Re: Conflict of interest , Womens shelter group, domestic vi

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bull. move on.

On 10/09/02, M.Silver wrote:
> 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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