Best Parental & Juvenile Family Law
Family courts and Soviet-style bureaucracies trample basic civil liberties, entering homes uninvited and taking away people's children at will, then throwing the parents into jail without any form of due process, much less a trial. Stephen Baskerville is Assistant Professor Government at Patrick Henry College and president of the American Coalition for Fathers of Children.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"...I was once told not to use Lenny Bruce meterial in the university classroom where I teach social science because "he is not a scholar...is not peer published...and is not an academician.""
"Excellent authorship on the unconstitutional family court."
"Of coure any "marriage strike" will also further the ultimate goal of ideological feminism, that is, a utopia in which men and women are completely isolated from each other."
"Dealing with family court for a man is a fate worse than death!"
"Custodial parents are often not required to spend child support on children and are often not required to account to either the non-custodial parent or to the court how they spend it. A wife can have an affair and get pregnant with another man being the biological father yet the husband can be forced to pay to support the child that is not biologically his. In some jurisdictions, some judges now allow double-dipping whereby both the biological father and stepfather are ordered to pay full child support to the same custodian for the same children."
"OK, here goes: Stephen Baskerville, political science professor and past president of the American Coalition for Fathers and Children (ACFC), has published his first book, Taken into Custody: The War against Fathers, Marriage, and the Family. More profoundly and completely than any other book of which I am aware, Taken into Custody graphically shows us the nightmare to which feminism and political correctness have brought us, where--due largely to the actions of an unfeeling social work and government bureaucracy-- good fathers are locked out of their children's lives by the millions. Even many of us such as myself who have been toiling in the trenches of men's rights for years may find their eyes opened by Baskerville's unblinking portrayal of what may be one of the greatest and most far-reaching frauds ever perpetrated, with tragic consequences for countless families, children, and parents. The author reminds us of the supreme importance to children of their dads' presence in their lives: "Children from affluent but separated families are much more likely to get into trouble than children from poor but intact ones." A man's children effectively become wards of the court, who can be placed in day care or other institutions without the father's consent, and he can then be ordered to pay for it on top of his child support. "[A wife] can have a half-dozen previous divorces, she can desert the marital home, she can abscond with the children, she can commit adultery, she can level false charges, she can assault the father, she can even abuse the children, and none of these (except possibly the last) can be even introduced as evidence in a custody hearing." Moreover, courts "are also not above summarily jailing children who fail to cooperate with the criminalization of their parents." Unfortunately his rhetoric occasionally gets the best of him, as when he twice suggests that child support is "an entitlement for all [my italics] working mothers" despite the fact that we know fathers occasionally receive custody. Baskerville has a great talent for pulling disparate facts together, as when he notes that there are over 60,000 child support enforcement agents, or fully thirteen times the 4,600 drug enforcement agents worldwide. The author convincingly shows us the institutional face of true evil, whereby the federal government subsidizes middle class divorce and fatherless children, with states the beneficiaries. Applicable laws, not secondary sources, should be cited as references for 1) a statement that it is now a federal crime for a father behind on child support to leave his state for any reason, even to find work; and 2) a British government's newly instituted presumption that a "Child Tax Credit" should be automatically deducted from fathers' pay packets and deposited in wives' bank accounts. Money Rylan earned from shoveling snow and doing chores was confiscated by the state because Rylan's father allegedly owed child support (for Rylan) and the boy's name was on the father's bank account! "The precise purpose of child support must be publicly determined, and enforcement programs must be narrowly designed to serve only that purpose..." I strongly recommend you read this excellent book."
"When a parent loses a child it is tantamount to the death penalty in terms of how badly it can affect a person, man or woman."
The rights of the statutory spouse in the jurisdictions of Barbados, Belize, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago are examined, thus addressing, on a jurisdictional basis, an important area of spousal family that is seldom covered in English family law texts. Karen Nunez-Tesheira is a family law expert who has researched extensively into family law across the Commonwealth Caribbean.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Excellent book for an excellent price."
