Posted by M.Silver on 10/09/02

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Since many womens shelters have sprung up throughout the
USA, with federal and State funding plentiful for this
nobel cause, many lawyers have picked up on the benifits of
using domestic violence laws as a sward in divorce
litigation VS the defensive shield they were designed for.

Countless men and families are destroyed by the unethical
use of such laws, which do not hold lawyers accountable for
the misuse of the draconion measures our legal system
provides. THe sprit of these laws was to protect truely
battered women.

With a simple claim of "fear for my life" a women client
can get claim to the house, full custody of the kids, 3
times the nominal support and the father is completely
criminalized. THis occurs with no proof , altercation,
police intervention.

Later the lawyer works with the womens advocate shelter for
back up support in determining that domestic violence
occured. The shelters are not harboring good will for the
situation but only embraces an avenue to lay claim that
domestic violence occured.
Remember absolutely no altercation has occured , yet
lawyers and shelter groups are free to obtain restraining
orders, which in most cases are permenant based on
absulutely false claims.
Even if proven to be false there are no penalities for
perjury on the part of the lawyer of the shelter group.

THis senerio is happening by the thousands each day and
lawyers are making a bundle off the system.
Lawyers are using the womens shelters as their advertising
arm to encourage divorce and the break up of families.

For the lawyer this means the difference between a divorse
case of a few thousand dollars VS hundreds of thousands.

Clearly, there must be some oversight for the unethical
lawyers that abuse these laws and the womens shelters that
do not operate on the level.

In the Monmouth County NJ area there is such a tight system
that is resembles a legal form of extortion.

Can anyone provide input regarding the lawyers who sit on
the board of directors for a womens shelter and pretend to
advocate for men? Is this a conflict of interest?

Re: Conflict of interest , Womens shelter group, domestic vi, 2/03/04, by MSilver.

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