Concerned Taxpayer and Parent writes:
What kind of family law attorney, or for that matter, family law firm or father would advocate that a custodial parent be jailed for 90 days? Did the order allow for work release? What kind of magistrate or judge would see that as being in a child or children's best interest, or a family's best interest emotionally or economically?And how much is the jailing of a parent and the court time to address the types of matters for the circumstances listed above costing us as tax payers? Maybe someone from Jefferson County can share that information with us.
This is certainly an area Governor Hickenlooper could look into as a way of saving tax payer dollars. How many tax payer dollars have been spent to support attorneys and firms like the one mentioned above as well as the CFI's who were basically unmonitored for years? And have failed to demonstrate their effectiveness. THREE CFI's and the case has come down to a Magistrate who wants to jail a custodial parent for 90 days.
Do Jefferson County Courts need an overhaul? Is there a little too much codepenence among family law attorney's, CFI's and judges and magistrates? And is this codependence placing an undue burden on the taxpayers of Colorado as well as families?
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