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Parent Apathy is Fueling an Epidemic: It’s High Time We Took Serious Action

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Opening News Story at the time Parenting Rights Institute was founded in 2010

From the PRI Administrator

The Parenting Rights Institute (PRI) was founded in 2010 as an advocacy group for moms, dads and families victimized by abusive divorce and family courts across the country. An office was opened in New York with a Court Program to assist poorly represented or self represented parties. It featured a seminar lecture and five part reading program with court forms and transcripts to educate parents and prevent serious financial and personal harm. Its updated version is available at http://www.parentingrightsinstitute.com or by ordering it from our office at (315) 380-3420.

The work of the Institute expanded in the years since. A planning session was conducted at the Plaza Hotel at Central Park in Manhattan attended by lawyers, former judges and parental advocates. In 2011 we conducted a Parental Rights Convention at a hotel conference room attended by activists from different parts of the country. Five time Super Bowl winner Tim McKyer was a featured speaker. In April, 2012 we sponsored a lobby initiative in Congress. Two months later, a rally was held at the federal appeals court at Foley Square in Manhattan to support the parental rights case, Parent v New York, argued by Dr. Leon Koziol.

In 2013, Dr. Koziol was among those selected to give testimony on behalf of the Parenting Rights Institute before the Moreland Commission on Public Corruption at Pace University. That testimony can be found on Leon’s personal website at http://www.leonkoziol.com and it was cited by a lawyer committee in Albany to suppress and censor his reform efforts. Corruption exposed at the Moreland hearings included Leon’s pedophile custody judge, Bryan Hedges, removed from his case for “political espionage” and from the bench one year later for admitting to sexual misconduct upon the judge’s handicapped, five year old niece. He also exposed fictitious college degrees used by his replacement Judge Daniel King to impose draconian support and custody orders in retaliation.

In 2014, Dr. Koziol participated in a video documentary produced by Dr. Joseph Sorge of Divorce Corp focused on child support abuses, judicial corruption and marginalization of parents for profit. These abuses have remained without real accountability and causing taxpayers mounting expenses for their criminal and family court systems. Another censorship process was commenced by a lawyer ethics committee against Leon citing the video as its source. That process was vigorously challenged on First Amendment grounds but it prevented him from making a formal presentation at the Divorce Corp Family Law Reform Conference in Washington D.C.

In May, 2016 gag orders on our public statements were removed after Leon filed an extraordinary mandamus action in New York Supreme Court. We have achieved a record for holding lawyers, judges and family court predators accountable where our political ethics commissions are failing us. We have traveled as far away as Hawaii, California, Nashville, Carolinas, Canada and Paris seeking recourse for parent rights violations. Children are being abused, needlessly alienated and exploited for profit in a manner never seen before in human history. The media is ignoring a growing epidemic at the root of our societal problems, moral decay and worker productivity. Bar associations and special interests anxious to preserve a trillion dollar gold mine are suppressing reform, true accountability and parent advocacy groups such as the PRI.

A documentary published this month by Dr. Koziol and PRI produced immediate reactions from powerful adversaries. Entitled “Family Court Epidemic in Rural America,” it exposed shocking aspects of unmitigated corruption in divorce and family courts which is escalating all over the country. These are plain talk presentations publicized through You-Tube and viral sites everywhere that eventually work their way to the top of Google searches regarding the lawyers, judges and entities we are investigating and exposing. In this way the Parenting Rights Institute has become a citizen’s commission for judicial accountability. We are doing the vital work of those who are neglecting their paid public duties. In short we have become the Judicial Watch or NRA for abused families.

However, we cannot effectively advocate without resources. Currently we refer legal representation to trusted outside attorneys. We would like to hire in-house counsel and investigatory staff to properly assist victims in their individual cases. A professional video crew could bolster publishing efforts while employed to support formal complaints to government agencies. Our goal is to monitor court proceedings, publish books and documentaries and lobby Congress and our courts for reform and proper accountability. We have a petition for writ pending before the United States Supreme Court and are prepared to file another with co-petitioning victims (joiners) from around the country. Indeed we have done remarkable things with a fledgling volunteer staff and nominal donations which cannot keep up with expenses.

These are only some of the strategies underway and detailed in a business plan which is available to potential donors and investors. Accordingly we are appealing publicly to you for help. You may be in a position to join our efforts or invest personally. You may also know of a business, estate or philanthropist who can provide the needed financial support. Our potential cannot be denied. The proof is found throughout our website pages at Leon Koziol.com or the Institute.  As the thirty second television clip here shows, our PRI Director Leon Koziol has won numerous high profile cases, but this “War on Parents” is clearly his greatest challenge. Help us help you. Invest in our Institute. Download, share and e-mail this message. You can also chat directly with Leon at (315) 796-4000.

