The Family Resolution Center

The impact of divorce on families can be devastating, especially the collateral damage to children "caught in the middle." A hallmark trait of high-conflict divorce litigation is the power struggle that results when both parties place the child in a “tug-of-war” position.

What further mucks the waters of divorce is when one parent has even remote ties to another country. We find that one of the elements of retaliation against parents who win cases against child protective services is that Child Protective Service Agencies are able to have a parent with even remote connections to another country – even when that parent is an American Citizen deported from the United States. We have witnessed the deportation of these parents summarily deported without any due process procedure.

Children already experience devastating damage as pawn in a power play. Evidence suggests that children further suffer when their parents are deported, when they have no control over when or if they may see their parents again. Lawyers and judges throughout the country involved in divorce work, spearheaded by the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC), are looking to mitigate the negative impact on children. But there exists little accurate, deep diagnostic understanding of the family dynamics, or accurate psychosocial diagnostics relevant to the consequences to children from fractured families.

NYACK, N.Y. , June 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Whistle-blower Jill Jones-Soderman, a New York -based social worker and the executive director of The Foundation for the Child Victims of the Family Courts, says she is being persecuted by New Jersey government officials for her role in revealing explosive information.
According to Jones-Soderman, the problems started when she was subpoenaed by a client inNew Jersey to provide information to the family court. She was working pro-bono as a therapist and forensic advocate on the case. While trying to bring certain facts to the attention of the court, Jones-Soderman claims Judge Mary Margaret McVeigh used her position to suppress evidence and testimony, and eventually to retaliate by placing a false complaint with theNew Jersey licensing board. Now, the licensing board is actively contacting other state boards where Jones-Soderman is licensed and posting what are supposed to be closed hearings on the internet.

The suppression of evidence and the collaboration of the various parties involved in the case may have led to the suicide of a 12-year-old boy, Jones-Soderman explained. The boy "refused to be taken from the protective custody of his mother to be placed with the brutal treatment and intimidation of his father," she said. The young boy left a note that read "I love you mom."

"Not one licensing board was in any way interested in the underlying issue of the case: the protection of young children in a wildly rogue, fraudulent and biased court," Jones-Soderman said, adding that the Attorney General's office has been harassing her and her clients using tax-payer money ever since. "Patients visited by the attorney general's office have continued as my patients and have testified on my behalf only to be themselves ridiculed and threatened in court."