Have you or someone you know continued to be charged annual child support maintenance fees by your county circuit clerk even after your child support order ended? If so, you're not alone - and we're working with Illinois legislators in 2024 to bridge this unfair financial gap in 2025. Please help by sharing those experiences with us and we'll relay those experiences to the local authors.
In the arena of family law, the unheard voices of children and unrepresented parents often become the silent casualties. Tragically, a child dies nearly every six days in the U.S. amid custody disputes and family court lapses exposing them to abuse. The stories behind initiatives like Alayna's Law, Christian's Law, Madison's Initiative, Corey's Act, Evan's Initiative, the Anonymous Psychological Exile (PE) Scale, and the Clean Child Support Initiative reveal heartbreaking realities children face when caught between parental conflicts.
But from these painful experiences emerged a unifying force dedicated to re-engineering the family law system, putting children's emotional well-being and continued family connections at the forefront.
The Kids as People Lifters song embodies the spirit behind CLU's efforts, echoing the Biblical call in Micah 6:8, "To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God."
Alayna's once joyful relationship with her father was hindered by rigid custody rules, reducing their interactions to scripted, monitored exchanges. This injustice sparked Alayna's Law to prevent this forced separation.
Outdated child support systems failed to account for changing financial circumstances, compounding strains on divided families. The Clean Child Support Initiative aimed to create a more adaptable and fair system focused on children's holistic well-being.
The impersonal nature of family courts left Christian feeling abandoned by his father Aaron, whose attempts to maintain a meaningful relationship were thwarted. This catalyzed Christian's Law reforms to prioritize ongoing parent-child bonds.
Legal delays robbed Madison of consistent family time with her father Chris during their custody case. Madison's Initiative targets eliminating unnecessary court continuances that prolong childrens' heartache.
Legal battles over Corey's custody prioritized "winning" over his welfare from his parents' perspectives. Corey's Act aims to re-center family law on children's developmental needs over legal strategies.
A false accusation denied Evan from having unrestricted time with his loving father Denis for nearly a year before being disproven. Evan's Initiative safeguards against unjust separations.
The PE Scale measures degrees of "psychological exile" children tragically endure when caught in parental conflicts, from PE-1 to PE-7 akin to natural disasters. At PE-7, children like Mariah experience psychological turmoil likened to a tornado tearing through their lives.
Quantifying this "psychological exile" is crucial for addressing these unseen wounds and preventing further damage to children's mental health.
The Importance of AI in Preventing Psychological Exile
As we strive to expand the PE Scale, groundbreaking AI advancements could play a pivotal role. AI's potential in automating precise legal document drafting and filings holds immense promise for expediting fair resolutions in alienation cases, becoming an essential ally in safeguarding children.
By giving voice to these powerful narratives, CLU's initiatives illuminate the path forward - a family law system centered on children's well-being and the preservation of the foundational parent-child bond.
Join us in Your Bridge-Building Moments
If the injustice of the current family law system has hindered your ability to maintain meaningful relationships or financial stability with your children, you're not alone. And if your children have been psychologically exiled by parental conflicts, we want to help.
Need to start a local CLU hub in your area to address these issues? Comment below or contact us - we can provide guidance, free resources like "How to" videos for pro se parents and Child Safety File events, and share the Word of God to heal lives. Local news and community service providers love getting involved in these child safety initiatives.
Addressing Family Law Challenges:
Custody Disputes
Child Support Issues
Unrepresented Parties
Systemic Imbalances
Communication Breakdowns
Together you can provide support and practical solutions to families facing legal and systemic challenges, ensuring the protection and well-being of children and vulnerable individuals:
Peer Support: Connect individuals with others who have faced similar challenges for mutual support.
Legal Aid: Offer guidance and assistance to those who cannot afford traditional legal representation.
Advocacy: Stand up for systemic changes to create fairer processes in family law.
Awareness Campaigns: Educate the public and policymakers about the impact of family law issues.
Effective support systems and advocacy can significantly reduce the negative impacts of family law issues, ensuring better outcomes for children and families.
Each Local CLU hub Implements:
Sidewalk VALET Services: Providing logistical support to families attending court.
Community Support Insights: Offering strategies and resources for unrepresented individuals.
Courtroom WATCH: Ensuring fair treatment and accountability within the judicial system.
Constructive Child Safety Files: Developing resources and tools to protect children within the legal framework.
Harmony's Echo: A Symphony of Family Fusion
Strengthening the bonds of family requires harmonizing a new kind of "data" - the powerful melodies of our interwoven stories and experiences. If we rely solely on dollars and cents to fuel change, we remain bound to systems designed to defeat our unity. However, by giving voice to the sacred cords that cannot be broken - the laughter of children honoring parents, the seasoned grace of grandparents' embraces, the eternal vows between partners - we unlock a foreign "data" current that aids our mission.
This "Harmony's Echo" symphony arises not from anonymized data points, but from the resonant heartbeats of our communities. When like-minded families unite in reverent chorus, our collective voices overpower the discordant silence and invisibility that allow harmful misuses of data. The Family Fusion Pro app (in Beta) transcribes these family melodies into a masterful call for unity, using our first-hand "data" - our lived realities - as the rhythm section driving meaningful change.
