Our
Mission...
Our
goal is to aggressively fight for justice on behalf of the CARING PARENT
involved in contentious custody battles. We try to promote love, loyalty,
safety and inter-generational cohesiveness within families, so that adults and
children thrive and are empowered individuals.
Our core goal is to protect the rights of caring families to raise their children, express their culture, beliefs and lifestyle within the privacy of their own homes. We believe that this is an inalienable right protected by the Constitution of the United States.
It is our responsibility to speak out, publish and file complaints against those who intrude upon these rights or act in an unethical or improper manner when dealing with our clients.
Respect for our clients' confidentiality, and our willingness to aggressively defend their rights is an integral part of our work.
Our core goal is to protect the rights of caring families to raise their children, express their culture, beliefs and lifestyle within the privacy of their own homes. We believe that this is an inalienable right protected by the Constitution of the United States.
It is our responsibility to speak out, publish and file complaints against those who intrude upon these rights or act in an unethical or improper manner when dealing with our clients.
Respect for our clients' confidentiality, and our willingness to aggressively defend their rights is an integral part of our work.
We
offer solutions to high conflict divorce by providing alternatives to
litigation, when that can be achieved:
- Therapeutic
mediation
- Parent
coordinator support
When
there is NO alternative to litigation:
- We
aggressively provide non-attorney consultation, forensic legal evaluation
of your case, and Court submissions, filings and presentations, to help
you gain custody!
- We
go where others fear to tread. We protect client confidentiality, dignity
and your legal & civil rights.
- We
provide on-going therapeutic advocacy while supporting our clients through
the Family Court litigation process.
- We
also support Civil Court and Federal Civil Rights actions on behalf of
clients, to ensure they receive legal justice and appropriate compensation
for their families!
The
Foundation aggressively confronts and remediates violations of a parent’s or
child’s civil rights at the hands of the Family Courts, and corrects court
actions, errors, malfeasance or violations which resulted in injurious
situations for the client. Most cases are high conflict situations, which often
contain a major aggression against the child, such as intentional neglect,
physical abuse, sexual abuse, or profound, pervasive hostile conduct toward the
child and/or the child’s rights and financial estate. Foundation evaluations
often investigate and uncover the parties who may be culpable, negligent or
involved with professional malpractice.
The Foundation’s core services
involve children’s home and family situations, which in affluent situations
often lead to substantial financial issues, creating highly emotional and
financial stakes. The Foundation’s work can be stressful, but can be enormously
rewarding to the professionals involved, and obviously beneficial to our many
satisfied clients.
Each
case starts with planning and strategy, and every case is different.
Confidentiality, mutual trust, and safety of the client are key starting points
of every case. Cases receive analytical evaluation and ongoing therapeutic
intervention with the client and family members is considered. Witnesses are identified
and deposed and papers filed. If necessary, The Foundation files complaints
against judges, adversarial expert witnesses, guardians ad litem, medical
personnel, doctors, psychologists, etc., on behalf of our clients’ interests.
Foundation clients receive meticulous services. Work entails extremely labor intensive investigations, consuming many hours of work by skilled legal forensic experts, attorneys, paralegals and editors, checking and double checking facts. Services involve finding missing documentation in the history of cases, and the matching and cross-referencing of billing statements line-by-line, in order to authenticate that billed consultant work was actually performed, and not only invoiced and not provided.
Foundation clients receive meticulous services. Work entails extremely labor intensive investigations, consuming many hours of work by skilled legal forensic experts, attorneys, paralegals and editors, checking and double checking facts. Services involve finding missing documentation in the history of cases, and the matching and cross-referencing of billing statements line-by-line, in order to authenticate that billed consultant work was actually performed, and not only invoiced and not provided.
The
Foundation goes beyond normally expected forensic and legal services, as we
deal with the following issues on a regular basis:
- Reversal
of misguided transfer of children and custody, from the hands of the
Protective Parent to the hands of the Abuser:
- These
cases most often revolve around issues of extreme psychopathology such
parental alienation, sexual abuse, and psychological abuse. Identifying
factual information, entwined with mental health/psychodynamic material
always requires careful, ethical expert witness testimony and a nuanced
understanding of the multiple issues in play.
- Addressing
child sexual and emotional abuse:
- The
Foundation has seen that child abuse is very poorly addressed by the
Family Courts. Children are not only silenced – allowed no voice in their
own story and their own fate, but are often maligned and discredited by
authorities during custody proceedings. The truth of children is often
suppressed by those who may have an equity position in the outcome of the
case, in clear violation of their safety, privacy and civil rights.
