The best a man can get.

I spoke to a barrister friend today (who incidentally despises Family Law Judges) . He thinks I did well - especiallyconsidering I saved all that money on representation - I was ordered to pay $24,000 to the the child representative who lied in court to stop me seeing my daughter, who embellished the X's sexual abuse alligation to get my daughter teacher to oppose my efforts to see my daughter, who pushed for more psychological examinations of my daughter despite two Judges directing that it was systems abuse, that she should not go on (it was her seventh psychological assessment, plus she had to go through a year of therapy with a psychiatrist at age 6 for her misbehaviour with her mother (for being horrible to me), who even obstructed contact when my X agreed to it I had raised these issues in an effort to ghet him disqualified but my application was dismissed.

In other words the fact that I was penalised for taking more of the courts time than would have been taken if I had representation was offset by what the representation would have cost (lawyer logic).

He then eloquently set out the only path available to me. I needed to demonstrate that
the criticisms of my character and personality were taken on board, that I
had learnt and improved - then I'd have a chance at supervised access. If the supervising
ladies said nice things about me, I could then embark on the slow process of graduated increases in
supervised contact, any increase coming by way of a new application in court, ultimately cumulating is unsupervised contact eventually - first a little bit - unless the child, my child starts doing poorly at school or misbehaves with her mother in which case I would be excluded again.

This is what happens to every child and every father if the mother want it to be. .

Petty Ruddock didn't do anything to change this.

Poor little kids. The thought of all the lies they must endure as part of
this process makes me feel sick inside.
The marvel of children is their curiosity, their innocence and their trust.
...telling them lies that leave them confused and sad is an awful thing
to do to a child - any child. To see that done to your own child is like a
stake through the heart.

I wonder how those amongst us that supported the Government's so called reforms can face this reality. How they can face the torment it represent to our most precious children.

Regards,
Simon
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