How the Failure of Welfare Reform Created Our Lawless Courts

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So if you find yourself in the defendant's shoes in a family law court, don't kid yourself. Look around at the people working there. Every one of them stands to make money, somehow, someway, when you lose. Notice that I didn't say if you lose either. The moral of the story is; When you are wronged by the family courts, don't look for redress because it doesn't exist in the family court today. Chances are, you will just be asking for even more abuse.

So, expect your civil rights will be violated in so many ways you may begin to believe the Constitution of the United States of America is just another myth children are told, along with Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, and the Easter Bunny.

Until federal child support incentive programs pay the states the same amount per successfully collected case no matter what the dollar value is this is the way it is going to be. Middle class families will be destroyed while the poor will continue to be underserved. Nothing about this sounds like a public assistance program, does it?

Currently, despite the established facts that children do better with equal access to both of their parents and the most effective, and cost effective method of child support enforcement is enforcing custody and visitation, federal incentive programs under our failed welfare reform are paying your state to limit the time children spend with one of their parents.

Moreover, if you file for redress in the federal courts you are likely to be told, as so many before you have been told, that custody is exclusively a state matter and your case will be summarily dismissed.

So, defendant, now you know the truth. You lost before your case was ever filed. This is by design. And it is all about the money.

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Terri Lynn Tersak is on extended maternity and family leave from work and her positions at True Equality Network and RADAR.

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Terri Lynn Tersak is a Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of True Equality Network. She is presently on an extended maternity and family leave from her work as a commercial photographer and her positions as President of True Equality Network, (more...)

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