CENTER FOR JUDICIAL EXCELLENCE

The Center for Judicial Excellence has worked tirelessly to educate lawmakers at the local, state and national levels about the impacts of the family court crisis on their constituents. While we recognize the importance of pushing for and winning key legislative reforms that will better protect children and their families, we also recognize that the family courts routinely ignore state law and judges often do whatever they want in their courtrooms. Appellate courts rarely take up family law appeals, instead giving broad discretion to family court judges. We continue to believe that the lack of accountability in family courts, and to some extent in the judicial branch as a whole, is the single biggest problem facing litigants who find themselves stuck in a never-ending series of court hearings that drag on for years and deplete their life savings.

The Center has also remained steadfast in sharing victims’ stories for over a decade. We are firm believers in the power of story to transform lives. Without it, serious problems like the family court crisis will continue to fester in the darkness that surround these venues of heartache and tragic loss. From continuously educating the news media and developing content about the crisis to partnering with state and federal lawmakers who are willing to work for reforms, we are shining a light on the horrific crisis that is harming unsuspecting families across the country and the world.

The Center for Judicial Excellence's strength is rooted in its unique mix of public education, media advocacy and legislative advocacy. Our ability to expose court failures and push for judicial accountability through the media has connected us with court survivors and lawmakers, who in turn have driven meaningful state policy reforms of the judiciary. The Center has been especially effective at working to protect the rights of children whose parents are going through divorce, and the organization has been in the forefront of exposing a national crisis in the family court system that is harming millions of innocent children.