Judges are some of the most powerful people in our country. They have the ability to set child support, which may be so high you can't pay it, thus giving them the ability to take your children for back support. They have the ability to take children from a parent without proof the parent is unfit. They can take children away from a parent without talking to the child, and without ordering counseling for the child who is losing their parent. They have the ability to give your child to someone else, because that is what your ex wants. THEN THEY GO HOME TO THEIR FAMILIES WITHOUT GIVING YOU OR YOUR CHILD ANOTHER THOUGHT.

Our country depends on fair judges, but our country is suffering at the hands of judges with poor judgment. Our children of divorce and/or separation are in crisis. “EQUAL JUSTICE UNDER LAW” is on the very front of our US Supreme Courthouse. If justice is equal under the law, does that not include family court? Shouldn't that include “Children and Family”? Judges are supposed to do what is in the “Best Interest of the Child”, it is time they start giving our children of divorce and/or separation a break and give them “Equal Justice Under Law”.

Judges seem to overlook the feelings and heartbreak of our children of divorce and/or separation. They condemn them to a life of sadness and confusion and they forget that these same children love and need the parent they are removing from their lives.



Judge – noun

01.
a public officer authorized to hear and decide cases in a court of law; a magistrate charged with the administration of justice.
02.
a person appointed to decide in any competition, contest, or matter at issue; authorized arbiter: the judges of a beauty contest.
03. a person qualified to pass a critical judgment: a good judge of horses.
04.
an administrative head of Israel in the period between the death of Joshua and the accession to the throne by Saul.
05.
(esp. in rural areas) a county official with supervisory duties, often employed part-time or on an honorary basis.
Judge–verb (used with object)
06. to pass legal judgment on; pass sentence on (a person): The court judged him guilty.
07.
to hear evidence or legal arguments in (a case) in order to pass judgment; adjudicate; try: The Supreme Court is judging that case.
08.
to form a judgment or opinion of; decide upon critically: You can't judge a book by its cover.
09.
to decide or settle authoritatively; adjudge: The censor judged the book obscene and forbade its sale.
10.
to infer, think, or hold as an opinion; conclude about or assess: He judged her to be correct.
11.
to make a careful guess about; estimate: We judged the distance to be about four miles.
12. (of the ancient Hebrew judges) to govern.
Judge–verb (used without object)
13. to act as a judge; pass judgment: No one would judge between us.
14. to form an opinion or estimate: I have heard the evidence and will judge accordingly.
15. to make a mental judgment.

We at Three Sides to Every Story, Inc. believe a judge should set on the bench no more then two terms. We believe that a judge should have no more time in power then the president of the United States of America . When someone has that much power for more then two terms it seems to give them a lack of sensitivity and understanding for the real problem.

We all know that life in general allows us to make friends. In the neighborhood you live in, the church you attend, at the laundry mat and the grocery story…but most of all you make friends in the workplace. Now where is the judge's workplace? That would be in the courtroom. If you are a judge for many years and work in the same workplace as attorneys, you are going to make friends with whom, ”ATTORNEYS”.

We do believe that young people going into the legal profession have the greatest of intensions. We believe they enter into law school and graduate with all the greatest of expectation, and we believe that is where the problem begins.

If you work on an auto assembly line, you do the same thing every day. You put the same part in the same spot time after time. You get so good at it, you could do it with your eyes closed. If you drive a bus for the city, you drive the same route day aft day, and yes you could probably do it with your eyes closed.

We believe when a judge sets on the bench more then two terms, they get so good at what they do, they could do it with their eyes closed. They can look at each and every case and tell you exactly what is going on with it…just because they have gotten so good at reading all the signs. BINGO, they have become complacent and make rulings based on all their prior knowledge, not the case before them, but the ones in the past. They can tell you so much about people they have never seen, just by watching them in their courtroom, but while they are getting so good at this ability to read what is being brought before them, they forget one very important rule…”NO TWO CASES ARE ALIKE” They have to be judged on the merit of each one, not the merits of all they have learned on prior cases.

Judges should come into their courtrooms with their eyes on everything that is taking place. No doodling while testimony is being given. No counting the ceiling tiles while they are making themselves comfortable and oh yes, testimony is being given. Judges should make their family aware they may be late for dinner when court is in session, and not keep telling the parties of the last case that he made wait till the end of the day, that his wife is expecting him for dinner. He should not have such a disgusting look on his face when the last witness decides since she has been waiting for 14 years to tell this truth, and yes, she has every intention of testifying.

Judges are paid very well. They have a lot of power and the people in their community look up to them. They should respect the fact that the very children's lives they are destroying, are the children of people that looked up to them until they proved they are not working in the best interest of the children or the family.

A NOTE FROM OUR FOUNDER

My Mother wanted me to be an attorney, she said, “You would argue with the signboards and print them yourself”…boy, and don't I wish I had listened to her. The biggest problem with my going to law school, I didn't know people like me could be an attorney. I thought you had to be rich and come from something to be an attorney. We were very poor and the few times I mentioned I would like to go to college, my grandmother (who raised me) would say,

“College (with a laugh), just who do you think you are?”

Well, now I know who I am, and I am in the biggest battle of my life, fighting the people that went to law school and learned how to “NIT PICK” the law. They learned how to make the laws work for the side that makes them the most money.

Think about this. So many men when they marry, they want their wife to stay at home and raise a family; they want to take care of her and the children. A lot of the time she does just that. When the marriage breaks up, she has no job ( no money ) and he is the breadwinner. Now, if men were given the children at the time of separation, then women would not be able to fight as hard as men ( no job – lack of MONEY ), and thus would not be such a moneymaker for the family law INDUSTRY .

It is in my opinion, and I am a good authority on this subject, I have four sons and between them they have fifteen children, they are all wonderful fathers, they give baths, change diapers, hug them, tuck them in at night and TELL THEM THEY LOVE THEM… they give them a since of security. However, two of these sons are now divorced and the lives of their children have suffered a great deal, due to the ever on-going anger of their ex. I have two grandchildren that have both parents after the divorce, their lives are not normal (what ever that is) , but they do have both parents. I also have three that have lost the most wonderful father on this earth because the INDUSTRY of family law has used these children to make their living.

Bessie Hudgins

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