Monday Morning PSA -

Monday Morning PSA –

????????? First, and as always . . . Family Court can be a highly toxic, highly volatile, money-feeding system to the detriment of your children and your mental and physical health.?? The Professionals of Family Court [all of them] truly understand this volatility, and it potentially can be exploited by the emotional vulnerability of litigants and their children.

????????? I promise you, that all reasonable efforts that can be made to stay out of Family Court or minimize your exposure to it should be employed.??

????????? Here are some immediate things to be aware of and highly recommend you stay away from regardless of whether you are represented or not:

????????? 1.?????? COBI – COBI is a very expensive, toxic, confusing nightmare of an alleged reunification model.? The program is unvetted and not peer-reviewed.? JAMA and the APA are clueless as to what it is, as well as other professional organizations.? The State, Arizona Supreme Court, and the Court have not officially authorized or approved this program to be used against the litigants it serves.? The program-for-profit model was brought to you by an influential Sitting Judge who previously engaged in similar activities such as COBS, and the AJC completely removed that program from any future consideration for its breadth of ineptness and incomplete structure as its proposed format to the State.?? Yet, here he is again.? The program was put together by an Expert historically known to have been destructive to families, and our goal to remove absolute immunity (which was successful) was in part by him and his toxic performance on families/kids. ?The third person who assisted in pushing COBI is a lawyer changing her practice to be a Rule 74 Parenting Coordinator exclusively.? That Rule was so abused, and some of the Judges were potentially identified as acting as SuperParents (which I think occurs way too much), that significant restrictions had to be put in check.? Judges admitted appointing COBI to cases, not knowing what it actually was/is.? Attorneys were advising their clients that COBI is the new trend.? This model is dangerous and expensive; by all efforts, stay away from it.? I do not understand how a sitting active Judge was/is ethically permitted to push a for-profit model through our system without an evaluation and approval process.? The motive, even if it is not substantiated as present.? A legitimate concern of quid pro quo cannot be denied, especially after looking at the breadths and efforts put in place to push COBS and now COBI.

????????? 2.?????? TPFF – This, just like COBI, is a highly toxic, unvetted reunification program that the U.S. Government, through its VAWA program, has provided States monies to ensure these types of programs cannot survive in practice against litigants.?? The backbone supporters of COBI have also pushed this malicious agenda.?? This program has even led to or was associated with suicide/murder, and our, as admitted, highly unprepared Judges actually entertain this model because they know nothing about it.

????????? 3.?????? FIT – This is a model once again, like the previous two, unvetted, non-peer-reviewed fictitious model brought into our Family Court.? FIT stands for Forensically Informed Therapist/Counselor.?? Talk to a none-Family Court Expert about FIT, and they will look at you crazy . . . Therapists/Counselors are not Forensically informed on anything on an academia platform.? Meaning there is no Degree at the Counselor/Therapist level, they can be no more no less informed than you and me . . .?? There is substantial, consistent, ?at a high-level, ?advanced training to be a Forensic [SIC].?? The Courts in Post-Decree cases are pushing for people to find these ‘alleged’ Therapist in the private sector . . .? They do not exist. ?The only ones available are those already working the Court for an extraordinarily high cost and requiring the Court’s quasi-immunity appointment before providing any expensive services.? Besides the legal ramifications of such moves.? There really is no such thing as a FIT; thus, it is just a money-grabbing scheme imposed on our Court. ??Although the Trial Court can direct a Party to seek therapy and what needs to be achieved, the Court cannot specifically design the map on who is appointed.? Thus, by only Experts of the Court alleging to be FIT’s, the system controls your services.? A huge no-no.

????????? 4.?????? IFLT - Informal Family Law Trial – This is the scariest to me, and more information will be released about this damming program in the coming weeks and months.? The Courts are trying a pilot program, where litigants waive their rights to a fair and impartial trial, the ability to present witnesses (without first seeking permission), and an inability to cross-examine witnesses or Experts.? The Rules of Evidence and evidence gathering are highly limited and detrimental.? You can only propose questions for the Court to ask the other side; the only person who can ask questions directly is the Judge.

????????? The Family Court system has already admitted, in its self-reported Study, they are highly unprepared for Family Court, have frequently been accused of conduct appearing as Super-parents, and appoint Experts to things like COBI and TPFF yet have no clue what it is (Truth be told, other than the three inventors, no one truly knows what it is).

????????? This IFLT is worse than a bench trial in Family Court.? You are agreeing to strip all of your already very limited rights away to a Judge.? A person you know nothing about, including their personal and legal understanding of Family dynamics.?? This program is insulting, and it appears to pick on people who are not economically robust (meaning no cash reserve for the retention of an attorney) and acts in a manner to strip rights away so those with alleged know-how can exploit your case. ??Basically, it is the Court saying, “You don’t have enough money or influence to play in the real game . . . take this PopWarner option.” The IFLT does allege you have a right to an Appeal, which could be true.? The problem is that if you waived certain rights by accepting IFLT, you cannot now argue for those rights in the Appeals; they are deemed waived.? Thus, a waste of time.

????????? I highly suggest no one ever agree to IFLT, ever ! ! !

????????? I want to be clear: I have always respected the structure of our Judiciary, and I am highly concerned about the managers we allow to manage our system.

????????? I will always stand with, “We The People.”

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