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Download the F4E Toolbar and get news in real-time
F4E have just posted a link to download the new Fathers4Equality Alexa web browser toolbar, to be found at the top right of our blog.
This toolbar will give users immediate access to a number of fathers’ rights websites, as well as a real-time visibility of recently published fathers rights articles.
As you may or may not know, Alexa is a very popular and free service owned by Amazon, that specialises in providing ranking information on the performance of websites. Websites are ranked from “1″ downwards, number “1″ being the most visited website internationally, number “2″ being the second most, and so on and so forth.
The higher your website’s Alexa rank, the more prominent the website becomes in various search engine results, and in particular Google’s search results.
Alexa also helps to bring credibility to your website cause or website brand, especially when it comes to journalists.
Woman Sacked for Dirty Divorce Tactics
A WOMAN who used Australian Federal Police databases to dig up dirt on her former husband during a bitter divorce has lost a claim for unfair dismissal.
Fair Work Australia heard the woman, who worked as a financial analyst for the AFP, also tried to rope colleagues into her battle against her former husband but was sacked in April last year after he hired a private investigator and complained to police.
She was found to have breached the AFP code of conduct after getting a co-worker to send her records on her former husband’s businesses, which she described as ”gold” and forwarded on to her mother.
Police also found two sexually inappropriate photos on her work computer, including an image of ”two men’s buttocks” which she described as ”jovial”.
Divorce lawyer busted breaking into home of client’s estranged husband
A divorce lawyer has been caught on surveillance video kicking down the door at the home of his client’s estranged husband and ransacking the place.
Raymond Van Arnam, 60, was filmed breaking into the house in Alamogordo, in the US state of New Mexico, before he and his client Melissa Stonecipher go about collecting her belongings.
They are joined by several of Van Arnam’s law office employees.
They carry out furniture, legal papers, a truck full of furniture and the family dog.
Van Arnam is even seen ripping down ‘no trespass’ signs.
This week a judge sentenced the lawyer to 30 days in jail and issued him a $7500 fine, according to a local news station.
Mum’s hate campaign against stepmother in custody battle at Family Court
A MOTHER has lost custody of her two young daughters after she conducted an “obsessive” campaign against their new stepmother.
Family Court judge Justice Peter Young said he suspected it was the mother, 30, who painted “bitch” on the woman’s house and wrote “die dad haters” on her own car in felt-tipped pen and then sought to blame the stepmother, 28.
The judge said the sisters, aged 10 and seven, would be better off living with their father, 29, and his new wife, because their mother “would not likely change”.
He ordered an end to the shared custody which had been going on for more than five years and said the two girls should live full-time with their father.
“I find that he is capable of a greater level of responsive behaviour and conduct than is the mother and that is one of the considerations I have evaluated,” Justice Young said.Caught between warring parents, the sisters had to “tiptoe” around both households for fear of upsetting anyone.
Introduction to Fathers4Equality Reddit – register & start sharing
Reddit is a social bookmarking website with over 1 billion page views per month and millions of registered users from all over the globe.
It is a multi-channeled website where almost everything that can be talked about has its own channel (otherwise known as a subreddit).
Reddit is a place where professionals and novices alike gather to discuss content they find on the web.
Reddit users (commonly called Redditors), typically find an important, interesting or controversial newspaper article or website page, and submit it to a relevant subreddit for discussion and judgment.
Submissions are determined to be popular based on the number of comments from other users made about the article or webpage, and by the number of up-votes or down-votes attributed to that submission.
In essense, the quality and value of a submission is determined by the users themselves, and the Reddit community, being as large as it is, has the ability to propel an obscure newspaper article and/or webpage into the internet stratosphere and by doing so make the article widely available through other web resources like Google search and other newspaper sites.
Just use Skype: Judge’s order to UK father after he lets ex move their kids to Australia
A MOTHER has been allowed to bring her children to Australia to live after a British judge told her former partner he could keep in touch with his children via Skype.
The man’s plea to keep the two youngsters in England was rejected by UK Family Division court president Sir Nicholas Wall.
He said the decision was in the “best interests of the children” – although the father’s objections “came from the heart”.
Sir Nicholas sympathised with the difficulties of keeping in touch with the youngsters on the other side of the world but said the man could use instant communications such as Skype.
The judge said he “did not minimise the father’s objections” but added modern ways of keeping in touch meant the children’s move would not destroy their relationship.
