Another example of how an adversarial family court process turns deadly...
The fight broke out at a home on the 200 block of Bodfish Canyon Road in Bodfish. Crystal Lee Parker, 29, lives at the home and had armed herself with a large knife after people arrived because of the child-custody dispute, according to the sheriff's office.
A Kernville man died Monday night after allegedly being stabbed during a child-custody dispute. (Bakersfield Now Eye Witness News; Kernville man dies after stabbing in child-custody dispute; May 26, 2009; Orig.)
Family Court related violence is becoming more prevalent throughout the country as spouses aim to kill one another rather than go to trial. This isn't the first time that family court turns out to be deadly business either, just take a look at this article that continues to mount evidence against an adversarial court system that is proven bad for families. Family Court is Deadly Business.
Get Your Justice Live, an online interactive talk show discussing issues relating to government policies affecting the family, encourages diversion programs to remove a significant portion of cases from the judicial docket, staying the cases, and moving them to pilot programs focusing on alternative dispute resolution. A free seminar, "Save Our Kids", promotes a viable alternative to the adversarial family court system with the ADR method known as Collaborative Law. With a reduction in the bloated judicial dockets, judicial resources will be free to deal more intimately with the high-conflict family court cases before they escalate to critically dysfunctional levels that drive people to destructive acts against other family members.



