Divorce Support Forums: 1 step forward

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...in CA, the only domestic violence considered must be documented. An ex spouse can't successfully claim DV without proof. The courts and legislature here are well aware of the effects of false accusations.
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The solution to this entire question is to get rid of all "special" law which addresses violence between married persons and simply to apply, instead, the same laws and penalties which apply to every other person in society--whether married or not.

This whole dilemma of the modern "guilty until proven innocent" legal syndrome, with respect to men and DV as well as the way they are viewed with regard to marital property, alimony and their assumed unsuitability to receive equal custody of children in divorce, is nothing more (or less) than pure demagoguery and pandering. Politicians implement laws, which result in this, to appeal to the mindless and thoughtless reactions of the public--particularly women--even though such law supposedly "protecting" these women (and in some cases children) is, to the extent it may be useful in the first place, totally redundant to law which already exists.

Beyond trying to make themselves look good to the uninformed, these politicians furthermore implement such law in order to provide employment for lawyers and to avoid any call upon state funds for the care of divorced women and their children when this responsibility can, instead, be shifted to the nearest available man--her ex-husband--even when he has no demonstrable culpability in the matter whatsoever*!

BTW, does anyone know how I can get a copy of "10 Myths About Custody and Domestic Violence and How to Counter Them"?

*Of course a man has responsibility for the care of his own children, but not under conditions where this is used as an excuse, in combination with the arbitrary assignment of custodial parental status to his ex wife, for spousal support.

Edited by jbar (06/10/08 03:55 PM)

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