It is not known if the man, who lives in Devon in the south of England, has access to the technology. The hearing at the Appeal Court in London followed a ruling last year which had banned the mother from moving to Australia.
At the time the father successfully argued the pre-teen children’s departure would destroy his “embryonic relationship” with them.
At that earlier hearing, Judge David Tyzack QC had agreed the children were at a critical stage in their links with their father.
He said the bond between the youngsters and the paternal side of their family would be severely damaged if they emigrated. Any departure would be a “grave loss”.
But that decision was overturned, with Sir Nicholas saying it was “plainly wrong”.
Sitting with Lord Justice Lloyd and Lord Justice Elias, he said he was confident neither the English nor the Australian courts would “sit idly by and allow the relationship to wither”.
Lord Justice Lloyd said the mother planned for the children to return to the UK for one month each year to stay with their father.
In the meantime, “contact by Skype, post and otherwise would be arranged,” he said.
The court had heard the parents, who cannot be named for legal reasons, never married and had “grown a long way apart” since splitting up.
“I have reached the clear conclusion that the best interests of the children require the mother’s application to relocate with them to Australia to succeed,” Sir Nicholas said.
He said the decision was in the “best interests of the children” – although the father’s objections “came from the heart”.
Sir Nicholas sympathised with the difficulties of keeping in touch with the youngsters on the other side of the world but said the man could use instant communications such as Skype.
The judge said he “did not minimise the father’s objections” but added modern ways of keeping in touch meant the children’s move would not destroy their relationship.
It is not known if the man, who lives in Devon in the south of England, has access to the technology. The hearing at the Appeal Court in London followed a ruling last year which had banned the mother from moving to Australia.
Fathers4Equality News now on the iPhone
Ever wanted to catch up with the latest news as it relates to fathers, family and child custody, as you wait for an appointment or  a train, or during some idle time in between the demands of a busy life?
Well now the daily news updates provided by Fathers4Equality can be accessed from the convenience of your iPhone.
Sit back and read up on the latest changes to the laws on divorce, child custody and domestic violence.
Sit back and read up on the escalating rates of female initiated abuse and violence towards men.
Sit back and read up on the avalanche of stories of women committing child abuse, mostly women with sole custody of their children.
Sit back and read up on the alarming rise of female sex predators, who all too often get reduced sentences simply because they are women.
Sit back and read up on the criminalization of Malehood by the Gillard Labor government and every State government that have collectively fixed a presumption in law condemning all males as being perpetrators  of violence, unless proven otherwise.
And when the urge takes you, contribute to the discussion on these news stories, at a click of a button on your iPhone.
So make sure you stay connected and up to date on matters that matter to fathers, now available to you via the convenience of your iPhone.
Fathers4Equality News
Proof in Child Custody hearings – the significance of Email Forensics
I recently attended a hearing at the Federal Magistrates Court in assistance of one of the members of Fathers4Equality.
I don’t often write about the cases that we support, but in this case there was an interesting dispute over evidence, being an alleged email that was sent and read.
This dispute was of keen interest to me because in this day and age, email and text messages have become the primary source of ‘proof’ tabled in family law matters. This seems to be a suprise to many people in domestic abuse disputes and child custody matters, given that all sorts of bizarre, threatening and incriminating emails and text messages keep being sent, only to seriously bite the sender in the backside in Court.
In any case the father in this instance insisted that he sent an email to the mother on the day that the child was to be returned to her, advising her that the child was ill and that she may be returned late. The child was ultimately returned back to the mother a little late.
As the parents had a poor relationship, email correspondence was the standard way that they would communicate, so the fact that the father had alleged that he sent an email advising the mother of this event was not out of the ordinary.
The mother however claimed that there was no email. She alleged that this was all part of a pattern by the father of late deliveries, and that the ‘email’ story was a concoction made up as an excuse for Court.
Now this issue, as it so happens, was not further investigated by the Court, but had it been, it could have ended up being a key deciding issue leading to the credibility of both of the parties.
Had proper measures been taken by the father, for instance, he could have, assuming he was telling the truth, prooven that not only did he send the email, but that his ex-wife actually read the email. He could also have shown what time she read the email, for how long she read it, from what location and interenet account, and even from which computer.
As it should be clear in this instance, with a little preparation, the ex-wife could have been conclusively shown to have ‘lied’ in Court on this matter, had she in fact been untruthful.
I raise this story because time and time again I have cautioned separating parents to think carefully about the emails they send during the ‘difficult’ early periods of separation.
