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Please warn Colorado parents about the “Early Neutral Assessment” role that has no checks and balances, no standardized training and no Chief Justice directive. Check with Parents United for Change.com or the Equal Parenting Coalition for more information if you have been court ordered to use the “Early Neutral Assessment” role.
“Early Neutral Assessment” is the latest attempt for those working in the Colorado divorce industry to con families in conflict out of tens of thousands of dollars. It is a new name for the same old same old. There is an Early Neutral Assessment YouTube “talking heads” video on this new name for the same old same old practices by the same old same old individuals.
The “talking heads” Early Neutral Assessment (ENA) video reminds one of a late night infomercial for the latest diet or exercise gimmick with claims to change your life and your body in a matter of days. But there is no data or research to substantiate their claims. It is definitely one of those “buyer beware” roles. Google Colorado Early Neutral Assessment to watch the video.
The Colorado legislature had heard story after story of what was happening to families and their children as a result of the lack of accountability and checks and balances for those who were being appointed to serve as a CFI or other family court helper roles. The legislators removed the mental health immunity for those serving as family court helpers in parenting time disputes. This is helping to restore accountability.
Colorado’s chief justice updated the Chief Justice Directive for the Child and Family Investigator(CFI) role, standardized CFI training, set financial limits on what could be charged for court appointed services, and established a complaint process for the CFI role. And it is working. Hence the need for those old timers working in Colorado divorce industry to create a new and groovy role that a family could be court ordered to use.
The 2013 session included legislation that does not allow the appointment of a parenting coordinator (PC) in abuse cases (HB13-1259). This is another role that was advocated for by the divorce industry and was legislated in 2005 and given civil immunity in 2009 by the legislature. There were promises of a Chief Justice directive that would establish accountability and checks and balances. This never happened. There are repeated parent complaints (both fathers and mothers) about those serving as court appointed PC’s.
One of the old timers in the “talking heads” YouTube Early Neutral Assessment video was providing presentations on the PC role before it was even legislated and promoting it as the greatest thing since sliced bread. I was reminded of it when I watched him in the “talking heads” infomercial for the Colorado Early Neutral Assessment role.
These family court helper court appointed roles and efforts have been aided by the enmeshed and codependent relationships those working in the divorce industry have established with Colorado magistrates and judges.
The most egregious example of the codependent and enmeshed relationships between the courts and the divorce industry happened when Jefferson County Magistrate Chris Voisenet allowed a court hearing for 18 contempt charges against Catherine Keske and shortly after the hearing began ordered her to be incarcerated WITHOUT work release. Catherine is a full time college professor and had no previous criminal history.
This happened shortly after Catherine had testified before the legislature advocating for more accountability in our family courts.
There was recently another jailing of a parent on what appeared to be bogus contempt charges in a family court case. Tax payer dollars are being wasted in an effort to keep an industry that has existed with no checks and balances and little or no oversight alive. An industry that has been subsidized by taxpayer dollars that are intended to fund our courts and prisons.
The Keske case had three different court appointed family court helpers who all generated reports (at a cost of thousands of dollars to the parents) and recommendations for the courts. The recommendations and reports were conflicting from report to report. But great amounts of money were generated for the divorce industry as a result of these reports.
These practices have failed to protected adult and child victims of abuse. There is no follow up or efforts to learn from these practices so the family court helper roles can be improved upon and refined so as to reduce state dollars being spent on our justice system and prison system and to reduce dollars spent by families.
The latest family court helper role attempts to continue the same old practices under a new name—the Early Neutral Assessment process.
Please protect your family and warn other Colorado parents about this role that has no checks and balances, no standardized training and no Chief Justice directive. Check with Parents United for Change.com or the Equal Parenting Coalition for more information if you have been court ordered to use the “Early Neutral Assessment” role.
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