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 the...

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...

INTRODUCTION The above noted case has been brought to the attention of the Foundation for Child Victims of the Family Courts (FCVFC), The focus of the work of the FCVFC...

Hon. Richard S. Bernhardt

The Ellicott City, Maryland Family Court Complex appears to be an incubating unit for developing a protocol for management of custody litigation involving high net worth individuals. The FCVFC...

Press releases indicated that professionals in the Connecticut community knew that Jennifer Dulos, mother of five children was in trouble. The combination of child abuse, domestic violence, threats to remove...

For the purposes of this article, we are focusing on the parent whose child has disclosed to the parent, either directly or indirectly that the child has experienced some...