I OBJECT

Life isn't black and white.

 

Neither is divorce. Or co-parenting. Or support payments. Or custody battles. Or abuse. These are layered, emotional experiences filled with contradictions where love and pain coexist, and truth looks different from every angle.

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But the legal system still demands binaries: contempt or compliance, right or wrong, mother or father. It tries to force clarity onto chaos. But real life doesn’t fit into those boxes.

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I know this firsthand. I did everything the system told me to do. I hired lawyers. I went to mediation, co-parenting counseling, and court-approved experts. I played by the rules but the rules failed me.

So when three separate attorneys told me, “If you don’t like the system, your only option is Harrisburg,”.  That's what I did. 

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Maybe the system wasn’t designed to cause harm but family court and support calculations have become blunt tools in a nuanced world. What was intended as a framework for fairness has become a one-size -fits-all machine treating delicate situations with the precision of a sledgehammer. It was never meant to be this crude. And when complexity is forced into formulas, families get hurt.

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That’s when I stopped trying to survive it, took the advice, and started working to change it.

I Object was born from that shift. From one voice rising in a courtroom to a growing movement refusing to flatten complexity into black and white.  We make space for contradiction, for change, for complexity.

Because to evolve when presented with new truth isn’t just the mark of a healthy person it’s the mark of a just system. This platform is a refusal. A reckoning. An invitation.

To tell the truth. To demand better. To rewrite the rules.

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