Links — Legal Help

The following sites are from Love and Loathing: Protecting Your Mental Health and Legal Rights When Your Partner has BPD.

Web sites about father's and children's concerns, including woman-on-man domestic violence, divorce, custody, false accusations, and parental alienation syndrome.

Father's resources and rights 

• Fathers for Equal Rights, Inc
  This Texas organization provides very specific hands-on services to fathers, grandparents, an others who have current or future cases in the Dallas or surrounding areas, or who have children in this geographic area.  Serving the cause of fathers' rights since 1973.  We are a strong advocate for equal parenting responsibility and strengthening the father-child relationship.
  http://www.fathers4kids.org
   

• S.P.A.R.C. Separated Parenting Access & Resource Center
  (formerly FRTC),
  Assist in divorce and custody situations (many of which have BPD as a contributing effect). http://www.deltabravo.net/custody/
   

• American Legal Research
  The home of a directory of hundreds of sites used by thousands of people every month.  Many links and information at the site may be helpful to those who have legal problems associated with the BP in their life.
   

• Fathers Are Capable Too
  A Canadian-based organization with a number of intriguing collections of material of international significance. Of particular interest is their information on Parental Alienation, a problem often associated with a BPD parent after the breakdown of a relationship that involves children.
   

• The Divorce Page
  This is an incredible resource for people facing divorce. There's a section called "Concerns for Men," "Concerns for Women," and "Mental Health Resources." The section for men discusses ways in which courts disfavor men for child custody, as well as other similar issues. 
   

• Single Fathers Neighborhood
  Based on the cast of characters of the "single-custodial-fathers" mailing list.
   

• There is a vast list of documents about PAS and related issues on the website  http://www.fact.on.ca. 
  This is the site of Fathers Are Capable Too, one of the largest fathers' and children's rights organizations in Canada dealing with custody and access. 
   

•  Alliance for Non-Custodial Parents Rights http://www.Ancpr.org
   

•  American Coalition for fathers and children http://www.Acfc.org/ 
   

• Coalition of Parent Support http://www.Copss.org/  

• http://www.DivorcedFather.com
   

• Dads Against Discrimination http://www.peak.org/~jedwards/dv.htm
   

• http://www.ParentalAlienation.org 
   

• http://www.parentalabduction.com
   

• http://www.vix.com/menmag/menmag/gjdvsto1.htm
   

• http://www.vix.com/menmag/menmag/gjdvlink.htm
    

• http://www.abusedmen.com
   

• http://www.abuse-excuse.com
   

For men and women

• http://www.DivorceSupport.com  (for women, too)

   

• An article about restraining orders used as weapons at 
  http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/1999/10/25/restraining_orders/index.html may be helpful. It is called "Hitting Below the Belt: Easy to Get, Hellish to Deal With, Restraining Orders Have Become The Ultimate Weapon In Domestic Disputes by Cathy Young." Simply go to the site and conduct a search. This article shows a "worst case scenario" for those who need it. 

For children

• The Children's Voice
  http://home.ican.net/~kidshelp/
  An organization advocating for the children's rights, to have equal, meaningful and permanent relationships with both of their parents after separation or divorce, in most cases.  Also, they advocate for the strengthening of the family unit.



• Children's Rights Council
  http://www.gocrc.com/ 
  
  

• http://www.equal-custody.org
  
  
   

For more information, see Love and Loathing