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Wednesday, June 16, 2010

NY court shows hope and support in alienation ruling


As my ex wife drags me to a full day court hearing on child support, it consoles me to know that some courts and judges are making responsible rulings.
 In the case below, the Judge made a correct ruling in finding the mother guilty of abuse by conducting Parental Alienation. I don’t think you have to go far into this case to undercover that the Mother is Evil and seeks revenge in the form of money. That, and to inflect as much pain on her ex as possible. All of this at the expense of the children. The case documents (just as mine own did) that the mother indeed practices PA. I will be looking for a court here in WA that will make informed and correct judgments, as this court did in NY.



A Long Island, N.Y., judge has sentenced a woman to six weekends in jail for repeatedly undermining her ex-husband's relationship with their two daughters.
Supreme Court Justice Robert A. Ross in Nassau County ruled that the mother, Lauren R., willfully violated a court order by deliberately alienating the elementary school-age children from her ex-husband, Ted R.
Ross held Ms. R. in civil contempt and ordered her to report to the Nassau County Correctional Facility every other weekend this summer.
Her term was to have begun on Friday, but was temporarily stayed pending appeal by a judge from the Appellate Division, 2nd Department, on Thursday.
"The evidence before me demonstrates a pattern of willful and calculated violations of the clear and express dictates of the parties' Stipulation of Settlement," Ross wrote in, 203699-02.
"The extensive record is replete with instances of attempts to undermine the relationship between the children and their father and replace him with her new husband, manipulation of defendant's parenting access, utter and unfettered vilification of the defendant to the children, false reporting of sexual misconduct without any semblance of 'good faith,' and her imposition upon the children to fear her tirades and punishment if they embrace the relationship they want to have with their father."
The extraordinary hearing to determine whether Ms. R. should be held in contempt for violating the couple's stipulation of settlement began in May 2009 and stretched over 23 days of hearings over the next nine months.
During the hearing, Mr. R. testified to dozens of occasions in which his ex-wife either interfered with his visitation rights or purposefully alienated the children from him.
The judge described about a dozen such incidents or patterns in his eight-page decision.
The "crescendo" of Ms. R.'s contempt involved false accusations of sexual abuse against Mr. R., the judge wrote.
"Allegations that defendant had injured the child were found to be baseless and, by making such allegations, plaintiff needlessly subjected the child to an investigation by Child Protective Services, placing her own interests above those of the child," Ross wrote. "This report was not made in 'good faith' -- rather, the investigating agency warned the mother not to re-utilize the allegations and her children in her custodial litigation with the defendant."
In addition to the contempt finding and the temporarily stayed jail sentence, Ross ordered a hearing to consider a change of custody and to hear Mr. R.'s application for more than $134,000 in attorney fees. Those hearings were postponed pending Ms. R.'s appeal.



Stanley Hirsch, also of Garden City, represented Mr. R.

"I'm very hopeful that this case will be some type of warning to those who don't have the children's best interests at heart when they conduct themselves with their spouses," Hirsch said. "It has great significance to my client, but I think it has a terrific overall impact on people who are going through a divorce and not getting along and involving the children in their disputes."

2 comments:

  1. The article says it all. We'd note that while the judge found alienation to have occurred in this instance, this judge is notorious for throwing good fathers out of the lives of their children. Further, it should never have cost the Father $165,000 in legal fees to have this situation addressed. The lack of access enforcement is the equivalent of state sanctioned child abuse.

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  2. Not only men go through this. My ex husband is doing this to me at this writing. I'm being subjected to my second baseless cps investigation, the first one having been closed as unfounded, and my 11 year old daughter is being torn apart by it. He's violating an agreement we made in court less than a month ago, kept my daughter away from me when I was supposed to have her, and convinced her she is abused. Not only women engage in this sick behavior, and I will stop my ex no matter what I have to do.

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