I’m a university student and my mother is a litigant in person. I’m studying law and I have been helping my mother in the extravagent series of complicated court battles in her divorce with my father. When I compare what I am being taught in my law degree about what justice is and how the courts and judges should be dealing with cases, the contrast with reality is so stark I am literally left dumbfounded. Im both angry and hopeless. Why am I being taught that the court system is a certain way, when the family court system is a complete mess, a pit of injustice. The way they have treated my mother is appalling. They have torn her (and me) down so much. The idea of a judge is so far from how judges are in reality.
It’s harrowing to watch injustice unfold. The entire family court system is a shambles, from head to toe. The amount of corruption that has occurred so far is absurd to me I am actually unsure of where to start. It’s even down to my mother presenting herself well in court and being soft spoken as she naturally is, to the extent that the judge felt free to pretend she wasn’t in the room.
It’s a place that ignites and allows litigation abuse. I haven’t even really started on what I have seen and heard, but what I do know is that the system is destroying everything. I am so tired of it. I didn’t realise the system was this lazy, judgemental and patriarchal.
