How to Handle Your Family Court Case Course contents
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FULL COURSE TABLE OF CONTENTS
TOPIC 1: INTRODUCTION TO OUR LEGAL INJUSTICE SYSTEM . ..1
Objectives for this topic ...1
Delineating Your Stand: Where and Why ...1
American Tradition and Legal Practice ...2
Our Court Systems: Federal and State .3
Legal Steps in a Contested Action ...4
The Family Court and its Problems .6
Court Personnel: What they do and Where they go wrong 6
Protecting Yourself Through the Court Process ..7
Final Comment .8
TOPIC 2: BASIC ELEMENTS OF AN ACTION ..9
Orientation: What Youre Up Against .9
Objectives for this topic .12
Procedural Law ..12
Steps, Forms, Elements, and Requirements in a Contested Action ...12
Your Case, File, and Record ..14
Family Court Hearings ...15
Court Terms: Orders, Judgments, and Stipulations ...16
Forms Used in Court Actions ....17
Motion 18
Structural Form of All Your Forms ..19
Affidavit .21
Certificate of Service .22
Notice of Hearing ...23
Memorandum of Law 23
Court Forms on Financial Issues ....24
Child Support and Guidelines 24
Discovery Papers ...26
Notice of Appeal 27
Service: To Who and When?.............................................................................................28
Service for Complaints and Subpoenas .28
Service for Discovery Papers .28
Service for Hearing Papers 29
Setting up (Marking)a Hearing ..29
Preparation for Action 29
Final Comment ...30
Figures for Topic 2 ...31-58
TOPIC 3: THE LAW AND THE COURT 59
Objectives for this topic .59
Court: Where the Rubber Meets the Road .59
The Law .61
Maxims of Law ..63
The Court Setup .65
Final Comments .69
TOPIC 4: THE FAMILY COURT SETUP AND RELEVANT LAW ...69
Objectives for this topic .69
Family Court: Jurisdiction .69
Relevant Law in the Family Court .72
Final Comments .80
Figures for Topic 4 .81-108
TOPIC 5: YOUR FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS, JUDICIAL TYRANNY, AND MAKING DUE PROCESSCOMPLAINTS AGAINST JUDGES, LAWYERS, AND GALS .109
Objectives for this topic ...109
Fundamental Rights & Due Process: What, Where, and Why 110
Judicial Usurpation and Family Court Tyranny ...121
Protecting Our Due Process Rights ..124
Final Comments ...128
Figures for Topic 5 ...129-136
TOPIC 6: FAMILY COURT COMPLAINTS 137
Objectives for this topic ...137
Part 1: Key Complaints and Their Filings ...137
Part 2: Filing a Complaint: starting an action steps to begin a complaint 138
Part 3: Summary of Complaint Issues and Arguments 141
Part 4: Contempt Complaint 147
Part 5: Protection from Abuse Complaints ..151
Final Comments ...154
Figures for Topic 6 ...155-160
TOPIC 7: STRATEGY .161
Objectives for this topic ...161
Part I: What Youre Up Against ..161
Part II: Take Charge of Your Case ..164
Part III: Handle the Steps In Your Action ...173
Final Comments ...174
Figures for Topic 7 ...177-180
TOPIC 8: YOUR REDRESS TO UNJUST ORDERS AND JUDGMENTS ...181
Objectives for this topic ...181
1. Analysis of Your Unjust Order/Judgment .181
2. Your Response Options .182
3. Characteristics of the Options 182
4. Your Basic Stance and Our Final Comment ...191
Figures for Topic 8 ...193-202
EPILOG: WITH WHAT YOU KNOW, WHAT WILL YOU DO?.........................203
APPENDIX 1: ABUSE PROPAGANDA .209
Figures for Appendix 1 .223-238
APPENDIX 2: STEPS IN A DIVORCE/CUSTODY COMPLAINT ...239
Figure Steps in a Family Court Action .248
LIST OF FIGURES
Figure 2-1 Complaint for Modification
