Divorce Matters

Does Civil Disobedience in Family Court work?

Rob Emert did it - here's what happened

Excerpt: "This is really what the very beginning where I really didn't know anything and I was just trying to get through the process and I was wishing that we could just you know of course have the whole divorce as be done and and I was making offers left and right but that again, that's here nor there at this point, but I was I just didn't realize I was walking into a mess. And I was walking into really when I look in retrospect, it was a sucker punch trap. And everybody knew that was going on in the divorce pretty much except me. And so back to you know, back to the peremptory challenge. So Commissioner comes in. We stipulate but then I talked to somebody at the facilitator's office, at the courthouse, and they told me basically look, you can still use your peremptory challenge because no orders were made. And so I found the peremptory challenge and this is warning bill number one, basically Commissioner Patty Radek, and even though I requested her to remove herself, using my peremptory challenge, she still stayed on the case. That you know, that was concerning right there. At that point, I didn't know that her supervising boss, her supervising judge was friends and work has worked with my ex wife for years. So again, I found that out much later..." Michael's YouTube Videos https://www.youtube.com/user/MrPropriaPersona1 Want to help us fight judicial injustice? Donate to HTTP://www.KidsMatter.charity

Does Civil Disobedience in Family Court work?

Rob Emert did it - here's what happened

Excerpt: "This is really what the very beginning where I really didn't know anything and I was just trying to get through the process and I was wishing that we could just you know of course have the whole divorce as be done and and I was making offers left and right but that again, that's here nor there at this point, but I was I just didn't realize I was walking into a mess. And I was walking into really when I look in retrospect, it was a sucker punch trap. And everybody knew that was going on in the divorce pretty much except me. And so back to you know, back to the peremptory challenge. So Commissioner comes in. We stipulate but then I talked to somebody at the facilitator's office, at the courthouse, and they told me basically look, you can still use your peremptory challenge because no orders were made. And so I found the peremptory challenge and this is warning bill number one, basically Commissioner Patty Radek, and even though I requested her to remove herself, using my peremptory challenge, she still stayed on the case. That you know, that was concerning right there. At that point, I didn't know that her supervising boss, her supervising judge was friends and work has worked with my ex wife for years. So again, I found that out much later..." Michael's YouTube Videos https://www.youtube.com/user/MrPropriaPersona1 Want to help us fight judicial injustice? Donate to HTTP://www.KidsMatter.charity

Does Civil Disobedience in Family Court work?

Rob Emert did it - here's what happened

Excerpt: "This is really what the very beginning where I really didn't know anything and I was just trying to get through the process and I was wishing that we could just you know of course have the whole divorce as be done and and I was making offers left and right but that again, that's here nor there at this point, but I was I just didn't realize I was walking into a mess. And I was walking into really when I look in retrospect, it was a sucker punch trap. And everybody knew that was going on in the divorce pretty much except me. And so back to you know, back to the peremptory challenge. So Commissioner comes in. We stipulate but then I talked to somebody at the facilitator's office, at the courthouse, and they told me basically look, you can still use your peremptory challenge because no orders were made. And so I found the peremptory challenge and this is warning bill number one, basically Commissioner Patty Radek, and even though I requested her to remove herself, using my peremptory challenge, she still stayed on the case. That you know, that was concerning right there. At that point, I didn't know that her supervising boss, her supervising judge was friends and work has worked with my ex wife for years. So again, I found that out much later..." Michael's YouTube Videos https://www.youtube.com/user/MrPropriaPersona1 Want to help us fight judicial injustice? Donate to HTTP://www.KidsMatter.charity

Does Civil Disobedience in Family Court work?

