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Press Release by Fathers4Equality in Government: Judicial
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An Open Letter to the Family Court of Australia
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This press release is about: family, court, judges, australia, children, fathers, country, access, correspondence, community, perceptions,
2005-11-30, Fathers4Equality - For your reference: An Open Letter to the Family Court of Australia distributed on the 30th Nov, 2005
My name is Ash Patil, President of the Australian Equal Parenting group called Fathers4Equality.
I first of all wish to thank you for taking the time to read my correspondence.
I should start by declaring that being Australians, we (our membership) recognise how lucky we are in having direct access to our Member`s of Parliament to express our concerns about the counter-productive family laws in this country. We realise that this kind of access is not available in all countries.
Our membership has focussed on supplying Member`s of Parliament examples on how inneffective and misguided current Family Laws are, primarily via written correspondence (letters), and via email.
We would like this same level of access to the Family Court, including key staff, and in particular to the Family Court judges across Australia.
(i) We believe that Family Court judges rarely get to see the true ramifications of their child custody decisions, in most part because in the eyes of the Court a child custody dispute is successfully resolved when a decision is handed down.
Judges however would greatly benefit by reading first hand of all the problems that are created by an adversarial family law system that places little practical emphasis on the benefits to children of maximising contact with both parents after separation.
(ii) Secondly, judges may not be fully aware of the implications of a pervasive cullture within the Family Law industry in Australia, which actively dissuades fathers from pursuing arrangements that would be in the best interests of the child. This is because legal opinion and community perceptions are such that fathers are lead to believe that they have no chance of a fair hearing within the Family Court.
This culture denies Family Court judges from hearing credible arguments for greater fatherly participation in the lives of their children, because of the overwhelming and undeniable perception of bias against fathers.
We believe that Family Court judges would greatly benefit by reading of the problems created by this system from people who do not on the whole have access to the Family Court, either through systemic obstacles such as no access to legal aid, or in response to the perceptions by family law lawyers and the community at large, which seem to suggest that fathers and children are better served if fathers simply detach themselves from their children, and simply walk away.
We ask that in the true spirit of democracy, and in the promotion of a transparent and accountable intrument of justice in this country, that Family Law judges would be willing to become as accessible and as open to the currently suppressed realities of family law in this country, as our politcians are.
Only good can come from such transparency, in particular for the children of separated families, whose best welfare currently receives much lip service, but whose interests can be better served by an open and trasparent system, which can better ensure that the gate-keepers of family law outcomes in the country (ie, the Family Court judges), are fully in touch with the full spectrum of community realities regarding family law and its ramification, in this country.
I urge you to please escalate this request to the appropriate decision makers in the Family Court, and make available to our members email addresses and postal addresses for each key staff member of the Family Court, and for each Family Court judge.
Source: PR Web™
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