Guardians ad Litem; Parenting Coordinators; Custody Evaluators, THE CASE FOR ABOLITION

Note: Cross posted from [wp angelfury] I will not SHUT UP , GIVE UP and I WONT go away!!.

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Guardians ad Litem; Parenting Coordinators; Custody Evaluators, etc.

This category includes the various forms of so-called ADR (alternate dispute resolution) practitioners, such as GALs, parenting coordinators, parenting evaluators, forensic psychologists, recommending mediators, special masters, court-ordered therapists, other court-appointed mental health professionals, supervised visitation centers, and other profiteers of "therapeutic jurisprudence", whose methods involve -- in non-criminal cases -- intrusion and coercion under the threat of court sanctions, and actual or de facto extra-judicial decision-making. This website heavily criticizes all of these practices, which have multiple things wrong with them, not the least of which is denigration of due process, and the diminution of a publicly observable, regulated, and appealable "rule by law" by substituting the caprice of men and women. These practices have been promoted as "cures" for ailings of the court system and the litigants in it by self-serving persons who apparently are ignorant, or else just do not care about the harms they cause to children and their parents because they make money from the ideas they promote, churning profit in proceedings that fly in the face of the foundations of our justice system. The bulk of these materials are listed in the section on PSYCHOLOGY. Also see the sections on the specific substantive issues, such as child development or parental alienation.

Court-appt'd Parenting Evaluators and GALs: The Case for Abolition by Margaret Dore PDF SCHOLAR

Guardians ad Litem in Custody Litigation: The Case for Abolitionby Richard Ducote PDF SCHOLAR

Guardians for Profit: LA Times expose, elder abuse by professional conservators by LA Times Staff

Parenting Coordination Issues (outline) by liz

Parenting Coordinators, Practical Considerations by liz

Troubling Admission of Supervised Visitation Records in Court by Stern/Oehme PDF SCHOLAR

What's Wrong with Parenting Coordination by liz

Family Court Issues, Activism, Corruption, Etc.

Also see multiple text and graphical links at LIZNOTES as well as the off-site links at The Liz Library RESEARCH ROOM

In the News - Outrages

In the News - Justice's Posterous

Judicial Blunder of the Year "Award" 2001 by National Coalition for Family Justice of California, Inc.

NOW 2002 Report on the Courts PDF

Outrages: Naming Names multiple contributors

Run, Mommy, Run! by Talia Carner

Smear Campaign: Psychologist versus Robin Yeamans by Robin Yeamans

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