The ONLY way to fight back is by uniting and pushing for legislation changes and people are fighting the legal system who now keep divorce very profitable. Psychologists involved make good money, guardian ad litems, lawyers, judges, magistrates, court reporters, home inspectors, and I could go on and on how divorced couples AND their parents are put through the mill by being duped by the court system. One could look at an index to court proceedings alone and see pages upon pages of filings, all of which could be avoided if a domestic court were called a FAMILY court and an entire family sat around a table and issues discussed and hashed out....then brought before a judge after everything was ironed out, within a short LIMITED amount of time to do so. Parents, children, grandparents are all part of the divorce process and should be seen and heard by a psychologist in a private room, with a second opinion as well, third if needed, all to unite a broken family so the children do not think THEY are the cause of the divorce when they see so much bickering. The Judge should be the last person involved after everything is fully settled.
There should be ENFORCED penalties for those who withhold the children whether via the phone or visits, or those who do not pay child support also enforced. IF father AND mother had EQUAL custody there would not be so much animosity over child support and visitation as many fathers feel, and are, cheated out of time with their children and it goes unpunished as in the court the mother is always right most of the time that I have witnessed. I have witnessed perjury that was ignored by a judge in court, perjury by a judge, perjury by a lawyer, all gone unpunished. Who worries about Washington, one can look in your own county instead and there is enough one hand washing the other and perjuries to go around to last a lifetime I would venture to say. Keep pushing for legislation and if your legislators do not listen to you, vote them OUT of office, as I attempt to do. Your vote IS your voice and they only thing they hear.
I personally witnessed horrendous bias against men in the court system and consistently work to make changes in the laws, or make them enforce the laws now in place that say parents are EQUAL in front of the court? Not so, not now yet anyway. Not even close.