12-15-08
Attn:
Congressman Pete King
1003 Park Boulevard
Massapequa Park, NY 11762
516-541-4225
RE: Request to discuss proposed legislation and
Serious family concerns among your constituents.
Dear Congressman King:
I support many of your constituents. As a result of
the experiences of many thousands of your constituents as well as
thousands of other non-constituents in our Family and Matrimonial
Court system, we have organized into the Equal Parenting Party USA
Inc..
See
www.equalparentingparty.org .
I can tell you with first hand experience that
litigants are being fleeced out of their life savings, not by
unscrupulous investment advisors or due to our economic downturn
but due to lawyers and Judges preying on middle class litigants
who step foot into the Nassau and other Matrimonial Parts. Our
children are routinely used as the fodder to keep litigation going
until the marital estate is emptied.
We know of several Judges whom we estimate to have each generated
far in excess of 40 million dollars annually in Counsel fees,
forensic fees and new "professionals" who provide for "case
management,” "parenting coordination" various repeated "forensic
examinations" and more.
For example, one Judge in particular created his
own particular private business enterprise consisting of
approximately 24 parenting coordinators, case managers and
forensic experts. This private enterprise was created by this
Judge soon after his election. He formed his private business
enterprise with one particular psychologist and attorney.
Enterprise members pay a substantial fee to participate in this
private, judicially administered business enterprise.
Disturbingly, our Children are the excuses used to
require your constituents to pay HUGE fees for the services of
this private enterprise. One example involved a litigant who was
ordered to undergo a psychopharmacological evaluation. The
evaluation was ordered due to minor depression related to his
children being unjustifiably removed from his care. The Judge
would not allow the litigant to utilize health insurance to pay
for this exam. Normally, the going rate for this test is $350.00.
Psychopharmacological evaluations are administered by a
Psychiatrist. In this example, the Nassau County Judge required
the litigant to go to only his “approved” doctor. The doctor was
unneeded to begin with. The doctor charged this litigant $5,000.00
as a DOWN PAYMENT toward an hourly fee of $350.00 per hour. Many
other litigants have spent tens or even hundreds of thousands of
dollars for this exact and/or similar mandated rip-offs.
This same Judge in a different divorce case
appointed a receiver in early stage discovery. The litigant is a
wealthy doctor. This receiver was to "oversee" a coin and stamp
collection. The proper appointee based on my experience should
have been an appraiser. The appraiser should have charged one set
fee. An appraiser would have cost $1,500. more or less. Yet, in
this case the receiver has charged $27,000.00 in less than one
year as of May of 2008. There is no end in sight to fees generated
in that case. Please note that the receiver in this example is
also one of the Judges highest campaign contributors. The receiver
is also the Judge’s former law partner. The victim in this case is
also one of your constituents. Our examples go on and on. This is
just a sampling of the pattern and court practices being exercised
against the children and families in your district.
Moreover, the divorce/family law industry is
pursuing pecuniary gain by actually promoting the acrimony between
parents seeking a divorce. As a result of the practices going on,
our family values are being destroyed. One parent is routinely
separated, marginalized, financially fleeced and oftentimes
alienated from their children. Most important, the emotional needs
of our children are being ignored. Many children whose parents
have gone thru the Matrimonial/Family Court system are now far
worse off than before their parents were dragged thru this modern
day family holocaust.
As a result of our experiences, we are concerned
that middle class family life in Nassau County and all other
Counties are becoming akin to family life in Brooklyn. As you
know, Kings County has a huge single parent welfare culture with
children routinely giving birth to children, academic achievement
poor and gang-bangers considered cultural icons.
Please meet with us to discuss the following
legislation:
