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- From: boe@SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Robert Boeninger)
- Subject: Peggy Boucher Murphy's question about custody.
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 18:51:13 GMT
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- Peggy Boucher Murphy posted an inquiry concerning how people feel custody
- decisions should be handled differently, better than they are now.
- Here are my very partial thoughts, which I have already posted here earlier:
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- I am not a legal scholar.
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- I have not been through custody "battle", because, as has been pointed out
- here many times in general, my lawyer also advised me against doing so because
- of the unliklihood of success.
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- I believe the courts should consider much more seriously than hitherto the
- tremendous injustice that is involved in granting almost total custody to
- only one parent to the detriment of the other parent, and perhaps of the kids.
- The custodial parent should at the very least be willing to pay a certain
- price for the privilege of having been granted custody. This price could
- consist, e.g., of being obligated to rapidly assume a larger share of the
- financial burden of the family support, after an initial period of financial
- assistance from the NCP. Maybe some other form of compensation could be
- worked out. What seems to me to be happening now is that the courts
- usually allocate full custody to one of the parents and simply ignore the
- emotional needs of the NCP in this regard. Instead, a long-term state of
- indenture is imposed on the NCP. It should, in my view, be a very short-term
- state.
- Just my two cents' worth.
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- Thanks, Bob Boeninger
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