AFCC Cash Grab: How Lawyers and Parenting Coordinators Rig Custody Cases
The “collaboration” between attorneys and parenting coordinators ensures endless litigation—and endless profits.
NOTE: This piece first appeared on TheFamilyCourtCircus.com.
Elena Belogolovsky is a mom turned journalist on a mission to expose corruption, fraud, and abuse in family court.
By Elena Belogolovsky
The Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC) is once again prioritizing lawyers’ financial gain over parents’ rights and children’s well-being. Their latest move—”Collaboration Between Attorneys and Parenting Coordinators in Custody Cases”—is yet another step toward undermining due process and expanding the influence of unelected, unaccountable professionals in family disputes. It’s nothing but an “AFCC Cash Grab.”
AFCC Cash Grab: Why This Is Unethical
🔹 Conflicts of Interest – AFCC members—attorneys, judges, custody evaluators, and parenting coordinators—profit from prolonged custody battles. This “collaboration” isn’t about helping families; it’s about ensuring they profit from them.
🔹 Erosion of Due Process – Parenting coordinators (PCs) are often granted unchecked decision-making power. Giving them a closer relationship with attorneys only increases bias and backroom deals, leaving parents even more powerless.
🔹 Weaponizing Custody Battles – PCs aren’t neutral. Many have financial incentives to prolong disputes, issue biased reports, and drain parents financially. When attorneys and PCs team up, the system becomes even more rigged against parents.
🔹 AFCC’s Track Record of Exploiting Families – The same group that promoted junk science like “parental alienation syndrome” and enabled court-appointed professionals to keep families trapped in litigation is now pushing for even more power over parents and children.
A Real Solution for Family Court Reform: Jury Trials, Accountability & Ending Corruption
The AFCC’s unethical collaboration continues to exploit families, prioritizing profit over justice. It’s time for real reform that puts power back in the hands of the parents, not judges and unelected, unaccountable lawyers and court-appointed professionals.
AFCC Cash Grab: What Needs to Change?
🔹 Jury Trials Instead of Bench Trials – Family court judges hold unchecked power, making life-altering custody and divorce decisions without oversight. Juries, made up of unbiased citizens, would reduce corruption, favoritism, and backroom deals while ensuring decisions are based on facts and due process.
🔹 Hold Judges Accountable & Remove Their Immunity – Judges have absolute immunity and are not responsible for their decisions, even when they violate parental rights or due process. This unchecked power allows them to make harmful, biased rulings with no consequences. Jury trials would restore accountability by ensuring judges cannot single-handedly determine custody outcomes. Parents should also have the right to sue judges who violate due process, show bias, or ignore evidence.
🔹 Ban Custody Evaluators, Parenting Coordinators, and GALs – These court-appointed professionals operate without oversight, lack accountability, and have financial incentives to extend custody battles. No more third-party interference—custody decisions must be based on facts, parental rights, and due process, not the profits of court insiders. The family court system should serve families, not enrich lawyers and court-appointed professionals at their expense.
🔹 Enforce Due Process for Parents – Every parent deserves a fair trial before losing custody of their child. Judges should not be allowed to rubber-stamp decisions without evidence, hearings, or parental input.
🔹 End Judicial Overreach – Family courts have become too powerful, making rulings without proper oversight. Jury trials restore fairness, limit judicial corruption, and ensure decisions reflect constitutional rights.
⚖️ The Bottom Line
Right now, judges have total immunity and no accountability, allowing them to make life-changing decisions without consequences. The AFCC’s corrupt system is set up to benefit attorneys, judges, and court insiders—not families.
Jury trials would restore fairness, prevent corruption, and ensure no single judge has unchecked power over families.
It’s time for real family court reform.
Exposing the Corrupt Family Court System: The Wall of Shame
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You have hit this spot on. The only thing missing is the conflict of interest and structural incentive to judges to prolong litigation.
Yup. The good old AFCC. I had an AFCC gal. No option. She forced a AFCC psychologist. They were in business prior from the Connecticut divorce collaborative. Well oiled machine. As long as you keep paying. These people have the racket down to a science.