Make Colorado Monitor the Special Advocates that are Hurting Our Children

Colorado Courts are enforcing a 50/50 parenting plan and not a primary parent plan which is leaving high conflict divorces at dangerous levels. This type of parenting schedule allows more room for children to be placed in the middle of this high conflict and is severely hurting their growth and health.
Colorado courts are also enforcing Parenting Coordinators/Decision Makers to your case. Most Parenting Coordinators/ Decision Maker are only interested in your money and are rarely monitored. For example my PC/DM wanted to go on vacation. She called us in for a meeting in her office and charged an expensive office fee. In this meeting nothing was accomplished and the matters were then attempted to be resolved via email. Due to the high conflict situation of our case many emails were required for any resolution which resulted in a very extreme email fee by the PC/DM. When an issue is finally resolved our PC/DM will write a formal letter for both parents and will again result in another fee. You must regularly monitor your PC/DM billing as most fees will change with no notice. A PC/DM will most likely show favoritism to one parent which and will show bias to the other parent. For example our PC/DM will tell me I may have a certain date with my son but will later say you are required to email the other parent and give them three options of time to trade. The other parent will (usually last minute) protest the whole exchange and claim they had plans leaving the child and other parent no recourse. Even though this event is a once in a life time and the other parents takes place every year the PC/DM won't enforce the trade. However if the same situation arises with the other parent with favoritism they will receive the time with no question and you are left with no options. The PC/DM's are also grouping cases as a whole not using any individual case management. I have asked our PC/DM how to stop the abuse and we were told the courts will never change unless we move, however the Colorado court systems are strongly against relocation even in-state. 

A Child Family Investigator will allow children to stay with unsafe parents citing the child is not showing signs of problems and the two parents live close enough to maintain a 50/50 schedule. On my case they performed all the testing and found that the father was narcissistic and could explode at any moment. It was also found that he had substance abuse issues which have even lead to a DWI. The investigator reported the father would not get any help if he were asked to. Despite this alarming report the investigator still does not want to disrupt things because the child isn't having too many issues. Also with proven evidence that did not meet the measures that the CFI investigator needed allowing more to prove that the test results were actuate no further actions were taken. But with other data that was placed on the table the investigator made a command decision to remove a grandparent from the child's life with no investigation on the incident. Even though both parties had since birth of child allowed visits and overnights with the grandparent. The accusations were a plow to hurt the mother only. I have been told by another CFI investigator that in Colorado Springs area that the %u201Creal%u201D way this system works is the parent with the most money gets the children. 
We need to have Colorado Law Makers to require that all cases with Special Advocates be monitored and fees need to be mandatory sliding scales and regulated with 30 days notice before fees can be changed. 

Colorado Courts are enforcing a 50/50 parenting plan and not a primary parent plan which is leaving high conflict divorces at dangerous levels. This type of parenting schedule allows more room for children to be placed in the middle of this high conflict and is severely hurting their growth and health.
Colorado courts are also enforcing Parenting Coordinators/Decision Makers to your case. Most Parenting Coordinators/ Decision Maker are only interested in your money and are rarely monitored. For example my PC/DM wanted to go on vacation. She called us in for a meeting in her office and charged an expensive office fee. In this meeting nothing was accomplished and the matters were then attempted to be resolved via email. Due to the high conflict situation of our case many emails were required for any resolution which resulted in a very extreme email fee by the PC/DM. When an issue is finally resolved our PC/DM will write a formal letter for both parents and will again result in another fee. You must regularly monitor your PC/DM billing as most fees will change with no notice. A PC/DM will most likely show favoritism to one parent which and will show bias to the other parent. For example our PC/DM will tell me I may have a certain date with my son but will later say you are required to email the other parent and give them three options of time to trade. The other parent will (usually last minute) protest the whole exchange and claim they had plans leaving the child and other parent no recourse. Even though this event is a once in a life time and the other parents takes place every year the PC/DM won't enforce the trade. However if the same situation arises with the other parent with favoritism they will receive the time with no question and you are left with no options. The PC/DM's are also grouping cases as a whole not using any individual case management. I have asked our PC/DM how to stop the abuse and we were told the courts will never change unless we move, however the Colorado court systems are strongly against relocation even in-state. 

A Child Family Investigator will allow children to stay with unsafe parents citing the child is not showing signs of problems and the two parents live close enough to maintain a 50/50 schedule. On my case they performed all the testing and found that the father was narcissistic and could explode at any moment. It was also found that he had substance abuse issues which have even lead to a DWI. The investigator reported the father would not get any help if he were asked to. Despite this alarming report the investigator still does not want to disrupt things because the child isn't having too many issues. Also with proven evidence that did not meet the measures that the CFI investigator needed allowing more to prove that the test results were actuate no further actions were taken. But with other data that was placed on the table the investigator made a command decision to remove a grandparent from the child's life with no investigation on the incident. Even though both parties had since birth of child allowed visits and overnights with the grandparent. The accusations were a plow to hurt the mother only. I have been told by another CFI investigator that in Colorado Springs area that the %u201Creal%u201D way this system works is the parent with the most money gets the children. 
We need to have Colorado Law Makers to require that all cases with Special Advocates be monitored and fees need to be mandatory sliding scales and regulated with 30 days notice before fees can be changed. 

Dear Bill Ritter, Barbara O'brien, & Law Makers

We are currently undersigned but are looking for help to Save our Children. Children of divorced families do need both parents in their lives whenever possible. Much research proves the benefit of this. However, forcing this idea to the fullest measures isn't always in the best interest of the child especially when working with high conflict divorce cases. Currently Colorado courts and professionals support a 50/50 schedule most times to the detriment of the child. Closer examination needs to be made to determine a truly healthy environment for the child. Which leads to our Special Advocates and the needs that need to be looked at closer involving their jobs. As noted in many forms of research, Special Advocates are not usually needed and are often not even monitored. Monitoring of these individuals on a monthly to bi-monthly basis and standards need to be set at a minimum. Our children are being forced to live in unhealthy and sometimes even dangerous environments under their guide and are often placed in the middle of very painful situations. The Special Advocates charge extreme fees and claim there is nothing they can do to help and state that it is all up to the courts which only charge more high fees. We need to have Colorado Law Makers to require that all cases with Special Advocates be monitored and fees need to be mandatory sliding scales and regulated with 30 days notice before fees can be changed. Please look at the current divorce/custody situation and know our children are in danger. This has to stop. Thank you so much for taking the time to read this letter.