From the San Diego Union Tribune, June 13, 2000

Subject: Thank You Vista, CA Court

I would like to Thank the Vista, CA Family Court for everything it has done for me:

Thank you for giving me the opportunity to get a second job so I can pay my kids living expenses when my ex-husband has in the past proven his ability to have better employment.

Thank you for acting like you cared when I was trying to explain that my ex-husband was violating the court orders.

Thank you for taking child support away when our son is going to visit his father for a month.

Thank you for making me feel bad that I have to keep coming back to court to settle things because my ex-husband makes it difficult to work things out and hasn't and won't pay the court ordered amounts.

Thank you for telling my ex-husband and I that we look like reasonable people and we could work this out. When he owes $11,000.00 in arrears and I have to ask the court to order him to pay for the uncovered medical and dental for our kids which is not covered on my insurance.(This has been in the divorce since the beginning.)

Thank you for teaching me that our system is not for the good honest people, it's for the people that know how to work the system to their advantage.

Thank you for letting me come to court 11 times since 1992 and nothing has changed. Arrears keep going up, and my ex-husband still doesn't pay what the court has ordered.

There are so many other things I would like to thank them for but it is too long to list.

Thank you,
Kelly
Ramona, Calif.

Since writing that letter, Kelly has been to court twice more. No changes.

How many women will be killed by their Intimate Partners and kids killed by their parents before media assigns a beat reporter to family court?

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