Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Repost & In Memory of (late) Sen. Nancy Schaefer, GA

Infowars.com. March 29, 2010. From the Associated Press: State investigators say the husband of former state Senator Nancy Schaefer shot his wife before ...
Feb 29, 2008 ... Note from the Fight CPS webmaster: This is a very important report written by a Senator in Georgia. Please read the entire report, download the ...
Nancy Schaefer who Exposed the Child Protection Services (CPS) found Shot Dead with Her Husband 2010 03 30. Picked up from: davidicke.com ...

Apr 14, 2009 ... A speech given by Nancy Schaefer on Child Protection Services The System Can Not be trusted It does not serve The People of USA.
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Mar 30, 2010 ... Authorities believe Nancy Schaefer was asleep when she was shot. The media claims that this was a Murder-Suicide pact. Senator Schaefer ...
Apr 2, 2010 ... The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is reporting that former Georgia Senator Nancy Schaeferand her husband Bruce Schaefer were found ...
Mar 29, 2010 ... From the Associated Press : State investigators say the husband of former state SenatorNancy Schaefer shot his wife before turning the gun on ...
Mar 13, 2009 ... By Sandra Ami Nancy Schaefer is trying to bring to the attention the corruption of Social Services, Child Protective Services. She discusses how ...
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Mar 26, 2010 ... Former GA Senator Nancy Schaefer found dead! HABERSHAM COUNTY, Ga. ( MyFOX ATLANTA) - The bodies of former state senator Nancy ...

Words cannot express how distressed I am to hear that our dear Senator Nancy Schaefer has died in what is being called a murder-suicide, along
with her husband.

Nancy was the first state senator to speak out forcefully, truthfully about the corruption of Child Protective Services. For this reason some have surmised that this murder-suicide could actually be a cover-up for something more sinister… a silencing
http://www.facebook.com/pages/We-Demand-An-Extensive-Investigation-On-The-Death-Of-Senator-Nancy-Schaefer/107630912599964!

Regardless of how she died, she will be remembered for many years to come as a brave, honest, ethical and truth-telling woman who stood up to the child welfare industry and voiced the pain and trauma of those who had approached her for help with their Georgia CPS cases.
http://fightcps.com/2010/03/27/the-senator-nancy-schaefer-memorial-information-project/
http://fightcps.com/2008/02/29/report-of-georgia-senator-nancy-schaefer-on-cps-corruption/

Write heartfelt letters to every county supervisor in your county. Shorter letters are better, as they’re more likely to be read. Ask them to investigate and *cut funding for CPS* in your county. Send your letters to every supervisor along with a copy of Senator Schaefer’s report, pages one through seven.(Download pdf file)

Now send letters to every state senator, congressman, and legislator in your state! Remind them that federal child welfare laws are a violation of the Tenth Amendment of the US Constitution and request State Sovereignty <http://www.squidoo.com/state-sovereignty>. Send them the first seven pages of Senator Schaefer’s report!(Download pdf file)
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Rethinking Foster Care:
Molly McGrath Tierney at TEDxBaltimore 2014
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When allegedly accused of Child Abuse or Neglect
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Sunday, September 21, 2014

Were the 1990's the Unfortunate Turning Point of the Child Protective AGENCIES??

To All who believe that
Our Families, Our Children are Our Future.

I often remind others that the Child Protective AGENCY was created in 1974 by the Mondale Act, and were given these two Major Responsibilites:
  • Protecting Children
  • Strengthening Families
Noting that there was no particular Priority on which was more important.

