WeSpoke is a grassroots organization founded by Natalie Blundell. It operates through networks of individuals sharing resources and information, with an emphasis on advocacy to end the abuses of family court.
The following is Blundell’s remarks on the topic at the NY Senate Joint Committee Hearing on Family Courts, which she delivered on Wednesday, November 1.
Public Testimony by Natalie Blundell
I represent the grassroots peer-to-peer organization WeSpoke. I founded WeSpoke in response to persistent reports from domestic abuse victims that the trauma and abuse they experienced in New York custody courts were even worse than what they had experienced in their abusive relationships, and that the practices of family court consistently endangered and directly harmed their children.
This goes far beyond women who are abuse victims, and impacts all parents who are primary caregivers in custody matters.
Our members are women who have typically compromised their careers to serve as primary caregivers for their children. They were never accused of parental unfitness or mental illness before their separation from the other parent, and sought to co-parent amicably.
They consistently report they are being subjected to prolonged litigation until they can no longer afford legal representation, and to unequal coercion to sacrifice their parental and due process rights.
They report that their children suffer unconscionable harm due to court practices.
We are an all-volunteer network, and don’t pretend our research is exhaustive. However, we have reviewed our survey results, data from the NYSCEF website, Part 36 Rules database, documents, recordings, and contemporaneous accounts submitted by litigants.
We also FOIA public administrative records from the NYS Office of Court Administration, but they refused to provide them.
The deeper we dig, the more we are shocked to learn. Our findings indicate an environment in the Family and Matrimonial Courts that incentivizes, enables, and rewards unethical and illegal activity, with structural incentives for litigation and court abuse.
It is little wonder that women are killing themselves, men are killing mothers and children, and even judges, across the nation. It is little wonder that the public’s faith in the integrity of our government is in tatters.
Families turn to courts for help, yet we believe that for the sake of avoiding the accountability and administrative hassle that may come with trials and appeals, the courts are prolonging litigation and applying pressure to already fractured families to tip them over the edge into collapse and despair.
Too many practices are followed, and outcomes are determined with reckless disregard for the best interests of children.
Meanwhile, in sharp contrast, there is a festive atmosphere in the divorce industry – with attorneys and court appointees joking and flaunting their vacations, parties, and campaign events together with judges as families sit crying on the galley benches.
And why shouldn’t they be celebrating? They are driving new cars, dining out, and moving into new homes funded with the liquidated assets, homes, retirement savings, and college funds of the children and families trapped in these courts.
They abuse helpless litigants, usurp parental authority, and prey on families with zero accountability.
We have a slate of recommendations and requests, which we have submitted in written form and posted on our website.
First, we ask the State Senata to request a Moreland Commission by the Governor and conduct a joint committee investigation under Article 4 of the Legislative Law, with particular scrutiny on how prolonged litigation and coercive practices affect New York children and parents.
Second, we have submitted 11 specific legislative proposals, but we’d like to highlight several now:
- Amend and enforce Section 205.14 of the Uniform Rules for Family Court to mandate judges deliver child custody and visitation determinations within six months of the preliminary conference in any contested child custody case, which does not also include an allegation of abuse or safety concerns;
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Establish an independent body to monitor and report on the courts’ compliance with New York State law;
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Establish a dedicated Family Court Whistleblower Hotline for reports of unethical or illegal conduct by court professionals.
Things would change dramatically if cameras were installed in family court.4. Mandate the installation of cameras in all courtrooms, with recordings accessible for review by an independent body external to the New York Judiciary during routine audits;
This legislation will enhance transparency, accountability, and due process in the courtrooms, and protect the best interests of children and families, while easing court congestion and promoting a culture of dignity and respect.
Frank Parlato 
Janine Morrison 
J.J. O'Hara 
Richard Luthmann 
Marie White 
Paul Serran
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When government isn’t of, by or for the families and children …
“… U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-CT) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) have introduced legislation to keep domestic abusers from buying and possessing guns.
It’s called the Lori Jackson-Nicolette Elias Domestic Violence Survivor Protection Act, named after two women who were killed by their abusers. …”
https://www.wshu.org/connecticut-news/2023-11-17/ct-senators-blumenthal-murphy-gun-legislation-domestic-violence
U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-CT) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) also exploited Lori Jackson’s case. They couldn’t care less about the purposely adversarial for-profit corruption churning out all those domestic violence victims in state “family courts”.
They showed no concern for how the family courts courts failed those two women. No mention of the harm done by big donor/big pharma pharmaceuticals. In Lori Jackson’s case, did drugs cause the homicidal and suicidal tendencies? That question should have been part of the Connecticut Senators’ conversations in Lori Jackson’s case. Was it?
Mr. Murphy and Mr. Blumenthal should be honest and simply say they want to disarm America instead of exploiting two women who were already exploited in “family courts”.