I also urge separated parents who correspond primarily via email to safeguard their correspondence by either BCCing a trusted friend, by using a Return Receipt facility if available in the email client, or ideally by using a professional email forensics service such as ReadNotify, which not only provides Court admissable proof that an email has been sent, but also when it has been read by the other party.
Try Readnotify now with a free no-obligation trial.
Using certified messages and digital signatures, ReadNotify offers proof of when you sent a message and when and where it was opened.This service can also send messages that self-destruct after having been opened once, and make it difficult to copy or print the email contents.
If all this sounds a bit complicated, it is not. ReadNotify comes with various simple add-on tools that seamlessly ‘track’ emails with little effort from the sender.
- ReadNotify provides email tracking and proof of sending as well as reading.
- Readnotify records when, where and how long an email was read.
- Location, ISP and computer settings are also recorded, as well as which attachents or links are opened/clicked
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ReadNotify can also send messages that self-destruct after having been opened once.
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ReadNotify can make it difficult for the email recipient to copy or print the message contents.
- A Windows tool plugs into many programs and catches all outgoing mail seamlessly.
- ReadNotify integrates with Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail in Internet Explorer.
- You can also send a tracked email simply by adding “.readnotify.com” to the recipient’s address.
- You decide whether tracking is transparent to the recipient or “invisible”.
- “Ensured-receipt” messages are kept at ReadNotify servers and thus tracked under all circumstances.
- ReadNotify uses PGP signatures including time-stamps to prove sending and opening of emails.
- In addition to the recipient’s location, ReadNotify can track forwarded emails and attachments.
Try Readnotify now with a free no-obligation trial.
Twitter communication for single Aussie fathers – subscribe now
Twitter has been the communication phenomenon of the past 12 months, and yet the vast majority of single fathers that I have spoken to are too intimidated by this technology to use it.
http://twitter.com/fathers4equalty
Well fear not guys, as it quite simple to use, and just as easy to switch off if you get tired of it, which is unlikely given the enormous growth rate that Twitter has been experiencing lately.
But what exactly is it you ask?
Simply put, it is like a huge mailing list, where one email (or Twitter post) can literally reach millions of people in a matter of minutes.
And you can read these ‘tweets’ from your computer, or from your mobile phone.
http://twitter.com/fathers4equalty
And before you ask, NO, your email address and your mobile phone number are not used to reach you, so you can have complete privacy if you choose.
So how does this help single fathers?
Well let me explain by way of example. Did you hear happened in Tunisia recently? People power over-through a corrupt President, by galvanising on the streets at the request of a popularly subscribed Twitter poster.
Had it not been for Twitter, these protests would not have occurred, and this corrupt President would still be in office.
So think how this could be used by single fathers if we need to share important information between us in a very short space of time. We may not necessarily revolt, but we can sure complain in unison, and as we well know, in a democracy it is the most vocal who are listened to,  not the  most just.
And there is only one tool to help us achieve this, Twitter, but it will only work if you subscribe, so HELP US to HELP US ALL by joining now!
http://twitter.com/fathers4equalty
“I lied!” says teenager involved in the St Kilda Football Club nude photo scandal
THE teenager involved in the St Kilda Football Club nude photo scandal has admitted she lied about taking the lewd images.
The girl said she was emailed the photographs in April last year by a St Kilda footballer.
She said she lied about taking the images because she was in shock.
"That was really stupid of me," the teenager told Nova radio’s Hughesy and Kate yesterday.
"I just went into shock when it got that much publicity.
"I think it was my first reaction … to say I took the photos, because I can’t get in trouble if they are my property."
The girl was threatened with legal action by the football club after she posted the nude photos of players on her Facebook account a week before Christmas.
"It is pointless, trying to fight the AFL is like fighting a losing battle," she said.
The 17-year-old, who can’t be named, turned up to a Saints training session on Monday and littered the reserve with handwritten flyers saying "Fight the Power" and "Women’s Rights".
She said she had sought counselling.
"I don’t really think about the future too much," she later said on Mix FM. "It is not looking too bright at the moment."
The girl, who claims to have been impregnated by one of the St Kilda players, said her motive behind posting the images was to stand up for women who had been in a similar situation.
The minor said all she wanted was an apology from the AFL and the St Kilda Football Club.
St Kilda CEO Michael Nettlefold said the club did not want to comment.
A police spokeswoman said an investigation continued and no charges had been laid.
