A Sure Way to Kill Fatherhood: Supervise It

My first supervised visitation with my girls took place in October 10, 2002. As for many fathers with a trial on child abuse pending, supervised visitations were supposed to be temporary. Also, I thought they would be at my place, in West Harlem, New York City, where I was then living and where [...]

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The Unnoticed Nobility of Clark Rockefeller/Christian Gerhartsreiter

Just read Pam Belluck and Sara Rimer’s piece in the Sunday Times yesterday and you will be convinced. The
crime of Clark Rockefeller – the name under which the man who kidnapped his daughter Reigh and was arrested in Baltimore , was still known a week ago- is a crime of lèse-majesté. Christian [...]

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A Tip to Increase Your Chances to See Your Kids: Be Dying

Sometimes, kids say things that they might regret all their life. During the interview that sinister forensic evaluator Berrill conducted with my girls in 2003, Camille, nine then, declared that “she wished she had another dad” in her mother’s presence. She might have been willing to please her mum or even genuinely adhere to [...]

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Nobody Beats Manhattan Family Court!

In the matter of a custody/visitation proceeding, Brodsky against Lacour (myself), things are officially over. A decision has been made last July 23, 2008. Since sicko ex-wife filed a complaint of child abuse on June 13, 2002, it took the great Manhattan Family Court 6 years, two months and ten days to figure out [...]

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Why Is it More Expensive to Raise Ex-Governor McGreevy’s Child than Mine?

New Jersey non-custodial fathers have to consider themselves happy to live in the Garden State. Unlike New York State, there are no regressive, flat stupid percentage child support payments from $10,000 to $80,000 in annual gross income irrespective of what the custodial parent earns. In the state of New jersey, child support has to be [...]

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Of Forensic Evaluation in Child Abuse Cases. Part III What Does Family Court Do with It?

Berrill’s report was released in January 2004. A consensus was soon reached. From the judge to the law guardian, lawyers for both parties included, everybody agreed: this was a piece of trash. Why then waste three precious court dates – which, in Manhattan Family Court time, translate into a year- hearing the author? [...]

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Sympathy for Clark Rockefeller

ABC news (Law and Justice section) broke the news this morning: Clark Rockefeller has been arraigned in Baltimore, Maryland. He might have voluntarily surrendered to the police. His daughter, Reigh, whom he had kidnapped a week ago, is perfectly fine. Clark Rockefeller will be extradited in Massachusetts to face charges of felony for kidnapping, [...]

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