The Lovefraud reader Anne Stevenson reports that the US Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division has opened up an investigation into whether disabled litigants in Connecticut divorce courts are unfairly singled out and punished by judges. "The investigation is in response to parents who have complained that if the family courts even suspected a parent suffered from an impairment, judges denied them equal access to due process, took away their children, and imposed outrageous costs and fees on their families that drove them into bankruptcy and financial ruin," she writes. Connecticut courts impose outrageous costs on disabled families, from Communities Digital News. …
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