In this particular blog and for further reading and understanding, here are Four major Topics and/or Documents:
 1.  Issue Papers from NCCPR: Family Preservation vs Foster Care
 2. Child Protection at the Crossroads:
       Child Abuse, Child Protection, and Recommendations for Reform (03/31/1998)
 3. Model State Legislation -Parental Due Process Act
  4. Know Thy Enemy

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Issue Papers from NCCPR Family Preservation vs Foster Care

Introduction

"..For decades, politicians and self-proclaimed "child advocates" have suggested an answer that is simple, obvious--and wrong. They blame "family preservation." Or they blame a federal law that required states and localities to make "reasonable efforts" to keep families together. Or they blame both..."Read More

 1. Foster Care vs. Family Preservation: The Track Record on Safety

2. Foster Care Panics

3. They “Erred on the Side of the Child” — Case Histories

4. Emotional Abuse

5. Who is in “The System”

6. Child Abuse and Poverty

7. Child Welfare and Race

8. The Real Reasons for Child Abuse Deaths

9. The Unreasonable Assault on “Reasonable Efforts”

10. What is “Family Preservation?”

11. Does Family Preservation Work?

12. Financial Incentives

13. Family Preservation and Substance Abuse

14. Family Preservation and Adoption

15. Just Say No to the Orphanage

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Child Protection at the Crossroads:Child Abuse, Child Protection, and Recommendations for Reform (03/31/1998)


The United States has had federally mandated child-protection laws for over a quarter of a century. Since these mandates have been in effect, child maltreatment rates have increased tremendously and child- protection agencies’ ability to handle the increase has declined:§  When CAPTA was enacted in 1973.  
  • Child-protection agencies handled about 60,000 reports of abuse and neglect; today they handle 3 million.
  •  Substantiation rates have plummeted from a high of 61 percent in 1976 to a current low of 31 percent.
  • Early estimates on confirmed abuse and neglect, while far from exact, ranged from 6,500 in 1967 to 360,000 in 1974. 

One of the Many Suggested Reforms: Repeal mandatory reporting laws that are in effect in all the states.

 "...Mandatory reporting laws, designed to encourage those who work with children to report incidents of maltreatment, have served their intended purpose of raising public awareness and have had unintended consequences. These laws create two negative effects. First, they encourage unnecessary reporting because professionals must report all of their suspicions under threat of prosecution. While such prosecutions are rare, one should not have to report suspicions. Reporting should be restricted to more concrete evidence of a crime...." Read More




The model legislation was written by a team of attorneys at Pacific Justice Institute http://www.pacificjustice.org/ in Sacramento California.

However, it never made it through the committee. Still I urge everyone to get involved with their Legislators, and hopefully, have them use part or all of this for a bill proposal in Your State. (Side Note: Express Yourself and take Our Parent Survey)
A BILL
To protect the fundamental due process rights of a parent
in proceedings to terminate parental rights.
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 Know Thy Enemy

The following is from 2 posts in my “Reform for Our Families” Blog from Dec. 2010. Two
major topics were discussed: (For further reading do Download the files at the end of this
document.)
 
         1. Plan to eliminate Child Abuse
         2. Court Training for the agents of our Child Protective Agencies.
 
Both are probably concerns for many. However, in the realm of “Due Process” is the Truth
of abuse being fairly represented? (Download File)


Rethinking Foster Care:
Molly McGrath Tierney at TEDxBaltimore 2014
Let's Make This Go Viral ~ Please Share
While Watching ~ Take the Parent Survey
When allegedly accused of Child Abuse or Neglect
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Thanks and be that "One Small Voice",
Like GPC Publication onFB
Proud National Coordinator of the Family Survey Program
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Friday, September 19, 2014

Dependency Court Flow Chart (CA Example)

Many have commented "I don't know what is happening in Court?"
Here is a flow chart for CA as an example.
And, Yipes, even this flow chart is rather complicated. But hopefully, one can learn or at least be aware of the Process.
 
One should always ask Why, and
if another says You Can't
ask WHY NOT?

  • Noting that if one even thinks of suing, they need to go through this process.. ie the good, the bad, the ugly.