Dead, Insane, or in Jail: A CEDU Memoir is named for the range of options open to the author at 14, if he ran away from the cult his parents inadvertently inducted him into. Although Rocky Mountain Academy has closed its doors, several hundred residential teen-treatment programs, religious reeducation camps, and places that commit spiritual assassination still operate without oversight in the United States. Now imagine that the only solution your parents can devise is sending you away to be “fixed.” Zack’s touching, true account of being trapped in the “scared straight” industry just might be the book your reluctant teenage reader has been seeking. With gut-level insight, humor and frankness, he describes the inner experience of a precocious 14 year-old who was engulfed and overwhelmed by these bizarre, yet legal, forms of psychological abuse. It is sad the abuse of teenagers to tough love programs by mis-informed parents and politicians did not end with the revelations concerning the concept originator Synanon. Zack Bonnie’s memoir is a riveting tale of shame, intimidation, coercion, and frank abuse in the name of “treatment.” The continued existence of programs like CEDU should be considered a national disgrace. I join Zack in advocating for regulation and reform so that facilities like RMA can no longer manipulate and harm entire families. With the publication of his book, Mr. Bonnie is becoming an advocate for change in the Troubled Teen industry, and hopes to help kids and their families find alternatives to facilities like the one he describes in his memoir.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I wanted to but the story kept calling me back to read more - just one more chapter, a couple more pages before bed."
"The second half of the book is easier to read with analysis of the high stress methods employed."
"But, everyone who reads this book will come away with a better understanding of what life is like in many wilderness and therapeutic boarding school programs (aka Residential Treatment, Group Homes, Modern Orphanages, etc.)."
"Mr. Zack Bonnie's debut book does an excellent job of describing the indescribable experience that occurs when adolescence is interrupted abruptly and severely when a parent chooses to follow the advice of programs (such as Rocky Mountain Academy and SUWS) which are based on junk science, more commonly known as myths and folklore, about how to properly help a teen navigate the storm and strife of adolescence."
"Prior to reading this book, I had never heard of CEDU."
"I highly recommend the book, as its message is a far-reaching comment on social structure, mind and behavior coercion, cruel manipulation for profit, senseless abuse, the methodical cover-up and its devastating results."
"A great read............where is the other book Zack, hurry, I need to finish this series."
"Every year, on the anniversary of 9/11, I watch as the twin towers come down and I think that’s not real, that didn't really happen."
Best Elder Family Law
How to Protect Your Family's Assets from Devastating Nursing Home Costs: Medicaid Secrets (11th ed.)
(search for ISBN. 978-1941123072). Written by an elder law attorney with over 25 years of experience, this book will help anyone with a family member faced with a long-term stay in a nursing home who wishes to preserve at least some of their assets by qualifying for the Medicaid program. "' The most detailed, plain-English guide I've found to the rules so far is called 'How to Protect Your Family's Assets From Devastating Nursing Home Costs.'". The maze of ever-changing rules and differences between states (and even counties) can be overwhelming, but I felt that Medicaid Secrets armed me with specific questions to ask--questions that would help me understand the various viable options (and their risks and pitfalls) that a qualified ElderCare Attorney might suggest. I suppose one could debate whether there truly are Medicaid "secrets," or whether information buried in a maze of bureaucratic language (based on federal law and implemented in significantly different ways by each of the fifty states, and then implemented at the local level by individual clerks) really is in plain sight for all to see. Regardless, Heiser clearly has poured his considerable expertise and his years of practical experience into the publication of a book that I believe practitioners and clients will find extremely useful . Excellent resource to prepare for conversations with lawyer about protecting family assets to care for parents. 5 STARS: Good book to have for people who want to leave some money to kids (not have it all spent on nursing homes.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"This book has great information on Medicaid benefits and how to protect your assets in most situations."
"This is a great book for anyone looking to start planning for medicaid or begin planning for their retrierment."
"Good start."
"Great information."
"Excellent resource to prepare for conversations with lawyer about protecting family assets to care for parents."
"It is well worth taking the time to read this book."
"Most of it your probably know....."
