'SPARE THE CHILD' [featuring William B. Zuckerman, PhD, child custody evaluator for Virginia's family courts]: WHAT YOU WON'T SEE IN THIS VIRGINIA STATE BAR, VIRGINIA LAW FOUNDATION, VIRGINIA SUPREME COURT PRODUCTION is my never-answered letter for Virginia Senior Assistant Attorney General Howard Casway. Below is Part I of II.
27 March 2006
Veronique Wyvell, RN
MAUL ~
Mothers Against Unjust Law
7831 Enola Street, #TA7
McLean, Virginia 22102
Howard Casway
Senior Assistant Attorney General of Virginia
Health, Education, and Social Services Division
Office of the Attorney General of Virginia
900 East Main Street
Richmond, Virginia 23219
Re: Third Request for Special Committee to Investigate Evaluator Corruption, Lawyer Misconduct and the Interplay of Greed, Bias, Ignorance, Denial and Complicity in the Manhandling of Children by Virginia Judges in Post-Separation Custody Litigation When Partner Abuse Is a Factor --sequel to second request of 03/10/06
Dear Mr. Casway,
In northern Virginia, divorce lawyers tell parents who fight over children that parents go to jail for failing to produce interrogatories. These pricey pages of mandatory insults flung by fathers against mothers or mothers against fathers are stupid because they divide parents and destroy friendliness, on both sides. Virginia law, we know, endorses the “friendly” parent, but it also endorses court action to show friendliness. Would you please take a moment to think about the paradox posed by doctrines that miss the forest for the trees, turn ex-partners into litigants, and demand grownups verbally assassinate one another to prove who is more “friendly” and, thus, more deserving of the children?
In western Germany, divorce lawyers tell parents who fight over children that parents go nowhere until Parenting Plan Agreements are produced. These settlements, developed by couples who are splitting up, divide responsibilities for the day to day decisions regarding the personal care of the children. German law, please know, favors self-determination, and it freezes court action to encourage parents to agree on Parenting Plans (The Cochem Way). Would you now take a moment to think about the potential to deter, the power to heal, and the protection to children offered by this more civilized German approach with its network of lawyers, judges, social workers all saying the same thing, “No!” to separated parents who want to abuse legal processes to abuse each other?
Virginia was negligent seven years ago when she handed me, a devout pacifist, a set of interrogatories instead of a Parenting Plan Agreement form, following separation from the father of my child. Interrogatories are an invitation to fight. Abusers love nothing better. And nearly all contested divorces involve histories of partner/child abuse. Mine was no exception. A good Parenting Plan does three things that trial court judges do inconsistently: it removes conflict-promoting vagueness, it screens for family abuse, and it sends a message to abusers that you are free to hate the mother/father of your child, but do not expect our courtrooms to help you hate her/him. Again consider the potential to deter, the power to heal, and the protection to children offered by the Cochem Way versus the Virginia Way. Oh, and if you are proud of the Virginia Way, you will enjoy BREAKING THE SILENCE: CHILDREN’S STORIES. Fairfax County’s Network Against Family Abuse can provide you with the DVD of this exquisite PBS documentary that was the initial inspiration for my compendium, The High Price of Conscience-free Justice.
A second inspiration for the compendium came with a phone call I received after my release from Fairfax County’s Adult Detention Center, before Thanksgiving, in 2005: “Veronique . . . Dr. Zuckerman called me . . . he wants to help fathers take children away from mothers . . .” I have now twice sat in jail as unjust punishment for expecting to vacation with my child, two false arrests that are a direct consequence of (1) fraudulent custody reports, aberrant custody recommendations, bizarre testimony, and a slew of ethical infractions and sociopathic behaviors by “Spare the Child” spokesman William “You pay I say” Zuckerman, Paid Hired Deceiver, and (2) your disregard, years ago, of my concern in reference to the urgent need for a thorough investigation of William “You pay I say” Zuckerman, Paid Hired Deceiver, a dangerous man who should not be left alone in a room with a child. Shame on the Virginia State Bar and the Virginia Law Foundation for their creative and financial contribution to that 1998 "Spare the Child" videocassette, co-starring actor [and child custody evaluator for Virginia's family courts] William “You pay I say” Zuckerman, Ph.D. The tape is standard HB 1178
Parent Education Seminar
fare. I propose we stop shamming parents, burn the tape, and replace it with one that teaches couples that split how to construct Parenting Plans.
If you would like for me to collect even more evidence than I already possess of child custody practitioner chicanery, cronyism, collusion and corruption, please continue to reject my requests for the Office of the Attorney General of Virginia to intervene with a Special Committee to Investigate Evaluator Corruption, Lawyer Misconduct and the Interplay of Greed, Bias, Ignorance, Denial and Complicity in the Manhandling of Children by Virginia Judges in Post-Separation Custody Litigation When Partner Abuse Is a Factor. “Manhandling,” not "Management," because, Mr. Casway, Virginia family courtrooms have become a public health hazard; some parents want to demand Retrials.
The caller, by the way, is a male acquaintance, a parent, a leader with Virginia’s fathers’ rights movement, and, like me, a victim-survivor of courtroom persecution in our 19th Judicial Circuit. He now sits in Fairfax’s ADC, unjustly confined for the third time.
When will Fairfax’s bench begin to put real criminals behind bars?
Very truly yours,
Veronique Wyvell, RN
Member, Fairfax County Network Against Family Abuse
Founder, MOMMY GO BYE-BYE:Mothers Against Unjust Law
Blogger, the MOMMY GO BYE-BYE blog, http://mommygobyebye-virginia.blogspot.com
7831 Enola Street, #TA7, McLean, Virginia 22102
VWyvell@patriot.net
MAUL (Mothers Against Unjust Law) Goals:
Rebuttable PRESUMPTIONS Against Custody for Batterers
PPAs (Parenting Plan Agreements) before Litigation
Moratorium on CCEs (Child Custody Evaluations)
MINIMUM Parent-Time Schedules (UTAH Code)
JURY Trials (in Domestic Relations Cases)
PROTECTIVE Parent Reform Acts
DIGITAL Courtroom Records
TERM LIMITS for Judges
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