Update #11: Through the Looking Glass Darkly
Like a trip through Lewis Caroll’s Looking Glass, the Family Court System of Hennepin County Minnesota is a very strange world all unto itself. That is one of the things we discovered again and again on our final round of interviews for NO WAY OUT BUT ONE conducted in Minnesota last week.
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Garland and I have just returned from an intense round of interviews where we spoke to a wide variety of people, from protective mom’s to trial witnesses. We tried to speak to the Judge, the Court appointed social worker, the father, the guardian ad litem and others in the Holly Collins case, but they all refused. Overlooking the shores of a peaceful lake, we interviewed attorney Connie Hope about what it was like for protective moms down in the trenches of the family court wars. She told us something that sadly we had heard before. She often advises her clients in the midst of a custody battle, not to raise the issue of domestic violence, even if there is credible supporting medical evidence. In the strange world of family courts, being a victim of domestic violence can somehow work against a mother’s chances of gaining custody of her children. As it did for Holly Collins. What we heard in Minnesota sadly comports what with we have found in the peer reviewed research about problems in the family court system. You can read a good sampling of that research on the NO WAY OUT BUT ONE web site under the “Issue” button.
Connie also told us that the FBI investigation of the Holly Collins case was extraordinarily intense and cast a chill over the community of those who are concerned about the issues of domestic violence and child abuse.
This trip and the long process of writing and editing the feature length version of NO WAY OUT BUT ONE has been made possible by the generous support of the donors you can see here on the Kickstarter site. Thank you all, from the bottom of our hearts.
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The film is produced by the husband and wife team of Garland Waller and Barry Nolan.
Garland Waller's first independent production was Small Justice: Little Justice in America's Family Courts. It was the first documentary to explore a national scandal: men who beat their wives and sexually abused their children could get custody in family courts. Small Justice won "Best Social Documentary" at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival.
Barry Nolan is an Emmy award winning reporter and producer who has spent three decades interviewing everyone from presidential candidates and power brokers, to killers and conmen. He has been on the scene to cover the major stories of our time, from the Oklahoma City Bombing to 9-11, from politics to pop culture, and from death row to the Red Carpets of Hollywood.
the family court system is designed not to have a check and balance system --one person
can be a crazy commissioner and has all the final say ---it is designed by lawyers for lawyers
it is corrupt as now instituted ---I have a system I would like to see used and it is a 3 person
system 1 person chosen each by both sides and a tie breaker drawn from a random drawing
and all persons would have to be not attorneys so that the system would work///bless Lynn
and also a review of all decisions by a 3 person impartial panel