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NPO: Betrayal on Custody Reform in Massachusetts - Urgent Action
Submitted by Matt on Thu, 2016-03-17 18:09
Article here. Excerpt:
'The Massachusetts Bar Association, the Boston Bar Association, and the Women’s Bar Association, together with a couple of influential Senators on the Judiciary Committee, have succeeded in gutting the proposed reforms of custody law that were fought out over two years ago by Governor Patrick’s Working Group.
As a result, National Parents Organization must do a U-turn and oppose the passage of S834, also known as H1207. You MUST call your Senators and Representatives today or tomorrow to urge them to amend or defeat this bill, since I do not think it is likely that we can get it changed enough in the committees it must go through before it gets to the floor of the House and of the Senate.
In a classic double-cross, three representatives of bar associations who served on the Working Group pretended to support the bill when we finished our 18 months of work and sent it to Governor Patrick. Then, once the bill got into the Judiciary Committee, they went behind closed doors to do their bloody work.'
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The Bar has done this in Florida too.
Now that reform for alimony and shared parenting has passed the legislature in Florida, the bar has gone into high gear to get the governor to veto the bill. This is their strategy, act like they want to help with reform, but then when something that might affect their bottom line, they fight it.