tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-313806302011-09-15T06:12:40.263-07:00Visit our website at http://www.nnflp.org/ and at the liz library at http://www.thelizlibrary.org/ <P><P><P><P><P><P><P><P><P><P><P>nnflphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08171041449440809754noreply@blogger.comBlogger371100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31380630.post-53227954901507965162010-03-13T12:18:00.000-08:002010-03-13T13:46:48.756-08:00

The Maryland Legislature killed a bill this month that would have brought Maryland's restraining order policies into line with every other state in the Union. Remarkably, in Maryland, a victim seeking help is required to prove her case with "clear and convincing" evidence, a higher standard than "preponderance of the evidence", which is the universal standard for civil disputes. There can be only

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Collaborative Law practice groups have been forming around the country over the past two decades. They are not law firms. Some are incorporated as nonprofit associations, and some are not. Some may be composed of only lawyer and/or law firm members, while others are interdisciplinary groups of lawyers and other professionals, such as mental health or financial professionals. Different groups may

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By its own language, the APA ethics code, an extra-legal code of ethics of a private trade association, requires compliance with "the law". In the law, there is a hierarchy of authority. Higher authorities control lesser authorities. At the top is the U.S. Constitution, and the case law interpreting it, recognizing fundamental rights of fairness, due process, and cross-examination. Below that are

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"...the second meeting we had she made a point along with the EX to attack everything we had to say, demanded that we keep our mouths shut while the other party talked yet the other party could interrupt us while we were talking... This lady has been a night mare for us... I thought the whole reason for having a med. was to make things go smoothly, no stress, and take BOTH sides into

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See complete article at thelizlibrary.orgThe posture of science is only required in order to justify an outcome that does not seem to make readily apparent sense. Few (if any) of the considerations that actually will move the final decision-making have anything to do with "science." It may well have to be "all about science" to the extent a trial court is diverted away from relevant matters off

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Article from thelizlibrary.orgParenting Coordinators are a Bad Idea. Why:Let's start with the problems with parenting coordination that every lawyer knows: inappropriate delegation of the judicial function, impediment to court access, and denial of due process. And go on...The parenting coordinator concept encroaches on family liberty interests, bringing the government behind the closed doors

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POST-DIVORCE RELOCATION: POLICY CONSIDERATIONSby Scott Altman Professor Braver suggests that children would be happier and healthier if we discouraged parents who divorce from relocating. I am not convinced that this policy would help children. But this is an empirical question about which I will comment briefly as I conclude. Professor Braver also offers a glimpse into public opinion,

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BABIES NEED THEIR MOTHERS BESIDE THEM By James J. McKenna, Ph.D.Throughout human history, breast-feeding mothers sleeping alongside their infants constituted a marvelously adaptive system in which both the mothers' and infants' sleep physiology and health were connected in beneficial ways. By sleeping next to its mother, the infant receives protection, warmth, emotional reassurance, and breast

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(Find annotated Research on Fatherhood, Motherhood, Joint Custody and related topics at http://www.thelizlibrary.org/liz)Abidin, R. (1995). Parenting Stress Index, Third Edition: Professional manual. Odessa, FL: Psychological Assessment Resources.Ainsworth, M. D. S. (1973). The development of infant-mother attachment. In B. M. Caldwell & H. Ricciuti (Eds.), Review of child development research (

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**Fatherless Children:Alexander Hamilton - President Gen. George Washington - President Thomas Jefferson - President James Monroe - President Andrew Jackson - President Andrew Johnson - President Rutherford B. Hayes - President Herbert Hoover - President Grover Cleveland - President Gerald Ford - President William Jefferson Clinton - U.S. Supreme Court Justice James Wilson - U.S. Supreme Court

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One of the problems with the rise of therapeutic jurisprudence and the placement of non-legal systems into the courts is the subtle denigration of long-established precepts of lawyer independence and due process. One of the multiple ways this happens in the family courts is through the common development of multidisciplinary collegial relationships and business referral.The problem arises because

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DiAnn Lindquist, Esq. (Colorado) makes the following argument in favor of custodial parent post-divorce relocations:A citizen's right to interstate travel has long been recognized as a fundamental right, grounded upon the Privileges and Immunities Clause of Article IV, Section 2, of the United States Constitution. Edwards v. People of State of California, 314 U.S. 160, 173, 62 S.Ct. 164 (1941).

