Saturday, May 11, 2013

Do Courts Favor Moms?


When Allan Karr of Orange County, Calif., married his pregnant girlfriend, he thought he was doing the right thing for the child. 

Later his wife was brought up on charges in a rape case she had started against six men. According to authorities, she received less than a year of jail time and agreed to pay more than $1,800 to the state crime fund for victims as part of a plea agreeement in the case.


The couple eventually split, and he has continued to battle to keep his son in his life.

In Karr’s case, marrying his girlfriend may have been the exact wrong thing to do.  Being married to the mother does not necessarily help a man in court, says Mel Feit, the director of the National Center for Men (http://www.nationalcenterformen.org), a men’s rights group based in Michigan that believes there are challenges to being both a married and unmarried man going before family court. “Each circumstance brings a different set of problems,” Feit says.  



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