UPCOMING FAMILY COMMISSION MEETING, WED. SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Family Commission



Agenda

Family Commission

90 Washington Street, Hartford, CT, Courtroom B2

Wednesday, September 10, 2014

2:00 P.M.

I. Review and approval of minutes

II. Financial Affidavit

III. Survey results – comments from other states

IV. Administrative Divorce

V. Mission/purpose of the Family Commission

VI. Collaborative/mediated divorce

VII. Such other matters that may come before the Commission

VIII. Next meeting

A draft to the minutes of the previous March 12, 2014 meeting is located at the link below:

http://www.jud.ct.gov/Committees/Family/fam_minutes_031214.pdf
 

MAY 19, 2014, AT 2:00 P.M. RULES COMMITTEE MEETING!

May 19, 2014, at 2:00 p.m., the Rules Committee of the Superior Court will conduct a public hearing in the Supreme Court in Hartford for the purpose of receiving comments concerning the following Practice Book revisions which are being considered by the Committee. The proposed revisions will be printed in the April 29, 2014, issue of the Connecticut Law Journal and will be posted on the Judicial Branch website at http://www.jud.ct.gov/pb.htm. The public hearing will be followed by a Rules Committee meeting in the Supreme Court.

Written comments may be forwarded to the Rules Committee at the following address:

Rules Committee of the Superior Court
Attn: Joseph J. Del Ciampo, Counsel
P.O. Box 150474
Hartford, CT 06115-0474

Written comments must be received by May 15, 2014.

Each speaker at the public hearing will be limited to five minutes. Anyone who believes that they cannot cover their remarks within that time period may submit written comments to the Rules Committee. If written comments are submitted, ten copies should be provided.

Wheelchair access is located in the rear of the building, accessible from the staff parking lot between Lafayette and Oak Streets. There are a limited number of handicap parking spots in the gated staff lot, which is accessible from Oak Street. Use the intercom at the gate to speak to security about the availability of parking. Once at the accessible door, use the intercom to request entry from security.

 

If you would like to attend the meeting and need an accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act, before May 15, 2014, please email the Rules Committee at:

Joseph.DelCiampo@jud.ct.gov.

SAVE THE DATE! BATTERED MOTHERS AND KIDS CUSTODY CONFERENCE, WASHINGTON, D.C., MAY 9-12, 2014!

Friday May 9 -Monday May 12, 2014: 

Many events in a few days in Washington DC.

 

Conference 

Battered Mothers and Kids Custody Conference 

at George Washington University

9:00 am to 5:00 pm

 

Friday, May 9 Domestic Violence Advocate Training with Barry Goldstein and National Coalition Against Domestic Violence on how to help battered mothers involved in custody cases.

 

Saturday, May 10 Mothering Under Duress with Joy Silberg, PhD on how to effectively mother your children when they are forced to live with abusers. There will be a workshop with Mo Hannah PhD and a panel with Linda Marie Sacks and other mothers.

 

Activism

 

Sunday, May 11 Mothers of Lost Children March at the White House from 11:00 am to 4:00 pm at 1600 Pennsylvania NW. Wear white clothing and good walking shoes, and bring a hat. Wear sunglasses and a wig as needed.  Mothers of Lost Children t shirts will be provided. 

www.mothers-of-lost-children.com and 

https://www.facebook.com/mothersoflostchildren.org 

 

Lobby Day 

 

Monday, May 12 Lobby Day at the House of Representatives on Independence Ave. Lobbying information and training will be provided at the conference on Saturday May 10.

We are working on having another Congressional Briefing to bring the family court crisis to the attention of our national elected representatives. 

 

Here is a link to the previous October 2, 2013 Congressional briefing on Protecting Abused Children of Divorce and Separation

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awa_PALX-Ek&feature=em-upload_owner#action=share

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TN6VH2tzWks&feature=em-upload_owner

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ap8KDveHgA&feature=em-upload_owner

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4nKdi1phvQ&feature=em-upload_owner#action=share

 

The formal BMCC is skipping a year, so this is a mini BMCC.  There is no fee. We will collect cost to cover lunch costs when you get to the conference. We will need to make our own arrangements for lodging. The International Hostel and the William Penn House are centrally located and inexpensive hostels. Travelocity, Priceline and Cheaphotels have more information on places to stay near George Washington University.

 

10TH BATTERED WOMEN'S CUSTODY CONFERENCE IN WASHINGTON, D.C., SIGN UP NOW!

All Together Now!

