The rise of a ‘dangerous’ ideology among parents is causing havoc in custody disputes

During the pandemic, Alia’s* former partner started sending “long-winded rants” via text message. Covid-19 wasn’t real. Stay-at-home rules were unlawful, he told her, and he took their children to anti-lockdown protests. He started to share what she later realised were “sovereign citizen” or pseudolaw ideas.

“He wouldn’t follow anything that the government was saying because ‘it’s not a genuine law, it’s illegal, it’s treason, and it’s all a scam that’s designed to try to bring in the new world order’,” she said.

As the virus spread, they were in the midst of proceedings in the family court over child custody. Alia said she tried to raise his behaviour with the court and other authorities, but felt like it wasn’t taken seriously.

“It was brushed off as, ‘people have different beliefs and people have different political leanings’,” she said. “I felt like I couldn’t clearly get across that this was going so much deeper than a different political leaning. That this was potentially putting the kids at risk.”

The impact of sovereign citizen pseudolaw movements – where adherents use “legal argumentation” that has no legal basis, often predicated on a belief in the illegality of or corruption of government – are having a serious impact on the family court.

In 2024, Guardian Australia has tracked almost a dozen family court judgments where these kinds of arguments had an impact on proceedings.

“It’s really an emerging area in the family law jurisdiction that needs to be addressed seriously … given what’s at stake with children involved in these cases,” said Dr Georgina Dimopoulos, an associate professor of law at Southern Cross University.

The issue is also affecting criminal cases involving children. At least two women have been convicted this year of offences related to unlawfully removing children in cases linked to sovereign citizen groups or pseudolaw ideas.

Terrorisme global, Poutine défie l’OTAN, Anne de Kiev a déserté

par Xavier Moreau

00:00 – Géopolitique profonde

Livres de Noël
Ce qui m’a plu cette semaine :
Le Figaro
Youssef Hindi et Jeffrey Sachs
Entretien Asselineau – Touati

Ukraine : chantage au gaz
Cours du rouble
Chômage des jeunes en Russie

Relation israélo-russe
Poutine et la Syrie
Élections en Allemagne

Assassinat d’Igor Kirillov
LCI : La chaine terroriste
Colonel Goya : Gamelin terroriste

Poutine défie l’OTAN technologiquement
Kalinka vs Starlink

Belooussov vs OTAN
Pertes ukrainiennes (chiffres russes)
Houthis vs Washington & Tel Aviv
Anne de Kiev a déserté
Nouvelle offensive otano-kiévienne

source : Stratpol

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