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Archive of Law & Courts

Standard Prenuptial Agreement

Thu 25th February 2010:

Craig writes: I’m looking for a standard form prenuptual agreement. One that I can fill in two names and a date, after reviewing the wording. I’ve never heard of one, Craig. I would imagine that they usually contain details of specific assets which are intended to be excluded from jointly owned Relationship Property. I’m not […]

Angry that her ex-husband had won an order to have the children for the first half of the holidays

A Queensland mother has been sentenced to life behind bars for the gassing murders of her two children and the attempted murder of her teenage son. The woman, who cannot be named, was found guilty in the Brisbane Supreme Court on Friday night of two counts of murder and one count of attempted murder after […]

Jamaican Men’s Movement

Fri 19th February 2010:

I think it is appalling when men who study men’s issues under ‘gender studies’ at university condemn father’s and men’s groups who stand up for fathers and men to have equal rights. Women have come a long way changing society for females while men are still stuck in the past. Up until 2004, when a […]

Shared parenting – Do you think children have a right to a relationship with both mum and dad?

Fri 12th February 2010:

Lately I have been receiving e-mails from mothers introducing themselves as being in a shared parenting arrangement. It is nice for me to hear this because after 2/3 generations not very good at sharing, we have a new generation mediating between each other well. I am worried though, because I have been to a radical […]

Should I get married?

Wed 3rd February 2010:

I am young enough to be a father but too old to rebuild all my life after divorce again. I still want to be an involved father more than anything in the world. Until just recently I thought this meant I needed to get married again. However the dates I have had recently have caused […]

Should Men’s Advocates Work as Access Supervisors?

Mon 1st February 2010:

Over recent weeks there has been heated (and often abusive) debate about Union of Fathers’ president Alan Harvey working as an access supervisor. He is not the first men’s advocate to have done so – Craig Davis from Shore Fathers has also been employed in this position, and likewise faced a torrent of abuse and […]

Men banned to sit next to children on airline flights

Sat 16th January 2010:

In 2005 airlines such as Air New Zealand and Qantas were found to have a policy that children and teenagers who are unaccompanied by parents or caregivers cannot sit next to men. Air New Zealand spokesman David Jamieson said the company had no intention of reviewing the policy and admitted that it had been in […]

The sad ignorance of some comments

Fri 20th November 2009:

I wrote a post about the UK men’s movement and how men (mostly young men) are speaking up and starting to ask for rights. Men never had any rights. They were also oppressed in society as women were and the gender roles did them no more favours than it did women. They are not asking […]

The rape industry claims another victim – Kevin Driscoll’s story

There’s an interesting rape case being followed on the Internet. It involves an alleged rapist named Kevin Driscoll and an alleged rape victim named Melissa Leahy-Rossow. It’s a very sad reality that many, many young men go through while the rape industry continuously pushes for males to have harsher treatment and women to have lighter […]

Judge Boshier links suicides to family break-ups

Thu 19th November 2009:

By Simon Collins 4:00 AM Thursday Nov 19, 2009 NZ Herald A top judge has called for more mental health support for people involved in Family Court cases after finding 18 suspected suicides by people involved in the court in the 13 months to June. Principal Family Court Judge Peter Boshier, in a speech to […]

Men’s movement in the UK

UK males are speaking up well on the biased treatment through feminists and their supporters. They have become such a loud voice that the media has been attacked persistently and consistently by large numbers of them, forcing the media to open ‘Pandora’s box’ and speak up about the abuse males receive from females. The greatest […]

Letter to MP’s, and their responses

Sat 24th October 2009:

This is a Letter that I sent to 13 Diffrent MP’s from diffrent political parties but I tried to focus on the Ministers/Spokespersons for Justice, Courts, Social Development etc. I have recived some intresting replys, including a Labour MP asking if she can foward my letter on to the Legal Aid Review Panel, and also […]

No rules of evidence for sexual violence allegations

Fri 23rd October 2009:

A proposal from the two-year taskforce for action on sexual violence, issued yesterday, would reverse the usual rules of evidence for sex cases. Note that many of the proposals are things like redefining the definition of consent so that the male is presumed guilty unless he can prove positive that an explict “yes” was given […]

Father’s suicides or parental suicides?