Chris Murphy and Richard Blumenthal are both a significant part of the Cash for kids scam. Both are a big part of the domestic violence problem we are facing in the state of Connecticut. Connecticut court affairs. Richard Blumenthal was the attorney general when the welfare reform act was initiated. He protected 4 Hartford judges in the Wilkinson case. He is impacting the protection of pedophiles in the state of Connecticut. Endured Sara Russell another pedophile sympathizer and protector. Impacting the languestics of the state laws. He ignored the highest number of sexual assault on the Uconn campus in the entire United States. He needed to be exposed and kicked out of political office. Senator Chris Murphy along with Richard Blumenthal reviewed the PPE loans that were red flagged. Chris Murphy is instrumental in getting Sean Scanlon into the comptroller office. ( Unsure what is happening there) . Megan Scanlon now had an unsuccessful run at it prior. Promptly got placed in the Ccadv. The Ccadv has a employee on the board reviewing GaL complaints. Appears more concerned with the fatherhood initiative than protecting women and children from possible death and sexual assault. She has a poor working relationship with the hundreds of women fighting Connecticut family court parental alienation scam. I’m surtain Megan and Sean are both aware of the federal funding for fatherhood initiative and programs associated. There is little advocating for children living in domestic violence. The advocacy for children to live free from abuse and pedophilia. Children murdered in the state are not recognized and discussed. They are not allowed to get involved in family court system beyond consulting for restraining order. Where the fatherhood initiative funding provided for abusers. Funding for reunification therapy and bogus evals from the alienation industry. Not allowed to train judges on domestic violence. Yet failing to advocate for any one else to train the judges out side the alienation industry. Bruce Freeman is reported to have no advanced education in domestic abuse. He is considered to be an expert solely based on the time he’s been running the family court racket for years. AFCC hack. Collecting large sums of money for his Alienation industry. Megan Scanlon proceds Karen Jarmoc who was in cohots with Joseph Ditunno and the violent offender program. Running family services. Diana Ditunno runs the fatherhood initiative health and human services at Uconn. Financial investments in making the program appear to work. Child support office running access and visitation grant across the hall. Karen Jarmoc left her post at Ccadv due to scandal involved with her husband unjustly enriched his life and Karen’s with family farm funds of the senior confused father. After brief period Martin Looney and Brandon Starkey proply placed her in the commission on women children and seniors. An organization that is supposed to advise legislators on issues. No advocy there for the hundreds of women in Connecticut family law court. Promoting legislation for fatherhood funding. All Connecticut father’s to be engaged in the lives of their children. No mention of women,/mothers. No mention of safety and children living free from harm and abuse. The political leaders are very aware of what is happening to women and children in Connecticut. These are strategic moves for funding. Balancing the state budget. Pay raises benefits and retirement. Kick these Connecticut politicians out office. Elections are coming. Let’s hope they are not rigging the poles again. William Tong knows how are state workers and incharge of protection legally of the state. Missing 10 million. What was the money used for in the middle of the family court soap opera? Exposed by Frank and others.
What is the matter truth hurts? It only takes the right information to get what appears to be an abuser to completely lose it. $$$$$$$$$. Blaming murder victims for their own death. Settle or die. On the record.
Alan Tan former student leadership member at Uconn. Most reported rapes on a college campuses in 2016. Co chair on the commission for women children and seniors. State of Connecticut. ” People claim I am crazy and the things I choose to do are impossible to achieve. Founder of TANRC. A voluntary self regulator focused on bringing participants together in a standard -,enforced community that restores trust and commitment. I specialize in information security technology, architecture financial strategies for business and technology. Understand the market place improve existing systems and regulations. Mr. Tan has been intrusted as co chair on a commission to advise legislators on women children and seniors issues. Also endorsing gender bias legislation bringing funding into Connecticut. If Connecticut protective Mothers is attempting to change the legal landscape and stop the discrimination against women in family court why is this agency ignoring them? He appears disinterested inequality in family court. Promote economic development of Connecticut through federal funding in the fatherhood initiative. Neither one of the chairs on the commission for women children and seniors to be doing a very good job. These people are ignoring significant problems in the state of Connecticut. DCF, probate court and family court.
The handi work of pro tempore Martin Looney. Senitor democrat for the state of Connecticut. July 2021. In the words of the Czech writer Milan Kenderal ” The struggle of MAN against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. Article in regards to the Connecticut union. The wage increases for union members prodomiditly men. 75% men. Despite 56 percent of the state of Connecticut work force are women. Speaking towards closing the wadge gaps of minority you and women. Providing healthcare benefits for men. Women paid less and poor benefits. The Connecticut union pay for attorneys fees for divorce and children’s attorney fees. The department of labor is partnered with the fatherhood initiative. Contributing to non custodial parents funding. Despite access and visitation grant. 2023. 630 million dollars in surplus according to senitor Martin Looney. Minority mothers, non minority mothers of lower income levels going to family court without counsel. Discussing the homeless problem in Connecticut. As women in family court system removed from their homes and have little to no income. Yet, the fatherhood initiative is working with father’s on housing. Is senitor Martin Looney at all concerned about women’s struggles in Connecticut? Probably, but it won’t be addressed in legislation cause he appointed Karen and Alan. Such important women’s issues, yet no advocy and advisement to the legislators. Sexual assault victims punished for reporting and incarceration costs are down. Crimes are not prosecuted. Failing to advocate and protect women and children. Failing to protect crime victims. Billions of dollars of funding from the government funded fatherhood initiative. This is why we have 630 million dollars worth of surplus? How about funding an investigation into family court? Martin Looney, your family court system is the worst in the country. You have a domestic violence problem. Thousand of pediphies, a sex trafficking problem in Newington Connecticut. Perhaps the surplus is because you are ignoring the safety and discrimination against people in your state. 51 percent of the residents in Connecticut are women. When do you plan to step up to the plate for them? Stop appointing people to commissions who are not addressing significant issues facing them. The registered voters in your state deserve to know what you are ignoring for the surplus. Is the press being paid to write articles that do not include what is happening in your state? The discrimination against women in family court system/ hatred towards women in your state. Labeled and gender profiled in your state family court system.
