After 7 years in the family court process, I now find I have to quit my lowly paid job due to untoward pressure from the CSA, who are content to render my wife and I homeless whilst allowing my former partner and 2 sons to luxuriate in the former family home close by, and even though my children have been with held since Sept 2007 in spite of court appointed contact. Therefore I intend to embark on a one man protest/presentation to illustrate the father isolated by this system even having been bankrupted in an attempt to do what is in my children's best interest!!
I will be calling at;
CSA Plymouth
CAFCASS Luton
Family Court Watford
Social Services Hertford.
Family Justice Review; Ministry of Justice : London.
As part of the Partner Group I have submitted numerous material facts , documents and my own blogs to them for their consideration and one of their early feedbacks shows some promise in how they wish to reform Child Maintaince and link it to contact orders which till now has not been the case. David Norgrove's link (click on blog title) shows what they are considering and is enclosed here. Many thousands of Dads take their lives under the pressure exerted by this erroneous department so I have to say enough is enough!
Let my one man crusade focus the world's attention on Family Court, Child Welfare and Parental Alienation Injustice and keep the media busy this June!
CSA
First on my must do list in June is to pay a visit to this erronious organisation and would ask you to send your CSA stories to http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/contact.html where I will be making a very personal appeal not to persecute loving Dads including ME! Australian Child Support Agency death toll since Kevin Rudd became Prime Minister: 15348 clients
It does not look like it will reduce anytime soon now Julia Gillard is at the helmbut I wonder what the totals are in USA, Canada , New Zealand and indeed here in the UK?
There are 3 dates in the UK whereby you can still make a presentaion of your case for the review to consider this Autumn but you will nned to be quick;
Cardiff: Tuesday 31st May ( approximately 2pm to 4pm)
Manchester: Wednesday 1st June (approximately 2pm to 4pm)
Birmingham: Tuesday 7th June (approximately 2pm to 4pm)
You need to register your interest in attending at; http://www.blogger.com/partners@justice.gsi.gov.uk and I will be requesting a further consultation in person oppertunity for the North -East and London, which I hope will be between 19th June ( Father's day) and 23rd June deadline for submissions to this review further details click on this blogs titleor contact here;
It all went wrong for me at Watford or I should say a court order designed with my children's best interest at heart was sanctioned by one judge by systematically unravelled by another proving such orders are not worth the paper they are written on and can only be enforced on Dad, but not Mum, so I will remind them of this when I arrive in Watford. You may like to notify your story to the local press in Watford in anticipation of my visit (See the social services link below)
CAFCASS.
It is my intention to bring a focus on this organisation, which is little more then a poor judges scapegoat, who they can point a finger to when they inevertably go wrong I will be calling for their demise when I arrive in Luton next month.
Here in the UK there is currently a Family Law review taking place at the Ministry of Justice in London under the chairmanship of Sir David Norgrove, it is hoped this will reveal the injustices that betrays families, most often vulnerable children and society as a whole. Reviews should be taking place in the USA Canada, Australia and new Zealand too!
Click on the above blog title to find out how to lobby the Royal Family, The President and First Lady of the United States along with the Prime Minister of Canada!
Click on this blog title for more to the 30 day protest in the USA When I first saw a superhero firing fireworks off a crane near Tower Bridge in London in 2003 I wondered what motivated a man to do this and was he showing the world he was being a responsable parent? Having gone through the Family Courts in 2004 I found I had more sympathy for this guy, as the injustice I discovered would not be accepted in normal society as it breaches all the norms we have come to expect in Human rights, racial equality and respect and most especially sexual equality!
The system is rotton to the core from ineffectual judges who use 'Baby Peter' style social workers as scapegoats and rely too heavily on their spurious statements to make final and irreversable judgements. Lawyers see it as a golden oppertunity to make fast money with out any accountability and then the hangers on including CAFCASS, CSA, CPS and CYFS all fail our kids whilst pretending to do what is in the child's best interest. Well your honour you have failed and continue to fail day after day and so many children grow up with a life of missed oppertunities and regret because of all these so called legal professionals and associated agencies hide behind the secret and close unaccounable Family Law system!
A man describing himself as ex-military has been arrested following a daring protest this morning which closed the Sydney Harbour Bridge in both directions.
The northbound and southbound lanes were reopened about 7.30am, a Transport Management Centre spokesman said.
The "ex-military'" protester abseils down after staging his Harbour Bridge protest. Photo: Getty Images Just before 7am, the 38-year-old protester, who unveiled two banners "Kids Only" and "Plz Help My Kids" at the top of the bridge, abseiled down to the road below, where he was met by police officers.
