Changes needed to family law for children’s sake
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Court of King’s Bench — what’s in a name? Does this mean that the bench represents the King’s will expressed via Canadian law?
I am deeply concerned about interpretations of family law where the bench does not make decisions that are in the best interests of children to thrive and develop. Does the King not like children?
In some post-divorce cases, it seems that legal, or litigation, abuse occurs. Legal abuse is when an ex-partner continues using the courts and legal system to exert power and control, post-divorce, over their ex-partners in various ways to humiliate, ruin, change custody, deprive of resources, threaten, etc. Often women and children are the targets and victims.
Typically, such actions have all or several of the following impacts:
• Traumatizing children.
• Disrupting children’s schooling.
• Fracturing children’s social relationships.
• Forcing children to spend time with a parent against their will.
• Ignoring previous abuses.
• Depriving of resources
• Ignoring or denying medical conditions of children.
• Threatening the safety and security of the victims.
• Unduly stressing caregivers.
What would King Charles say to judges on the King’s Bench whose decisions cause such impacts on children? Would he consider this a travesty of justice? Or, if it is the King’s will for children to be treated thus and judges are acting consistent with his will, then, “God save us from the King!”
I strongly support changes being considered presently by the Canadian Parliament in Bill C-223, the Keeping Children Safe Act. I hope that this bill will pass successfully through the House of Commons and Senate to become law and that Manitoba will adopt and implement it fully to improve the situation of children caught in these devastating and debilitating circumstances. One case of legal abuse involving children is one case too many!
Douglas Fraser
Brandon