Where rigid systems have struck dissonant chords, this communal symphony restores harmony through the universal language of love, hope, and the unbreakable family bonds that conquer fear. As CLU families bravely voice their experiences, their "data" symphony provides the score for re-orchestrating a family justice system in perfect tune.
Disabilities in Family Court: Breaking Barriers
For parents with disabilities, the family court system can feel like an uphill battle. Disabilities alone should never determine a parent's fitness, yet outdated laws in many states still use disability as grounds for terminating parental rights without evidence of negligence. At CLU, we're breaking down these ableist barriers by advocating for equal accommodations, connecting families to specialized resources, and ensuring reasonable judgments based on capabilities - not disabilities. Every parent deserves a fair chance.
Deployments and Custody: Bridging the Divide
The strain of deployment shouldn't mean permanently losing custody. Yet when military parents return home, regaining full parental rights after temporary orders can be an arduous process - especially if the other parent contests it. Through our unvacating initiatives, CLU adds law diversity for deployed parents to remotely activate their social justice allies, demonstrating consistent involvement, and creating a smooth transition for their children's well-being when custody transfers back. We bridge the divide, so no deployed parent unjustly loses the family they served to protect.
Community Outreach
If you'd like to learn more about what's become beyond Child Safety Files and where our pre-law research is going, you can visit the QLT (Quantum Lawyer Taylor) Blog at MajorLeagueFamily.com, or Google our "Family Law 2.0" initiatives. In this era of increased AI risks like face swaps and free robot call/title thefts targeting our most vulnerable, unrepresented children, check out our version of pre-law/un-trade-ups school by visiting LearnCoparentLinks.ai.
At the heart of decentralized peer-to-peer initiatives is the innovative "Child Safety Filing" concept - a grassroots approach to empowering families surviving the complexities of conventional family law system gaps. Unlike airlines that upsell with programs like SeatBid and SeatHold, Child Safety Filers don't bid or hold what's already Adult Fighting File decreed by family courts. Instead, they proactively unvacate petitions, filings, pipelines, parties, tables, chairs, papers, agreements, terms, representation, scores, records and more that impact child support, visitations, healthcare, academics and every aspect of children's lives. From cradle to grave, Child Safety Filers collaborate to un-vacate staged odds, robotic un-steals of home deeds, and solve emerging AI risks like face swaps and robocall/title thefts targeting the most vulnerable. This community-driven model seeks a qualified volunteer, apprentice, and donated space to launch a local agency that provides an open, ffreedom-inspired alternative to conventional family law bindings. Just as frisbee golf reimagines traditional golf for communities, Child Safety Filing reimagines family court advocacy as an "un-trade" rooted in passionate centerlines and collective un-vacating.
Our Target: Empowering the Vulnerable
CLU's initiatives are focused on empowering those most vulnerable to injustice and AI risk - seniors, disabled individuals, deployed personnel, and any inclined to uplift those suffering. We invite all to join in prayer for these "freedom filers" as highlighted at CleanLawUnion.com. Consider volunteering or organizing grassroots practice development based on the frameworks at ai11.org.
As AI capabilities rapidly evolve, we'll represent the highest standards in gap security, ultra-safety, and privacy protocols. Our core mission centers on preventing AI's potential to exacerbate post-litigation impacts on innocent young lives within non-criminal courts. We wouldn't solve innocent family conflicts in a wrestling ring, yet that's effectively how the current adversarial system operates.
Community-Driven Lifters From these experiences, our "Senior Freedomeers" have emerged as a unifying force - citizen advocates re-engineering family law to prioritize children's well-being over combative legalities. Echoing Micah 6:8 to "act justly, love mercy, and walk humbly," their songful outreach embodies CLU's spirit.
Freedomeers organize localized "People News" initiatives, solving AI gaps by becoming Web Lifters and Family Balancers. Through prayer, information pamphleting in news deserts, and escalating to Child Safety File events, they cultivate awareness and provide supportive pathways beyond the divide. Together, even amidst complex AI challenges, our actions grounded in faith can elevate vulnerable families.
Disclaimer: CLU's unvacating initiatives, including the Family Fusion Pro app, Child Safety Filing events, and related resources, are intended for informational, communication, and community-development purposes only. They do not constitute legal advice, professional counseling, or conventional representation by attorneys or licensed practitioners.
While our projects aim to educate on family law gap concepts and empower pro se advocacy, users should not rely on this information as a substitute for personalized legal guidance from qualified counsel. CLU cannot guarantee any particular outcome from utilizing our resources within legal proceedings.
We encourage the responsible use of our platforms in complementing, rather than replacing, professional services when addressing specific domestic circumstances or disputes. Our role is to provide a supportive community space for sharing experiences, as well as toolkits for self-empowerment and strengthening family bonds through ethical, non-violent means of communication and principled negotiations.
CLU promotes equitable access to understanding household pre-laws, rights and responsabilities, however any actions taken remain the sole responsibility of users consulting proper authorities. We creatively unite citizens in the spirit of social justice, STEM education, and peaceful democratized conflict resolution - not as a legal entity or substitute for prudent counsel on complex personal matters.
Please use appropriate discernment. Ultimately, our objective is to harmonize families through ethical knowledge-sharing, not dispense advice carrying liability risks if unheeded. Engage wisely and continue your fact-finding through legitimate approved channels as needed.
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