Experiences in the “Joke” System

When you have to use the court system, do you think that you’ll get justice? Do you think that’s the only way to appear in court is through an attorney? And that they will try their hardest to give you the best results? 

Let me disabuse you of this notion as I speak from personal experience. What I intend to do is to provide information and viable options for you to get through the courts.

As my mother once stated “you raised your children to be honest and good citizens and you think that if they need the court system or need justice, the course will be there to assist . However, this couldn’t be further from the truth.”  

When one looks at the Supreme Court, the statue of Justice is shown as blind. 

Over the last few years in Minnesota, and especially as of August 21, 2024 our governor Tim Walz decided to give “sight” to the statue of justice. Instead of true justice and protecting the most vulnerable in the courts, which are the children, and especially the most vulnerable-special needs children. The focus has been gender based instead of where the child has the greatest ability to achieve success now and in the future. This agenda has even crept into our school systems which have discredited and blocking certain relationships.  This discrimination by the schools is applied by our government officials and upheld by our so-called justice system. The courts have been used to produce a “supply and demand”, to push cases through quickly by using bench trials by judges who are not even looking at the facts. In addition, law clerks are utilized to craft their orders. Trials involving long term impact to peoples and most importantly children’s lives need to have a jury.

 Judges, instead of looking at facts are merely looking to rubber stamp and utilize the status quo for all cases. They blindly take any and all recommendations and are not verifying the information presented in those recommendations. In addition, while judges are appointed (not elected), it’s not the judge who is crafting the orders. While, you can pay thousands in fees for courts, not only are they not looking at true factual evidence, but their law clerks are busy writing their orders for them. 

Upon receiving the most recent order from my judge, it was literally so poorly written that not even an attorney could understand it. One statement will be made and then contradicted a few sentences later. So, what’s the recourse? Well, that’s where supply and demand come in. You have to go back to the court system and spend a boatload of money to understand or challenge what has been written.

In my case, when a court entity had written a recommendation and it had been proven multiple times that the information was false including witnesses identifying that alleged statements they had been cited as making, they denied ever making them. That is not all, this entity was to perform a complete review of all information and admitted to only reviewing about less than 1/3 of it and they defied a court order with no implications. Instead of throwing out the information as requested of the court, the judge allowed, all of the information and most of the recommendations were not only allowed but used to the detriment of my special needs children. 

So, who are the true victims?  The children, the most vulnerable and especially special needs children. Within the judicial system, there’s a significant gap of knowledge around children with special needs. There is not clear understanding that traditional or standard parenting time schedules, approaches to custody allocations, etc. could be extremely detrimental to this population. Custody or time where one parent has little to no knowledge of the children, has abandoned them, admitted to medical neglect, and etc. with evidence is cast aside as this means more work. These children with their conditions are even more vulnerable in the courts and to any outcomes of it not only now but in the future. 

So, what is the solution? If you’re looking to settle or not willing to fight for your children, use an attorney. But know this, your attorney is not going to make your case their life’s work. You will pay an attorney a boatload of money and the outcome is the outcome. Remember, judges are the attorneys boss and can great impact to that attorneys career. Attorneys are not going to tick off their boss to fight for you and your children. Ask yourself, where did judges begin? They were attorneys before they were judges, correct? There is a solution but it is not easy. You will need to ask yourself, “Am I willing to fight for my children and fight to get them the best outcomes to position them for success now and most importantly in the future?”