tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9217353884669167836.post7119346966008675292..comments2023-10-16T06:57:51.220-04:00Comments on Disgusted with the system: Partially GAGGED! FOR NOW!Zoeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00137007897874209945noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9217353884669167836.post-35061239179922116592008-07-23T00:33:00.000-04:002008-07-23T00:33:00.000-04:00If I haven't been through family court abuses, thi...If I haven't been through family court abuses, this would be hard to believe. The Family court's abuse of people's privacy and rights is a regular event these days. The Identity Theft justification is so hypocritical.<BR/><BR/>In my state records are not sealed and social security numbers are usually included on the pleading captions by local rule requirement. It took constant protests on my part to get some of these suppressed. Just another example of how the courts are more beholden to their own tradition than to current laws.<BR/><BR/>But then on the other hand, our county judges typically go to great lengths to discourage trials, allowing all decisions to be arrived at behind closed doors in chambers without a court reporter or any record of what happened.<BR/><BR/>In the unusual event that a party become insistent that their rights be respected they are actually intimidated, "off the public record" into submission. I was told that the judge "did not care where I lived and he was being generous in allowing me to live in my home, he would order my home be sold to pay legal fees associated with a trial if I didn't sign the terms offered". He also said that he would continue to keep my assets locked up for six months and he could "guarantee" that his decision would not be as good as the current offer.<BR/><BR/>From the start of my blog I had been worried if my revelations on the abuse of this system could be gaged. I attempted to assure myself that was simply paranoid, but I have always tried to be anonymous to prevent a gag order form occurring. Your experience only confirms my fears, it is no accident that these courts can abuse us. Exposing their abuses and taking on the system is truly a difficult but necessary endeavor.<BR/><BR/>Best of luck in prevailing Louise, and I hope that they are never able to gag your informative and needed scrutiny.JQ75https://www.blogger.com/profile/15176014777768813122noreply@blogger.com