 
Download pdf file of this image>> http://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/Dependency_Flow_chart.pdf

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A Super starting point to know the State Statutes, particular to your concerns:
Note: When you click on View, this is introductory information comparing states. To see the State Statute Summaries, you need to Download the PDF file. (Note: Will be taken directly to Agency page and dates of updates may be newer than shown on this page.)
Latest State Series Catalogue Index is July 2013.-- (HTML Page) (PDF)
Need More Laws?  Adoption ~ Best Interest of the Child ~ Case Planning ~ Child Abuse & Neglect ~ Child Welfare Law & Policy ~ Central Registry ~ Conflict of Interest ~  Domestic Violence ~ Emancipation ~ False Allegations ~ Family Preservation ~ Fathers ~ Foster Care Givers ~ Guardianship ~ Immunity ~ Infant ~ Mandatory Reporters ~ Parental Drug Abuse ~ Permanency ~ Placement with ~ Reasonable Efforts ~ Reinstatement of Parental Rights ~ Reunification ~ State Guides & Manuals Search ~ Termination of Parental Rights
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Did You Know??
The ORIGINAL intent of even creating a Governmental Agency
for Our Children & Families was to:
Protect Children & Strengthen Families
When are the Sheeple going to realize that Strenthening Families can actually Prevent Child Abuse??
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Thanks and be that "One Small Voice",
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Thursday, September 18, 2014

Featured Site: Family Court Pro Se Fathers

Periodically we will feature either a web site and/or Discussion Group that can be most valuable in those that take the initiative to gain the knowledge to "Defend Themselves". 

 Keep in mind, it is vital that one carefully organizes the who, what, when, where, and why of their situation. Plus know the State Statutes, particular to their concerns... And, yes with or without a lawyer.
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So here is such a site:
Their Discussion Group: Family Court Pro Se Fathers
Their Related Web Site: Family Court Dads

 About the Discussion Group:
This is a support group for Fathers proceeding pro se in Family Court, with an emphasis on New York State.

You are encouraged to join if you have a case in Family Court, and are proceeding pro se (self-represented). You are also invited if you have in the near past represented yourself in Family Court.

If you are an attorney/paralegal, who is competently familiar with Family Law, and Courts, you are invited to the extent of sharing your expertise to the group members, and to receive information on their in-court experiences, losses, and successes.
 
 The purpose of this group is to empower, educate and inform its members in their courtcase efforts to achieve legal custody of their children. The focus is on court procedure (petitions, motions, hearings, discovery, etc.), NY family law, and dealing with all the ancillary workers that are engaged by the family court to assist in its investigations of you (CPS, psychological evaluators, mediators, etc.)
 
The means by which we do this is by sharing knowledge, experiences, techniques, procedures, and strategies we have found successful in prosecuting our case in Family Court.
 
By combining and completing our knowledge we can become more effective in our presence in Family Court.
 
A properly educated pro se party will provide far better representation for himself than a paid (or assigned) attorney. You are your only client, you care more about your case than any attorney could. You can legally do things in your case that an attorney would never do, even though they can.
 
An attorney has three rules, in this precedence: 
  1. Do not get in trouble with the law, do the least amount of work necessary for the most amount of money, represent the client's interests.
  2. Only the most principled attorneys have it correct: Represent a client most aggressively as possible and still be within the law, everything else be damned.
  3. And that attorney would be you if you had yourself as a client, provided you know what you're doing.