Maximus, Inc.?
https://rumble.com/v3747zw-nwlnews-maximus-the-most-powerful-corporation-that-youve-never-heard-of-bef.html
https://wvrecord.com/stories/650799128-4th-circuit-upholds-ruling-that-family-court-judge-didn-t-have-immunity
… 650.0011/13/2023 P MOTION FOR CONTEMPT
Motion For Contempt Failure to Pay Overdue Sanctions …
https://civilinquiry.jud.ct.gov/CaseDetail/PublicCaseDetail.aspx?DocketNo=FBTFA196088163S
He’s just not going to stop. He wants nothing more than to take the women’s life away and destroy her. How these judges don’t see what we all see is nothing short of amazing. I’m guessing he would stomp a wounded bird that fell from a nest. He reeks of a touturer.
A lot of investigations and public hearings were happening with Connecticut family courts around 2014 – 2015. Connecticut even hired a company to do a family court survey in 2015. Unfortunately, the survey didn’t mention all the racketeering, extortion and blatant corruption in the family courts. No AG offices investigated the family court crimes, Paul Boyne stayed mad since then and his pre-trial hearing is tomorrow at 11:00 AM.
https://www.jud2.ct.gov/crdockets/CaseDetail.aspx?source=Pending&Key=7c5dfc9f-3c60-464e-8825-bdd380f49dd2
Anyone know if AG or DOJ offices have EVER investigated family courts in ANY state?
Your artwork is exactly what family court is like. Your children are stolen and it’s a day at the office. They have no souls. The attorneys, custody evaluators and judges follow a script and take pleasure in their roles.
Cameras in family court would put an end to child trafficking. These are high paid lawyers who would lose everything if the public saw how they conduct themselves in the secrecy of family court.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7703257/New-photos-Jeffrey-Epsteins-New-Mexico-ranch-pedophiles-eight-person-party-shower.html
We have been reading the frank report for a long time. Lots of disclosures and still nothing in Connecticut. Why?
Hey Frank why are my comments getting erased and not posted?? Why would you control the comments?
Which comments?
So if I’m a judge and I deny that there is domestic violence happening to a mother while in court I say I don’t believe the evidence and I say there is no domestic abuse because remember it’s about linguistics we’re talking about law and laws about language.
Then I say but I believe the mother is committing parental alienation not even a real diagnostic. In fact the true diagnosis recognized in fact when you look it up it’s under recognized as “child parental alienation MAY BE DIAGNOSED as Child Psychological Abuse (V995. 51)”.
However if I state that it is child psychological abuse I am then admitting that abuse is happening in this family and a parent will go to jail because that is a crime it is not a civil code it is a criminal code…. Now imagine what would happen to me as a Judge if I stated that I did not believe domestic abuse was happening towards the mother but that she was committing psychological abuse towards the child then that mother would go to jail as a domestic violence victim and the judges know so they can’t do that they can’t state a crime so they use linguistics and they change the language to parental alienation hence why I try to explain to Mother’s who are being alienated which is actually domestic violence it is not printal alienation just by using that language you are supporting abusive fathers mom’s must understand this to really make changes
No matter what they are not going to go against parental alienation because if they do then they’re saying a parent is committing a crime when they are not and they could be held liable for that and not have judicial immunity Is hence the use of parental alienation
Imagine if I’m that judge and I Have given custody to the father stating the reason because he has been withheld from seeing the child for quite some time and it would be in the child’s best interest to encourage their relationship therefore I switch custody from mother who is the domestic violence victim to the father.
Is anyone seeing how this negatively affects domestic violence victims yet?
Now I have removed the child from the mom and have given custody to the abusive father imagine if I then agree with the mother who states that she is now being alienated from that child?
Well now I would have to say that the father is committing child psychological abuse and that would not do well for the funding from my state. Also once again I can’t commit someone of a crime because it’s a criminal code to abuse a child so I can’t send an innocent person to jail because I’ll lose my immunity.
Therefore I have to say that she is not being alienated.
Who gets the most funding domestic violence victims or father’s?
If everyone just started concentrating on the funding and the people actually supporting the funding that they vote in then they would probably get a very clear picture of the ongoing and the rhetoric the confusion the trance that TV victims are in while they’re in Is family court only focusing on the outcome forgetting to actually mention instances of specific abuse because they’re under so much stress and fear…
Is anyone seeing how claiming parental alienation if you’re a domestic violence victim doesn’t work?
Now let’s discuss the linguistics coercive control now what is coercive control coercive control is actually psychological abuse, It is forcing someone to do something against their will but it’s not a crime yet. Again if the courts used the actual term which would be a psychological abuse they would be saying that a crime is being committed against somebody so they dress it up with really nice linguistics like coercive control.
Again exactly why tell Mother’s who are victims of domestic violence to be very careful about the organizations they join and the organizations they rely on that actually aren’t really individually helping everybody but using their stories to pass laws on coercive control because that’s a very soft language to use for what it really means psychological abuse which is a crime it’s a criminal code so is anybody seeing how cohersive control doesn’t really help victims of domestic violence either but actually helps more on the parental alienation language Because you gotta go hurt your child to not see the abusive father as far as the judges are concerned and coercive control is already in our statutes actually control is not in our statutes but Cohersion the word Coerce is.
