Ronnie Spector Quotes

But I'm a great father. That's why I got custody.

I'm never going to let nobody take those kids. They Michael's kids. They have no right to try to take those kids. It's going to be a big mess over that.

When my parents got divorced, there was a custody fight over me. ... and no one showed up.

Every penny from 'Gossip Girl,' my pension, my stocks has been spent fighting for my children.

When it comes to determining child custody, however, sexism is the rule.

Dissolution and custody matters are the great equalizers. Having done this for a while, you do realize that everybody has the same issues. It doesn't matter how much money you have or how much power you have, you are always afraid you're never going to see your child.

Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.

I researched children's rights, divorce law, and parental kidnapping. Millions of children and parents are touched by the inadequacy of the legal system to deal with the human heart.

So the news that divorced fathers are to be denied a legal right to a relationship with their children, in the long overdue review of family law published this week, fills me with horror and despair.

I have my kids every Friday through Monday, and I don't leave them the whole time I have them.

A man divorcing would never be accused of choosing career over children.

I was a lawyer and I loved it, but my Francesca was born, and a divorce followed way too soon after.

An adversarial family law system raises the stakes unnecessarily high, exacerbates the antagonism of the couples concerned, and is directly responsible for making it impossible for couples who would otherwise have reconciled to do so.

I think people have had the understanding for many years that whatever happens with the separation of parents, that the kids automatically go to the mother. The fathers don't know their rights.

In case of separation, why should the children be taken from the protecting care of the mother? Who has a better right to them than she? How much do fathers generally do toward bringing them up?

Many states favor joint custody.

If a man wish to separate from a woman who has borne him children, or from his wife who has borne him children: then he shall give that wife her dowry, and a part of the usufruct of field, garden, and property, so that she can rear her children. When she has brought up her children, a portion of all that is given to the children, equal as that of one son, shall be given to her. She may then marry the man of her heart.

I've got some kids out there; it's no secret. I've never been late on payments. I've handled it as best as I possibly can. There's no lawsuits. I try to stay on top of it.

My lawyer is telling me I have to take some responsibility about the welfare of the children. Do I want the kids? Hell no. Does it look good for me to ask for them? Absolutely. I don't want to look like the woman who gave away her kids and just forgot about them.

Using kids as pawns in a divorce is awful.

The family court is extremely child focussed. Its overriding objective is to do what is in a child's best interests.

Our children are better served by speaking not of visitation versus custody, but of parent time.

A decent person does not alienate children from a parent, no matter how angry they are at the parent for the divorce. It's unfair to the children, and it's unfair to the other human being

I would like to devote myself to the cause of parental alienation.

After a divorce, men's biggest fear is, typically, losing their children (women's is poverty).