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A reply from a divorce atty to "An Unmarried Husband: Unwelcome Reality"
Wow, such stinging repartee, such wit, such.. crap. I do hope he doesn't
charge by the hour, this guy could loose to a 2 year old's logic. Anyway, here's the story and link.. Oh, check out the on-line replys to the drivel below, too. ----------------------------------------------------- http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2...4042009/456490 Baskerville bays nonsense on divorce and dads Date published: 4/4/2009 YOU OUGHT to be ashamed of yourself for publishing Stephen Baskerville's drivel ["An Unmarried Husband: Unwelcome Reality," March 29 Viewpoints] and misinformation regarding divorce in America. Baskerville, an associate professor at a 9-year-old Christian college in Berryville, is also a member of the Libertarian Party of Virginia, according to that organization's Web site. As an attorney who has practiced family law in the Fredericksburg region for more than 27 years, I would like to correct as many errors as possible of those contained in Baskerville's commentary. Divorce does not license government intrusion, "including the power to seize children, loot family savings, and incarcerate parents without a trial." Baskerville is wrong. In most divorce trials you don't receive one trial, but two. The first brief trial, known as a pendente lite hearing, usually places in effect a court order to maintain the status quo as much as possible. It is designed to assure both parents access to children and the protection of family savings, so that one parent does not run off with the children and the family funds. No one is incarcerated without a trial and due process under the law. A second full hearing, which sometimes lasts a full day or two, provides both parents with the ability to present all of their evidence and witnesses to the court to help it make a fair ruling in this emotion-packed litigation. Baskerville is also 75 percent wrong when he states that judges, psychotherapists, social workers, and lawyers "profit from ensuing litigation." Judges, psychotherapists, and social workers don't profit from ensuing divorce litigation. Judges are paid a salary to be a judge and hear trials that men and women bring to them. They are not paid on commission. Most psychotherapists and social workers with whom I've worked over the years try to avoid litigation. They can't help clients if they, the psychotherapists and social workers, are sitting in court all day. Lawyers do profit from litigation. That's what lawyers get paid for doing. Most of us litigate. However, most family-law lawyers whom I know urge other means of dispute resolution first (such as mediation, collaborative law, and agreements between the parties) before the expensive, stressful, and uncertain option of litigation. Baskerville's claim that "child abuse is itself the creation of welfare bureaucracies" is so absurd that I must comment. One need only sit through a week or two of family-court trials to see beaten, burned, damaged children--or to hear stories of murdered children. Baskerville also claims that fathers suffer "incarceration without trial." Wrong again. First, fathers are not the only ones who pay child support. More and more mothers pay child support to fathers; and when the payor parent (man or woman) fails to pay as ordered by the court, after a full trial that parent is given another trial before being jailed. In closing, may I suggest that when The Free Lance-Star publishes irrational rubbish from such individuals as Stephen Baskerville that you try to balance it with commentary by someone who is actually from this planet? Thomas Savage is a Fredericksburg lawyer. |
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A reply from a divorce atty to "An Unmarried Husband: Unwelcome Reality"
Five Letters Support Baskerville Article
By Stephen Baskerville Ph.D. | Apr 11, 2009 The Fredericksburg Free Lance Star has published at least 5 replies to Thomas Savage, including one from me (below). As you can see, they all testify to the truth the divorce industry is trying to suppress. This debate should be taking place in every newspaper in the America and the Western world. http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2...4102009/457702 Bravo for Baskerville expose of divorce court Date published: 4/10/2009 Thank you for publishing Stephen Baskerville's op-ed. It's quite accurate in describing the injustices that are perpetrated in divorce courts in the U.S. and many other countries. I find it strange that even though there are so many divorces, no one seems to notice how unjust they are, especially to the men. Sadly, most men--including legislators and judges--believe it is their duty to protect the poor woman and children at the cost of the men being divorced. Perhaps they do not realize they are ruining the lives of these men along with our society and usually the women and children