In
Family Court we all too often find that children have no voice and no rights.
In such cases, we refer to them as “prisoners of the court”.
Our
experience has indicated that judges, lawyers and other court officials do not
usually have an understanding of the nuances of psychoanalytic/psychodynamic
issues. Cases hinge on the legal model of logic – logic that can argue both
sides of a dispute as a legalistic maneuver which decides right and wrong/
guilty and innocent. But guilt and innocence are applicable only where there is
indisputable physical evidence of abuse. Sexual and psychological abuse are
often physically untraceable, requiring the subtle investigation of experts,
and the articulation of their professional findings to objective judges, which
is what The Foundation strives to do.
Addressing Parental Alienation
(PA):
Parental Alienation is an extremely complex, multi-dimensional and toxic family dynamic, whose central theme is the alienation of a child/children from the love and loyalty of one parent to the exclusive attachment to the other parent. A central theme of PA is the intense hostility, without reason, on the part of the child toward the parent who has seduced the child into favor. The elements that compose the dynamic of PA tend to involve highly complex psychological mechanisms of nuance and duality, issues not well understood or well regarded by the Court's tendency to a right/wrong, innocent/guilty paradigm.
Parental Alienation is an extremely complex, multi-dimensional and toxic family dynamic, whose central theme is the alienation of a child/children from the love and loyalty of one parent to the exclusive attachment to the other parent. A central theme of PA is the intense hostility, without reason, on the part of the child toward the parent who has seduced the child into favor. The elements that compose the dynamic of PA tend to involve highly complex psychological mechanisms of nuance and duality, issues not well understood or well regarded by the Court's tendency to a right/wrong, innocent/guilty paradigm.
Creating
New Public Policies:
The Foundation is deeply concerned with issues resulting from antiquated state and Federal public policies which determine custody and child welfare practices. As we know from direct experience, and as widely reported in the media, the system of “Child Protective Services” is broken. Therefore, influencing the creation of new state and Federal law in our area of expertise is a primary concern of The Foundation.
The Foundation is deeply concerned with issues resulting from antiquated state and Federal public policies which determine custody and child welfare practices. As we know from direct experience, and as widely reported in the media, the system of “Child Protective Services” is broken. Therefore, influencing the creation of new state and Federal law in our area of expertise is a primary concern of The Foundation.
Taking
on Child Protective Services
an agency that has the capacity to remove children from parents, to intrude on lives in multiple ways : the insistence on providing medication, therapy, removing children from one home or one parent and transferring children or adopting them to other parents are a few of the multiple violations of a powerful, well resourced, agency. CPS staff is generally at a level of a series of bureaucratic autocrats who are poorly trained and function at a level of following manuals. Dealing with government/administrative agencies is a major focus of engagement, strategy and study. The Foundation is focused upon/engages not only in issues related to individual cases but the analysis, critique, development of models of care and intervention which are geared toward dealing with creating public policy, law, lobbying, writing, public speaking to alter the public consciousness and dialogue.
an agency that has the capacity to remove children from parents, to intrude on lives in multiple ways : the insistence on providing medication, therapy, removing children from one home or one parent and transferring children or adopting them to other parents are a few of the multiple violations of a powerful, well resourced, agency. CPS staff is generally at a level of a series of bureaucratic autocrats who are poorly trained and function at a level of following manuals. Dealing with government/administrative agencies is a major focus of engagement, strategy and study. The Foundation is focused upon/engages not only in issues related to individual cases but the analysis, critique, development of models of care and intervention which are geared toward dealing with creating public policy, law, lobbying, writing, public speaking to alter the public consciousness and dialogue.
Assisting
Disengaged Contacts
The Foundation is frequently contacted by people who need assistance, but whom have not engaged our services. Some have” given up”, having been defeated at some point in the litigation process because of failure of funding, energy, humiliation, guilt, or fear. Many of these contacts remain in touch with us for years and we continue to hear their thoughts and feelings unfold, learn from them and write about them. Some contacts are parents whose children have been seized by the Courts and transferred to the children's abuser. These parents have either had their rights terminated by the courts, via protective orders, sanctions or limited visitation orders. Coerced consent orders are sometimes filed, where ex parte communications through lawyers/judges inform the parent that unless some contingency is completed, that parent will never see their child again. These matters are very much front and center of the knowledge and arsenal of tactics and techniques with which the Foundation challenges the Courts. The Foundation was created to amplify these issues in the public forum, to bring them to public and professional consciousness, hence the focus on Foundation ” think tank” conferences and large legal and mental health workshops.
