TO PRACTICE LESS AND GET IT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME

EVERY MATRIMONIAL LAWYER NYS SEASON TICKET THEATER OF THE ABSURD

My practice is devoted to matrimonial law in New York State. I have tried to represent fathers in court, to get them the equality they deserve. Any lawyer in New York who promises that is either on the way into a padded ward or on the way out. So I cut back taking fees for attending "theater of the absurd." I am now putting together a guide for men to keep the whole family out of the politicized and feminized domestic relations courts and try to stop the practice of lawyers and "the helping professions" taking food out of the mouths of our children.

I am not a lawyer by nature. Calvin Trillan remarked, "If law school is so hard, how come there are so many lawyers?" It isn’t hard and there are too many lawyers. But I didn’t start out a lawyer. I taught high school advanced placement American history for 20 years, emphasizing Constitution’s historical development. I also taught economics and government. Now that I have observed the process as a lawyer from the inside, I would certainly teach it differently or ask myself "why did you pay a king’s ransom to go to law school when law schools teach fiction?

I graduated from New York Law School whose distinction is that yesterday the Manhattan DA indicted Professor Edward Samuels, one of its more pompous professors, for having 100,000 child pornography pictures on his computer. The school is defending the professor. It kicked out two students who found this important evidence. 4/25/03 NY Post

Now I agree with I.F. Stone, an eccentric 50s journalist who put it as bluntly as ever it’s been expressed: 

Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed. And that particularly applies to those who calls themselves our friends.

If you want to avoid such cynicism and you like sausages never watch them being made.

My strategy is to keep my client from ever appearing in court. That would be a big step for mankind. I don’t want to be a court officer, which every lawyer is. My mother didn’t bring me up to be a racketeer. So I’m pulling together from my wounds a guide for men facing divorce with chapter titles like Don’t complain; Nobody’s Listening and Would You Hire A Lawyer To File Your Income Tax?

If legal representation means simply navigating the deliberately complex rules of the courts than anyone can be a father's rights attorney. But if it means shared aims, I am the ONLY father's rights advocate in New York State. Father advocates and home-grown avocadoes in New York State are both equally rare. That should come as no surprise when the New York State Bar Association is the only one in the United States on record against joint custody. Imagine how much these male lawyers value their children to sacrifice them to political correctness.

The only site that tells men why they should NOT only not enter the courtroom but avoid separation agreements, stipulations, Stalin-like confessions, etc. 

The New York Court of Appeals began the process of undermining the mutuality of such agreements. For women separation agreements are enforced like contracts. New York's highest court encourages modifying such so-called contracts against men. Therefore, they now lack the most important value of a contract, predictability.

The most predictable short-term effect of divorce is relocation by the custodial parent. Fathers agree to give more than the law requires to gain what is called a "radius clause." Now New York's highest court says that doesn't have much strength. It also applies to visitation and joint custody.

Visitation belongs to a long list of legal fictions. It gives the divorced father no greater rights than an uncle and less than grandparents. Visitation should be viewed as termination. Beware joint legal custody. The parent with residential custody again has all the rights. Only residential joint custody gives the father an odd makers' chance of getting contract enforcement. Further, you are at the mercy especially of any articulate eleven year old who is already used to negotiating with his school principle. If your son identifies with you and can stand up to a judge the way he stands up to any adult, you have it made. On the other hand if your daughter is really shrewd she can play both parents against each other, mount a tantrum, and in effect choose auction herself off to the custodial parent who represents the easier cash flow. ALL THIS DESPITE A SEPARATION AGREEMENT on custody and visitation.

YOUR BARELY LITERATE KID GETS ADMITTED TO YALE UNDER DIVERSITY. THIS COULD BE THE BIGGEST COST IN YOUR AGREEMENT. AGAIN, DON'T MORTGAGE YOUR FUTURE

No other site discusses both the destructive father-child effects of New York and 14 other states empowering judges to impose adulthood tuition obligations on the father. This is greed pure and simple lobbying by the elite universities. Any connection to education is purely coincidental. It is also the worst public policy since it is a primary reason for the obscene increase in college costs and the windfall in professorial salaries, shutting the door on higher education to qualified, but poor real scholars from in tact families. It has also been a major factor in the dumbing down of higher education.

This site is also the only one that throws the spotlight on the Supreme Court for its complicity in the destruction of the family and the relegation of men to indentured servitude based on the deceitful doctrine of "the domestic relations exception," which the court uses selectively against men.

I have also returned to reading history and government in a new light which shows too many of our heroes as clowns as our clowns are the real heroes. When Congress announces government reform like dumping everything into Homeland Security, which is bigger than the whole New Deal, it’s like a murderer deciding to redecorate his apartment after he stabs his girlfriend dead and her blood splatters the walls. 

Jacques Barzun’s encyclopedic work From Dawn To Decadence enticed me to follow the twisted creepers of feminism back to its roots. The above link to Barzun’s interview with the Independent Women’s Forum is the best on the Internet. 

Many Feminist jaws have an embarrassing past the media covers up, their years as Communists or fellow travelers and how they learned to use psychoanalysis as social control. It was invented by Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) who founded, Italy’s Communist Party. It’s key is that words are meant to mean nothing. It's the first revolution whose intent to win by boring us to death. Betty Friedan was the strangest housewife manning picket lines for communist causes during the 30s, 40s and 50s. Gloria Steinem worked full-time for the CIA in the 50s. Who was she spying on, Senator Strom Thurmond and J. Ego Maneuver?

Women aren't the Feminist’s concern nor men their primary target. The disintegration not only of our fundamental values but of all values is. Barzun quotes fellow Frenchman Jean-François Revel who remarked twenty years ago that "Democratic civilization is the first in history to blame itself because another power is trying to destroy it".

Your laughing lawyer doesn't laugh all the time. He also reads and writes on the volatile mixture of money, politics and oil in the Middle East. He believes firmly the only way to respond to an insane asylum to escape. For fun he likes to tease the feminists, listen to classical music and promote the greatest modern classical composer, the Danish symphonist, Carl Nielsen. 

Carl Nielsen (1865-1931) 

He loves riding trains but also happens to think there is some conspiracy against solving our dependence on that insane asylum for oil by introducing real high speed rail service such as Europe has. Europe’s intercity trains run at over 250 mph.

He has also freelanced in L.I. Newsday, the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Christian Science Monitor and the Chicago Tribune.

If any of this interests you, you must be a smart person. If you’d like to get in touch with me, write me.