Family Court News
December 4, 2023 Five Found Dead in Apparent Murder Suicide in Clark County. spokesman.com (event)
December 3, 2023 The Gender Neutral Rabbit Hole Fueling Oppression of Women. Womens Coalition (essay)
December 2, 2023 Amber Alert Suspect Arrested: 10-month-old Child Found Dead. Idahonews.com (event)
September 22, 2023 8 Year Old Tri-Cities Boy Ends Up Dead after being Drowned, Sexually Abused and Tortured While in Fathers Custody, CPS Reports from Mom Were Ignored tri-cityherald.com (event)
September 15, 2023 ‘Piqui’s Law’ passed after SoCal boy murdered by father in custody battle ktla.com (event)
September 10, 2023 BBC Exposé: Family Court Is Inciting an International Exodus of Mothers Seeking Safety womenscoalition.substack.com (event)
August 19, 2023 Parental Alienation: A Disputed Theory with Big Implications, propublica.org (study)
August 6, 2023. OB-GYN Murdered at Exchange & How a Modern Matriarchy Will End the Crisis. (event)
June 29, 2023 Erin told a family court report writer her father abused her. She was then forced to live with him full time. abc.net.au (event)
June 27, 2023. ‘Could have saved victim’s life’: Murder-suicide suspect had ankle monitor removed. koin.com (event)
June 9, 2023 Yes You Can Sue an Abuser. Domesticshelters.org (advice)
June 3, 2023. A Final Plea from a Protective Mother the day before she took her own life. (The Catherine Kassenoff Story Told through the lens of a community of parents victim of family court corruption). custodypeace.medium.com (event)
June 1, 2023 Never Use Guardians Ad Litem; Work it Out With Your Spouse Before It’s Too Late Frank Report (advice).
June 18, 2023. GAL Can Be Sued in Teen Suicide Case, and Surviving Sister Sues Father for Rape. womenscoalition.substack.com (event)
May 27, 2023. I was forced into reunification therapy to bond with my emotional abusive father. The next 3 1/2 years were hell. insider.com (event)
May 26, 2023. Domestic Abuse Survivor Gets Justice After Quick Thinking Saves Her From Forced Shared Custody Agreement. nbcsandiego.com (event)
May 22, 2023. Legislative Change Needed: Problems with the Best Interest Standard. New York Law Journal at researchgate.net (research)
May 18, 2023, How ‘junk science’ of parental alienation infiltrated American family courts and allowed accused child abusers to win custody of their kids, insider.com (event/research)
May 18, 2023 Family Reunification Camps Kids Allege More Abuse, propublica.org (event)
May 2, 2023, The Next Front in the GOP’s War on Women: No-Fault Divorce, rollingstone.com (event)
April 27, 2023, America Makes it Too Hard and Too Dangerous To Get Divorced, Time.com (research)
April 14, 2023, Children of missing Minnesota mom Maddi Kingsbury won't be released to their father, judge rules, 6abc.com, (event)
April 6, 2023, Missouri group seeks change to family courts and guardian ad litem laws, komu.com, (legislative)
April 6, 2023, Handcuffs Removed From Mother Whose Plea to See Children Led to Arrest and Handcuffing in Hospital, frankreport.com (event)
April 5, 2023, Gender Bias In The Courts: Women Are Not Believed, forbes.com (research)
March 23, 2023, A Missing Woman And Her 7-Year-Old Daughter Were Found Dead, And Her Ex-Boyfriend Is A Person Of Interest, Police Said, buzzfeednews.com (event)
February 24, 2023, Children’s Violent Removal From Santa Cruz Home Raises Calls to End Reunification Camps, sfpublicpress.org, (event, legislative)
February 2, 2023, Missouri GOP senator proposes law that would create oversight of family court Guardian Ad Litems, stlrecord.com (legislative)
December 2022. Are Guardian Ad Litems Constitutional? Toby Kleinman and Daniel Pollack (research)
November 29, 2022, Reunification Camp Survivors Expose For-Profit Industry’s Relationship with Family Courts, davisvanguard.rog (event)
October 25, 2022, Reunification Camps: Children in Santa Cruz, CA Violently Ripped from Home khon2.com, (event)
April 21, 2022, Even After Escape, Children Still Suffer Domestic Abuse, psychologytoday.com (research)
February 22, 2022 She Said Her Husband Was Abusive A Judge Took Away Her Kids and Ordered Her Arrest (event)
September 16, 2021 He Beat Her Repeatedly Family Court Tried to Give Him Joint Custody of Their Children (event)
June 11, 2021. Washington: Guardian Ad Litem Asks Judge to Deny Press Access to Recordings of Her Threatening a Father. PJ Media.