The Foundation is frequently contacted by people who need assistance, but whom have not engaged our services. Some have” given up”, having been defeated at some point in the litigation process because of failure of funding, energy, humiliation, guilt, or fear. Many of these contacts remain in touch with us for years and we continue to hear their thoughts and feelings unfold, learn from them and write about them. Some contacts are parents whose children have been seized by the Courts and transferred to the children's abuser. These parents have either had their rights terminated by the courts, via protective orders, sanctions or limited visitation orders. Coerced consent orders are sometimes filed, where ex parte communications through lawyers/judges inform the parent that unless some contingency is completed, that parent will never see their child again. These matters are very much front and center of the knowledge and arsenal of tactics and techniques with which the Foundation challenges the Courts. The Foundation was created to amplify these issues in the public forum, to bring them to public and professional consciousness, hence the focus on Foundation ” think tank” conferences and large legal and mental health workshops.
Giving
Voice to the Voiceless
The Foundation has, over the years, written about those who fear fighting the Family Courts. We write about our clients, under aliases and strict confidentiality, and about people whom have chosen not to work with us, who feel defeated by a judicial system that was created to defend them, but which has failed them. The Foundation plans to create an FCVFC Press to write about topics that we have been unable to publish because the topics are considered too controversial for mainstream publishers.
Some of our articles are already published on various web sites and online press. Our desire is to greatly expand our publishing work and speaking engagements, and to engage in public policy creation to create a more responsive and caring Family Court system.
The Foundation has, over the years, written about those who fear fighting the Family Courts. We write about our clients, under aliases and strict confidentiality, and about people whom have chosen not to work with us, who feel defeated by a judicial system that was created to defend them, but which has failed them. The Foundation plans to create an FCVFC Press to write about topics that we have been unable to publish because the topics are considered too controversial for mainstream publishers.
Some of our articles are already published on various web sites and online press. Our desire is to greatly expand our publishing work and speaking engagements, and to engage in public policy creation to create a more responsive and caring Family Court system.
Fighting Retaliation against
“Whistle blowers”:
As The Foundation has been thrust into the role of “public crusader” in relation to the Family Court and child care system, we have become interested in protecting “whistle blowers” who assist other vulnerable populations. Government agencies, with their endless resources, viciously pursue those who speak on the part of vulnerable populations, especially vulnerable populations that are battling against formidable entities. Neither the Courts nor government entities take kindly to whistle blowers jeopardizing enormous source of funding and financial opportunities. The Foundation finds itself in the unenviable position of having clients desire our services, but at the same time fearing the tactics used by adversarial agencies and Courts, and hostile family members. The Foundation is fearless in exposing situations of possible corruption and fraud when the client's or their child’s reputation is at stake, especially when one our client is the subject of libel, defamation and fraud. The tools The Foundation uses to deal with judicial malfeasance rests upon shedding air and light onto the malefactor, aggressive legal action, expert witness testimony, investigation of the source of corruption and publication of the machinations of such acts.
As The Foundation has been thrust into the role of “public crusader” in relation to the Family Court and child care system, we have become interested in protecting “whistle blowers” who assist other vulnerable populations. Government agencies, with their endless resources, viciously pursue those who speak on the part of vulnerable populations, especially vulnerable populations that are battling against formidable entities. Neither the Courts nor government entities take kindly to whistle blowers jeopardizing enormous source of funding and financial opportunities. The Foundation finds itself in the unenviable position of having clients desire our services, but at the same time fearing the tactics used by adversarial agencies and Courts, and hostile family members. The Foundation is fearless in exposing situations of possible corruption and fraud when the client's or their child’s reputation is at stake, especially when one our client is the subject of libel, defamation and fraud. The tools The Foundation uses to deal with judicial malfeasance rests upon shedding air and light onto the malefactor, aggressive legal action, expert witness testimony, investigation of the source of corruption and publication of the machinations of such acts.
Forensic
Consultation:
The
focus of Forensic Consultation is the review and evaluation, analysis, and
scrutiny of evidence that appears in a court case: evidence validity, flaws in
evidence, evidence not provided, fraudulent evidence, evidence critique,
evidence that needs to be provided to support the client's case.
