifications, actions and fees.
Children in this country DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO COUNSEL WHEN THEY HAVE TWO FIT PARENTS. Lawyers who advocate this must be very evil. Would they want you to take over their child's decision making simply because of a failed romantic relationship between parents? Are they willing to be subject to psychological examination and to have their parenting skills and success analyzed before receiving appointments to do the same to others?
Despite doing it constantly, Judges do not have the authority to interfere with a parent/child relationship in the absence of a compelling state interest. If CPS does not have grounds to remove a child from a parent, then the courts do not have grounds to take legal custody from that parent. THERE MUST BE REAL DANGER AND PROMPT FACT FINDING HEARINGS TO VALIDATE ANY SUCH DECISION. Family attorneys and other's who profit from the family destruction industry, like psychologists and other court ordered therapists, visitation supervisors and parenting/anger courses have turned a few rare but tragic situations into the impetus to trample the civil rights of parents & children. Not all of the individuals who participate in these professions are "part of the problem" but the rapid proliferation of junk science and the political acceptance of it all grows as people enter these industries. They themselves are often unaware of how wrong this is because it is so accepted as right.
This is a sad, greedy, for-profit hoax by the courts and the legislature cloaked in the veil of our precious children. The notion that these privileged private pay law guardians claim they care about children, yet do not want to accept the huge volume of 18-b appointed counsel work available at $40 per hour in court and $25 per hour out of court and are unwilling to share their $200+ per hour work with the honest, dedicated 18-b lawyers who take all the real hardship cases speaks for itself.
US Supreme Court Cases: Parham v. J.R., 442 U.S. 584, 602, Lehr v. Robertson,463 U.S. 248, 257-61, Zummo, Troxel, Et. Al.
Feb. 17, 2003 Roger L. Green, Chair, NYS Assembly Children & Families Committee received $2000 per month in perks from prison firm. Firm kept contracts while population declined. Among other things firm provided juvenile facilities.
How could Green be truly looking out for the interests of children? The gifts he received were paid for by locking kids up. Friends of Carmen Arroyo, another committee member were hired by bribe firm. NY Times
Jan. 26, 2003 Updates on Albany Corruption Scandal - Albany DA to investigate Green and others
NY Post (dead link) Daily News Ed. Daily News Art. Times Union Please thank the authors when you visit the sites.
Jan. 20, 2003 Happy Birthday Martin, we're still working on it and making progress.
Of course poor people and minorities are disproportionately impacted by the corruption we are fighting. That does not mean that anyone should have to go through this. Thus we move forward as a unified front without regard for our respective socio-economic status. People are people, children are children and families are families. Having your children, your home and your life's savings taken from you without a hearing or trial hurts no matter what.
In a bold move to reform the corruption laden child custody industry, Chief Judge Judith Kaye (who you should write a letter of thanks to...and perhaps throw in the need for further reform) recently issued improved rules governing the appointment of Law Guardians who represent children in court. Linda Kushner, herself a Law Guardian in Nassau & Suffolk has been a strong supporter of www.silentmajority.info and an outspoken critic of the cesspools of destroyed families masquerading as Family & Matrimonial (Supreme) Court. The judges and other attorneys hate her...obviously she's doing a great job.
Read the story Linda gave to Newsday on a silver platter (not that they gave her credit for it or anything). Basically there are now strict limits to how much money a lawyer can make as a court appointed Law Guardian (details also posted to our archive). This really upsets the apple cart as many lawyers will actually have to go out and find clients that are willing to voluntarily hire them rather than just bribing ahem, donating to judges campaigns and doing other favors, etc. Law Guardians have been essentially unaccountable for their performance and bills and have make an incredibly huge contribution toward screwing up children and families. Because of this lack of accountability and scrutiny, working as a Supreme Court Law Guardian has become a haven for incompetence and Greed. Judge Kaye has done a good thing.
Jan. 19, 2003 Roger Green's pal at prison company a pedophile?
The hits just keep on coming. NY Post 4
Jan. 18, 2003 Could it be?
Roger Green, Chairman NYS Assembly Children & Families Committee & former Chair of NYS Assembly Black & Latino Caucus, corrupt? His smug, disingenuous treatment of children and families is nothing compared to the sleeping with the arch enemy of his own community all along. Read about how Assembly Speaker & perhaps the most powerful man in New York State, Sheldon Silver's No. #1 Lieutenant Gloria Davis & Top Gopher Roger Green admit taking illegal gifts from a prison contractor who's profits are tied directly to how many cells they can fill. Davis, Green & Silver's local constituents are disproportionately incarcerated due to racism, corruption & The Rockefeller Drug Laws.
For more deception about how Roger Green cares about families, children & juvenile justice click here. Correctional Services Corp. a halfway house operator was his largest contributor during the 2002 election and has given him illegal gifts for years. Hint: if you don't lock people up, there is no need for a halfway house. Changing the custody policy in NY State would protect juveniles - particularly in Roger Green's Brooklyn district, at risk of substance abuse, poor academics and crime. So Roger, what have you been waiting for? Waiting for Silver's OK? Oh, yeah, your boss is the most powerful trial lawyer in the state. Guess the 2.5 million children impacted will just have to wait a little longer. More Family Court battles, more crime, more prisons, $$ Ka Ching $$ Over $5 Billion a year is spent paying lawyers & forensics for custody battles in NY State alone. The resulting social costs including crime add at least another $5 Billion. Can you say "pay off the deficit and improve millions of lives"?
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