NH Family Judges Exempt from Appellate Review « Fathers & Families:
Recently I did a piece on a promising development in New Hampshire – the actions of the Redress of Grievances Committee of the state House of Representatives. Apparently, citizens can take their complaints against state officials to the Committee, have them heard and, if they’re deemed founded, the Committee will recommend action by the legislature. The findings of the Committee’s investigation into the outrageous behavior of family court judges, Marital Masters, Guardians ad Litem and the like make it clear just how out of control are the family courts of the Granite State. Indeed, those courts and their personnel plainly behave as they wish, regardless of due process of law, regardless of evidence law and regardless of litigants’ rights and children’s well-being. Impeachment was the recommendation for more than one state official.
But a question arises; how can courts act with such impunity? How can they behave in such a wild West, answerable-to-no-one manner?
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This article also brings us to CACR-26. In 1978, the legislature gave the state Supreme Court the power to make and implement rules for the lower courts of the state to abide by. Contrary to the clear language of the enabling statute that those rules would have “the force and effect of law.” The judges were freed to do anything their heart desired with no concern that an appellate judge would overrule them. Passage of CACR-26 would finally allow ALL Family Court Litigants New Hampshire to appeal the illegal actions of family court judges.
Please vote in November to PASS CACR-26 and give the NH Family Court Litigants back their rights which were taken from them in 1978!
