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The Friedlander Tragedy MUST be a Catalyst for NY Divorce Reform

As horrific as the Friedlander deaths were it is equally horrific that New York State is not reviewing the circumstances that led an ordinary man to such extraordinary actions. This family was suffering through the worst of the divorce industry. One of the attorneys is known as one of the biggest fee mongers in Westchester and no doubt they were under incredible financial duress from ridiculous bills. Broken New York laws kept the couple battling over the house long after custody was settled and no doubt such punishing bills made it impossible to move out. Surely the passive legal guardians that do nothing but bill were long since done with the children and with no social workers involved on the case there was no one to catch warning signs. Undoubtedly their case dragged on for over a year as the Judge ordered crazy bills and had no sense of urgency in his dealings, pushing the billing mill for his lawyer friends. Surely the parents were feuding stuck in the same house and both the lawyers and the court system did nothing to calm the situation but send more bills, adjourn more court dates and delay decisions.

We need a NY State or Federal commission to examine the circumstances that put the kids on such a dangerous situation. We need a 'Friedlander Law' that forces judges to make expedient rulings in contested divorces. The law needs to assign state funded social workers to contested cases and they need to have regular evaluations of the stress in a divorce. The law needs to limit divorce lawyer billing beyond 20% of net worth so piggish divorce lawyers can't show up to a house closing to take all the proceeds from a families sole asset. We need to abolish the practice of courts serving as employment agencies for divorce lawyers as unqualified legal guardians. NY forces families to pay 250 per hour or more for law guardians that are wholly unqualified to deal with the psychological issues of children in divorce. Lawyers have no training to deal with emotional issues in divorce yet in the backwards NY Divorce laws they are to be the emotional voice of children in divorce. The end result is tragedies as terrible as Friedlander and many more that aren't as horrid.

These children should not die in vain and NY state can't look the other way on the sorry state of the divorce industry.

It's time for change!