Family Court~ Being Accountable to the Public

As the topic of the week is Family Court I wanted to dig deeper into the accountability that should be happening in family court.  Judges are each governed by professional ethic rules as determined by the Supreme Court. In Nebraska for example:

A judge may be disciplined for (1) willful misconduct in office, (2) willful disregard of or failure to perform his or her duties, (3) habitual intemperance, (4) conviction of a crime involving moral turpitude, (5) disbarment as a member of the Nebraska legal profession, or (6) conduct prejudicial to the administration ...

For many if not all individuals involved in a high conflict divorce and or custody case they are looking for relief from their abuser but sadly are met with more abuse as the abuser realizing they have lost power and control over their partner now finds ways to abuse post separation. For example legal abuse. The abuser will put on an image for the courts and will charm and manipulate court professionals such as GAL custody evaluators, and ultimately the judges. Behind this image the abuser is only seeking to regain power and control over the survivor for such things as getting out of paying child support and limit if not excluding the safe parent from the children.  So many times the courts just see the charismatic individual and thus ignore the facts in front of them protection orders CPS reports. Next we will look at what happens when an individual files a Judicial complaint.