California legislature passes bill aiming to protect children from abusers during custody disputes

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Again and again, Ana Estevez warned officials that the man she was divorcing, Aramazd Andressian, was abusive and dangerous. Nevertheless, a Los Angeles County family court judge granted him shared custody of their 5-year-old son, Piqui.

One week later, on April 21, 2017, Andressian smothered the boy to death.

Engulfed by grief, Estevez, a former elementary-school principal, teamed up with her state senator, Susan Rubio, to craft legislation to prevent other children from being ordered into the custody of their abusers. This week, the California legislature passed that bill, known as “Piqui’s Law.”

After voting unanimously for passage on Wednesday, the state Assembly gave Estevez a standing ovation. Estevez also attended Thursday’s Senate vote, holding an urn containing Piqui’s ashes. That vote was unanimous, too.

The law, which will take effect unless it’s vetoed by the governor, establishes training on domestic and child abuse for custody judges and bars them from ordering children who resist contact with one of their parents into “reunification treatment” that cuts them off from the other parent.

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Practices Reputedly Followed For So-Called “Family Reunification” Therapy During And After Child Sexual Abuse Is Known To Have Occurred

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So-called “reunification therapy” services emerged as an appendage of the interventions related to responses to parental alienation as designated in a family court order when custody has been transferred to the reputed alienated parent. This treatment intervention developed and can be identified in court proceedings as of early 2016. Parental alienation as a designated diagnosis […]

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Frozen With Fear – Jumping From The Fire Into The Frying Pan – Thinking She Is Saved

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A client speaks of her decision to hire an attorney to save her daughter from reunification therapy. We gave our last $10k to [our attorney] and I am recovering from [disease and surgery], and exhausted from the insanity in this case. I don’t think a pro se plaintiff could win against these judges. They are too […]

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Fear Of Fighting The Family Courts Creates Public Immobilization And Denial Of The Threats One Sees And Cannot Believe! Reunification Therapy And The Denial Of Due Process And Informed Consent

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The manner in which family courts conduct themselves goes unchallenged, first because of the financial realities involved in the costs of the litigation that is at this time required to oppose these types of decisions, but also because of fear, understandable fear of countering authority. Elements of fear and financial hardship combined with the power […]

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Fear Of Fighting The Family Court Facilitated By Fabricated Psychological Evaluations Under The False Narratives Promoted By The Anti-Therapeutic “Torture” Model Of Reunification Therapy

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Every U.S. citizen has the right to confront their accuser, has a right to due process, to present evidence and to cross examine accusers. Unfortunately – in family court – these processes have been eviscerated by the combined maneuverings and obfuscations of the unique authority of judges in family court that provide judges with the […]

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“Reunification Therapy”   This Is How It Starts  With A Court Order And The Cops: The Words Of Two Sisters

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Tuesday March 21, 2023 at approximately 10 am, I woke up, put mascara and eyeliner on, got dressed, and heard my dad on the phone talking about 2 guys at our front door. My thoughts immediately went to the police that my mom called. I went downstairs to find two sheriffs at my front door. […]

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Forced Reunification Services Ordered by Family Courts Across the Country—How to Stop the Madness

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The Dark Side of Forced Reunification Madness The definition of insanity is believing that doing the same thing over and over will somehow produce a different outcome. Courts have been doing the same thing over and over since in the 1980s Richard Gardener, MD, introduced the term “parental alienation” as a way to defend 300 […]

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The Devastating Connection Between the CIA’s MK-Ultra Program of Mind Control and the Family Court Mandated Program Known as “Reunification Therapy”

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MK-Ultra History of Torture and Mind Control in the United States The MK-Ultra program was instituted early in the 1950s that was designed to induce captured enemy combatants to reveal their secrets under torture. Sidney Gottlieb, a chemist working for the CIA, led in the use of torture techniques including isolation, sensory deprivation, physical abuse, […]

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Update on the Teens Who Live-Streamed Their Barricade

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The FCVFC article on March 6, 2023, Turning Points for Families and their “Reunification Services,” says this: Turning Points [a “reunification” camp] has recently been in the center of a notorious controversy involving two teenagers who are barricaded in their room because they refuse to go to the father [Brent Larson] who has been substantiated as […]

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 Watching The Caged Birds Die: The Purveyors Of The Corrupt Practice Of Reunification Services, In Their Own Words

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“Reunification therapy” is a harmful practice based on the harmful pseudo-diagnosis of  “parental alienation” in the family court system. “Reunification therapy,” as per the fundamental working model, is a process that is geared to alter the child’s reality testing and perception of abuse. The denial of the child’s own experience of actions directed at them […]

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