Child Support

Can My Experience with Child Custody Experts Help Others?

September 18, 2018 by Chief Navigator

Have you faced family conflict in Georgia that resulted in child custody litigation?

If you have, then the chance is pretty high you have something to say about your experience and may even want your experience to be useful in improving the process for others.

If you believe the process is overused and/or can be improved for the sake of increasing safety, peace of mind and availability of nurturing parents for children, your answers are especially important.

Regardless of where you are in the process, what the outcome has been, or even if it is not your experience but that of a family member or friend, your input is valuable in shaping the future of conflict resolution.

Please complete the form below and use the Contact Us form if you have any questions. Thank you!

Filed Under: Child Abuse Response & Prevention, Child Custody, Child Custody Evaluators, Child Support, Guardian Ad Litem, Judicial Guide to Child Custody, Kids Need Their Parents, Parenting through conflict, Parents Rights, Professional Testimony, Psychological Professionals Tagged With: Child custody evaluators, custody evaluation, GAL, Georgia child custody, Guardian ad litem, psychological evaluation, Survey of Child Custody Experience

Protected: Children Traded as Commodities

September 2, 2017 by Chief Navigator

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When Child Custody Becomes Deadly

February 13, 2015 by Chief Navigator

“His children were his life,” Prather’s sister Jerdonna Sawyer told The Associated Press by phone. “He wasn’t crazy at all. He just chose a terrible way to deal with his pressure and his stress.”

We are all saddened by this tragedy in Georgia, in the town of Douglasville, in which a father just could not take it any longer. Family members are grieving, and we may never learn the whole story.

Loss and stress do terrible things to the minds of people who could otherwise manage fine, but the escalated conflict surrounding divorce and child custody is enough to put many over the edge.

This father is one of a large handful in Georgia to end his own life, and one of several around the country who have murdered family members during the taking of their own lives.

So we advocate for reducing conflict and ensuring protections, as much as can possibly happen. Based on our data the courts and certain court professionals are exacerbating conflict rather than helping parents receive proper counseling and guidance.

If you recall the murder of Donna Kristofak in Cobb County not too long ago, she also had a restraining order and the court knew she was in danger. She tried to protect herself. These cases are different but there is still much we can learn by studying what happened in both.

When one parent loses control and believes they can no longer function or have any quality of life, something can switch in their brain and cause the urge to do something extreme and rash like finding a gun or a knife to use. It is not the choice of the weapon that matters, but the opportunity and the circumstances that feed this rage and desperation.

We can and must do better.

Our research has identified cases that are ripe for more loss and tragedy, and much of it could have been lessened if not avoided.

Please join the conversation on Pro Advocate Radio and follow our posts on our blog and on other social media. Let us know what you can contribute – how you can help?

In the meantime, watch for parents who are struggling around the loss of their children, their jobs, homes and health. Look for ways to ease their stress and to intervene if the situation makes no sense.

Filed Under: Assault Victims, Atlanta News, Child Custody, Child Support, Domestic Violence, Family Violence, Preventing Tragedy & Loss Tagged With: Child Custody, Child Support, Divorce, Douglasville shooting, Family Law, Georgia Family Court, My Advocate Center, shooting in Georgia

Green Light on Needs of Children

March 26, 2014 by Chief Navigator

Who is STOPPING good parents from caring for their children? …stopping them from WORKING so they can provide for children?

Spotlight on Augusta, Georgia and on Columbia County for what the local Superior Court and law enforcement agencies know is being done improperly to a good father. He is a good, hard-working man who loves and misses his child, and he deserves our support and attention from our leadership and news media.

A Candlelight Vigil is being held to light up the dark and drafty space surrounding the detention center where this man is being mistreated. See this event page to RSVP and watch for updates.

Now that this case has been investigated by others outside the local system in Augusta, we are giving the “Green Light” for people to raise awareness about the dangers to every parent in this area who might pass through this court system.

WFXG FOX54 Augusta – Your News One Hour Earlier

The situation described in this video is disturbing, but it is also disturbing to us that a good father…also seeking to protect his daughter…is being held in jail on false allegations. There are some very interesting similarities on these two cases. Both involve DFCS, law enforcement and certain child custody “experts” and the numbers and rulings just do not add up. Both are leading to damages to these children. Damages that can be avoided and that should be corrected.

We are asking law enforcement and our state and local leaders to bring transparency into this father’s case and into Augusta to see why so many good parents are unable to care for their own children, why they are losing their property and jobs, and their health.

The evidence of these cases dictates that these are the wrong outcomes. What’s next? #GreenLightAugusta

What about the laws? Are they being followed? Keep asking, and show up for these families. Follow #NeedforGreen to learn more about what is holding back good parents, leaving families in worse shape than before.

This story from Texas is now going viral, and it is closely related to what is happening in Augusta, and all over Georgia:

Post by FOX 26 Houston.

Please study local cases and ask questions, especially of Judge Michael Annis about judicial procedure and the use of evidence to exonerate innocent parties. It appears the evidence was ignored here and a good father jailed because he stood up for his rights to parent and protect his daughter.

He is fighting for his right to work and to provide for her — and for the chance to recover from what was done wrongfully to him in his divorce and custody case.

This father who is being held wrongfully, denied clean clothing for a week, being denied phone calls…is now writing letters to his daughter so that she knows she is not being abandoned by him. Help him ensure these letters get to his daughter so that she doesn’t believe that he has abandoned her? This is critical for her…not just for him. (Please understand that THREE fathers in metro Atlanta have taken their lives after this type of custody case and mistreatment by court professionals. We do not need another tragedy, and another Fatherless Daughter, for the State of Georgia to get the point: it is time to intervene!)

Video testimony is helpful in getting what this is like, the reality for people in this situation, so please take a few minutes to watch this, and see that what happens to this woman in court is the SAME as what happened to this man who is now in jail in Augusta – away from his child who needs his protection and support.

This father wants to get back to work, so that he can pay child support, plus manage the outrageous fees put on him by these court professionals. Let him out. Let him work. Let him defend himself. Give this child her father back.

Filed Under: Augusta News, Case Studies & Examples, Child Custody, Child Support, Civil Rights, Divorce Corp., Family Court Review, Green Light, Jailed for Fighting for Children, Kids Need Their Parents, Missing Parents, Need for Green, Parents Rights, Preventing Tragedy & Loss, Professional Misconduct, Wrongful Imprisonment Tagged With: Augusta, Augusta National, Child Support, Civil Rights, Criminal Attorney, False Allegations, Family Court, Fatherless Daughters, Fathers, Fox 26 Texas, Georgia Legal, Houston Texas, human rights, Judicial Error, My Advocate Center, Need for Green, Needs of Children, Public Defender, The Masters 2014, Wrongful Imprisonment