The 10th Annual

Battered Mothers Custody Conference

BMCC XFriday, May 10^th and Saturday, May 11th, in Washington, DC at the

George Washington University Law School
www.batteredmotherscustodyconference.org

 

· --The BMCC X will run from Friday, 5/10 at 10 a.m. through Saturday, 5/11 at 4:30 p.m. All sessions will be held at the George Washington University Law School.

 

· --The conference will be followed on Sat. evening by LOBBYING TRAINING for those interested in learning how to lobby Congress on Monday, 5/13. 

 

· -- On Sunday, May 12^th (Mothers’ Day), the BMCC X will combine forces with the Mothers of Lost Children and other grassroots organizers in:

 
 

a MARCH AND DEMONSTRATION on Washington Interested in presenting a workshop at the BMCC X?
 

Workshop proposals are being accepted until March 15^th, 2013. Slots are limited; please submit as early as possible using the attached workshop proposal form.

Conference Fees

 

 

 Fees are set as low as possible to allow a wide audience to attend and to permit us to waive the registration fee for as many battered mothers as possible.
 

Early Bird fee (before April 1^st): $75

Full fee (after April 1^st): $95
 

 

Reduced/scholarship fee for unpaid/low salaried staff, advocates, etc.: $50
 

Battered mothers in current or past custody battles: $35
 

REGISTER ONLINE AT WWW.BATTEREDMOTHERSCUSTODYCONFERENCE.ORG

 

OR BY EMAIL to mhannah413@aol.com

USING THE FORM BELOW.
 

Name

Address

Email address

Phone #

Reason for requesting reduced-fee scholarship rate of $35

Conference Hotels

 

For a limited time only, rooms will be available at the special BMCC conference rate at the following DC-area hotels!

DoubleTree Hotel by Hilton

Washington DC - Crystal City

300 Army Navy Drive, Arlington, VA 22202 
800-447-4311

http://doubletree3.hilton.com/en/hotels/virginia/doubletree-by-hilton-hotel-washington-dc-crystal-city-DCAAEDT/index.html 

 

Ask for the 10^th Battered Mothers Custody Conference rate of $115/night! 

  

Cut off date special BMCC rate of $115/night is March 30^th – Reserve now!

Key Bridge Marriott Hotel

1401 Lee Highway

Arlington, Virginia 22209 USA 703-524-6400

http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/waskb-key-bridge-marriott/ 
    

Cut off date for special BMCC rate of $129 per night is

April 10^th – Reserve now!

Contact:

Dr. Mo Therese Hannah, Chair

BMCC X

Mhannah413@aol.com

518-210-2487

 

"LAWLESS AMERICA" EVENT IN WASHINGTON D.C. JANUARY 9-10, 2013: BE THERE!

Meet me in DC on January 9, 2013 to present Testimony to Congress from over 1,000 stars of Lawless America...The Movie

Tuesday, 13 November 2012 00:00

William M. Windsor

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Meet Me in DC. January 9-10, 2013. This is the ONLY official event for Lawless America in Washington, DC in January 2013.

 

We hope to have at least one constiutuent for every member of Congress to hand-deliver the 35+ hours of Congressional testimony filmed by Lawless America. There will be a visit to The Washington Post, a Phil Donahue-like presentation to invited members of Congress and the media, more filming for Lawless America...The Movie, and filming for "Love Letters to Our Children" (messages to children stolen from parents, grandparents, brothers and sisters, etc.).

 

RSVP by emailing Lawless411@gmail.com This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Please provide your name, address, phone, and the name of your member of the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate.

 

Bill Windsor has been traveling the United States to gather information about corruption within this country. He has filmed victims of government and judicial corruption in every state in a 173-day road trip. The movie has become a revolution...The Lawless America Revolution. Please join our efforts by attending this event in Washington, DC.

EVENTS

January 8, 2013 -- For those arriving on January 8, we will have a meeting room at the Crowne Plaza National Airport Hotel where folks may come to pick up their packages to be delivered to their members of the House and Senate. We will also have multiple rooms set up at this hotel to do additional filming for the movies.

 

January 9, 2013 - 10:00 am -- We will begin distributing envelopes to each member of Congress containing the DVD with the Congressional Testimony filmed by Lawless America in all 50 states. Each attendee is asked to make an appointment with the office of your Representative and Senator. Addiitonal filming will be done at the hotel throughout the day and evening.

 

January 9, 2013 -- afternoon and/or early evening -- We will conduct a Phil Donahue-style event in which the Lawless America Nobodies will be seated in an auditorium and invited members of Congress and the media will be seated on stage. We will deliver our presentation from the auditorium seats.