Figure 2-2 Courts Motion form
Figure 2-3 Motion Example
Figure 2-4 Affidavit Example
Figure 2-5 Proposed Order example
Figure 2-6 Certificate of Service example
Figure 2-7 Affidavit example
Figure 2-8 Memorandum example
Figure 2-9 Financial Statement short form
Figure 2-10 Mass. Child Support Schedule
Figure 2-11 Mass. Child Support Guidelines Worksheet
Figure 2-12 Worksheet Calculation Example
Figure 2-13 Minimum Father Expenses
Figure 2-14 Father take-home pay versus income after tax and child support
Figure 2-15 Request for Production of Documents
Figure 2-16 Interrogatories
Figure 2-17 Interrogatories more examples
Figure 2-18 Subpoena duces tecum example
Figure 2-19 Notice to Keeper of the Records
Figure 2-20 Notice of Appeal example
Figure 2-21 Sketch of Steps in a Court Action
Figure 4-1 MGL Title Page
Figure 4-2 MGL Ch 208 Divorce page
Figure 4-3 MGL c208 sec 28: Children
Figure 4-4 MGL c208 sec 28 continued
Figure 4-5 Online rendition of c208 sec28
Figure 4-6 Online rendition of c208 sec34
Figure 4-7 Online rendition of chapter titles 207-209
Figure 4-8 MGL ch209A Abuse Prevention Law
Figure 4-9 MGL ch209A Online rendition
Figure 4-10 Cover of Rules of Court (Mass.)
Figure 4-11 Table of Contents of State Rules of Court
Figure 4-12 Beginning of Mass. Rules of Civil Procedure
Figure 4-13 Beginning of Mass. Rules of Domestic Relations Procedure
Figure 4-14 Online rendition of Rules of Civil Procedure
Figure 4-15 rule 62 in Rules of Civil Procedure
Figure 4-16 rule 62 of Rules of Domestic Relations Procedure
Figure 4-17a Child Support Guidelines Preamble
Figure 4-17b Income Types used in Child support calulations
Figure 4-17c Factors considered in setting child support
Figure 4-17d Health insurance, etc and child support
Figure 4-17e Schedule for setting Child support
Figure 4-17f Child support Calculation sheet
Figure 5-1 Troxel Case affirming Parental Rights
Figure 5-2 Judicial Code of Conduct in Rules of Court
Figure 5-3 Judicial Complaint Form
Figure 5-4 Lawyers Code Sections Rules of Court
Figure 5-5 Lawyers Code Canon 7 Representation within bounds
Figure 5-6 Complaint Against a Lawyer form
Figure 6-1 Complaint for Divorce form
Figure 6-2 Domestic Relations Summons form
Figure 6-3 Complaint to Establish Paternity form
Figure 6-4 Complaint for Modification form
Figure 7-1 Steps in a Family Court Action
Figure 7-2 Request for Trial Pre-Trial Assignment form
Figure 8-1a Interlocutory Appeal example
Figure 8-1b Interlocutory Appeal example -continued
Figure 8-1c Interlocutory Appeal example -continued
Figure 8-1d Interlocutory Appeal example -continued
Figure 8-2 Notice of Appeal example
Figure 8-3 USC Title 42 c21 sec 1983
Figure 8-4 USC Title 42 c21 sec 1985
Figure 8-5 USC Title 42 c21 sec 1986
Figure 8-6 small portion of Habeous Corpus 28 USC sec. 2255
APPENDIX 1
Figure 1 Domestic Violence catalogue
Figure 2 Abuse Pamphet examples
Figure 3 College Advertisements on Abuse
Figure 4 Map of Massachusetts Domestic Violence facilities
Figure 5 New Hopes Introduction Sheet
Figure 6 Mathematics of Battering!
Figure 7a Cover of Harvard Community Health Services (HCHS) tri-fold
Figure 7b HCHS definitions
Figure 7c HCHS -Wheel of Violence and Cycle of Violence
Figure 7d HCHS The Warning List
Figure 7e HCHSs Myths and Fact(oids)!
Figure 8a Emerge Pamphlet (dog training school for men)
Figure 8b Emerge cont
Figure 8c Emerge cont
APPENDIX 2
Table Steps in a Contested Divorce Action