Atheist Mom Forced Into Court-Ordered Christian Counseling

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182. Courts do NOT take phone calls, they want a written petition.

And they want it served on any other litigate, then they will schedule a hearing. At the hearing they will accept a change of counselors.

I suspect this woman's lawyer told her that, but she did NOT want to wait for the hearing. Calling the Judge is NOT going to get you anywhere. The court system does NOT work that way. This woman did not want to work with the court system but wanted it her way and the Judge told her, to follow the rules. i.e file a petition, give a copy to the other side and wait for a hearing date OR due the counseling already scheduled and get it over with.

The courts will accept an alternative, get the other side to agree and present the Judge with a petition all sides agree to, and the Judge will sign it without a hearing. You can NOT do that by a Phone call.

Judges want to make decisions ONLY after hearing all sides and you can NOT do that in a phone call. She did NOT want to wait for a hearing where all sides would be present and she did not want to continue the counseling. She had to choose one or the other but instead she just refused to go. The Counselor report that lack of attendance, the Judge then scheduled a hearing, and gave all sides notice of the hearing and at the hearing the Judge told her either file a petition for modification of the existing order OR go to the already agreed to sessions AND until she did one or the other, the father ended up with the children, for he looks like he was obeying Court Orders.

That appears to be what happened in this case, this woman did not want to follow what the Court had ordered and did not want to wait to get another counselor. Sorry, she made this mess and it is up to her to correct it. She has the right to complain but her complaints sound like someone upset about being force to do what she did not want to do, but refused to do offer any alternatives. She wanted the JUDGE to set another counselor and the Judge told her that is up to her to do. She did not want to hear that and is complaining about it.