 

January 10, 2013 -- We will visit The Washington Post en masse to ask for an audience with the editor-in-chief if The Washington Post fails to provide coverage of the event. We may visit other media outlets as well. Addtional filming will be done at the hotel throughout the day and evening.

 

PLEASE NOTE that another group has been advertising that it is producing a Lawless America educational panel. That group is not assosiated with Lawless America.

FILMING for LAWLESS AMERICA...THE MOVIE and LOVE LETTERS TO THE CHILDREN

We will be filming for the movie throughout the Meet Me in DC event. There will be multiple camera crews at work.

Lawless America intends to film every victim in the country who wishes to be filmed. 

 

Simply email BeInTheMovie@LawlessAmerica.com This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it AND Lawless411@gmail.com This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it with your name, address, and phone. We will get you filmed! We will do this for as many years as it takes until we get our country back.

HOTELS

The Crowne Plaza National Airport Hotel will be the headquarters hotel. Slideshow of the hotel.

The Crowne Plaza National Airport Hotel is just across the 14th Street Bridge from DC and across Interstate from the Pentagon in the Crystal City portion of Arlington, Virginia. The hotel is a block from the Crystal City metro station. Only three stops and you are at the National Mall. The hotel offers complimentary wireless Internet service and complimentary shuttle service to National Airport.

Dates: January 8-11, 2013
Rooms: 125 king and 125 double bedded rooms
Rate: $89 Holiday Inn National Airport Hotels and $109 Crowne Plaza National Airport Hotel
Plus 10% tax
All American Hot Breakfast Buffet - $16 inclusive of tax and gratuity

For more information, see the link below:

http://www.lawlessamerica.com/

Cheryl Martone is interested in putting together a group from Connecticut.  For more information, contact her at: ctparent@gmail.com

For Cheryl's message, see below,

Dear Parents and Citizens of the USA,

We are going to Washington DC in Jan 2013

preferably the 6th or 7th for events happening

on or about the 9th to address Congress about

the corruption in our Judicial system.

Will join me as I'm in the planning stages

and will have a meeting very soon if you send to me

dates you are free in CT. and let you leaders of

'US Concerned Parents' support group and

Parents MOVEment when you are free.

Working on a corrupt free America.

Hoping you and your family Have a safe and

HAPPY THANKSGIVING DAY

LAWLESS AMERICA VISITS CT AS PART OF CORRUPTION DOCUMENTARY!

As many or some of you know, Bill Windsor is traveling across the United States working on a documentary about the corruption in this so called “great nation”.  Tomorrow, he will be arriving here to listen about the corruption in CT, from our corrupt judges, lawyers, state agencies, if there is corruption this man wants to know about it.  This event will be held at the following location:

Homewood Suites
338 Asylum Street
Hartford, CT  06103

For more information, see the following link:

http://www.corruptct.com/corrupt/lawless-america-visits-ct-as-part-of-corruption-documentary/

ANNOUNCING AN UPCOMING PMA BLOG RADIO TALK WITH DR. JOYANNA SILBERG

Call-in Number: (917) 889-3515 .
Upcoming Show: 4/12/2011 9:00 PM .Host Name: PMA
Show Name: Protective Mothers Alliance International Presents: Q and A with Dr Joyanna Silberg
Date / Length: 4/12/2011 9:00 PM - 2 hrs
Length: 2 hrs
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h:93819 s:1731747 BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND: Please join PMA Inl's executive director Janice Levinson along with co host attorney Tom Burton as they welcome special expert guest Dr. Joy Silberg for 2 hours of Q and A. Protective moms; now is your opportunity to get advice on your personal situation from the world's leading clinician and expert on traumatized children. Dr. Silberg is the Coordinator of Trauma Disorder Services for Children at Sheppard Pratt Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, and past president for the International Society for the Study of Dissociation. In addition to her role as a clinician, Dr. Silberg is an Associate Editor for The Journal of Trauma and Dissociation, and sits on the editorial board of the Journal of Trauma Practice. Dr. Silberg is the recipient of the Walter P. Klopfer Award, 1992, for outstanding research contribution and the Cornelia Wilbur Award, 1997, for clinical excellence. She is the editor of The Dissociative Child (Sidran Press, 1996/1998) and co-editor of the book Misinformation Concerning Child Sexual Abuse and Adult Survivors (Haworth Press, 2002). She has presented at 100s of professional conferences and conducts training workshops around the world on the treatment of traumatized and dissociative children. She has authored approximately 20 professional articles and books.

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/pma/2011/04/13/protective-mothers-alliance-international-presents-q-and-a-with-dr-joyanna-silberg

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