UPDATE: 02/21/08 Did you see the new Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)?
A Summary Biography of Mr. Howse's "Experience" with Family Law
Mr. Howse quickly felt a deep moral obligation to not only join the equal parenting rights movement, but also to help lead it to ultimate victory on a national scale, when, in April of 1998, he was suddenly sucked into the whirlwind family court “machine” and its usual brand of corrupt devastation. Even with the cards stacked against him as a father and a man, Mr. Howse justifiably expected that his several ongoing children’s mentor roles as scout leader, soccer coach, chess club coach, girls softball booster, all around volunteer, and etc., would more than solidify his rightful care, custody, and management of his three children, in order to have them protected from the very dangerous prospect of giving them, instead, to his children’s mother, who was fully documented by the guardian ad litem and the court as “physically, emotionally, and verbally abusive” to those same three young children, including mercilessly driving his poor, innocent son to the very brink of committing suicide at only the tender age of seven. However, being just another typical American family court, all common sense, reason, fact, truth, and the law was completely ignored, the children’s mother was given custody, and she started using the exorbitant amount of child support also awarded to begin a lifestyle of partying and lavish self-adornment of material goods, still depriving the children of even some of their most basic needs.
Immediately thereafter, Mr. Howse began doing what many victimized noncustodial parents do, which is to begin learning the law in order to defend themselves, and to start networking for even more support. It was during this early time that Mr. Howse learned how numerous the Internet stories of family court victimization were everywhere, and realized that any solution must be done on a national scale. After much preparation work later, the Indiana Civil Rights Council was officially formed in late December of 2001. Today, ICRC has affiliations in all fifty States, which has essentially morphed into a much larger operation, called the United Civil Rights Councils of America.
Despite her having custody on paper, the mother’s irresponsible lifestyle allowed Mr. Howse to physically keep his children some 68% of their total time during the first two years, effectively making him the functionally custodial parent. But, when he finally petitioned the trial court for a proper modification of custody (and resurrected written complaints of some very flagrant local corruption affecting his case), the system quickly retaliated by illegally taking away all of his extra time with his children, practically doubling his regular child support amount, never mind the law, and instituting ridiculously false criminal charges as even further leverage against him.
Over the years, his own local court system has wildly abused its corrupt power to progressively retaliate against Mr. Howse, each time he dared document their criminal malfeasance in actually protecting and shielding the mother’s further abuse and neglect of his children, and in their various other horrific crimes and conspiracies (such as knowing they never had any legal basis to forcibly evict Mr. Howse and his three children from their main family home, more than once, as part of their larger threats and intimidation tactics, and causing the children to have to live out of motels for several weeks each of those times). During the past nine (9) years since inception of his own custody case, Mr. Howse has been falsely arrested and jailed four (4) times, causing him to lose a total of slightly over two and a half (2 ½) of those years rotting behind bars for absolutely no lawful or factual reasons. Naturally, his own local corrupt court system has also falsely caused an enormous amount of collateral devastation surrounding his own custody case, such as careers, homes, and violations upon other people’s lives. Sadly, this happens everywhere.
In addition to supporting the 2007 Rally in Washington, DC, Mr. Howse is currently very active in several other related areas, including promoting, organizing, and leading an upcoming national wave of county-based, federal classaction lawsuits. The framework for this massive agenda is already in place and working, including over 3000 individual Yahoo Groups (one for every USA county), all accessible via a single webpage (http://www.indianacrc.org/classactionco.html), and team leaders volunteering across the nation to be listed as the contact for their own county. There are also a small handful of private teams of people working on the various supporting issues. In addition, Mr. Howse is helping to organize another large and important national event for family rights, which is to draw sympathetic supporters to come and tell their stories, together, in the faces of an estimated 700+ reporters gathered at the coming Iowa Straw Poll on August 11, 2007 (http://www.indianacrc.org/ames.html). Mr. Howse also works closely with the Parental Alienation Awareness Organization (http://www.paawareness.com), in their ongoing efforts to have the Governors of all fifty States declare every April 25th as “Parental Alienation Awareness Day”, participates in several monthly and weekly leadership conference calls among the various family rights movement organizations, and runs over 900 of his own online communication groups.
Mr. Torm L. Howse,
- President & General Counsel, Indiana Civil Rights Council, http://www.indianacrc.org
- President & Co-Founder, The F.I.D.O. Network, http://www.fidonetwork.com
- National Board Director & Co-Founder, United Civil Rights Councils of America, http://unitedcivilrights.org
- Nationally active in numerous family rights reform organizations and related efforts.
Mr. Howse can be contacted through the above websites, and appreciates your active support.
(Note: the older, more detailed version of Mr. Howse's personal victimization can be reviewed here.)
Sadly, the Indiana court system is known as notorious for the various harms, wrongs, frauds, and crimes committed by the trial courts and their attorney cronies, and in the rubberstamping at the higher courts. The sheer amount of fraud in just this one case begged the obvious question: How pervasive and widespread, exactly, is this problem?
The Legal System already KNOWS it is really bad...
Overburdened courts, along with the depravity of too many judges willing to break and violate the law, have become such a national, widespread epidemic sickness within legal proceedings everywhere, that the American Bar Association Commission on the 21st Century Judiciary has put together and released, on June 13th, 2003, a landmark 144-page report entitled, "Justice in Jeopardy". The news release/summary can be viewed here, and the full report is available via either the "Information" link at the bottom, or by going to the American Bar Association website at: http://www.abanet.org/judind/jeopardy.
As Mr. E. Spencer Walton, Jr., past (2000-2001) president of the Indiana State Bar Association, so aptly versed in his "President's Perspective" (December, 2000, issue of the Indiana legal profession magazine, Res Gestae: "At the core of public distrust and criticism of lawyers is that we do not tell the truth, and everyone but us realizes it!"
