Falsely Accused Father takes full custody of children

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May 17th, 2009
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Falsely Accused Father takes full custody of children - Are California Police starting to get it?
June 25th, 2008
We hear these stories all the time - mother or father falsely accused so the other parent can have the winner takes all spoils of divorce - the custody of the children. Occassionally, we hear of it backfiring, but not near enough. In Placentia, Ca the courts got it right this week.

Someone called Fullerton police and left an anonymous tip that Gregory Abbott, a high school teacher, was a drug dealer with a gun in the trunk of his car. He was subsequently arrested and then released two days later. Police discovered the gun was placed in his vehicle by his estranged wife, Devon Abbot and her boyfriend Solomon Silver. Abbot claims it was a scheme to get custody of his children and then move them to Maine.

This again shows the length people will go to in order to get custody of children. All too often, the courts accept these false allegations of abuse, drug usage, etc. in this winner take all game of custody. What is left is destroyed lives of innocent members of the public, and children separated from their other parent for no reason other than illness on the part of one irresponsible parent.

This story turned out right for Abbott, lets hope the courts follow through and award custody to the responsible parent, rather than the irresponsible parent.

Do you have a similar story - please share it with us.


Maryland Court of Appeals backs up court ruling for parent to pay damages for alienating children from parent
April 15th, 2008
This is certainly good news for Shared Parenting advocates everywhere, that believe custodial parents should be help accountable when they keep a parent from having a relationship with their child. Maryland’s Court of Appeals upheld a $3 million dollar judgement against a women who took her three children from the United State and fled to her home country of Egypt. The parents shared custody, with the mother having custody of one child, and the father having custody of the other. During one of her visits with both children, she bolted to Eqypt and the kids have not been seen by the father for 7 years.

A court awarded damages to the father, and the court of appeals has upheld that decision, demonstrating their lack of support for what this woman has done. These courts are to be congratulations, for taking this position and imposing fines on the woman for what she has done.

Now, how do we get her to educate the rest of the Judiciary in the United States that parental alienation should not be tolerated, that keeping a parent from their child is domestic violence, just like the Department of Justice has stated on their web site. How do we remove bias from the courts, who make incredibly biased decision that effect the lives of children each day?

There is one big difference with this Judge. She did not grow up in Family Court like many of the judges and commissioners that hear family law do. They grow their teeth in a corrupt system, and hand down the same corrupt decisions they are used to seeing during their career. This judge has a much more diverse background, including spending time in the Federal Court System. Her credentials make her well qualified to hear cases like this, as opposed to the Quasi Judges that hear typical family law issues.

Judge Battaglia - Thank you! You are to be celebrated for this decision, and please help educate others to start doing the same thing.



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Mom kills kids while Dad fights the courts for custody to protect them
February 25th, 2008
Another bonehead Judge or Commissioner making a decision in “The best interest of the child” has kept three young children with a mother who has killed them. Nassau County Courts in New York need to investigate this issue with independent investigators to see if their contracts with the State for collection of child support put another family in harms way.

All this while the fathers of the children are fighting the courts for custody to protect these very children. This reminds me of our previous story where Mark Supanich actually took his daughter because he felt she was not safe. It resulted in his arrest by US Marshals for kidnapping - which he was eventually aquitted of. Yet, the family courts still restrict him rom seeing his daughter.

Thankfully, Mark’s daughter is still alive! His taking her from the harm he thought she was being exposed to may have saved her tender life.

These two fathers, Ricky Ward and Innocent Demesyeux were both fighting to get custody of the three children from the mother. Leatrice Brewer called 911 to report she had killed her three children. Cause of death is still under investigation. Foaming around the mouths of the childen may indicate they were drowned or poisoned.

Tragedy - Yes. Expected - of course. Our courts, driven by payments from child support agencies that pay for courts to hear their cases, incented under US Title IV-D will continue to make decision that keep custodial parents off of welfare, and loving parents out of the life of their children. It’s a sad reality of our government today.

The answer to many of these issues is simple - shared parenting. Allow both parents into the lives of the children equally, providing the oversight of another parent who can identify when harm may be coming to their child. Conviction of DIVORCE is not a reason to remove a child from the life of their children. How can it be justified?