Open up family court hearings, says senior judge

Open up family court hearings, says senior judge - Telegraph:

A senior judge has made an important ruling in favour of transparency in the family courts.

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A victory for common sense -Battle Over Secret Courts Not Over

A victory for common sense - Telegraph:

A judge was prepared to listen to arguments, but the battle over secret courts is not over

Last week, 702 lawyers, including 38 QCs, signed a letter calling on the Government to drop its Justice and Security Bill, allowing judges to sit in secret on cases involving national security. According to the lawyers, allowing judges to hold their hearings behind closed doors would be “dangerous”, “contrary to the rule of law”, would “erode the core principles of our civil justice system” and would “fatally undermine” the right to a fair trial and open justice. What the lawyers did not say, however, was that we already have a devastating confirmation of all these points in the workings of our family courts, in too many of those tens of thousands of cases every year involving the removal of children from their parents by council social workers.

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The Family Court System is Not working: So why has no one changed it?

The Family Court System is Not working: So why has no one changed it? - Southbury, CT Patch:

When something does not work, we usually just stop using it.  For years, the judges, attorneys, GALS, AMC’s and agencies have known that the family courts and the state agencies associated with them are not functioning in the best interest of the children or the family.  In fact, the courts interventions and programs do not work in most cases, because they are antiquated, outdated, and/or administered by improperly trained, poorly educated or worse, corrupt individuals.

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Custody Fight: Allegations of Molestation

Custody Fight: Allegations of Molestation - Los Angeles Local News, Weather, and Traffic:

Police are investigating allegations a father molested his own daughter. Officers have removed the child from his home – twice.

So why did social workers – or someone – put her back with dad, the alleged molester, each time?

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NEW HAMPSHIRE ADOPTION FACTS

NEW HAMPSHIRE ADOPTION FACTS

In
 2010, 
227 
foster 
children 
in
 New
Hampshire were
 waiting 
to 
be 
adopted

Adoption 
provides 
children 
with 
a 
lifetime
 of 
emotional
 and 
legal 
connections 
to 
a 
family .
Foster
 children

who
 cannot 
return
 home 
risk 
reaching 
adulthood 
without 
a
 permanent
 family
 of 
their 
own. 
In
 2008, 
Congress

passed 
the
 Fostering
 Connections 
to
 Success
 and
 Increasing 
Adoptions
 Act, 
which
 will 
help 
more 
children 
find
permanent
 families.
 Despite 
this
 progress, 
thousands 
of
 children—especially 
older 
children 
and
 children 
of

color—still
 wait
 for
 families.
 And
 many 
families
 who 
have 
adopted 
lack
critical 
post‐adoption
 support
 that 
is

essential 
to
 their 
children’s 
long‐term 
stability 
and 
well‐being.


A 
higher 
proportion 
of
 African 
American 
and

Hispanic
 children,
 and 
children 
of
 multiple 
races,
are
 waiting 
to 
be 
adopted 
than
 are
 adopted 
in
 New
Hampshire.

                               Children                  Children
                                Waiting                  Adopted
Caucasian                  75%                       81%
African American        5%                         1%
Multiple Races            5%                         2%
Hispanic                    13%                        10%

One may surmise, that this is the reason that several people have and/or will testify in an upcoming jury trial that DCYF worker's have been telling Mother's who are trying to keep custody, not to tell anyone that their child (that look's white and for whom they are losing custody of) "is bi-racial", for fear the Adopters won't want them.

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Parental Rights And Due Process

Parental Rights And Due Process

Published in the Journal of Law and Family Studies
Donald C. Hubin
Dept. of Philosophy
(1999)

Judge Testifies in Lackawanna Family Court Probe

Judge Testifies in Lackawanna Family Court Probe | WNEP.com — Scranton / Wilkes-Barre / Hazleton:

SCRANTON — Lackawanna County’s President Judge testified before a Federal Grand Jury.
Judge Tom Munley’s appearance came 10 days after the indictment of Danielle Ross.  Ross is the former Guardian ad Litem, the lawyer assigned to represent the interests of children in Family Court custody cases.
Sources said Judge Munley is a witness, not a target of the federal investigation into Lackawanna County Family Court.

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