“You can fool some of the people all the time,and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.” 

The family division is the court to address "domestic violence" in the home and I had more than sufficient evidence of "domestic violence" when I filed the PFA that initiated our family case however mine and my children's credibility were immediately called into question and we were treated with overt skepticism. This is a result of the culture of family courts across this country that are in the habit, for profit, of minimizing and re-victimizing victims of domestic violence. This barbaric practice must end by removing the jurisdiction of domestic violence from the family divisions to the criminal divisions. This will send a message that will eventually take root that assault of a family member is a crime. This approach will also eliminate the possibility of using child support or spousal support as a bargaining chip to get away with these crimes. By holding food and shelter over the heads of victims, abusers can continually get away with these crimes with the cooperation of the family courts. There should be no financial component or possible punishment to victims of violence when considering the consequences for a crime. 

These issues should be decided in the criminal division first and then the family division can not use the economic power to influence the outcome of the case... 

Violence in the home to a child or spouse is not a "custody conflict" or a "high conflict" divorce. Violence to anyone, the last time I checked the criminal code, is a crime that should be a factor in determining the safety issue in allowing child victims of violence to spend unsupervised time with the perpetrators of these crimes. This is the basis for my argument. All violence should be addressed in the criminal divisions across the United States and should not be minimized in families by family courts. 

Just as MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) have worked hard to stop drunk driving by making laws stiffer that address all of the deaths in this country as a result of driving drunk, so must we eradicate violence from our homes and neighborhoods with a no tolerance policy that does not change the status or criteria to determine the crime of assault depending on who the victim may be.  

As I have heard family law firms advertising on radio, TV and internet their services to men only, involved in “high conflict” divorces in Allegheny County PA, I fear they are advertising their services to cases involving abuse of victim families. This county is a "hotbed" for this type of representation that has shown favorable outcomes for criminal abusers in case after case in the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas Family Division. As you read through the pages of this site, I hope that you, the savvy reader, will understand and interpret these services the way that I have come to understand them from my own experience through the Allegheny County Family Division. 

I have tried to set this site up in chronological order but I believe some of the most important pages address Reunification Therapy, Custody Evaluations, the PA Superior Court, CYFS and Highmark Insurance. All of the pages will explain the savagery of this forced process and what can and does happen in many of these cases to the victim families. I have singled out these pages because they are serious issues that I believe will affect the largest number of people going through this process. Still, each page is important to give the reader the big picture of how you will be treated and how your children will be affected by this horrific experience. 

In the realm of custody alone, our case saw the largest number of "payees" for several custody hearings that were held on the following dates: 2-27-02, 5-2-2002, 6-2-2004, 6-24-04, and 8-10-05 and numerous other custody conciliations and motions that were filed to terrorize and legally harass the victims. All of these payees and ultimately the judge stole the possibility of a family home, educational funds, health and dental care and basic needs at the request of a wealthy, abusive father from children he had criminally victimized for years. I will show all of the costs paid to these payees and proof of how this family was left by the family division at the end of the road. 

 Financially, we were left with no share of the marital assets outside of a small portion of one 401 K retirement account to insure payment to the lawyers and experts. We were given no way to purchase a family home, no healthcare for our adult disabled son who my ex husband was convicted of criminally abusing, no dental or orthodontic care for four children, no life insurance policy to secure child support, a tax problem that has left me owing all of the tax on the child support and all of the tax on the account to pay the legal fees and experts, an amount of child support that is less than 5% of father's income a year and no educational funds for the children of a surgeon making over one million a year convicted of heinous abuse.

Child support has remained unpaid in the amount of $200,000 dollars in the ordered bonus portions from 2002-2006. My ex husband with held 8 court ordered bonus shares that account for half of the total child support award for all four children. We were court ordered, on June 2, 2002, a 41% share of all bonuses that he received until the new fraudulent order, never seen or signed by me went into effect on November 9, 2006.

 My ex husband also overpaid state and federal taxes to the tune of  $36,878 in 2002 federal (no state return was provided) $49,758 in 2003 federal, and $56,668 in 2004 (federal only-the only discovery the judge allowed us was 2003-2004 while the case settled in Feb, 2006) to receive a refund thus making his W2 appear to be worth less in annual income. 

All of these tricks, along with claiming himself "head of my household" by using our son Michael as a tax deduction, were used to refuse desparately needed support for his own children. The support was needed for medical, dental and psychological care, rent, food and utilities as we were strapped with legal fees and expert fees driven by his legal team throughout the case as well as the big payoff in the end. In addition, Michael Clark has never had any contact with father since his departure in 2001 and does not qualify as a tax deduction.  

Because we were denied a divorce settlement, I received no funds to go back to college for retraining or education for a job opportunity, no health insurance that was removed without notification making me uninsurable with the lapse in coverage (See: Highmark Page), no alimony after taxes and legal fees (See: Support Page) for a sixteen year marriage with four children in spite of an admission of criminal spousal and child abuse by father. The child support/alimony was the only financial award that we received so it became even more important to collect all of it.

