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"Your job is not to become concerned about the Constitutional rights of the man that you're violating. Throw him out on the street, give him the clothes on his back, and tell him, "see ya around". We don't have to worry about their rights" - NJ Municipal Court Judge Richard Russell to his colleagues during a training seminar in 1994.

"You have never seen a bigger pain in the ass than the father who wants to get involved; he can be repulsive. He wants to meet the kids after school at three o'clock, take the kid out to dinner during the week, have the kid on his birthday, talk to the kid on the phone every evening, go to every open school night, take the kid away for a whole week so they can be alone together. This type of involved father is pathological. - Former Chief Judge Richard Huttner, Kings County (Brooklyn) Family Court and member of the New York State Commission on Child Support, 1985. Current NY State Supreme Court Judge (Brooklyn).

"There is no system ever devised by mankind that is guaranteed to rip husband and wife or father, mother and child apart so bitterly than our present Family Court system." Judge Brian Lindsay, Retired Supreme Court Judge, NY State

"I used to think that the Family Court was like the emergency room of the court system, now I think it's like a M*A*S*H unit... If I didn't do anything but hear cases, if I didn't answer phone calls or read court decisions, or answer mail, have conferences, that gives you about 20 minutes a case, not 20 minutes a court appearance, 20 minutes for the whole case." Judge Dennis Duggan, NY State Family Court Judge (Albany)

"Far too many Judges simply do not have the temperament, the qualifications, the patience, or even the desire to effectively handle divorce matters"  Brett Linn, Supreme Court Clerk, (Orange)

"I've been a law guardian for 10 years, I have not had one case where the child has not told me they want both parents involved in their life...I have made a commitment...not to take any more matrimonial cases at all under the present law...there is no way to help people under the current law in Supreme Court...you could understand why those Judges want to get out of the part as soon as possible, because there is no way to help people" Linda Kushner, Attorney, Law Guardian, (Suffolk), July 1, 2002 Listen to this riveting discussion

"The germ of destruction of our nation is in the power of the judiciary, an irresponsible body – working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little today and a little tomorrow, and advancing its noiseless step like a thief over the field of jurisdiction, until all shall render powerless the checks of one branch over the other and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated." – Thomas Jefferson, 1821

Woe to you lawyers! for you load men with burdens hard to bear, and you yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers. Woe to you lawyers! for you have taken away the key of knowledge; you did not enter yourselves, and you hindered those who were entering. Luke 11

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