Commuters have been warned to expect major delays following the protest, which started just after 5am.
The Western and Northern train lines were back to their normal timetable but flow-on delays in both directions were expected, City Rail said.
A Fairfax journalist said there were rows of up to six people deep at Town Hall train station.
The protester speaks on his mobile phone after unfurling banners on the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Photo: Brendan Esposito "Most people seem understandably frustrated," he said.
There were also minor delays on the North Shore Line, CityRail said.
'Extremely heavy' traffic
But a Transport Management Centre spokesman said traffic was "extremely heavy on all approaches to the harbour bridge".
As of 8.30am, the spokesman said the main concerns were the southbound traffic from the northern beaches.
He said the traffic on Military Road was still fairly heavy and there were queues back to Mosman.
The southbound traffic on the Warringah and Gore Hill freeways were jammed back to the Lane Cove Tunnel.
Traffic going across the Anzac Bridge was flowing but there were further delays on citybound lanes on Victoria Road in Rozelle, he said.
Traffic on the Harbour Bridge itself was flowing at a similar volume to what was usually expected for this time of the morning, although there were queues to get onto the bridge, he added.
There were no concerns about traffic on the Eastern Distributor.
'Get my kids and other kids help'
The man, who said his name was "Mick", spoke to a number of media outlets and identified himself as "ex-military", AAP reported.
He reportedly said that he had equipment that could cause danger to commuters and so had left a note with his truck to close the bridge, the ABC reported.
He told the Nine Network: "If I have to stuff four million people around for one morning and that gets my kids and other kids help one day sooner [then] I have achieved my goal.
"If that draws attention to the fact DOCS is a failed department that's letting our children down than I have achieved my goal.
"This is a peaceful protest. It's to give a voice to little people. Most fathers or mothers that are victims of this sort of stuff have not got anyone to turn to. At the end of the day I have got the ability to stage a peaceful demonstration and make people stand up and pay attention."
He also spoke to 2GB radio host Alan Jones this morning by mobile phone about 6.40am.
Jones said the man's problems would be raised with DoCS or the minister in charge of children's services if he came down from the bridge.
The man replied that he would come down.
The man also told Triple M radio: "There are systematic fails in both federal and state governments ... the police and also the school systems that are letting our children down. And the children don't have a voice.
"There is a major failure in the fact that there's no one looking after our kids when parents separate and divorce.
"I've been pushed and pushed and pushed. I'm not just doing this for me, I'm doing this for my kids."
He also spoke about "parental alienation syndrome", which he described as a situation where a child insults one parent without justification, often due to indoctrination by the other parent.
The man has been taken by police to North Sydney Police Station and "charges were likely", police said in a statement.
In March, a truck driver was arrested after a pile of dirt was dumped on the Harbour Bridge, closing two lanes, in an apparent protest.
Public reaction
Aaron Fuller, a commuter stuck in the traffic, said he hoped the man could help "a community break out of our apathetic ways".
"Today, this man ... has risked everything to bring to light his concerns. Sure, there are other ways, but apart from painting No War on the opera house, how else to get 4+million Sydney siders to pay attention.
"Let us not be concerned about how long it took us to get to work, but instead, let us support this guy, or at least, be curious enough to dig more into his claims, and demand as a collective, something is done.
"We can live with a traffic jam, not another horror story around a child being abused or neglected."
Full inquiry: NSW Roads Minister
The NSW Roads Minister Duncan Gay told the ABC: "The man was driving a vehicle, pulled up beside the pylon, got out of his vehicle, took a ladder and put the ladder over the high fences that had been erected.
"Now we need to do a full inquiry of the effectiveness of the security, both of the patrol people and the rather ugly fences that are now on our beautiful bridge."
with Stephanie Gardiner, Georgina Robinson and AAP
The bottom line is this has to change and NOW! The Family Law review currently being held in London should be replicated in the USA, Canada australia and New Zealand and wo betide if they prove to be a white-wash!! Davey
Child Support Agency 13th May 2011
PO Box 43
Plymouth
PL95 8DL
For the attention of Mr. XXX XXXXXXX XXXX
Dear Sir,
Ref: CSA/XXXXX/XXXXXX/XXXXX
Case Ref : XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
NI no XXXXXXXXXX
You have recently corresponded with my local MP Mr XXXXXXXX XXXXXXX who recommended that I contacted you asap, I have made 2 attempts the second resulted in the call being taken by the offending XXXXXX who was the last person I previously spoke to at your office some time ago) and as expected and already advised to Mr.XXXXXX I would expect this to be futile so offer you a written explanation including extracts from a correspondence I have past to the DWP Minister*
Whilst most of this will not concern you as it seems even if my ex partner won a million on the lottery you would still pursue me to the point of ruin, which is where I was when XXXXXX seemed content to take any funds from my estate?? , this after going to some lengths to explain I was bankrupt, the pressures had subsequently resulted more recently being out of work for almost 2 years.
