THE FAMILY COURT PROJECT HAS COME TO A CLOSE.
Effective 6/1/08, Family Court Chronicles has become inactive (announcement), and
no new information will be added. The page below is retained for
archive purposes, but it could be out of date. Upon request,
the webmaster will
continue to correct significant errors and will consider
removing information that is destructively obsolete.
(Email: FamilyCourtGuy (at) gmail.com) See
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Donna's House is a
"Checkpoint Charlie" for the exchange of prisoners between warring
parents. It is a place at the Family Court building where children
can be brought to see their non-custodial parent without
the two parents having contact with each other.
Comments from the Webmaster
Let's say little Johnny needs to see his
Dad for the weekend, as ordered in the divorce decree,
but Johnny's Mom has a restraining
order against Dad, so Dad can't get close enough to
Mom to take Johnny away. Or maybe Dad doesn't even
know where Johnny and his Mom live anymore
because that's the way love goes sometimes. What do
you do? Donna's House provides a solution.
Mom brings Johnny to the courthouse in the after-hours
at a certain specified time and drops Johnny off
with a staff member. Dad comes by 15 minutes later
and picks Johnny up. Or maybe Dad has a court-ordered
supervised visitation instead, closely watched in a conference
room by a Donna's House staff member.
And at this point I feel terribly guilty about
using the terms "Mom" and "Dad," when of course
I should have said "parent of unspecified gender" for
both. And Johnny could also be—I don't know—Johnnina.
(You have to cover all
these bases when you are a Family Court Observer and don't
want to OFFEND SOME PEOPLE.)
Donna's house is named after Donna Hernandez,
an employee of the Family Court who was murdered by her ex-husband
in 1999 in the presence of their 3-year-old daughter.
(Brutally murdered, I might add, although I can't think
of any non-brutal murders.)
Donna's House only really exists in the after-hours
and on weekends, when it occupies the same offices
and conferences rooms as the
Family Mediation Center.
The fees are very low: $5 for each prisoner exchange
and $10 for a supervised visitation. Quite a
reasonable cost, I think, for avoiding a fight.
Comments with a green background are the
opinion of the webmaster. We welcome your response.
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Reader Comments
“why are the publics comments constantly deleted from this site? What are you trying to hide? The truth??”
— frustrated with lies in family court 4/19/08
“All the so called supervisors do here is text and talk on the cell phones. They do not charge the amounts stated above. They charge $20 per hour to watch children beg to go home with their parents. People that are good parents caught up in a bad family court system. These people enjoy making money ripping peoples children away from them all day long.”
— Karma will get you! 4/19/08
“Donna's House Inhibits Good Parents from interacting effectively with their children, the recorded observations are profoundly innaccurate, and the charge is indeed $20/hour. Additionally, all parents and children are kept in an enclosed room where children are not supposed to interact with each other outside of their own immediate families which is quite unrealistic in the room provided as there are no barriers between separate families and toys must be shared. This system provides the noncustodial parent an extreme disadvantage as they are usually the one's put on the defensive by the abusive spouse. And with the inaccuracies and unnatural environmental constraints further create difficulties for the defending noncustodial parent as the custodial parent is often the abuser and responsible for problems with coparenting in the first place. Nonabusive parents are intimidated into a corner and then further isolated from effectively interacting with their children”
— Mom in court too many years! 9/13/08
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