helping protective parents and children endangered by an abusive court system
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The FCVFC blog focuses on analyzing, confronting, and remediating corruption across the country in the family, juvenile, and dependency courts.
But behind the scenes much of our work has to do with helping to determine optimal custody decisions, as fair as possible in the interest of all parties. (more…)
The First Amendment of the US Constitution protects free speech in matters of public interest. The protection of children from physical, sexual, and emotional abuse is a critical issue of…
The theory of “parental alienation” (developed by Richard Gardner, MD) has been embraced wholesale by the judicial system, without substantiation. Here’s what you need to know about it. 1. “Parental…
I, Jill Jones Soderman, am filing good faith complaints against New York County family court judge Clark Richardson and attorney Heather Saslovsky, an employee of the nonprofit Legal Aid Society…
It is a public health crisis. In family courts, this scene plays out regularly: abused children are forced into custodial relationships with their abusers by professionals who have betrayed…
From the desk of Jill Jones Soderman, executive director Once the four Bannister children disclosed material that made sense of years of behavior that was puzzling to inexplicable to their…
Jill Jones-Soderman, executive director of The Foundation for the Child Victims of the Family Courts was interviewed yesterday by Dr. Carole Lieberman, the highly-respected forensic psychiatrist who conducted forensic…
Melody Bannister, who is alleged of having “kidnapped” her children, is wanted by law enforcement. But her own version of the story, which she appears to be blogging while…
Just a little over a year ago, two six-year-old twin boys were sent to sole custody of their father. Besides the bruises, lacerations, black eyes, abrasions, and genital injuries…
Brené Brown, through her now virally-popular Ted talk, her interviews, and her books, has encouraged us to see vulnerability as a characteristic to be admired and sought after. “Vulnerability is…