Letters to the Editor
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Family court is not a court of law
"Thankfully, we are subject to the modern judicial system, which holds a man innocent until proven guilty. But Vallario seems to have an underlying distrust of that judicial process. That's a serious issue to take up with the criminal justice system -- not during a hearing on what seems a totally reasonable bill."
It's not at all a reasonable bill if it allows for abuse in Family Court. Family Court is a court of equity (or chancery), and not a court of law. Hearsay is admissible as evidence in family court, men can be imprisoned in the absence of evidence in family court hearings, there are no requirements for evidentiary due process in family court, and constitutional protections of unreasonable search and seizure are not available in family court either.
Given the laxity of protections and the almost limitless powers of discretion judges have in family court, it its entirely reasonable to express concerns about its abuse in family court.
Perhaps Ms. Clark-Flory, as a woman, and hence a member of a legally privileged population under family law, does not appreciate men's concerns about the potential for abuse in family court. The "judicial process" as she describes it is an alien process rarely encountered in family court which is a venue where parties are not subject to Constitutional protections but instead are at the mercy of judges who often have been trained by bigoted feminist groups whose main goal is to vilify men under the guise of protecting women. Men are human beings, too, Ms. Clark-Flory, human beings with civil rights in our country. That is a fact that often seems to escape many feminists.
A man accused of rape faces a potential sentence of decades in prison. A woman who falsely accuses a man of rape faces very little punishment, if any at all.
No wonder legislators are concerned by the potential for abuse of such a law.