Parental Alienation and Helen Scott Goudge
Helen Scott Goudge is a family law assessor who in our opinion is more of the problem and less of the solution when it comes to family law in Toronto, Ontario.
She didn't disclose in one interesting case that she and her husband make hundreds of thousand of dollars per year as a result of family law legal action. Had she disclosed that she was married to Stephen Goudge, a sitting judge on the Court of Appeal of Justice of Ontario, to a father would never had agreed to have her as an assessor if he had know her connection with judges.
The situation was that the parents both lived in the same neighbourhood, had agreed since they broke up that the children would be raised equally but the mother 9 month became enraged and extremely angry. She started to send the police over to the father's home and made false allegations against the father. The mother then committed domestic violence by forced her way into the father's residence beating him badly, damaging his front tooth and threatening to kill him. The father called 911 and the police came and took her from his home and charged her. She plead guilty and got probation for 6 months. The mother then wanted to fight in court and Helen Goudge was requested by the mother. The father assumed ( incorrectly ) that his lawyer had some integrity but the lawyer never stated before the father agreed to use Helen Goudge that she was married to a judge. Helen Goudge then talked to the mother and her sister only and didn't even want to talk with the father.
After fighting with Helen Goudge about having meetings with him, his friends and the children, the father was told by Helen Goudge that she would change the parenting time to 65%/35% favouring the mother EVEN THOUGH HER OWN REPORT FOR THE COURT stated that the mother's anger was well know to the children, stated the father wasn't angry. Such a change of time would get the mother child support paid by the father. Goudge recommended 'joint custody' unless the mother wanted sole custody. Helen Goudge then changed her recommendation to the court because the mother wanted sole custody.
If you want to know more about Helen Scott Goudge, read the best selling book Divorce From Hell written by Wendy Dennis, a well known author. Helen Goudge was the assessor in that case and failed miserable.
Helen Scott Goudge was the family assessor in the case published in the book below tiled " The Divorce from Hell"
Divorce From Hell: How The Justice System Failed A Family
by Wendy Dennis
This gut-wrenching book is the story of Ben Gordon. It is written by his live-in girlfriend and author Wendy Dennis. Dennis tell us that she met Gordon when Gordon was going through a bad divorce; and a bad divorce it is. The true villain in the book is the legal system. Dennis observes Ben Gordon's ordeal as a father who just wanted to remain an involved parent to his two daughters.
Dennis exposes the so-called "experts" who yield extraordinary power with devastating consequences, and she accurately describes an arbitrary `system'' with no accountability that professes to act in the children's best interests but fails to do so. The "game" of family law is accurately described -- as well as who really profits from the "game".
The only surprise here is how Ben Gordon continues to go through his ordeal over a period of nine years and at a cost of over $500,000 by his own estimate. We are only left with the ultimate question: when is the guy going to get it? -- access will only happen if "mother" allows it to happen. For Mr. Gordon, it is apparent, the "game" was over before it even began.
This book is a description of the current reality in Canada. It is this excuse for a family law "system" that needs to be changed -- urgently -- so that so many others, like Ben Gordon, don't get ground into the dirt and out of their children's lives.