I was assessed an "earning capacity" of $32,500.00 a year which has been deducted from father's support obligation. This artificial income, assessed to me, has never been earned from 2002-2009. I have been unable to secure employment for $19,000 a year much less $32,500 with 20 years out of the workplace and my age as a discriminating factor for employers. I continued to search for a job that would pay enough to make up the support when it would be ended in Feb 2011 taking minimum wage jobs here and there and still working each week end as a vocalist. Still, I could not come up with a job that would pay enough without additional education which I can not afford. In the entire state of PA, the average amount that women are earning, according to Forbes magazine (Nov. 2009), is $642 per week. This includes women who have been working for 20 years, all levels of education and all ages. The "expert" who assessed this earning capacity was hired and paid for by my now ex husband while I was denied the funds from the judge to hire my own "vocational expert". Still, the statistics are widely available to interested parties. Social security and the Department of Labor had no problem providing me with the number of women in Allegheny County, employed at a starting salary of $32500, who are my age, with my level of experience and education unemployed since 1987 (agreed to by my now ex husband) and that number is "0". 

By allowing my now ex husband to asses me an artificial income that is non existent to the support case and by accepting a fraudulent statement of income of $209,000 a year by refusing to investigate a "pay stub" and a mortgage loan application (income listed at $25,600 per month) provided to the family division in 2004 proving an income in excess of $600,000 per year, the court has pushed this family into the poverty level making us eligible for food stamps and Medicaid. Burdening PA taxpayers is a huge problem that has been a result of the family court greed machine while the "payees" laugh all the way to the bank. The numbers must be staggering of families in this situation in Pennsylvania as these cases now range in the thousands. Father is now earning over one million dollars a year and is convicted of criminal abuse of his family while Pennsylvania has to pay for healthcare for his children. 

The custody orders worked in direct opposition to the "earning capacity" assessment. I was required, under the threat of fines and jail, to transport the children, during the work day to reunification therapy two hours each way. This was on father's afternoon off. This made the possibility of a full time job impossible. My week ends were consumed with transporting children to court ordered supervised visitation which was an hour away. The court appointed custody evaluator diagnosed me as delusional, testing "above the line" for "schizophrenia" explaining that I could pass a lie detector test. He was referring to my account of the children reporting the sexual abuse to him at the first evaluation in 2002. Still, he suggested that I remain the sole physical and legal custodial parent of all four children including a special needs child. 

I emailed him to confirm his opinion asking for verification for social security disability. I thought he would have to refuse this verification because he could not agree to verify this condition to social security but he surprised even me:

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This nonsense went on from 2001-2008. I kept waiting for my life to begin, a life free of harassment and full of hope for the future with my children healthy and secure but I regret to say that I am overwhelmed with the possiblity that I may never be able to progress beyond this reality. 

My children had and have many needs both medically and psychologically. My oldest son who is autistic required and still does require my support. I am responsible for his care. My 20 year old daughter suffered through many problems as a result of PTSD. I spent three years 2002-2005, transporting her to partial inpatient treatment three to four days a week and intensive outpatient treatment three evenings a week for an eating disorder, anxiety and trich (a hair pulling disorder). The younger children also required care, therapy, support and transportation to activities and supervised visitation. 

Supervised visitation was held in East Liberty, one hour away from where we live. I had to go back and forth twice each Saturday to drive the older two children to activities and return to pick up the younger two children from supervised visitation. I was supposed to accomplish all of this while I worked full time at a job that I never found for $32500 a year. 

As we were left in a dilapidated rental house with additional damages from Kevin Clark's tirades and destructive rages, we were sued for $14,000 dollars by the landlord to make repairs so that the home would be inhabitable for the next unfortunate renters. Kevin Clark had agreed to repair all of the kitchen cabinets that he had kicked in as well as hire a contractor to repairs the numerous holes he punched in walls and doors he kicked in. The landlord refused to make any repairs in a 14 year tenancy and we were forced to live in this mess for a seven year divorce while Kevin Clark bought himself a large home in an affluent suburb in 2004. 

When December 2006 came, the month the divorce was final, we were denied a divorce settlement suggested by Judge Kathleen Mulligan including our share of the value of a medical/surgical practice in Sewickley, PA. (See: Attachment below-Letter-Proposal from Kurt Mulzet to Mark Alberts 1-20-06) I was in the position of having to pay the $14,000 dollars myself to make repairs to the rental home so that my children would be safe. The heater was broken. Major plumbing repairs were needed. The mold in the basement was unbearable as was the roof and most importantly, the electrical wiring caused shorts all over the house. 

The only money that I had left from a seven year divorce was enough to pay the federal and state taxes on the "income" received in my name and given to the lawyers and experts. I took this money along with the $39,000 dollars received two months later as half of the buy in money for the medical practice (the judge refused us an equal share of the practice value) and placed it on a house for my children that is now in foreclosure. 

The IRS came after me for the money that I put on the house and is now trying to "levy" the child support which is not enough to pay the mortgage and the bills and feed the family. Because the lawyers and judge fraudulently wrote into the settlement and support that all of the support is taxable to me, it will be able to be taken by the IRS as if it is alimony instead of child support.