And you see how that helps with the language for parental alienation to help fathers because the funding goes towards parental alienation for fathers not mothers mothers isn’t in the language.
And don’t forget that these coercive control experts or they claim to be experts I don’t know how you could be an expert of coercive of control, Are utilizing soft language instead of actually calling it child psychological abuse why would they not call it what it is?
Maybe because they won’t get funding unless it says coercive control?
Because cohersive control supports parental alienation language.
Anyone seeing the pattern yet?
And as anybody seeing why it works for fathers because there is funding behind parental alienation for fathers it’s in the access and visitation grant run through your state child support enforcement.
Please 🙏 focus on the facts to save our children from this corrupt child trafficking system filled with pedophiles, abusers and money to support it all.
Thanks so much
Calling out the state of Connecticut on the fraud in family court. The archdiocese of Bridgeport. Website on child abuse. Fatherhood initiative funding. A priest impregnated a minor. Than becomes a teacher. Wins a case to remain a teacher. The state of Connecticut is using parental alienation as a possible form of abuse. Failure to protect children from an abusive parent. Using the deprivation of parental rights over the best interest of a child. The state of Connecticut is and using languestic to legally discriminate against women in the state. Richard Blumenthal, Sara Russell and many other to criminalize the protection of children to live free from abuse and harm. The department of family services, health and human services. The state family services department all engaging in using languestic to drive the cases into alienation cases. Fatherhood funding and partnership to financially run the entire state. Violating the human rights of women and children. This is a deeply inbeded issues with in the state government. The use of religious organizations and preferential treatment. The legalization of pediphia and child abuse. Failing to address the impact of abusive behavior and turning it into parental alienation. The judiciary committee refusal to address it. The failure of due process using unregulated and and incompetent mental health professionals using non existent mental health conditions as an excuse to transfer custody and family financial assets to increase funding for the state. Legalizing abuse and criminalizing motherhood.
Get Richard Blumenthal D-CT and Attorney general William Tong out of office. Clean up Connecticut! Richard Blumenthal D-CT is a pedophile protector and protects abusers. Get this people the hell out of office!!!!!!
Please sign the petition if you think the court process destroys families and that judges should be forced to decide child custody within six months and get families out of court.
So true:
… Families should not be trapped in these courts for years and years. Kids are being absolutely destroyed. Once you go into these courts you will not get out until the divorce industry is done with you. They are preying on families with zero accountability because the courts are closed. Criminals have more rights than parents and kids. If the public knew what they are doing to moms and kids and dads in there, they would burn the courts down. …
Family courts were designed to destroy families in America and in many other countries.
Canada, Australia, Argentina, Spain, The Netherlands … the for-profit family court destruction is the same in so many countries.
The family were destroyed before they hit the door step of the court. The courts are not allowing people to heal, move on and become financially stable again. This is judicial excellence? The AFCC needs to be shut down for good.
AFCC Inc. for-profit public-private networks with Dr. Richard Gardner’s pedophilia protection racket travelled around the world to destroy childhoods as quickly and effectively as mask and injection mandates travelled around the world.
Starting at about the 18:20 minute mark …
Update on the “Pathways” process in Connecticut family courts …
Working very well except for Stamford family courts … “no cases pending over a year in New Britain” … 85 pending cases in Hartford …
It doesn’t work well. Stamford is only one court system being complained about. THIS is NOT just a Stamford issue. It’s not just a rich issue. Pathways is another fatherhood funded program. The case highlighted have major issues. The major issues are beyond the wealthy. Abuse comes in all classes. These cases are not settled because they are ABUSE cases. As well as case where the children are at risk in some way. A stay at home parent is left without financial resources . Resources to get back on their feet. Usually the mother.
“Pathways is another fatherhood funded program.”?
Theres no mention of HHS Fatherhood grants in the NCSC evaluation of “the implications of domestic violence within a Triage Pathways Approach in Connecticut” — just credit to a few lead players in the AFCC, Inc. cabal (for coming to the rescue to save all the victims of the crimes their AFCC, Inc. cabal committed in their “family courts”).
https://www.ncsc.org/__data/assets/pdf_file/0022/94351/Implications-of-DV-Within-a-Pathways-Approach-FINAL-.pdf
You’re not looking in the correct funding location lol
Which funding location should we notice?
Everything is funded by the fatherhood initiative surrounding family court
Where’s the proof?
You must learn to read the contracts
Are the contracts public information? Where would we look for/find them?
All of the agencies are partnered with the fatherhood initiative. The funding comes into the state and is distributed to the agencies. Sean Scanlon should be able to answer. He held a big conference at the shoreline about fatherhood funding.
Joseph Ditunno has a heavy investment in the fatherhood funding. His wife runs HHS fatherhood initiative. He’s involved in the violent offender program. He’s right across the hall from the child support office running access and visitation grant. The Ccadv is part of the fatherhood initiative. Rights down the hall. The entire partnership is guiding these cases into gatekeeper/ alienation cases. All discriminating against mothers in custody matters. Joseph Ditunno is an AFCC member. These systems are absolutely intertwined.
October 2023. The domestic violence shelters are full and the Ccadv is running out of money for hotel rooms.
Thank you, never seen this before. But is there enforcement? How is the Karen Riordan case possible?
“How is the Karen Riordan case possible?”
Was Mr. Adelman somehow not required to follow the “Pathways” process in that case?