Wed 14th October 2009:

Dear Wendy, I read your article about father’s suicides, with quite a bit of pain. While men’s suicide shows up grossly and obviously in national suicide statistics, I suspect that women’s suicides due to court traumatisation from removal of relationships with children is a faster growing problem. The feeling of traumatisation due to injustice does […]

Call for Suicide Ideation Experiences – from Australia

> From: Suicide Prevention Australia > > Date: 14 October 2009 8:01:45 AM > To: greg @ dadsontheair.net > Subject: Senate Inquiry into Suicide in Australia: Have your say. > Together, we can make a difference… > Reply-To: [email protected] > > > Suicide and self-harm remain unacceptably high in the Australian > community with death […]

How women’s refuges work

Sun 11th October 2009:

Even Canada is challenging the corrupt business of feminism. Robert Franklin, Esq. from Glenn Sack’s has given a good description of what is going on in this video. Setting the scene Robert explains that Toronto Criminal defence lawyer Mr. Walter Fox describes in the video above how originally, the office of the Attorney General was […]

Domestic Violence month has given something for males to celebrate

Sat 10th October 2009:

October is Domestic Violence month and one court case alone in West Virginia, USA, has given a shimmer of hope for men in this terrible time of gender discrimination against them. A group of men and women against discrimination (MAWAD) have taken the state’s family service board to court over discrimination laws. Not only are […]

Change the “Anti Smacking Law” Prime Minister

Wed 26th August 2009:

Written by Barbara Faithful Dr. Muriel Newman has produced the attached impressive editorial on the chicanery behind the smacking referendum and its aftermath. In my view some highlights of it are :- Firstly, she points out that the 54% response rate to it (so derided by the anti-smacking lobby) “is almost the same as the […]

NZers vote ‘NO’ for smack as criminal offence

Fri 21st August 2009:

Oh, yeah!!!! 😀 Almost 90 per cent of people who participated in a referendum asking New Zealanders whether smacking should be illegal have voted no, preliminary results show. When you consider this referendum was about ‘the people‘ versus ‘the state‘ with all it’s power and tax payer money, this sure was a landslide. Read more.

Pathways through Parental Separation

Thu 30th July 2009:

Last week Scrap made a post about the recent Families Commission funded study on non-resident fathers. If you missed it, here is the Media Release from Families Commission You can download the report Pathways through Parental Separation here [PDF, 557K] Since then, there have been a couple of mentions in the media, and author Phil […]

Father’s protest outside Families Commission

Fri 24th July 2009:

Hans writes.. The Families Commission had made a commitment to meet next week with a small group of fathers who have been active in the men’s movement, mainly professional people myself included. A main theme for discussion was to be the high male suicide rate and its relationship to social policy and family law. However, […]

Where is the Legal Help??

Mon 6th July 2009:

Hi there, About 6 months ago I applied for day-to-day care of my 16 month year old daughter. We eventually done counseling and came to an agreement. My ex and I were still trying to be friends and we still having a sexual relationship, and everything looked fine. Then in the space of bout twenty […]

Bank of New Zealand v Bad Dad

Sat 4th July 2009:

Media release from the Political Busker. On Tuesday July 7th the Bank of New Zealand has filed proceedings against Wellington’s Political Busker, Benjamin Easton. The Bank is responding to proceedings of judicial review filed against them by Mr Easton. Easton claims that in June 2008 the Bank funded an advertisement that was gender offensive and […]

Judge steps down to help fathers

Fri 3rd July 2009:

Leah Ward Sears became the first woman and youngest person appointed to Georgia’s highest court in 1992. But she stepped down this week as Chief Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court after her brother’s suicide. She found amongst his personal effects a questionnaire he had completed in 2005 for a church class. The very first […]

Anti-corporal punishment lobbyists abuse the scientific process to further their pernicious political cause

By Barbara Faithfull On 16th June 2009 I wrote (in “The fraudulent case against corporal punishment”) : “The anti-corporal punishment lobbyists operate dishonestly” etc. Nevertheless I hardly expected them so soon to provide the excellent proof of that assertion which has come to hand over the past few days via abuse of the scientific process. […]

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