they are purporting to protect. Bringing this information into public view can hopefully create the social will to change it. Everyone can see the problems in society. Few are able to correlate the root cause. Mr. Baskerville clearly describes how the unilateral divorce-at-will laws criminalize innocent men. Norbert Holz Tampa, Fla. ***************************** http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2...4102009/457709 Divorce regime ignores kids' 'best interest' Date published: 4/10/2009 I have seen the lack of justice firsthand relative to family law, and I am incensed that anyone--let alone a lawyer--would say otherwise. I totally agree with Stephen Baskerville and am shocked by the comments of Thomas Savage. What planet is Mr. Savage from? Let's face it. The deck is stacked in favor of the mothers. There is no such thing as equal parenting or doing what is in the "best interest of the children." I congratulate Mr. Baskerville for a very well-written and accurate op-ed. John Marois Ontario, Canada ***************************** http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2...4102009/457466 Many profit from unfair 'divorce industry' Date published: 4/10/2009 Thank you for printing the March 29 op-ed by Stephen Baskerville about the divorce industry. If ever good intentions paved the way to hell, this is the case. This is a moneymaker for government, lawyers, social workers the list goes on and on, at the ultimate expense of children. Truly we have painted ourselves into a corner, and few see a way out. Robert Thomas Arlington ******************************** http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2...4102009/457711 Kangaroos preside in divorce-custody cases Date published: 4/10/2009 It was with some amusement that I read Thomas Savage's feeble attempt to rebut Stephen Baskerville's fine op-ed ["An unmarried husband: Unwelcome reality," Viewpoints, March 29]. Then I realized that some people actually believe lawyers. Mr. Savage's main point is that people receive trials in divorce-custody court. The truth is, they are not trials, they are kangaroo courts. In Virginia, they will not grant a jury trial in divorce-custody cases. Also, the proceedings cannot be recorded or videotaped. Why? Most of what the lawyer said is not true. I do agree with Mr. Savage that everyone should spend time observing what goes on in divorce-custody court to see the complete disregard of the Constitution, the law, common sense, and fairness. I sat through three years of divorce-custody proceedings, and throughout I kept saying to myself, "They can't do that," but they did, and they still do. Don Delaney St. Petersburg, Fla. ***************************** http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2...4102009/458017 Penalties are endless for 'crime' of being divorced Date published: 4/10/2009 Thomas Savage's sneer at my college and my alleged political affiliations (and the inaccuracy of his facts) offers a small glimpse of the kind of personal attacks and unscrupulous methods used by his profession against parents in family court ["Baskerville bays nonsense on divorce and dads," April 4]. According to Mr. Savage, family court is so fair that defendants receive not one trial but two. And before being incarcerated over child support, parents are apparently tried twice more. Surely Mr. Savage understates his case. In family court, parents can get dozens, even hundreds, of "trials," if we count, as he does, every time an innocent parent is hauled into court without having committed any legal infraction and issued with some "order" about how he must conduct his private life if he wants to stay out of jail. Many parents are forced to appear in court on a regular basis, each time ordered to open their wallets to attorneys like Mr. Savage, even if they have not hired them, and pay other exorbitant "debts" they have done nothing to incur. Indeed, family court has so many ways to criminalize parents that they can just keep "trying" them until they are found guilty of something. Do any of these numerous trials involve a jury? Is there ever a formal charge? Are parents ever declared innocent and left in peace? Or are these quickly improvised hearings, in which parents are barely permitted to speak before the judge takes away their children, confiscates their savings, seizes their homes, attaches their wages, and jails them without any semblance of what most Americans consider a fair trial or due process of law? America's family courts are ideologically driven kangaroo courts. These feminist tribunals are the shame of American justice. They are creating a police state that will only expand along with the federal funding that drives them until other media follow The Free Lance-Star and expose this appalling abuse of government power. Stephen Baskerville Purcellville The author is associate professor of government at Patrick Henry College. |
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