I have returned to work and earlier this year took on a full time role as dustman on low pay at under £17,000 PA and along with my wife's spasmodic teaching work I had hope to be in a better position financially in a year from now. We also have to pay a premium rate mortgage which could increase substantially in the next few months which is of concern as if left to the current status quo we just about get by day to day and breath a sigh of relief if we make it to a weekend without an 'event' such as emergency repairs or other unexpected expenditure.
I have today resigned from my position so whilst you will receive just one payment, I do not intend to return to work until you withdraw your unrealistic claim for my wife and I to subsidize my ex partners lavish lifestyle whilst we struggle. http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/showbiz/news/a318604/kerry-katona-to-get-gbp166-maintenance-a-week.html You may suggest this is wreckless in these difficult financial times and given it will fall on my wife to provide and pay the mortgage, which I suspect means we will lose our home. but it is no more wreckless then an organisation such as yours that seems to work above and beyond the norms of recognised law ( Sexual and racial to name but 2) and how one person can be scrutinised in this fashion , whilst the other is allowed to get away Scott free!, here is part of the aforementioned letter
*In brief, I went to Court in March 2004 knowing my former partner and mother to my two sons would not adopt a conciliatory approach, so after several court appearances that year, we came before HHJ Viljeon on 20th October 2004, who granted me (us) a Joint Residency Order, shared care and equal contact, this is very rare in family court procedure and was witnessed by a Cafcass Officer.
This order I felt would be fair and reasonable for my boys until they attended Secondary Education, ( my youngest started last September, 40 years to the day after I did), when I believed they would be mature enough to make their own decisions regarding contact and which parent to see on what day. I had offered flexible working practices so as to accommodate my children's needs to the maximum.
In 2006, and after being the only parent to collect and return the children to the former family home and school, I married my now Wife and together we bought a home equal distance to both Schools. I felt I was serving my Children's best interests fully and remained working through Agencies so that I could determine which days not to work, so as to be on hand for contact. Sadly the mother took a very different view and as early as Christmas 2004 she sought to disrupt Christmas contact. On that occasion the Judge ruled in our favour and the first Christmas contact remained in place, but from then to this date she has sought to disrupt matters.
The endless returning to Court had a high financial toll on me, I was unable to fund further Solicitors, so thanks to you colleague, XXXX XXXXX MP who introduced me to the late Ian McKay, I was able to benefit from his support as a 'McKenzie Friend' until his untimely death. I always vowed not to become a Campaigner, as he was, but have gleaned some useful information from around the World, as in Australia, from the time Kevin Rudd came to office in 2007 to date, some 15,000+ people have taken their lives through CSA intimidation.I would suggest a similar number have also been lost in the UK and Canada and in the USA, where the numbers top 100,000 per year, a correlation has been made between returning Service Personnel finishing a tour of Afghanistan or Iraq to find the country they served, turn their back on them in their hour of need back home relating to family matters. (In fact when all else was lost to me and I suggested to XXXXXX at Plymouth, 'What if I dropped dead tomorrow?', his curt reply was, 'No matter Mr. Farmer, we will simply take it from your estate'. 'What Estate I asked?' How can you deal with people like this?
The subsequent toll on my finances was £35.000 for Legal Fees in 2004, £25,000 deposit on the second family home plus a reduction in work due to an amount of time I sought to be there for my children and in turn the cost of providing for them, sent me into Bankruptcy in 2008. The result is my ex-partner along with her new partner was able to obtain my former family home at a peppercorn rate and they now live their 'mortgage-free'. In the same weekend as I was informed of this, I was told I stood to have my family home repossessed, that I had fought to preserve for my Wife and I, my Sons and Stepdaughter and only early access to my Pension at the age of 50 allowed me to secure our home, but the Pension I contributed to for the previous 30 years is only worth £100 per month to me today. This amount currently pays my mother back for a loan to pay for a 14 year old van I bought to travel to work each day as a low-paid Dustman in Mr. XXXXXX's constituency and this follows 2 years of unemployment due in no small part to the stress the above situation had brought me and the resulting depression.