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More on joint custody and infants -- Attachment Parenting Org's November newsletter has an article by Dr. Susan Markel that's worth a read:Q: How feasible is it for the Courts to insist on shared custody of infants and toddlers?A: "Fair and equitable distribution" is a concept that works with property, but not with young children. In that case, the attachment to the primary caregiver (usually the

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This child was born into a prosperous family and well-educated in his early youth. But then his father died when he was just 10, and he was sent off to live with his older half-brother. His formal education largely ended at that point, and he was sent to learn the trade of surveying, which he went to work at full-time by the age of 16.When he was 20, his half-brother died of tuberculosis. Weary

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From an article by Mark Evans: The following are steps for a mom to follow in Cobb County Georgia and many other locales across the USA to lose her children in divorce:1. Marry a charming business man (whom we shall call Jack) who comes from a wealthy family. You are impressed with Jack's love of children. Jack spent over $140,000 to win custody of a daughter from a previous marriage. Of course,

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From article by Lily DeVilliers:Every now and then in your life, you meet with a statement or opinion from somebody else which runs counter to every belief that you've ever held. But it lies around in your mind anyway, and if you ever want or need to do processing that goes beyond your existing system of thought, there it is providing a bridge for your mind to walk over into different turf. The

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WHAT WORKS (in order): 1. The educational attainment of the children's mother. 2. The socio-economic level of the children's home.3. In-home parental promotion of preschoolers' skills acquisitions, such as reading and numbers, game playing, and the creation of a stable, stimulating environment.4. Parental aspirations (expectations) for children's achievement, and parents'

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National Network On Family Law Policy™: Mothers' versus Fathers' Time Spent Caring for Children

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The "right of first refusal" is a provision sometimes placed in child custody agreements which requires one of the child's parents, who otherwise would have "timeshare" prior to placing a child into third party care (such as a babysitter) to first grant the child's other parent the right to care for the child during the period of the first parent's absence. It is not a reasonable provision when

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Excerpt from the liz library http://www.thelizlibrary.org/liz/custody-evaluator-questions.html.Much research exists indicating that on average, fathers in intact homes spend far less time than mothers do in direct and indirect childcare. Recent research, however, has been touting an increase in father's participation but much of the research as designed appears to perpetuate the same lack of

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This child was born into poverty to an unwed mother who was a servant on a sugar plantation in the Caribbean. His father was a shiftless loser from Scotland who abandoned her at a time when this was a scandalous and irreversible blight on the mother's life. She taught the child how to read, write, and do math. The child was left alone much of the time. She died when the child was thirteen,

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As criticism mounts, there is a concerted effort in the community of MHPs to call for more "multidisciplinary efforts at communication," and to frame the rising problems as one of individuals' failings, not those of inherently flawed processes, or as shortcomings inherent in the legal system (or the laws themselves), not those of science, or as confusion created by political interest groups, and

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This article discusses the minimum disclosures every child custody evaluator, "best interests" guardian ad litem GAL, or parenting coordinator (herein called a "mental health professional" or "MHP") should be required to make, responding satisfactorily and in full, before being appointed in any family law case to do anything beyond answering a list of limited, detailed, specific, and

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Red State Feminist has contributed an article, also published on her blog, that makes many valid points, and offers much fodder for thought about noncustodial mothers' organizations whose members unwittingly support counterproductive family law policies. We've commented on this problem in earlier posts, and felt that her comments were worth archiving here.Why I Don't Support NANCM NANCM is a

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PRESS RELEASE October 29, 2006Contact: Rick Callender, President(408) 406-5203 PhoneNAACP Calls For Ending Use of Psychiatric Drugs onFoster YouthSays Foster Care Children should be protected from the financial incentives the Foster Care Industry receives for pushing psychiatric drugs on them.OAKLAND, CA - Mr. Rick Callender, president of the San Jose Silicon Valley branch of the National

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The author of "Parental Alienation Syndrome: Getting it WRONG in Child Custody Cases" has a new must-read article out that discusses the misuses and misrepresentations in the social science research that impacts child custody policy.Professor Carol S. Bruch is Distinguished Research Professor of Law and Professor Emerita, University of California, Davis; Visiting Scholar, UCLA Center for the

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A number of articles on child abuse and child health issues, by renowned physician and Harvard professor of pediatrics Eli Newberger, M.D., now are available on line on his web site. Dr. Newberger is the author of "The Men They Will Become."

