Missouri Bill set to reform guardian ad litem

This new bill has several things I like.

The lovely and talented Elaine Pudlowski is probably none too happy about this proposed law.

The slow march toward reforming the family court system- globally- has taken another baby step.

Recently, the Missouri legislature has proposed SB 359, which, “Modifies provisions relating to guardians ad litem,” according to the Missouri State Senate website.

Missouri is ground zero for corruption in family courts after the release of the notorious Zoom conference.

About thirty-two minutes in, the lovely and talented Sarah Pleban states, “this threatens to take down the entire system.”

Her words may be prescient. This bill- if passed- will help to reform the system she and her cohorts have profited from, even as kids are forced into abusive situation and kept away from good parents, by the reckless recommendations and orders of she and others.

I have been documenting the growing list of laws which are making their way through state legislatures throughout the country. {kayden’s Law, Greyson’s Law, Kyra’s Law, and others}

In Arizona, there was recently an attempt to mandate jury trials before parents lost their parental rights.

The US is not the only place where legislatures have taken up reforms: Keira’s Law recently passed a hurdle in Canada.

Two years ago, four-year-old Keira Kagan was found dead, along with her father in Milton following a lengthy custody battle between her parents.

Dr. Jennifer Kagan believes a court system failed her and her daughter Keira, “I was on the stand, I was describing the domestic violence, which they’re supposed to take into account, and the judge says domestic violence is not relevant to parenting, which is false.”

On Wednesday the Ontario legislature unanimously passed a motion to support a federal bill passed in the house of commons known as “Keira’s Law.” The legislation is aimed to ensure judges, justices of the peace, Crown attorneys, court assessors, social workers, and anyone who is a decision-maker in the family court system gets the needed education on intimate partner violence and coercive control.

Keira’s law mostly requires training, which I have repeatedly said is useless. Furthermore, it requires training in coercive control, a term I find as ridiculous as parental alienation.

Regardless, it still is a law attempting to reform the system. In England, following the campaign of The Daily Express night editor Liz Perkins, a package of laws also passed. Liz talked about this starting approximately thirty minutes in below.

Now, Missouri is getting into the act.