Is a family court a “court of equity”?
Let's first discuss what a "court of equity" really is. In the past, parents would come to family court with "clean hands" or no evidence of abuse, domestic violence, neglect,...
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Oct
How did the family and juvenile dependency courts become a $50 billion industry?
In 1963 the first AFCCnet.org Association of Family and Conciliation Court conference was held in order to set up the collusion between judges, court commissioners, attorneys, minor counsel, guardian ad...
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Oct
Aren’t bench trials by a judge, more cost effective, quicker, and both sides obtain better results?
Parents come to court with full legal rights to, or custody of, their child(ren). Hopefully, they settle out of court and leave court quickly without the need for a judge...
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Oct
Why wasn’t the Seventh Amendment extended to California family and juvenile dependency courts?
The California Appellate Courts decide that a jury trial option in a family or a juvenile dependency courts is not a "Matter of Right" (1885-1899) leaving jury trials as an...
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Oct
But I was never found guilty of anything, why did my judge take away my legal rights to my child?
You were essentially found guilty, it was just under a low low standard of evidence. Per Judge Leslie Nichols, Santa Clara County "Family" Court, "the issues can all be...
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Oct
What California societal woes are directly related to our family and juvenile dependency courts?
Suicide, mental health disorders, physical illnesses (see Kaiser's ACES study on the CDC website), substance abuse, parental alienation, isolation, climate control (families living apart, parties of one, no shared resources),...