Wednesday, July 20, 2005
Awhile ago I wrote of a woman who went to jail because she shot her father to death, her father who was protected for over 30 years because he was a sheriff and had been sexually abusing the woman and her two sisters their whole lives since they were children.
Sometimes I wonder why I want to be a lawyer when the law itself is corrupt and inefficient (I wrote about this too..........sigh...............)
Let's take a sidestep and go into family law.
Custody issues are complicated. Generally no one can have the presumption that one parent is not fit to have custody over their child/children. Custody law usually make that judgement based on the ability of the parents to care for the child in question, if the parent was mentally sound and possesses the capability of supporting the child's life. If the child was under the age of one, generally the mother has automatic custody should she fulfil the prerequisites stated above, because it is said that the emotional growth of a child depends on a maternal bond. Then there are also the little additions of child support care etc, which I assume came about if custody was decided and the father agrees to give support for the mother's custody..........................
Then we come to laws governed by religion. Islamic law dictates that muslims take precedence over people of other religions and even if they don't dictate this, it is definitely practiced. Muslim law also sees the man as of greater ability and power, so..............if you are muslim and male you are all powerful. Don't laugh, it's true...................under islamic law anyways.......
So we arrive on the day which was two days before my Oxford interview for my mother to tell me that custody rights was contrary to what I had believed to be undecided and that we were hiding all these while to avoid being called to court and in actuality custody rights was already awarded to my biological father and that I had lived a f***ed up life all this while cos my mother didn't use her right mind with the phrase 'he didn't WANT custody of a child of some woman he didn't want to stay married to' and instead she assumed that one day he will return. What was he going to do...............appear one day and said he did wrong? or else come back and said the best thing he ever did was not claiming me into his life...............
Nichan has put on a FIR song........it's good............................................................................
Mused by Sukunami Taka around 3:33 PM
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