Hope for a parent whose parental rights were ripped away by NY State

18Feb/100

Hope for a parent whose parental rights were ripped away by NY State

Today my friend who has been banned from seeing, talking - except on speaker phone with mother listening and one way call, emailing, texting, driving by, seeing in school, seeing in camp or ANYTHING INVOLVING HIS CHILDREN, has gotten a second chance. After many years a new judge on his case has appointed a new legal guardian after one of the children demanded on her own accord to see the judge, obtain a lawyer and see her father. An act of amazing courage in the face of a justice system that is corrupt and poisonous.

NY State committed the ultimate crime against my friend, they ripped his children out of his life. They allowed an angry spouse with a blank check to exact revenge. She spent many hundreds of thousands of dollars and he was penniless and had to defend himself in a custody trial where the penalty was losing his children completely. This is no Judge Judy bullshit penalty, this is the real shit. This isn't Iran or China, this is the good old USA, New York, savagely ripping children away from a parent because he was too poor to defend against a wealthy and angry adversary.

Was he a convicted or accused criminal? No. Was there ever a criminal investigation into any behavior in 15 years of marriage? No. Any history of sexual abuse? No. Any history of domestic violence? No. Police ever called to house during marriage? No. Were the children being hit? No. Were they in the domestic violence unit of court? No. Was he rich and manipulative with money? No, she had a huge inheritance, he was broke. Was he a drug user? No Was he an alcoholic? No. What was he then? There must be something you say......Of course, there is always something....... wrong. Not in NY matrimony court. He is a quirky guy, a loving father and he had an affair with a woman whom he fell in love with (yes, still together years later).

NY Divorce court is the wild west of the court system. A place where the constitution is flushed down the toilet as courts will enforce religion, even mandating religious observances. A place where there is no due process and people are handled criminal punishments while having not committed a crime nor been tried with any type of due process. But worst of all it is a place that won't change because everyone is afraid of it. Politicians, Attorney General's, District Attorneys, etc. It falls under no one's jurisdiction and it is a place where predatory lawyers are stealing hundreds of millions of dollars a years from unprotected, vulnerable people in bad situations.

In this case, and in many cases in NY there is nothing measurable that causes these situations except one party has an open purse and lazy NY judges laugh watching their buddy lawyers making hundreds of thousands of the suckers. Meanwhile poor children stuck in abusive homes with criminals, severe mental illness, overt drug abusers and much worse wait for years for NY to help, if they ever help at all.

NY State laws force judges to decide full custody and the party willing to spend the most will almost always prevail in NY. Furthermore, a vindictive parent with money to spend can have parental rights removed for vague reasons by unaccountable forensic psychologists who write reports bound to ZERO legal standards and no peer review - even when the penalty is LOSING ACCESS TO YOUR CHILDREN. This is not paranoid shit, this really happens and it doesn't happen to bad people. In fact most bad people have more parental rights than the good person who can't defend themselves against an adversary willing to spend.

In any case, enough ranting. No, I'm not paranoid and I'm not crazy, but the state of things in NY Matrimony courts are and they must change. I wish my friend the best of luck, the truth will prevail.