This week's cover story in the Seattle Weekly is Ripped Apart: Divorced dads, domestic violence, and the systemic bias against men in King County family court (Jan. 18, 2012). Nina Shapiro reports on courts that are so busy that each side in a divorce often has just minutes to present evidence and arguments. (Very few cases go to trial, so the hearings before commissioners are critical.) She profiles three men whose divorces were complicated by allegations of domestic violence and painful custody disputes. Several attorneys quoted say that the system is biased against men.
It would be interesting to hear more voices related to this story – divorced and divorcing women, more men than the three profiled, commissioners, judges. Would the conclusions be any different?
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Frustrations in Family Court
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Nina Shapiro could easily include my custody nightmare and verdict in a story about fathers "ripped apart". A very short version of my case is provided by the National Center for Reason and Justice at http://ncrj.org/varn-chandola/.
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