Family Law Reform - Letter to Attorney General

Hi, still haven't got this Blog page fixed up the way I want it meanwhile however I thought I would post some of the letters I wrote in my desperate efforts to prevent the practitioners and courts from ejecting me from my daughter life - all to no avail.

This letter is among many that illustrate the utter hopelessness of trying to protect children from the abuse of the Family Court and its practitioners, who see their job as punishing and exclusding one of the parents. Sadly, the easiest way to hurt a parent is my hurting their child and this exactly what they do - knowinglyit seems.

I've removed the names to protect myself against the sectreacy laws that protect the Family Court from accountability.

Outcry

25/06/05

The Hon. Philip Ruddock MP
Australian Government
PO Box 1866
Hornsby Westfield, NSW 1635

Dear Sir,

Thank you for your response of 24 May 2005.

Please note however the issue is not the enforcement of Court orders. The issues I raised were the Child representative misrepresentations, and the disturbing fact that despite allegations of sexual abuse being found not to have substantiation the Family Court has instead relied on these representations in denying me ANY contact with my daughter for over a year now.

Needless to say the Family Relationship Centres have no barring on the courts interpretation of the law or its reliance on child representative solicitors that can act to destroy a child relationship a child would otherwise have with one of their parents. Your new FRCs may provide mothers the opportunity to avoid the devastating court process - sometimes, if the mediator doesn't have the typical anti father attitude social workers are well known to favour. However if no changes are made to family law and how the Court administers it, whats the point? Mediation sessions will be a means of reading the riot act. If father's don't like it - bad luck. Without changes in the Law, the court's attitude and its interpretation of the Law this measure will in the main be useless.

I will forward my complaints to the Office of Premier and the Hon Robert Hull. Your never know they may decide to break ranks and do something to protect my daughter. Given the refusal of the other state bodies to address these serious issues I won't be holding my breath.

You may be interested to know that I am in the middle of my final hearing, however after five day in court Justice Carter adjourned the case for six weeks whilst she went on her country run. Another six weeks of not knowing if my daughter is dead or alive! I am still restrained from talking to, writing to or seeing my daughter, whom I'm told the lawyer representing my wife, after years of being angry at her mother's attitude towards me, now says she hates me.

These judges have a litigious perspective that needs to see one of the parents as guilty, the other innocent. They don't get it!. A child's well being is dependant on a relationship with both parents. The court's role should be preventing one parent from excluding the other. Instead they do the opposite. They facilitates the exclusion of the child's other parent, empowering one parent to vilify, demoralise and often destroy the other parent.

The solicitor appointed by the court to be my daughter's Child Rep justified his obstruction of my contact with my daughters by saying he's "entitled to have a view". Given the outcome and the serious damage to my daughter's life, how can this be said to be in the her best interests?

The application of the adversarial legal system is against the interests of the child.

Clearly the laws have to be changed to address the ease with which one parent can sever a child's relationship with the other parent on teh advise of lawyers and various "professionals" under the existing Family Law Act.

I respectfully submit that to do nothing about this situation, where there is opportunity for remedy is tantamount to child abuse on a massive scale.


Yours faithfully,