Questions continue about public-paid lawyers in dependency court
It wasn't the string of court-appointed lawyers who won Kathie Elliott's children back from a foster home. It was the motion that Elliott was left to prepare and file on her own.
Note: See? Public Pretenders are System Sucks too!
One's only hope is to hire a private attorney or to reach out to University Law Clinics or other agencies established to fight for parents' rights. Most large cities have such clinics or agencies.
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The Law can work if it is used properly.
Legal aid solicitors are just as bad as the SS and Family court judges. My husband and i were told by our solicitors that if we didn't agree with what the 'professionals' said then we would not stand a chance of getting our baby back as the judge 'always agrees with the doctors'. Might i add this was before the judge had heard what the docs had to say - what does that show when the solicitor say the judge will agree with the docs?? no matter what they say?. We have no legal knowledge and we stupidly put our trust in these people and very reluctantly agreed with the doctors - even though at the same time we said to our solicitor we didn't really agree - they ignored that and just submitted to the court that we agreed. Surely it was better to have some chance of fighting for our daughter than none at all, which is what we were lead to believe weather that was the truth or not. When it came to our 'finding of fact hearing' we didn't even stand a chance of putting our side across, we had been tricked , because we had agreed with the doctors the judge was just saying which one of you did it? the doctor say it must have happened at this time and only you two were there - which one??? but when we had originally agreed with the doctor they had stated different timings - nov - when she was dropped (and given medical attention) and jan when she wasn't in our care (given medical attention as soon as we realised something was wrong) but now because the docs had changed their minds and we were not allowed to change our agreement with the doctors we were backed into a corner and we subsiquently lost our daughter. Might i add as well we weren't allowed vital witnesses, video or photographic evidence which would have helped our case. We were rushed with witnesses questioning, severely restricted on time and not allowed to appeal even though the whole thing was unfair and a sham. THIS IS A MODERN DAY WITCH HUNT!!!!
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