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What is this?
The Family Rights Registry — the global and national survey building an independent public record of what families report experiencing in family court.
Investigative journalism · Public record
THEY CALLED EVERY FAMILY AN ANOMALY.
THE NUMBERS SAY PATTERN.
5,520 families across 51 states and 20 countries — Canada and Australia are growing fast — have reported what happened to them in family court. This is where their experiences stop being isolated — and start being counted.
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The movement, counted
5,520Families reporting
51States represented
20Countries worldwide
$966.1MReported family losses
HOW THIS WORKS
Independent. Verified. Human.
A system built for families — not the system.
Privacy choices stay in your control
Contact details, child information, and the full survey stay private. A quote or name is published only under the sharing choice you selected and after review.
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What happens to my story?
Your submission can strengthen aggregate totals. Your full survey and contact details stay private; quotes and qualifying court-actor records require the sharing choice you made plus a separate human review.
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When does a name become public?
Eligibility begins when three or more unrelated, approved submissions independently report the same court actor. A human still reviews the identity and publication record before the name appears.
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What the survey asks about
Evidence suppression, perjury, denial of timely hearings, ex-parte communications, court transcripts, financial impact, and more.
The report
I’M DONE BEING DISMISSED.
I investigate patterns.
I publish what they ignore.
I stand with families.
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JOIN THE PRIVATE, ANONYMOUS COMMUNITY OF VERIFIED FAMILIES.
Find others who reported the same court actor. Compare notes. Ask questions. Not alone.
Matched on your case
You're placed with families who reported the same court actors you did.
Private, moderated rooms
Invisible to the public and search engines. Meg steps in when a pattern emerges.
Ask Meg (3/month)
Monthly and yearly members can ask documentation and pattern questions from a room — public or private to Meg.
It joins the pattern
Your submission strengthens aggregate state totals. Actor publication requires three unrelated approved reports plus a human publication decision.
Who’s behind this
I’M MEG. I COUNT WHAT COURTS DISMISS.
I’m an investigative journalist and a parent who lived this system. When my case was called an isolated incident, I started asking other families — and the answers haven’t stopped coming. Every number on this site is a family who trusted me with what happened to them. I verify, I count, and when enough families name the same person, I publish.
What families say
Kept child in an abusive home where she has faced severe trauma, also kept me (mother) in trauma response living. Severe emotional, mental, and physical abuse the court will not let us escape from.
Nothing other than take innocent children away from there mothers
"He works for the bad lawyers and judges. A GAL will get him paid by the bad parent and he will type up a lie to help whoever pays him. There's a reason he can't be found online"
Family-reported submissions.
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