Rob Emert did it - here's what happened

Excerpt: "This is really what the very beginning where I really didn't know anything and I was just trying to get through the process and I was wishing that we could just you know of course have the whole divorce as be done and and I was making offers left and right but that again, that's here nor there at this point, but I was I just didn't realize I was walking into a mess. And I was walking into really when I look in retrospect, it was a sucker punch trap. And everybody knew that was going on in the divorce pretty much except me. And so back to you know, back to the peremptory challenge. So Commissioner comes in. We stipulate but then I talked to somebody at the facilitator's office, at the courthouse, and they told me basically look, you can still use your peremptory challenge because no orders were made. And so I found the peremptory challenge and this is warning bill number one, basically Commissioner Patty Radek, and even though I requested her to remove herself, using my peremptory challenge, she still stayed on the case. That you know, that was concerning right there. At that point, I didn't know that her supervising boss, her supervising judge was friends and work has worked with my ex wife for years. So again, I found that out much later..." Michael's YouTube Videos https://www.youtube.com/user/MrPropriaPersona1 Want to help us fight judicial injustice? Donate to HTTP://www.KidsMatter.charity

Does Civil Disobedience in Family Court work?

Rob Emert did it - here's what happened

Excerpt: "This is really what the very beginning where I really didn't know anything and I was just trying to get through the process and I was wishing that we could just you know of course have the whole divorce as be done and and I was making offers left and right but that again, that's here nor there at this point, but I was I just didn't realize I was walking into a mess. And I was walking into really when I look in retrospect, it was a sucker punch trap. And everybody knew that was going on in the divorce pretty much except me. And so back to you know, back to the peremptory challenge. So Commissioner comes in. We stipulate but then I talked to somebody at the facilitator's office, at the courthouse, and they told me basically look, you can still use your peremptory challenge because no orders were made. And so I found the peremptory challenge and this is warning bill number one, basically Commissioner Patty Radek, and even though I requested her to remove herself, using my peremptory challenge, she still stayed on the case. That you know, that was concerning right there. At that point, I didn't know that her supervising boss, her supervising judge was friends and work has worked with my ex wife for years. So again, I found that out much later..." Michael's YouTube Videos https://www.youtube.com/user/MrPropriaPersona1 Want to help us fight judicial injustice? Donate to HTTP://www.KidsMatter.charity

Welcome to the divorce matters podcast where we teach you how to survive the family court system, we will give you no nonsense straightforward strategies for getting you an equitable outcome.

Our guest is John O'Brien who finds himself in San Diego family court and faced a lot of the same issues from parents going through the "system". It's obvious to everyone that the San Diego family court system needs serious reform, but there's too much money in the system to incentive any change. You'll learn a lot from this episode, we go through his case and let you know what we would have done given his situation.

About John:

Yeah, hi. Hi, I'm John O'Brien. I'm, I'm 54 years old. And I currently am going through a divorce. And I have, I have two young young boys, they're eight and five. And this has been a long process over the last two and a half years. And, you know, this is my second divorce. And by far, this has been the hardest divorce. And you know, I'm not too familiar with. I've been born and raised here in San Diego. And this is like my really my first time through the court system. So you know, like, this is my hometown. This is this is where I'm from. So, you know, this is this is all I know, San Diego, you know, it's a beautiful place. And that's pretty much who I am and where I'm from. And, you know, my, my kids live, this is where they're from, they're they're born and raised here. And I'm just trying to, to give them the best life that's possible. And, you know, and unfortunately, that's not, doesn't seem to be happening. The system's a lot, a lot harder than I thought out

Kristin Michelle is a mother and friend. I have been following her case for months and have witnessed firsthand how she has been kept out of her own Dependency Court case as they make decisions about her child without her present.

Listen to this incredibly heartbreaking story and what she is doing about it.

Michael's YouTube Videos https://www.youtube.com/user/MrPropriaPersona1 Want to help us fight judicial injustice? Donate to KidsMatter.charity

Tennessee attorney bravely comes on the show to discuss custody issues

We discuss

1. How to obtain custody or more custody in family court

2. The custody issues in my case and what I did about it

3. How to handle the judge, Guardian Ad Litem and opposing counsel

4. Corruption in the process

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Christie Black is a family court reform advocate and friend to many self-represented family court victims.

We discuss

1. My own case

2. Her crazy case

3. What she's witnessed in helping hundreds of family court victims.

4. What needs to change in family court

Want to help people like Christie? donate to HTTP://www.kidsmatter.charity

Family attorney Miles Mason and I discuss bias among judges, bias in the system and a deeply flawed family law practice. Listen in as Miles debates me - let us know your take as well.