Who will fight the Divorce Industry of New York?
As I send out my analysis of the Divorce Industry and pray for someone with the funding and power to take an action I'm left wondering who that person could be. The problem is that the notion of Divorce has so many connotations religiously, legally, practically, etc. It takes a person with a lot of intelligence to see through the fact that we aren't discussing the merits of divorce or divorce laws of New York when we look at the problems of the Divorce Industry. We are looking at plain old government-backed corruption. We are looking at a system that destroys lives of people who have no civil rights protections - the middle class and children. We are looking at a network of unsupervised elected officials awash in limitless powers over citizens in their courtrooms. Besides death there aren't many other punishments that a Supreme Court Judge in Divorce can't order in a divorce court in NY without any questions at all from their supervisors or the judicial system.
The Divorce Industry is a network that has unlimited access to the assets of their customers. They have incredible court powers to order fees and punish critics and those who don't comply with the system. The rulings of the Divorce Industry can't be undone in any court in New York or Federal Court so they have incredible power. We have systems of ethical enforcement that are secretive and not under the jurisdiction of any law enforcement body in New York besides secretive Grievance Committees that answer to no one but their own insular bodies. So with huge billings, unsupervised elected officials and Grievance Committees that prosecute less than a half percent of attorneys in New York in a year we have a free for all and the losers are families of New York and innocent children whose lives are destroyed for many years or permanently after entering the system.
So who will give a crap about this? Frankly, it seems that no one really cares at all. The insular Divorce Industry is stuck debating esoteric legal issues and ignoring the big picture. The Divorce Industry reform actions are like a doctor putting a band aid on the little toe of a person who was shot in the chest. They miss the point. It's the victims, stupid. It aint about protecting an old corrupt system that tramples civil rights and destroys unwitting citizens, it's about protecting the integrity of the court system, the US Constitution and public integrity. It's about ending the license to steal that the Divorce Industry has, not about the merits of a fault system or other esoteric legal issues.
So the simple answer to me is that the person who will make a difference is the person that will control the flow of money into the Industry. This person will make litigants declare the source of legal funds prior to action and will heavily penalize those who use illegal or undeclared assets in divorce. The person will have to look at the record of pro se litigants and the Judges who ruled in pro se cases to find patterns of discrimination. The person will have to look at some specific cases and ask big questions - why was one person allowed to spend $500,000 of undeclared money on lawyers while the other had no representation and lost their kids in a trial without representation? How can we allow a State to take children from loving parents without representation? How can we have a court system devoid of due process that clogs its dockets with meritless cases by litigants who can't really afford the costs? Why is a State government ordering litigants to make terrible financial decisions that liquidate assets and ruin the future of children? Shouldn't we be protecting children and not taking an active roll in their demise?
So in short we need a big thinker who can see past the niggling details of divorce law, turn a blind eye to the insular industry and listen to victims. The person must be in the federal government or a private attorney who wants to sue New York State to demand some answers on pro se, court ordered fees relative to client assets, judicial ruling records and Supreme Court processes that are violating the civil rights of those who can't afford court access.
Who is that person? It ain't little old me, but I hope my typing helps the situation one day.