Short Term

• Promote family law based on modern research on relationships and family roles
• Default divorce judgment of shared parenting, unless either parent can be proven unfit for parenting
• To ensure parent's and children's relationships are not routinely terminated by divorce
• Consistent and fair divorce rulings for child custody, child support, visitation
• Ensure custodial parents can prove it’s "in the children’s best interest" before removing children from the other parent’s locale
• Equal access to the grandchildren for all grandparents
• Equal efforts for enforcement of child visitation as for child support
• Provide a better role model for children, by awarding custody to a parent who is working and able to support and care for their children if the other parent is on public welfare
• Penalties for false allegations of spousal abuse, or child abuse (loss of full custody)
• Child support based on: objective "cost of parenting" data, not a percentage of real or hypothetical income
• Capturing all parenting cost for both parents
• Equal efforts for enforcement of child support when the recipient is a father
• State compilation, reduction, and publication of court data (public record) for custody awards in cases where custody is disputed

                                                            Long Term

• Change our culture to value two parents raising their children
• Change our culture to value fatherhood and fathers as more than a paycheck and a visitor to their own children
• Eliminate "winner-take-all" divorce laws which encourage the breakup of the family and destruction of marriages
• A family court system with specially trained professionals, which places an emphasis on family reconciliation where possible.
• Where reconciliation is not possible, mediation or binding arbitration would be emphasized with the goal of minimizing post-divorce animosity
• Judges who have extensive training in family matters, child psychology, and related areas
• A post-divorce parenting plan to complete any divorce where children are involved
• Default divorce judgment of shared parenting, unless either parent can be PROVEN unfit for parenting
• Ensure parent's and children's rights cannot be routinely terminated by divorce
• Secure for separated or divorced parents the same parental rights as married parents
• Laws which guarantee the rights of children to have an equal PERSONAL and legal relationship after a divorce with BOTH parents
• Guaranteed equal access and visitation for all grandparents of children whose parents have divorced
• Code of Alabama, 1975 (including Title 30, Marital and Domestic Relations statutes)