Can someone find out if he purposely didn’t involve the Family Relations Office (as he should have done, according to the Pathways process) to hide the crimes the judges, lawyers, evaluators etc. committed in that case?
Is the Pathways process optional or mandatory in Connecticut?
Family services covers up things as well. The whole system is rigged. They do what ever the hell they want. Immunity and absolutely no accountability.
Did any of the judges mention the option of a Family Relations study — or, did King Adelman simply issue his edicts for all to obey?
Fatherhood initiative funding! Connecticut is protecting pedipiies and abusers
Defund the state!!!!!!
“Defund the state!!!!!” and open all borders because of the fraudulent use of federal funds?
We need to defund the family court system.
Who’s adding the numbers to figure out how much the family court system cost Connecticut so far? The Dulos case alone is probably already in the millions — and how much more will it be?
Sean Scanlon should be recording the bills. Is he keeping track? I’m going to say he’s selective in the information he keeps.
Starting about 29:29 …
Associate Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court Mr. McDonald:
“… I still am hearing concern from practitioners …” ( 😂 😂 😂 )
Has Associate Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court Mr. McDonald heard from the victims of the Kids for Cash racketeering in Connecticut “family courts”?
Does Mr. McDonald not know about the criminal racketeering and blatant extortion which has plagued Connecticut family courts for the past forty years?
Has no one on that Rules Committee thought about how the Pathways process will significantly limit the corruption in Connecticut family courts? How many on the Rules Committee understand the need for apologies and compensation for all victims of crimes committed in Connecticut’s family courts?
Thanks to Judge Bozzuto for her good work making the Pathways the new process. Who came up with the idea? Who supported it … and which individuals fought against it?
Was the Ambrose case the last hurrah for family court criminals in Connecticut? Why else would Mr. Adelman and Ms. Conway crawl out of retirement to ruin the once-happy lives of those three teenagers?
29:39 … Mr. McDonald to Mr. Diana:
“ … This has been a long time in the making and you’ve come in the middle of the soap opera …”
Joseph Ditunno should be investigated and prosecuted. The Ccadv 😅, family court system services and child support are housed together in a building in Glastonbury CT. Please hold these people accountable for exploding federal funding.
I totally agree that Joe DiTunno should be prosecuted!!! He used his position to manipulate custody of his son and alienated his own son from his ex-wife. He also used his position to get his future daughter in law a position as a family relations counselor. A sad story of power and control.
When you do a general search for Connecticut Superior Court Rules Committee, and click on the Minutes link, do you happen to see a list of all dates of meetings and corresponding minutes or just the minutes from one day in 2015?
I expected to see the full list of dates with corresponding minutes.
Instead, here’s what I saw after clicking on that Minutes link:
It’s interesting because Item #6 says:
“… to enhance consistency and uniformity as to case management of dissolution cases …” looks a lot like Beth Bozzuto prompted the initiation of the Pathways program in Connecticut.
This could be relevant — especially if a few public-private AFCC, Inc. criminals and their accomplices have been trying to take the credit for the “Pathways” family court reform since 2015.
February 10, 2015 Meeting Minutes:
June 30, 2015 Practice Book Revisions
Superior Court Rules Rules of Professional Conduct
Page 53PB:
When Mr. Adelman received the case from Ms. Grossman, he should have sent the case to the Family Relations Office. Mr. Adelman didn’t. Why didn’t he send the case to Family Relations?
Did he not send the case to Family Relations to hide the obvious mishandling of that case?
Instead of sending the case to a Family Relations study, did Mr. Adelman ask Mr. Moukawsher to disbar Attorney Nicola Cunha?
The question isn’t, “Where are the whistleblowers to expose the family court crimes?”, the question is, “Where’s a decent DOJ office to hear what the whistleblowers have to say?”
Maybe someone somewhere can tell us what prompted Mr. McDonald to say:
If ever there were a time for whistleblowers in Connecticut, this is it.
A laughing matter? Soap opera? These are people’s lives. Don’t want to put their heads above the firing line 😕. When you complain about the court system you are followed, stalked to intimidate by invested parties profiting. Black balled and may wind up dead. It’s time to stop living in fear and intimidation.
Pathways is a trap. Track C these judges lump everything together. These judges making all the decisions without evidence presented.
When bad judges run it, it is a trap.
Who tolerates the corruption?
Good and brave attorneys and judges who see the corruption will either join together to clean up their courts — or keep working in that swamp.
So if I’m a judge and I deny that there is domestic violence happening to a mother while in court I say I don’t believe the evidence and I say there is no domestic abuse because remember it’s about linguistics we’re talking about law and laws about language.
Then I say but I believe the mother is committing parental alienation not even a real diagnostic. In fact the true diagnosis recognized in fact when you look it up it’s under recognized as “child parental alienation MAY BE DIAGNOSED as Child Psychological Abuse (V995. 51)”.
However if I state that it is child psychological abuse I am then admitting that abuse is happening in this family and a parent will go to jail because that is a crime it is not a civil code it is a criminal code…. Now imagine what would happen to me as a Judge if I stated that I did not believe domestic abuse was happening towards the mother but that she was committing psychological abuse towards the child then that mother would go to jail as a domestic violence victim and the judges know so they can’t do that they can’t state a crime so they use linguistics and they change the language to parental alienation hence why I try to explain to Mother’s who are being alienated which is actually domestic violence it is not printal alienation just by using that language you are supporting abusive fathers mom’s must understand this to really make changes
No matter what they are not going to go against parental alienation because if they do then they’re saying a parent is committing a crime when they are not and they could be held liable for that and not have judicial immunity Is hence the use of parental alienation
Imagine if I’m that judge and I Have given custody to the father stating the reason because he has been withheld from seeing the child for quite some time and it would be in the child’s best interest to encourage their relationship therefore I switch custody from mother who is the domestic violence victim to the father.
