The minds of children experiencing the loss of a loving fit parent, as a direct result of California's family and juvenile dependency, will focus on surviving that incredible loss and...
Let's first clarify recent legislation. The Family First Prevention Services Act (Family First) was passed in February 2018. Prior to it passing, states could only receive these grants AFTER...
The teenager or adult child gets to decide if it is parental alienation or estrangement in a state like California allegedly free from unwarranted governmental interference (UGI). However, the problem...
"California’s litigation privilege is an incredibly powerful tool that effectively immunizes conduct if it is reasonably related to litigation. The litigation privilege protects conduct even if it is 'alleged to...
In the Bible, in hundreds of places of some form or another, the word sovereign appears. God states, "I am the sovereign God" and people call God sovereign, unquestionable,...
Let's first define what that is. The pamphlet jurors receive when chosen for jury duty usually contains such statements as: "You must base your verdict on the evidence as you...
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,...
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...
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...
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...