DEATH OF FATHER

CANADA COURT watch REPORT
Published by the Canadian Citizen’s Free Press - By the Citizens and for the Citizens of Canada
Selected editions posted electronically at: http://www.sharedparenting.com

Canada’s broken family court system drives another loving father TO HIS DEATH
The unjust family court system took away my father forever, cries distraught 14-year-old girl.

VANCOUVER COURT WATCH

A 14-year-old girl, Ashlee Barnett-White, from Saskatchewan, has come out fighting against Canada’s broken family court system.  She has a very good reason to do so.

On March 17, 2000, the body of her dear father, Darrin Bruce White, was found in a forest behind the University of BC campus, where, in anguish, he had taken his life.

Shortly before his death he had been kicked out of his home and away from the children of his second marriage by a vindictive and controlling wife with the blessing and support of the local family court.

Mr. White had been scheduled to appear in court March 22, 2000, to face yet more false allegations against him, brought on by his estranged wife, Maddy White, who was doing everything she could do to destroy him financially and emotionally.

Before his death, the family court in Prince George, BC had ordered the father, on Feb. 21, 2000, to pay $2070 a month in spousal and child support when he was only earning $2200 per month in income at the time.

The mother who was a professional herself chose not to work.  Yet in light of the financial circumstances, court placed no expectation on her to even have to work to contribute to the kids as well.

The misguided judge responsible for this decision was Judge Baker, of the B.C. Family Court.  One observer said that the father never had a chance in court.  The judge ignored Mr. White’s pleadings and in turn accepted all that the vindictive mother had to say.  A professor with the University of BC, who was involved with the case noted that it was as if the father’s fate was determined before he even walked into the court and that it was only a formality by the mother’s lawyer and the judge to seal this father’s fate when he appeared before the court.

It was just like a typical day in so many Canadian Family Courts where the mothers automatically win and dads automatically lose.

On top of losing everything, Mr. White was ordered to pay for all the costs of the court.

The decision of the judge forced the father out of his home and into the streets and into a position where he did not even have enough money to live on, certainly in no position to even be able to get lawyer.

The judge did not even take into consideration the child support he was currently paying for his oldest daughter Ashlee. It seemed that the judge did not care about the fact that the children were being treated equally or whether the father was left with enough money to live on.

The judge seemed only sympathetic to the mother’s demands to destroy her former husband.

In addition, this disadvantaged father was being denied meaningful access to his children by the mother.

 The father’s support was enforceable but his access to his children was not.   This is reflective, of course, of the court’s position that mom’s wishes for power and money take priority over the best interest of children

Yet, in spite of the fact that this father had never abused his children, the court granted the mother the absolute power to abuse them by denying them meaningful access to their father.

Basically, the family court was the tool used by this  vindictive and controlling mother to get her revenge against a good loving father.

This court, like so many of the other family courts in Canada, has failed to deliver justice, fairness and equality.

The court failed miserably in its mandate to protect the best interest of this man’s five children.

Where once the children had a loving and caring father in their lives, they now have none.

14-year-old Ashlee said that she was totally disenchanted and ashamed of the justice system.  She said that the system failed her as well as all of the other children.

Ashlee said that her father was “a good man who only wanted the best for his four children”

She went on to say that her father was an abused husband and that his wife was a very vindictive and controlling woman.

Even after he passed away, his wife was refusing to talk to the eldest daughter.   Ashlee indicated that her step mother had blocked all the phone numbers from members of the father’s family, including herself.

Ashlee said that she was unable to even make contact with her half brothers and sisters.

Although Maddy had filed court documents prior to her husband’s death wanted nothing to do with him, after his death she took control of his body so that she could have it immediately cremated before members of the father’s family had a chance to arrange a proper funeral.  Before his death she wanted nothing to do with him but now that he’s dead, she wants everything to do with him.

Mr. White’s father and other relatives were forced to hire a lawyer, at further expense, in a bid to stop the woman from destroying the body before the family even got a chance to say good-bye to their loved one.

Members of the father’s family indicated that they believe that Maddy may now be able to financially benefit from her husband’s death and that she wanted to legal control of his body so that she could reap the maximum financial benefit.

It was believed that Maddy had taken out life insurance on her former husband and was now eagerly jumping at the chance to cash in.

To many observers, having the body cremated as quickly as possible, was just the woman’s final act of vengeance against her former spouse and his family.

As for young Ashlee, she has said that she is now joining the ranks of Canadians fighting to bring change to Canada’s broken justice system. “ I will not let my father’s death be in vain,” she vowed.

PLEASE HELP STOP ABUSE

OF OUR CHILDREN & FAMILIES

Most of us know of someone in our community whose family has been ravaged by our Family Court system.  False allegations, lies, deceptions, and poor decisions by judges are destroying the children of divorce, who are stuck in the middle.   Please copy this report and pass it on to as many of your friends, neighbours, relatives and co-workers as possible.  It is only through awareness in our community of knowing the truth about how our family court system is destroying our families that the destruction of our families will be stopped.  Call, write and fax your member of Provincial Parliament and demand that he or she support government initiatives to take family matters out of the adversarial court system.