Divorce, DV, Custody & Visitation My experience with this court has left me deeply concerned about judicial bias, access to justice, domestic-violence protections, and the way divorce, custody, visitation, and DVO proceedings have been handled together. I was a stay-at-home mother when my marriage ended. After leaving an abusive situation, I became homeless and lived in domestic-violence shelters. Despite my circumstances, I did not receive temporary spousal support. I was left trying to survive financially while also attempting to participate in divorce and custody proceedings without stable housing, transportation, or consistent access to counsel. At the same time, my children were removed from my care following allegations that I dispute. I experienced what I understand as a “silver bullet” dynamic in which the domestic-violence situation and allegations against me ultimately resulted in my children being separated from me, rather than the circumstances of the abuse being fully considered in determining who needed protection. I went approximately four months without my children. Before that, I had been exercising significant parenting time—approximately four days out of seven. That was reduced to one-hour supervised visits and later two-hour visits in public. I have complied with requested services and testing and repeatedly asked what specific steps are required for reunification. I still do not have a clear answer as to what I did that resulted in this level of separation or what measurable steps will lead to restoration of meaningful parenting time. I have also been required to travel substantial distances for very short visits despite significant transportation barriers. After one transportation failure, I walked approximately 10 miles. I was recently told, in substance, that I should want to go places and drive with my children and that reunification appeared likely to take longer than expected. I desperately want meaningful time with my children. My concern is that transportation difficulties and evidence of physical violence are being treated as a reflection of my parenting rather than as a barrier that the court and Cabinet could help address. The financial side of the divorce has also been extremely difficult. My DV-funded attorney had limited hours, completed a response to the divorce, but did not pursue a motion to compel financial disclosures. I was subsequently left without representation. She was on opposing counsels side it appeared that she did not represent me by doing collaborative divorce - zero response or financial disclosures needed a motion to compel then she sent me a settlement by my husbands lawyer essentially it was an admission he’s keeping everything, got a new car, placed all debt on me, and admits he has over $18,000 K but it’s his. $184,000 in our marital assets but I’ve been left with nothing seems odd. I remain concerned about unresolved marital financial issues and the preservation of marital assets. I also lost access to a substantial amount of my personal property. Property worth more than $25,000 remains at the marital residence, along with belongings I owned before the marriage and items of significant personal value. I have been unable to retrieve it safely. Counsel discussed arranging a date and time for retrieval, but I never received an approved date and time. From November 2025 through October 2026, I have essentially been left with a laundry bin of clothing while my other belongings remain behind the farm gate at the marital home. During one period, my phone service was disconnected because I could not afford the payment. I missed a call from my attorney during that period, and an agreement was subsequently entered while I was unable to communicate. I did not feel that I had a meaningful opportunity to understand or participate in what was being agreed to. Petrie said I need a cheaper phone plan and due to the bill being unpaid rather than a temporary plan to have my husband pay - is why I missed a call. Taken together, these experiences have left me with the strong impression that the court has been more protective of the status quo and the parent who retained physical control of the children and marital home than of the parent who left an abusive situation and became financially and physically vulnerable. I understand that the judge has to make decisions based on the evidence and that there are two sides to family-law proceedings. My concern is not simply that I received rulings I disliked. It is the cumulative effect of decisions and omissions: no temporary spousal support while I was a displaced stay-at-home mother, prolonged separation from my children, extremely limited visitation without a clear reunification pathway, unresolved access to my property, and the loss of meaningful legal representation while the divorce continued. I believe family courts need to be especially careful when domestic violence, custody, housing instability, financial dependence, and divorce are occurring simultaneously. A protective parent should not become disadvantaged simply because leaving an abusive relationship caused them to lose housing, transportation, financial stability, and access to their children. I hope this app provides a way for litigants to document these experiences and encourages greater transparency, meaningful consideration of domestic violence dynamics, protection for unrepresented litigants, clear reunification standards, and equitable treatment of financially vulnerable parents. Civil rights violations, marital fraud, police friends with husband and horse industry power and control dynamics as well as attorneys are friends not representatives of domestic violence victims. I have heard he has food and bad days - sometimes fair, other times not fair. They should consider a private attorney being paid on one side as dissipation of assets - I rather spend money on our kids not $10,000-$100,000 on family law it’s stupid what people spend on this and if I had a million dollars I’d have Christine represent me!