Is anyone seeing how this negatively affects domestic violence victims yet?
Now I have removed the child from the mom and have given custody to the abusive father imagine if I then agree with the mother who states that she is now being alienated from that child?
Well now I would have to say that the father is committing child psychological abuse and that would not do well for the funding from my state. Also once again I can’t commit someone of a crime because it’s a criminal code to abuse a child so I can’t send an innocent person to jail because I’ll lose my immunity.
Therefore I have to say that she is not being alienated.
Who gets the most funding domestic violence victims or father’s?
If everyone just started concentrating on the funding and the people actually supporting the funding that they vote in then they would probably get a very clear picture of the ongoing and the rhetoric the confusion the trance that TV victims are in while they’re in Is family court only focusing on the outcome forgetting to actually mention instances of specific abuse because they’re under so much stress and fear…
Is anyone seeing how claiming parental alienation if you’re a domestic violence victim doesn’t work?
Now let’s discuss the linguistics coercive control now what is coercive control coercive control is actually psychological abuse, It is forcing someone to do something against their will but it’s not a crime yet. Again if the courts used the actual term which would be a psychological abuse they would be saying that a crime is being committed against somebody so they dress it up with really nice linguistics like coercive control.
Again exactly why tell Mother’s who are victims of domestic violence to be very careful about the organizations they join and the organizations they rely on that actually aren’t really individually helping everybody but using their stories to pass laws on coercive control because that’s a very soft language to use for what it really means psychological abuse which is a crime it’s a criminal code so is anybody seeing how cohersive control doesn’t really help victims of domestic violence either but actually helps more on the parental alienation language Because you gotta go hurt your child to not see the abusive father as far as the judges are concerned and coercive control is already in our statutes actually control is not in our statutes but Cohersion the word Coerce is.
And you see how that helps with the language for parental alienation to help fathers because the funding goes towards parental alienation for fathers not mothers mothers isn’t in the language.
And don’t forget that these coercive control experts or they claim to be experts I don’t know how you could be an expert of coercive of control, Are utilizing soft language instead of actually calling it child psychological abuse why would they not call it what it is?
Maybe because they won’t get funding unless it says coercive control?
Because cohersive control supports parental alienation language.
Anyone seeing the pattern yet?
And as anybody seeing why it works for fathers because there is funding behind parental alienation for fathers it’s in the access and visitation grant run through your state child support enforcement.
Please 🙏 focus on the facts to save our children from this corrupt child trafficking system filled with pedophiles, abusers and money to support it all.
There is more to the problem in the office office of management and policies. Richard Blumenthal D-CT advocating for people to be removed from the sex offenders registry list after 5 years instead of 10. Also proposing a list only law enforcement can see. Richard Blumenthal D-CT had been hard at work in hiding things from the public. Support of the appointment of Sara Russell. Also proposing sex offender being protected. In the 1990s legislation to take assests from incarcerated individuals to cover the cost in Connecticut. ( Welfare reform act period) . It’s all about the economic development of the state. Sara Russell Quinnipac and Yale affiliation severing the public including on matters concerning juveniles. Take a good look at Connecticut DCF and family court system. We want to place her on the bench?
It’s all about economics. The fatherhood initiative. Xavier Becerra stated that the fatherhood initiative was not working. While billions of dollars are pumped into it. The entire state system is based on father’s pedophiles, murders , abuser welcome to apply for grants to discriminate against. Maximus inc, the child support services, health and human services. It’s been set up for financial fraud. Focused on the gender not the ability to parent. Recruitment of father’s to make money.
Can you explain this more? Where did the money come from and go to for fatherhood initiative? Maximus is a govt contractor that screens people for eligibility for social services? How is that tied into it?
The department of corrections is partnered with the fatherhood initiative. Incarcerated fathers wind up in the rears with child support. They are encouraged to “fight for their children” with access and visitation grant. The absent father with criminal past are enticed with not owing or paying child support. The mothers have been holding it together and caring for the children while dad’s in jail. They express concern over the father for what ever reason. The father’s are given grant money and supplied an attorney. Then custody is given to the father with criminal past along with welfare support. The moms are left dazed, confused without counsel. Lost custody and terrorized by the former inmate and family on the internet. ” She is a bad mother and there is a reason she lost custody”. There sure is it’s called the federally funded fatherhood initiative. More recruitment more money for Connecticut. The department of labor. Labors union provide the cash for the gals. The access and visitation grant for clinical psychologist. Bam you got a money maker. The cases all started with Mom having custody knowing that the abusive fathers ( not just physical) are going to be angry over child support and what ever else. The kids and the mother are targeted.. Dad interferes with moms parenting time. She is painted as an alternator. Cause DAds trying to establish 50/50. Grams, mom, sisters babysitting. Anything to establish more time or the request. Mom doesn’t give up more time. Game on. Non costodial dad’s a hero. Encouraged to give an emotional and financial beat down on the mother. Kids are in the middle. Dad’s forcing the kids in his care. The kids resist. It’s alienation. Game on. The grants are requested. The evaluators got dollar signs. Family relations. Dianna Ditunno needs a trip to the beach. Department of social services fatherhood initiative federally funded. The money just keeps coming. The fathers hold meetings. Women are evil. They are expected to dress in rags never get a haircut or anything. God forbid. They are using the child support in their mind. Kids are clothed feed and needs are met. Unless you are living in poverty dad’s not happy. This is the Connecticut family court racket. More recruitment of fatherhood programs. Need for funding the better to balance the budget. Raises, benefits and retirement funds. The state is financially benefiting, the attorneys, Court appointed psychologist. Moms crazy, dads a hero, rehabilitated by Joseph Ditunnos programs. He’s been getting steady pay increase, power to run family services. Keeping the wheels spinning. The judges are allowed to run the courts to keep the entire shit show running. Appointment for various commissions are stuffed with people who are going to keep the racket going. Family violence is not costing the state for prosecution. Incarcerated cost are down. Sexual assault are down case their not investigated, victims forced to recant. Punished so the money in the legal industry and the state agencies keep rolling.