My Sons have been withheld from me by the mother since 19th September 2007 in spite of Court orders to the contrary, so the £35,000 spent to obtain the court order it was not worth the paper it is written on and whilst the mother and her new partner both work, live in my former family home and currently have an Attendance Officer from XXXXXXXXXXXXX County Council looking into why she takes the Boys on so many Holidays during School Term time to such a degree it is affecting their progress in School, she seems immune to scrutiny.
My Wife and I now have the burden of a Premium Rate Mortgage and whilst unemployed have had to sell many of our personal possessions simply to provide food and now whilst in a less opulent position I am expected to supplement my former partner's lives, when I have to say I have paid and paid again and there is no more I can offer from my modest salary and my Wife's Supply Teaching work which precludes us from numerous holidays and in fact we have to carefully budget for every day basics, so the prejudice shown by the CSA needs to be addressed and whilst they claim what occurred in Family Court is not their concern, I am just one Man who far from being an absent Dad lives just half a mile away, but because the CSA know and have always known my whereabouts, see me as a soft target and fail to consider the mother's status, (sexual discrimination) and would they pursue a Father so robustly if he resided on a Traveller Site, (racial discrimination).
Yours sincerly
A Father with no human rights?
This should be played at my funeral;
This should be written on my epitaph;
What was the fucking point?
Australian Child Support Agency death toll since
Kevin Rudd became Prime Minister: 15180 clients
Whilst I believe most right minded folk within our one year old Coalition Government will understand what true family values mean, it is clear that any attempt to improve matters shows they are coming at this emotive subject from the wrong direction. Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife were dealt a tragic blow through the loss of their son Ivan, who suffered from Ohtohara Syndrome, a rare form of cerebral palsy which must be every loving parents worst nightmare, and I guess many would call me churlish to compare their loss to the loss I feel for my children through the injustice of family court, but is it? I recently attended a parents evening for my eldest son and whilst waiting to speak to a particular teacher found I was sitting next to the mother of one of my son's class mates who in her primary years was diagnosed with leukemia and had spent much of her time in a wheel chair and with drips attached,and looking generally very pale , but always, it seemed, with a smile on her face and chatting to friends. So when I saw her with here mum that evening I remarked how delighted I was to see her looking so much better after all she had gone through, and the mother said yes, but at least whatever she had gone through everyday she was able to hug her daughter and in fact felt for me and what I went through as I could not, it is like a living bereavement when in fact it was the courts inability to enforce a contact order designed to benefit the children and offer them some stability after separation, on the alienating mother! The signs are promising at Gov.co.uk, as one of their first acts was to demand a review of all things family law including affiliated agencies by the Ministry of justice under the Chairman ship of Sir David Norgrove. Submissions are being considered until June 23rd 2011 and the findings are expected to be published in the Autumn of this year. I have and will continue to contribute to this review until June and hope, unlike the fears expressed by many of my peers that this could prove to be a whitewash or a fudge that it shows up the facts in an honest and robust manor and better still, enable this Government to act swiftly to reform this erroneous law!
The current draconian family law serves to undermine good caring parents whilst actively condoning alienating mothers and feckless fathers. They send their henchmen in in the form of CSA to persecute so called 'absent' dads who, like me, only live 1/2 a mile down the road and far from seeking some form of conciliation in order to benefit the children as they pretend to do they cause more anxiety and financial strife which only serves to alienate a parent more!
Why are fathers seen as easy targets to be branded criminals when all they want is to contribute to their children's wellbeing?
We need to get away from the 'Animal Farm' style of equality as purveyed by our previous Labour government and fully on display during Mr. Cameron's 'Calm down dear' episode.
Sixty or seventy years ago it may have seemed implausible for a father to leave the foundry or come up out of the mines and be able to offer child care in the home any better then a full time mother and housewife, unless divorced or having suffered a bereavement. In the meantime however women have fought for equality in the workplace as well as being able to raise a family and taking on work that has included top flight careers and in the main on parity with their male counterparts. so why not equality in parenting?
Today fathers are far more sophisticated, being able to mix baby formula, change nappies,prepare their child for school and be there with a reassuring word and hug. Once again from my own experience when my young son was born the mother was offered the opportunity to return to her career after child birth so I adopted a flexible working pattern enabling her to work 3 days in the week whilst I took care of my Son, then I worked the alternative days whilst she was home. I was able to bond with my son feeding him chatting, playing , even taking him to 2 play groups within earshot of Upton Park!
So the solution is clear women have equal opportunities in the workplace 21st century Dad should be afforded the same equalities in his parental responsibilities in the true best interest of the child and not the bogus statements spewd out in Family Court.
