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An Important Message from the Divorce Corp. Team
 Susan Settenbrino
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Last November, Joe Sorge’s organization, Divorce Corp., sponsored an important conference in Washington, D.C. on the need for reform of family courts and family laws. The National Parents Organization was pleased and privileged to be a major player there. One of the many constructive plans to come out of the conference was the creation of a structure to allow everyday people to tell their stories about their treatment by family courts. Now that effort is underway. If you have a story about your experience with family courts, the following message from Divorce Corp. lets you know how to make it public. Most of these will be “horror stories,” but not all. It’s equally useful to let people, courts and lawmakers know what works as well as what doesn’t. Here’s Divorce Corp.’s message:
Divorce Corp. Followers:
We are writing to you with an update from Susan Settenbrino regarding her inquiry to all of you about the success and outcomes of any judicial misconduct complaints you may have filed.
Please see her message to all of you about her new website and plans for the project:
Ms. Settenbrino received overwhelming responses to her inquiry announced here, on DivorceCorp. She wants to thank you for all of your responses and to let you know that she will be addressing them accordingly. Ms.Settenbrino and Greg Roberts have created Uncheckedpower.org, to address unchecked power in the government and court system as a whole. Read more…
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NPO’s Stephen Meehan: Pennsylvania Should Consider Shared Parenting Post-Divorce Legislation
By Robert Franklin, Esq, Member, National Board of Directors, National Parents Organization
Here’s Meehan’s excellent op-ed in the Philadelphia Business Journal, June 8, 2015. Way to go Stephen!
More than one-third of our nation’s states are taking steps toward allowing more children to grow up with both parents in their lives when parents split, and now is the time for Pennsylvania to join this crucial movement.
At a time when nearly 20 states are considering shared parenting legislation, Pennsylvania leaders and parents have the opportunity to learn about the importance of the reform efforts during a showing of the documentary “Divorce Corp.” near the Pennsylvania Capitol on Tuesday, June 9.
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Nebraska: Suit Filed to Gain Access to Judicial Training Materials
By Robert Franklin, Esq, Member, National Board of Directors, National Parents Organization
One of the most serious failures of state bar associations is the manner in which they train family court judges about the social science on parenting time as it affects children’s well-being. Family courts routinely cite the “best interests of children” in their rulings, but there’s little to indicate that they’re aware of the masses of social science demonstrating that, when both parents are fit, equal or nearly equal parenting serves children best.
So there’s a movement afoot to gain access to judicial training materials to see just what judges are being taught. Importantly, when Arizona State University professor William Fabricius began teaching judges in that state a few years ago, judicial parenting orders changed radically from mostly sole or primary maternal custody to mostly shared custody. One Arizona activist told me that the training he provided was the single most important factor in changing the culture of family courts regarding parenting time orders.
Now longtime Nebraska advocate for shared parenting, Dr. Les Veskrna, has filed a lawsuit against the Administrator of the state courts seeking those training materials. He requested them under the state’s Public Records Act, but was denied access. Now he’s filed suit. We’ll be following that suit carefully to see if the state’s judiciary will require itself to open its records to the public that pays their salaries.
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