April 14, 2021, ‘Women are routinely discredited’: How courts fail mothers and children who have survived abuse, theguardian.com, (research)
March 5, 2020, Evidence shows that the disproportionately male judiciary is more likely to rule against abused women and children, theguardian.com, (research)
August 18, 2019 Lying, Spying and Destroying Evidence Spur Guardian Reforms. Herald.net (event).
April 5, 2019, Institutional Gaslighting Investigations Vane Silence Victim and Protect Perpetrator, brownpoliticalreview.org (research)
January 23, 2018 Protecting #MeToo Victims from Retaliatory Lawsuits. Seattletimes.com
Updated Monthly: U.S. Divorce Child Murder Data 2008 - Present. Center for Judicial Excellence (research).
Family Law Studies
April 2023 Custody, violence against women and violence against children United Nations Human Rights Council. (PDF). Combating alienation claims.
2023 Safe and Together Training for Court Professionals. Safe And Together Institute.
March 2022, Children Experience Coercive Control, What You Need To Know, Western Center for Research & Education on Violence Against Women & Children, vawlearningnetwork.com.
May 2021 Petition for Writ of Centori. Richard Ducote Esq. and Victoria McIntyre Esq. PLETHORA of non-Washington studies and case law supporting survivors, alienation, gag orders, dv, GALs, etc.
May 2021 Custody Outcomes in U.S. Cases Involving Abuse and Alienation Claims. Joan Meier, Professor of Law and Director, National Family Violence Law Center at George Washington University Law School
2021, Denial of Family Violence in Court: An Empirical Analysis and Path Forward For Family Law. George Washington University Law School.
2020, U.S. child custody outcomes in cases involving parental alienation and abuse allegations: what do the data show? George Washington University Law School, published in Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law.
March 2017, I'll See You in Court…Again: Psychopathology and Hyperlitigious Litigants. C. Adam Coffey, et al. The Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law.
2017, Mapping Gender: Shedding Empirical Light on Family Courts’ Treatment of Cases involving Abuse and Alienation. Joan S. Meier and Sean Dickson. Law & Inequality: A journal of Theory and Practice Volume 35, Issue 2.
June 2017 Parental Abduction and the State Intervention Paradox. By Washington Law Review Association. Jane K. Stoever.
2015 Representing Battered Respondents under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. Berkely Goldman School of Public Policy
2014 Parenting Plans for Special Needs Children Applying a Risk-Assessment Model. Daniel B. Pickar and Robert L. Kaufman, published in FAMILY COURT REVIEW, Vol 53.
2014 Evaluation of Social and Demographic Characteristics of Incest Cases in a University Hospital in Turkey. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. The prevalence of child sexual abuse.
2013 Research Indicating That the Majority of Cases that Go to Court as “High Conflict” Contested Custody Cases Have a History of Domestic Violence. The DV LEAP Custody and Abuse Technical Assistance (TA) Project funded by grant issued from Department of Justice.
2013 Scientific and Professional Rejections of Parental Alienation Syndrome, Domestic Violence Legal Empowerment and Appeals Project (DV LEAP). Combating Parental Alienation Allegations.
June 2012 Child Custody Evaluators’ Beliefs About Domestic Abuse Allegations. Daniel G. Saunders, et al. National institute of Justice. That most domestic abuse allegations are made truthfully.
2010 The Dangers of Presumptive Joint Physical Custody. The Battered Women’s Justice Project.
October 2009. Female Victims of Violence. Shannan Catalano, Ph.D., Erica Smith, Howard Snyder, PhD. and Michael Rand. US Department of Justice.
October 2008 Judicial Responses to the Protective Parent’s Complaint of Child Sexual Abuse. Amy Neustein PhD & Ann Goetting PhD. Journal of Child Sexual Abuse.
1998. What the Experts Say re Washington State Parenting Act. Washington State Supreme Court Gender and Justice Commission and Domestic Relations Commission. courts.wa.gov. Washington does not favor 50-50 in high conflict cases.