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A Super starting point to know the State Statutes, particular to your concerns:
Note: When you click on View, this is introductory information comparing states. To see the State Statute Summaries, you need to Download the PDF file. (Note: Will be taken directly to Agency page and dates of updates may be newer than shown on this page.)
Latest State Series Catalogue Index is July 2013.-- (HTML Page) (PDF)
Need More Laws?  Adoption ~ Best Interest of the Child ~ Case Planning ~ Child Abuse & Neglect ~ Child Welfare Law & Policy ~ Central Registry ~ Conflict of Interest ~  Domestic Violence ~ Emancipation ~ False Allegations ~ Family Preservation ~ Fathers ~ Foster Care Givers ~ Guardianship ~ Immunity ~ Infant ~ Mandatory Reporters ~ Parental Drug Abuse ~ Permanency ~ Placement with ~ Reasonable Efforts ~ Reinstatement of Parental Rights ~ Reunification ~ State Guides & Manuals Search ~ Termination of Parental Rights
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Did You Know??
The ORIGINAL intent of even creating a Governmental Agency
for Our Children & Families was to:
Protect Children & Strengthen Families
When are the Sheeple going to realize that Strenthening Families can actually Prevent Child Abuse??
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Thanks and be that "One Small Voice",
Like GPC Publication onFB
Proud National Coordinator of the Family Survey Program
When One Deals with the Child Protective AGENCY>>LearnMore
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Tuesday, September 16, 2014

5 Tips to Make the Most of Requests for Admission- CA Rules of Civil Procedure

I'm not a lawyer, but I thought this could be helpful information?
Any comments on this tips would be most helpful. Thanks
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by
Julie Brook
Julie Brook  
| CEB® Contact



Requests for admission are very valuable yet underutilized tools. They’re one of the best techniques to create admissible evidence for summary judgment and trial—make good use of them!
With requests for admission, you can take an evidence shortcut by getting the admission or denial of (CCP §2033.010):
  • The genuineness of any relevant document specified in the request;
  • The truth of any specified relevant matters of fact (even a matter clearly in controversy);
  • Opinion relating to fact; or
  • The application of law to fact.
Of course, requests for admission aren’t magic bullets: They may be directed only to parties; you get only 35 of them (if they don’t relate to the genuineness of documents); and the opposing party is unlikely to make admissions on key issues if there’s an arguable dispute about them. See CCP §§2033.010, 2033.030.
You won’t realize the full benefit of requests for admission if you use them too early in case. It’s generally a good idea to wait until your own discovery allows you to identify facts, issues, or documents that are sham or shouldn’t be tried. And the opposing party is likely to give more complete responses in the later stages of discovery, when their own position is clearer.
Here are five tips for making the most of your requests for admission:
  1. Focus on key undisputed facts. Focus on the key material facts in the case that your opponent can’t genuinely dispute. For example, defense counsel in a contract case involving the failure to pay should serve requests for admission to establish that the plaintiff never delivered the goods or delivered defective goods.
  2. Be clear. Draft your requests for admission so they are clear, precise, and unambiguous. This may deter your opponent from objecting on the grounds that the requests are vague, ambiguous, and overbroad.
  3. Avoid definitions. Although the Code of Civil Procedure allows you to define terms, try to avoid definitions in request for admission because they often create ambiguities. In addition, using definitions in the introduction of a request for admission may make it difficult to use the admission at trial.
  4. Time them carefully. Consider serving requests for admission early in the litigation to evaluate weaknesses in the opposing party’s case if you want to try to achieve an early settlement or to eliminate undisputed facts and issues. Serve them during the case, e.g., to prepare for a summary judgment motion, to determine a party’s opinion on a fact, to lock in testimony. Serve them close to the discovery cutoff date so that the opposing party will have difficulty denying the admission based on incomplete investigation or lack of knowledge.
  5. Avoid numerical limitation problems. Think about whether the request is likely to result in an admission and if not, leave it out. Consider not using your entire quota of 35 in the first set; save some for later use. Because the number of requests that relate to the genuineness of documents is limitless, draft your requests so that requests on facts and requests on the genuineness of documents are clearly distinguished from each other.
For everything you need to know about requests for admission, turn to CEB’s Civil Discovery Practice, chapter 9. And get step-by-step advice to help you get the most out of discovery in CEB’s Creating Your Discovery Plan.
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Topics:  Request for Admissions, Rules of Civil Procedure

Published In: Civil Procedure Updates
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