Stop making criminals of loving Dads!
Civil enforcement officers should ensure court orders are adhered to by both parents, mothers equally to fathers and penalties imposed on those failing to serve their child's best interest.
I am inspired by the so called 'quiet man' of politics the Rt Hon Iain Duncan- Smith MP and hope he can get his powerful message to the ears of those who can make a difference!
Peter Van de Voorde – January 2008 The Family Justice System has become a societal cancer, a place to be avoided at all cost. Like any cancer, if left unchecked, it will continue to grow, gaining momentum and eventually destroying its host victims and subsequently the culture which supports and feeds this malignant growth. It has removed parental rights and replaced them with parental responsibilities. However without rights, parents are denied their human right and duty to responsibly protect and share the love and care of their own biological children.
We are now looking at a 35 year old cancer that has been allowed to grow unchecked and is by far the most dangerous place for men, women and children, to come into contact with, in the event of relationship breakdown.
It has become a law unto itself, a dictatorship within a democracy. Secret and seemingly untouchable, it has been allowed to grow into a multi billion dollar industry, with many poisonous tentacles which have gradually and unnoticeably crept into many of our institutions and bureaucracies. These in turn have each spawned their own agencies and pseudo expert organizations and bodies, who play host to a variety of so called professional expert specialist advisers, who keep feeding the cancer with a continuous supply of misinformation and dodgy statistical data, which flows into the system, thereby guaranteeing malignant growth.
Each tentacle of this cancer is pushing its own immoral agenda, while at the same time comfortably feathering their nests with billions of dollars of taxpayer funded handouts, bolstered by the funds plundered from the hard earned family wealth of unsuspecting separating parents.
All of this is made possible because society has unsuspectingly and unquestionably accepted the deliberately deceptive and misleading "Best Interest of the Child" principle. It is an obscene act of deception to suggest that the "Best Interest of a Child" is best served by giving children rights, when in fact they lack the autonomy and physical ability to enact those rights and while their young developing brains are so vulnerable to emotional, and psychological manipulation and control.
Without question the most dangerous situation for a child to find itself in, is when its parents are coerced into entering the Family Court system. This ensures them being infected by this obnoxious Family Justice cancer, which in fact will guarantee that most of them will have their ties of kinship with many of their much loved biological family members severed.
This cancerous industry, which hides behind the spurious "Best Interest of the Child" principle, in order to justify the removal of these vulnerable children from perfectly loving and responsible family members, is a curse on the health and wellbeing of our society. To remove those who wish to protect and play a part in the healthy physical and emotional development of their biological family, is universally unacceptable to a civil society. To allow this dangerous cancer to flourish will eventually destroy our society. We owe it to the children of today, who are the parents of tomorrow, to relieve them of the burden of being forcibly removed by this malignant societal cancer. If we fail to do so, history will judge us harshly. "Parental rebellion is not a crime, it is our obligation."
Its time the hammer came down on ineffectual family court Judges
We should continue to lobby the Family Law review currently being held by the Ministry of Justice and I would strongly urge other countries to follow suit as this is the very least their people and most especially the Children deserve.
In the year we saw the last of the World War One ‘Tommy’s’ complete his journey on this earth and many World War Two warriors now considering how many more memorials they will attend especially in foreign lands, we appreciate what their lives and those who did not return stand for in giving us freedom of speech and a quality of life many of us take for granted and my thoughts of my late father a peace loving man facing the horror of war from the rear gunning turret of a Lancaster Bomber. (click on picture to see him arrive in the US) My Dad, Eddie (1921-1990)
Listen to the Children!
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Dad is the WORD!
Darby Jay has a point doesn't he?
Family Justice review e-petition
Sign against it NOW!
Roy Wood
Tell me a story Minister! There ain't no time left to lose!
WHY?
Are we all prisoners to ourselves?
You thought you had problems?
Time to fix this broken Family Law!
1984
Has it caught up with us?
Are you Hammer or Anvil?
Even authority can become voulnerable when WRONG!
Family Justice Reform?
Lets work together!
It is all about the children...
..even at Buckingham Palace!
Kids......this is a role model!
(I once saw Lennox Lewis in Mayfair, a big man not just in statue: Davey)
e-petiton for equal parenting in law!
Not much to ask really!
Kings of Rock (any dispute?) click on Guitar
Status Quo have not expressed their opinion of this site, this is just here for light relief to a heavy subject!
100 years on could this be the fete of our ecomony and democracy?