2008 television clip depicts David and Goliath battles of Dr. Leon Koziol as a New York trial attorney prior to founding the Parenting Rights Institute

 

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2012 Rally Conducted in Support of Dr. Koziol’s Precedent Seeking Action at Federal Appeals Court in Manhattan

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COUNTRY MUSIC AGENTS RESPOND TO “WE ARE FATHERS” CAMPAIGN

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Miranda Lambert, Dierks Bentley, Kix Brooks and Jason Aldean among early Responders to Leon Koziol’s “We Are Fathers” Project in Nashville

As followers of this site know, Parental Rights Advocate Leon Koziol will be in Nashville this month to promote his recent nationwide reform initiative “We Are Fathers.” On March 1, 2015, a 25-page Public Initiative Summary was released which describes a serious “fatherless crisis” in America today together with a six point action plan to bring shared parenting and accountability to our nation’s divorce and family courts. It was quickly shared with celebrities, public interest groups and major potential benefactors across the country.

On March 18, 2015, Dr. Koziol will begin his promotional tour in Nashville sponsored by an attendee of the Family Law Reform Conference held in November at our nation’s capital. In December, this person responded to a home exchange proposal by offering to accommodate Dr. Koziol in Nashville to meet with family reform advocates. We have not been able to divulge all of the details behind this developing venture but can now state that we are seeking to open our nation’s very first fathers’ outreach center in that city. This center will provide diverse victims with personal support of the kind which no therapist, lawyer or government servant can.

To that end, Dr. Koziol has been talking directly with agents of industry, business, public interest groups and celebrities. In less than a week, he has been able to get promising responses from some unexpected confidential sources. In Nashville, he has focused on business people, country music agents and such groups as the First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University. Anyone who has followed our work knows that Dr. Koziol has been censored, targeted and punished by the state for his free speech, hence the First Amendment Center was yet another good reason to start this campaign in Nashville.

Today we bring you a startling contrast between responses from a number of country music agents. We begin with Miranda Lambert. Regrettably, her agent advised that she would not be able to help fund the “We Are Fathers” project but she was professional and complimentary of our funding request:

“Hello Leon, Unfortunately we have to pass on participating in the promotion of We Are Fathers. As you may know, Miranda is a big dog lover and spends a lot of time on that charitable endeavor. Due to the high volume of requests we receive of this nature, all worthwhile of course and impossible to decide which ones to be able to make happen, we feel that her efforts are most beneficial by focusing her time on her MuttNation Foundation and other animal related charities as they are closest to her heart. All the best. Dara Foutch.”

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Another response comes from The Greenroom. This is the agency which represents Country Music Singers Dierks Bentley, Kix Brooks and Jason Aldean. After discussing our worthy project with agent Kristie Sheppard Sloan (Her Email Address), a one line response came the following day:

“Hi Leon. To be honest, I don’t believe any of our clients apply to this situation.”

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The word “apply” caught our immediate attention because it was difficult to give it any sense. Was she saying that the three singers we were focused upon had no father interests? Could it be possible that Kristie, their agent, was not representing them properly given all the fathers who are their loyal fans? To help answer such questions, we looked a bit further into the singers’ backgrounds to learn of some startling contradictions. On the very day that agent Kristie Sloan was sending us her peculiar one-liner, Kix Brooks was being honored later the same evening with the first-ever CMA Foundation Humanitarian award at an event held at the Nashville’s City Winery. According to one beneficiary of his many public service causes:

“Kix doesn’t think about why he shouldn’t do something, he thinks about why he should.”

This comment at the event came from Victor Sansone, CEO of Operation Finally Home, a charitable organization committed to building homes for our injured war heroes. It is a cause which can be compared with ours insofar as “We Are Fathers” is highly focused on providing shared parenting homes for our returning soldiers. Yet somehow, according to Kristie Sloan anyway, Kix Brooks does not apply. How can she know this on the very same day as such an award? We were focused on Leon “Kix” Brooks III because of his background as a loving father, his radio program which promotes patriotic causes and recent film successes.

Next we took a closer look at Dierks Bentley to discover that he too was a curious subject for a “does not apply” response. As a loving father of three, he would easily identify with parents wrongfully denied contact with their children in our dysfunctional family courts. Jason Aldean has been a long time donor and fundraiser for breast cancer, a gender specific charity which places him high on a list of potential participants in a gender specific cause such as fathers’ outreach. As we continue to grow our campaign, we ask you to contact the three singers represented by Kristie Sheppard Sloan to urge their direct review of the “We Are Fathers” project summary in her possession. We also ask you to get involved at www.leonkoziol.com.