Family Court: A Conflict-Driven Revenue Business Model
A Lawless System that Destroys Families, Lives, and Dreams for Profit.
The Ugly Truth About Colorado Family Courts
Family courts in Colorado are supposed to protect children and promote fair resolutions—but the harsh truth is, they often do the opposite. Instead of helping families heal, family courts fuel conflict, drain finances, and leave emotional scars that can last a lifetime.
If you’re considering entering the family court system, think again. The system is adversarial, profit-driven, and broken beyond repair. And once you’re in, it’s nearly impossible to escape.
Because it only takes one to drag a family into a needless custody battle or expensive fight over the marital estate, most people don’t have a choice to stay out of family court.
The Core Problem: Power Without Accountability
Family court operates in the shadows of the justice system—full of unchecked power, vague rules, and no real consequences for misconduct.
- Broad Discretion: Judges can rule based on opinion and bias, not law or evidence. They can dismiss constitutional rights and ignore the law without fear of accountablity.
- Absolute Immunity: Judges can ignore evidence, violate due process, and abuse his or her power and still be protected by a judicial system that protects its own.
- Qualified Immunity for Others: GALs, CPS workers, lawyers, and evaluators are shielded from lawsuits—even when they lie, falsify records, mislead, or destroy lives.
It’s not a level playing field. It’s a rigged game where families lose and the system profits.
The Devastation of Family Court – It’s designed that way.
It goes against everything we were taught to believe about judges and courts. But once you enter family court, the truth becomes clear:
- More conflict = more money for attorneys, evaluators, and custody “experts”. Peace doesn’t pay.
- One false allegation can remove you from your child’s life overnight. NO evidence, NO proof, you’re presumed to be guilty.
- Outcomes are a crapshoot—if the judge doesn’t like the way you look, your lawyer, gender, or attitude, they can deny you a relationship with your child.
Courts don’t just fail to protect families—they actively make things much worse.
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Family Court Solutions (When You Can’t Avoid It)
The best solution is to avoid family court altogether. However, not everyone has that choice if their future ex is a pissed-off narcissist hell-bent on destroying them. For those going through the drill, as scary as it may be, your best option might be to represent yourself (pro se), find a lawyer who provides unbundled services, and leverage the power of AI. Pro se isn’t for everyone, but since lawyers can cost tens of thousands and often disappoint (that’s an understatement) with their results, doing it yourself will cost a fraction, giving you greater control over your case and potentially leading to better outcomes.
Pro se + AI + Support = Better Outcomes
Representing yourself takes courage, or sometimes you’ve run out of money, and you don’t have a choice. Whether or not your ex has a lawyer, going pro se can be a much better option.
- Find a lawyer who provides unbundled services. You’ll do the heavy lifting while they can guide and support you, and review your court papers.
- You can find plenty of excellent Pro se tools and support groups on Facebook and self help videos on YouTube. We have some suggestions below.
- Get comfortable and proficient with AI. It takes time, effort, and you can’t trust it completely but AI is an incredibly powerful tool that can even the playing field if your ex has a lawyer.
- Often, if your ex has a lawyer and you don’t, it will cost them a lot more money to keep harassing you in court.
Get Organized With SplitSmart
If you have kids and or money, one thing everyone who gets divorced must do is get organized. Most choose the easy way and do it on their own, but too many would rather spend tens of thousands and have lawyers do it for them.
For kids, it’s figuring out parenting plans, schedules, and sharing expenses. If you have money, it’s about listing all the assets and liabilities of your marital estate and transparently negotiating for who gets what.
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System Solutions
5 Easy Steps To Preserve Both Parent-Child Relationships
- Court triggers are any custody-related motion that is filed.
- Panel of 3 to determine: Motion Denied, Motion Accepted – No Safety Concern, Motion Accepted – Safety Concern Substantiated (within 3 days of filing)
- Panel of 3 to screen child safety and well-being concerns to determine: Both Parents Safe, Parent(s) Safe but Intervention Warranted, Parent(s) Temporarily Unsafe (screening < 5 days of motion acceptance, report < 3 days)
- Custody mediation – it’s about mandating transparency before, during, and after (required < 7 days of screening report)
- Court hearing – within 30 days after motion is accepted.
Data & Complaint Collection System
The unfortunate truth is that systems and system actors cannot be relied upon to uphold your rights, provide due process protections, or treat you with the dignity and respect you deserve. Because each actor has broad discretion with virtually no independent oversight to hold them accountable, systems and bad actors often cause much more harm than good.
That’s why we are developing the Data & Complaint Collection System (DCCS) to be an effective data collection, complaint aggregation, and AI/analytics tool to help reform advocates and legal partners hold systems and bad actors accountable to the people and families they serve.
This data isn’t just numbers—it’s the key to driving reform through litigation, legislation, and public awareness. It’s about protecting families, safeguarding rights, and demanding a system that truly serves justice. Watch this brief video to learn more.
Resources for Those Experiencing Family Court
If you are going through a high-conflict divorce or custody dispute, understand that it will be tough, but by staying calm, doing your research, and being smart, you got this! We know it’s scary but pro se can be the much better way to do.
The Ananias Foundation helps individuals who have committed acts of domestic violence or abuse to stop hurting the ones they love.
Provides professional, moral, and emotional support, as well as useful resources to veteran fathers involved in family court and child custody cases.
The Law Center videos strip away the mystery of the legal system and empower you to make confident, informed decisions for the best possible outcome.
A dad who won his child custody case and became his son's primary custodial parent, going public on the strategies he used and what he learned along the way so you can get up to speed quickly.
Dean Tong is nationally recognized as a leading expert when defending against false allegations of child sexual abuse.