Thank you Frank for putting these stories out. Me and my children have been truly terrorized by “officers of the court ” within the divorce industry. To anyone that does not believe this, I wish I could go back to before it became my reality. I have talked to so many people with similar stories. It is domestic terrorism and the federal government needs to step in and shut it down.
Cameras Worked HERE!!! This is a discreet view of a Christmas party for judges and attorneys in California Supreme Court and superior court. Very very insulting to parents going through the family courts and disturbing.
Cameras need to be in the courts.
Watch Here: https://youtu.be/02pIfztRAvg?si=nlESJqQqpDpor-qU
@LawyerWhoCares. What total b.s. The proposal is for six month child custody determinations where there is no safety concern. Children and family are being utterly destroyed by court process. Figure it out in six months or maintain the status quo of the parental roles that previously worked for the child. Six months is plenty for you and your industry to glut and gorge yourselves on kids and families. Get away from the kids, monster, and move the hell on. Why don’t we terrorize your family and take your child’s home while we pretend to try to figure out if you’re fit to be a parent. Cockroach.
Primary caretaking should continue.
You are absolutely right
Natalie Blundell’s approach to the issues lacks a balance perspective.
Family court operates with good intentions of considering the best interests of children and maintaining fairness for all parties involved.
Blundell’s remark paint a bad picture of family court judges and professionals. However, many of us are dedicated professionals who work tirelessly to protect the rights and well-being of children and families.
It is unfair to label the entire divorce industry as celebratory and uncaring.
Attorneys and court appointees play a crucial role in guiding families through the complexities of divorce, ensuring that their interests are represented and advocating for fair outcomes.
To suggest that we encourage clients to fight and destroy each other undermines our professionalism and ethics of many legal professionals.
Sure there is room for improvement, but family court judges make hard decisions every day in emotionally charged situations. The judges are trained professionals who strive to ensure the best interests of children.
Mandating child custody determinations within a strict six-month timeframe will lead to rushed decisions that does not consider the complexities of individual cases. We strike a balance between efficiency and thoroughness to ensure fair and just outcomes for all parties involved.
The fact that you are not putting your name is telling. Many family court lawyers may try to do the right thing but the criminal enterprise that exists is impossible to go up against.
Child custody evaluations must be eliminated. There was a committee in NY that worked tirelessly studying them and concluded they are invalid, and harmful. It is not a viable route at all in family court.
Natalie is spot on. Stop with the absurd narrative.
Family courts through the US engage in fueling conflict and creating conflict to increase appointments and prolong litigation. End of story.
There Are thousands of people in New England who are talking and gaining knowledge of cases. Injustice in family court. Cruel and inhumane treatment. Are all cases bad, no. Is there an alarming amount who are, yes. Her perspective is widely shared by many. She is supporting people who need it, not the industry. She is spot on about the system failure. We need change. We need more Natalie’s in this world. People who care about people. Support her , the cause and Camaras in court. Stoping preditory legal practice.
Thank you for sharing your perspective. When you wrote, “To suggest that we encourage clients to fight and destroy each other …” did you happen to think of any of your colleagues who have taken their adversarial approach to the extreme?
Corruption and bad intent would never happen in perfect family courts in a perfect world. In this imperfect world, are we to believe that no family court lawyer has ever taken advantage of any family in family courts in your state?
‘Room for improvement’ is the understatement of the year. I recognize there are good people in the system, but the culture of protection among attorneys (and mental health professionals) and incentives for protracted litigation at the expense of families apparently outweigh those. No family should be stuck in family court for years. Full stop.
Those like you who are in the middle of the divorce industry are the ones who need to step up and put an end to the corruption. If you stand by and continue to play ostrich, you will become more and more guilty by association.
If you really believe Family court operates with good intentions, you should be outraged when hearing about the bad apples. Help – don’t make excuses or minimize the clear destruction that criminals in the Family court system are flaunting every day.
Tell me please how a attorney would know what is best interest of children when you don’t even know the children. Don’t you think parents know what’s best for their children? From the actions of the family court I’m in a guest no because you all make decisions that actually are harming our children I mean how many more children have to be murdered by a father in the state of Connecticut it seems pretty rampant and every one of them is attached to either department of correction and family court.
It’s quite insulting to have an attorney in Connecticut say that the courts run fairly and on the best interests of children you all only care about money you all don’t give a c*** about what is in the best interest of our children because if you did you wouldn’t be so running a scam through the court system like access invisitation grant being under child support enforcement when one is not supposed to have anything to do with the other.