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Andrew Vachss has a followup article out on the "incest exception" to the laws against child sexual abuse."The Incest Loophole has finally been closed in New York. To read about this victory and what it means for children, please read, 'A Long Time Coming: Closing New York's Incest Loophole' by Andrew Vachss."Excerpts from the original article, The Incest Loophole, at http://www.vachss.com/

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We are noticing that some women who have lost custody to batterers who subsequently have succeeded in barring them from contact with their children, or turning the children away from them believe that what they are experiencing is "parental alienation syndrome."However, "parental alienation syndrome" as described by the late Richard A. Gardner involved a "campaign of denigration" and manipulating

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Glenn Sacks has complained about recent responses to his and other fathers' rights advocates' comments about joint custody. In one of his columns of August 1, 2006, " Feminist Columnist Slams Glenn, ACFC Over North Dakota Shared Parenting Initiative," he attacks Trish Wilson's recent commentary with distortions and misrepresentations. One has to wonder: if the facts have to be distorted to make

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Trish Wilson's op-ed is in response to a column that Glenn Sacks and Mike McCormick had written about shared parenting.Posted on Sun, Jul. 30, 2006VIEWPOINT: Don't force 'shared parenting' on childrenBy Trish WilsonBOSTON - Mike McCormick and Glenn Sacks have written a lot of misconceptions about shared parenting in their viewpoint, "Initiative helps children of divorce"."Shared parenting" is a

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FROM OUR READERS: A LOSS OF CONTROL: The warning signs for violenceMack case can provide us clues By SOL GOTHARD, JAY SILVERMAN and TASHA AMADOR SPECIAL TO THE REVIEW-JOURNAL The Darren Mack case shocked Nevada and the nation. Could anyone have predicted that this millionaire "Father of the Year" might allegedly attempt to murder Judge Charles Weller and brutally stab his wife, Charla, to

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One would have thought this issue had been long-resolved, but it seems to be coming up with increasing frequency of late. What's wrong with mutual orders of protection against domestic violence? What's wrong with the state's saying, parent-like, to a complaining seeker of a restraining order "Well, now I'm not going to figure out who started this, so how about the two of you just stop squabbling

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/5130560.stmTherapy 'no cure for sex abusers'Psychological therapy for sex offenders can reduce re-offending rates, but does not provide a cure, a study says.Researchers from the Universities of London and Leicester reviewed nine studies involving 567 offenders in the US, UK, Canada and Europe. Some treatment programmes have cut re-offending by up to 40%.But

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N.Y. High Court Says Mistaken Avowal of Fatherhood Imposes an 'Equitable Paternity'New York Law JournalHe who acts like a father, is a father -- at least legally -- the New York Court of Appeals said in imposing "equitable paternity" on a man who wrongly assumed he had fathered a girl and acted accordingly. The man had argued that the order to pay child support on behalf of a child he did not

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Dr. John Money, who became famous for his gender reassignment surgery, has died. He was in his eighties. His adult sex change operations were controversial. The Baltimore Sun described one of his more controversial cases, known publicly as the "John/Joan" case:His belief that gender could be assigned to a child before age 3 played out in a radical experiment that proved devastating for him and

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The Leadership Council610-664-5007FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEChild Abuse Experts Applaud Legal Community for Rejecting Parental Alienation SyndromeJuly 11, 2006 Bala Cynwyd, Pa. - People who care about abused children finally have something to celebrate. Two recent high profile legal publications have rejected "Parental Alienation Syndrome" (PAS), a controversial label often used to discredit

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