Best Divorce & Separation Family Law
The rights of the statutory spouse in the jurisdictions of Barbados, Belize, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago are examined, thus addressing, on a jurisdictional basis, an important area of spousal family that is seldom covered in English family law texts. Karen Nunez-Tesheira is a family law expert who has researched extensively into family law across the Commonwealth Caribbean.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Excellent book for an excellent price."
Best Domestic Relations Family Law
With the help of local advocates and the press, Nujood obtained her freedom—an extraordinary achievement in Yemen, where almost half of all girls are married under the legal age. This important book gives them a voice and sheds light on an ugly secret that has destroyed the lives of children for centuries.” —Marina Nemat, author of Prisoner of Tehran “Simple and straightforward in its telling, this is an informative and thoroughly engaging narrative.” — Publishers Weekly.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Women complain all the time how unfair this country is ... they should read about the country this girl lives in."
"Like that reviewer, reading the book made me a little uncomfortable; however, when I combined listening to the audio book and following along in the book the story leaped to a higher level. The way she read it enabled me to understand that for any girl to pull herself up and find the strength for a divorce at age 10 would be considerably harder there because women were being pulled out of school so young to get married."
"I write this review in honor of Nujood, much braver than I."
"The agreement he had made with her father was that he would not touch his young wife until she had hit puberty, but he took that promise with a grain of salt and Nujood suffered greatly while at his home in her old village miles and hours away from her family in Yemen."
"I think its good reading for young people who might not otherwise grasp the importance of this issue for the modern world."
"Nine-year-old Nujood was betrothed to a man three times her age because her father wanted to "protect" her. Her courage and honesty provided an impetus to publicize, stop, and prevent these types of marriages."
"Had it not been for her dauntingness, Nujood would probably be still suffering at the hands of a deranged man and his equally "messed-up" mother. Pats on the back to Nujood and the people who helped her, and hopefully she can fulfill her dream of becoming a lawyer."
Best Child Advocacy Family Law
Fresh off a summer spent interning in legal hell, he is only mildly certain he even wants to continue down the path he’s on. Armed only with his own trepidations and the loyalty of those around him, Drake must find a way to save his friend and his own growing skepticism before it’s too late. Dustin Stevens is the author of the novels Number Four, Ink, Twelve, Just a Game, and 21 Hours.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"The man doing the killing is there to teach a lesson to the rest of the women who are present. Drake was a star player for his college football team in Missoula. Ajax is the only African American in all of Missoula and his trust fund insures that he will never have to work. Kade is also a hometown hero as he played football with Drake in college. Sage is an RN and she works the night shift so she's available for when she, Kade, Ajax and Drake get. together which is a couple of times a week. They raft, swim, fish, ski and hike all over the mountains of Montana. This one has Drake, Ajax, Kade, Sage, a girl named Ava, a girl named Ella, an old school friend of Drakes named Beth, a very pregnant Beth who has a real problem, the Mayor of Missoula, her sister, the Sheriff, a local doctor, a woman from social services, a scheme that's been making money for all of them for the last two years, a sociopath named Notch, another group of pregnant women, a Drake who gets involved because Beth is a woman who helped him out while he was in high school, Kade, Ajax and Sage who are also there to assist, a woman named Ava who's also a law student, an Ava who is kidnaped, a man called Rink, and Drake Bell and the Zoo crew doing what it takes to protect the ladies, take down a killer and stay alive."
"I read in lots of books that a cast is put on a broken bone as soon a person gets to hospital. Dr. Will just wrap it and wait to make sure there is no swelling before putting cast on."
"A terrific book!"
"A group of 4 people in a College Town in Montana that stumble across an improbable surrogate mother for pay scheme that imprisons young women until birth."
"The development of the central characters is superb."
"Based on two books that i have read by this author, he seems to have a thing about the children market."
"Very good and interesting story."
"I really, really liked this book."
Best Marriage Law
The rights of the statutory spouse in the jurisdictions of Barbados, Belize, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago are examined, thus addressing, on a jurisdictional basis, an important area of spousal family that is seldom covered in English family law texts. Karen Nunez-Tesheira is a family law expert who has researched extensively into family law across the Commonwealth Caribbean.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Excellent book for an excellent price."