And let’s not forget how you lawyers love the parental alienation scheme especially when it’s against a domestic violence victim because we all know that the policies that are written and the funding especially creates bias against women domestic violence victims especially sexual assault victims in the state of Connecticut who are dealing with discrimination and bias and then the Attorney General does nothing you know why because the Attorney General Tong Represents you and protects you to violate our rights and our children’s rights.
In all honesty every family court judge and every family court attorney In Connecticut Are corrupt and crooked especially when you go through quinnipiac college.
And let’s not forget the money laundering judge Munro, Who was part of the GAL money laundering scheme and is now the head of the training for Gal’s.
Connecticut state is bias and discriminative towards women, Especially mothers.
How many moms in the department of correction have access and visitation program for their children to visit them?
So please stop insulting us parents and making statements like the court is fair and the court goes on the best interest of the children. Is it in the best interest of the children to live with an abusive father?
Is it the best interest of the children to be ripped away from their mother and no longer see them anymore?
Is it in the best interest of the children during visitation swaps that the children witness father’s berating and abusing their mother?
Why don’t you just sit down and shut up and find a different job.
WeSpoke advocating for the rights of primary caregivers in custody matters is needed. It’s alarming to hear about prolonged litigation and coercion that ultimately sacrifice parental and due process rights.
The need for accountability and reform in the family court system is evident. I support WeSpoke’s call for a Moreland Commission investigation and the establishment of a dedicated Family Court Whistleblower Hotline to address reports of unethical conduct.
Every affected state needs a dedicated Family Court Whistleblower Hotline.
How would that work, exactly?
Natalie-
Brilliant idea!!!!!
Best idea to fix family law courts!!!!
You need to get it on the ballot!!!!!
You rock!!!!
Family Court Judges get special license plates, special parking spaces, they do not get speeding tickets, they can do literally whatever they want with ZERO oversight or accountability.
Family Court Judicial is the second most popular profession among pedophiles because they have access to traffic children, behind Priesthood.
Every single Family Court Judge must be thoroughly investigated for pedophilia. Starting as far back as legally possible. Every single email. Every single tweet. Their family, friends and especially children should be interviewed to see if they show red flags for pedophilia.
#endpedophilia
An invaluable service being provided by this organization. It’s comforting to know their are people looking out for people. Big support 💪 for the work you are doing. Together we must stand to bring back law and order to our currupt family law courts!
Cameras in courts would serve as the greatest ‘court watcher’. Judges would resort to ‘closed courtroom’ when the dirty deals need to go down, but it would make it much harder for them to pull off. It would also make court a less terrorizing place for so many of us.
After years of trauma and abuse, the thought of having to enter a family court room creates fear, anxiety and dread.
Thank you FR for your continued coverage on the silent epidemic that’s destroying lives throughout the country— and family court lawyers are making millions on the pain and suffering of innocent mothers and children. And yes, it happens to fathers as well–
There are some judges who have the litigants remaining in the hallway with no record of conversation. This has to step! These judges are intimidating and don’t want to allow people to speak in open court and have transcripts.
Cameras in prisons drastically reduced victimization and violence among criminals.
The same outcome would occur in family court.
Cameras in family courts are the answer.
“… We also FOIA public administrative records from the NYS Office of Court Administration, but they refused to provide them. …”
CT does not answer FOIA either.
Which FOIA requests were denied in Connecticut? 🤔
Yes they do. I’ve had successful returns from FOIA requests.
What kind of info did you FOIA successfully?
Did your requests have anything to do with family court? 🤔
Who are you?
Yes. What successful returns? Multiple requests are denied by NY courts
AFC fees and forensic evaluator fees, as example. These records are to be kept by the courts and disclosed. But if you request them, at most they will point you to a database that has almost no records in it. And they will not engage further to explain why.
AFC fees = “attorney for minor child fees”?
I’m wondering how many times forensic evaluator fees have been successfully FOIAed.
Which “records are to be kept by the courts and disclosed”?
Did you request any? Did someone “point you to a database that has almost no records in it”? If so, which database?
Also, which office “will not engage further to explain why”? 🤔
Yes attorney for child fees. AFC. In FC, they are state paid. Even private paid AFC should be tracked. Please look at the rules. OCA denied these requests, and rejected an appeal. Specifically, Michael Siudzinski, Assistant Deputy Counsel
This is the database. https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fiduciary/HomePage?0
You can only FOIA judicial functioning, administrative information but you cannot get specific information it’s very limited in Connecticut FOIA
All directives in the Office of Court Administration are by law public documents and must be disclosed to the public. Not documents pertaining to deliberations that lead to decisions and directives, but the directives themselves. Therefore when the NY OCA issues directives to trial court judges– like they did after the “Crawford decision” when they told judges they don’t have to give evidentiary hearings before cutting parents off from kids– these directives are supposed to be public.
The NYCLU FOIA’d the OCA directives and were denied. They filed and won an Article 78 action against the OCA, but now the OCA is appealing. I for one CANNOT WAIT until the OCA loses their appeal and we get to see what else they’ve been telling family court judges to do.
It’s clear the OCA has zero respect for FOIA, due process and parental rights of New Yorkers, or the well-being of innocent kids whose lives are being destroyed every day in these courts.
Thanks to Frank Report for reporting on these issues.
https://www.nyclu.org/en/cases/nyclu-v-new-york-state-office-court-administration