The Double Standard No One Wants to Admit: Why Family Courts Protect a Child’s “Lifestyle” But Not Their Relationship With a Parent. For decades, family courts have justified massive child-support orders with a single argument: “A child should not experience two different standards of living when their parents separate.” It sounds noble. It sounds protective. And financially, courts enforce it with an iron fist. But here’s the uncomfortable truth: Family courts fiercely prote

If you’ve ever felt like your family court case reads more like a small-town soap opera than a legal proceeding, you’re not imagining it. Family court isn’t just a system, it’s a network, and that network protects itself. Welcome to Conflict Soup: Family Court Style, where everyone knows everyone else, everyone owes someone else, and your child is just the garnish floating on top. Let’s break down one of the most common, and most corrupt, patterns we see across the country.

SECTION 1. TITLE This act shall be known and may be cited as the “South Carolina Family Preservation & Integrity Act.” SECTION 2. LEGISLATIVE FINDINGS AND INTENT (A) The General Assembly finds that: The right of parents to the care, custody, and companionship of their children is a fundamental liberty interest protected by the United States Constitution and the Constitution of the State of South Carolina. Decades of court practices have resulted in inconsistent application of

When “family” court “professionals” defend cutting a child off from a parent, they almost always claim it’s for “protection.” They say the child is “safer” without contact, or that the parent is “too harmful” to be in their life. But here’s the truth: if it were really about safety, the child would still have access to the safe parts of that parent’s world, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, siblings, and family friends. When a child is denied all of those relationships, t