Forensic
Consultation takes place in the context of the entire court case, as we deal
with the analysis of your case and plan strategy to win custody and regain your
legal rights!
Forensic
Advocacy:
The
focus of Forensic Advocacy is the ability to support our client through the
litigation court process, dealing with the client's in depth knowledge and
understanding of their case and our understanding of Court dynamics.
There
are multiple dimensions of advocacy which extend beyond supporting the client
in the immediate court room process. Services that are provided include, but
are not limited to: intervention with social services, government & private
agencies, physicians and mental health professionals.
Identification
and Confrontation of Possible Judicial/Legal Fraud, Corruption, Abuse of
Power/Abuse of Due Process Rights:
Evidence
based case evaluation is a tool in the exposure of Judicial/Legal Fraud,
Corruption, Malfeasance, Abuse of Power, Abuse of Due Process Rights, if any.
The Foundation stands against Legal/Judicial intimidation of court litigants,
and in support of those professionals who fight for children and families by
reporting the suppression of evidence which indicated the presence of sexual
abuse, domestic violence, physical abuse of children by the abusive party. The
ability of the Court and it's labyrinth of connecting governmental institutions
provides the basis for the disenfranchisement of numerous professionals,
including numerous lawyers, psychologists, social workers, and all levels of
mental health and medical professionals who defend and advocate for their
clients. Professionals who are thus attacked are rendered impotent by the
Courts to protect their clients. The chilling effect of attacks against
professionals who speak out on controversial issues is that future
professionals are reluctant or overtly unwilling to confront controversial
issues, preserving the veil of secrecy and culture of corruption that currently
exists.
The
lack of public awareness and the alienation of the public against whistle
blowers who support the public welfare is an issue to be defined by The
Foundation.
The
Foundation Board, staff and state-by-state Special Advocates know all too well
that Courts across the country exercise their power to suppress the knowledge
of the existence of corrupt judges, and the participation of members of the
legal community who support Judicial corruption. which then becomes part of the
unspoken, consensual functioning of the Courts. Judicial and legal fraud and
malfeasance exist in courts across the country. The damage caused by these institutions
to families and children is devastating. Numerous people know of the problem;
few are willing to step up to the task of dealing with the problems, even those
noted in their own cases. Families who do not deal with these issues,
where they exist, in their own court cases for fear of retaliation expected,
face devastation as a result of their own fear, denial, and apathy. Corruption
is empowered and further institutionalized through denial and apathy, when
litigants fail to confront such issues where they are known to exist.
Identifying
and confronting the above issues is a large part of the work of each case
accepted by The Foundation, and a critical aspect of validating our client's
claims and restoring our client's credibility.
The
Foundation praises the work of the many honest, ethical, hard working members
of the legal/judicial/law enforcement community, whose work and efforts are
impaired by the existence of fraud and abuse of power.
Filing
Complaints:
The
Foundation for the Child Victims of the Family Courts is committed to filing
complaints against court officials, expert witness providers to the courts and
all court actor, on behalf of our clients. We often publish those complaints as
part of writing that elucidates the core issues of concern to the Foundation.
We
want the public to be aware that writing a general complaint about a provider
is not adequate. That complaint must be forwarded to the licensing board that
supports this providers' services to the public.
Complaints
against Richard Spitzer are familiar to the Foundation and a copy of a
complaint filed against Mr. Spitzer and his organization are published
under" Articles of Interest" - FCVFC.ORG.
Other
Services:
Additionally, The Foundation goes beyond normally expected services, such as obtaining furniture, housewares, and transportation for needy clients in times of crisis.
Additionally, The Foundation goes beyond normally expected services, such as obtaining furniture, housewares, and transportation for needy clients in times of crisis.
Besides
our core child and family support services, The Foundation offers mediation
services for Business Partnerships and other disputes.
The Foundation carefully evaluates clients being reviewed for
services to be provided .
We do not accept Federal funding, grants, nor do we seek to
invest in fund raising public outreach.
Clients are accepted who advance the mission, public policy
goals and values of our work.
The Foundation does not work with clients who are not fully
committed to proactive engagement in rescuing children from environments known
to be physically, emotionally, educationally neglectful or abusive.
Jill Jones-Soderman
PhD, MSW, MSHS
Executive Director - FCVFC
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