The Women of CourtWatch: Reforming a Corrupt Family Court System

by Carole Bell Ford

Book Overview

Houston was a terrible place to divorce or seek child custody in the 1980s and early 1990s. Family court judges routinely rendered verdicts that damaged the interests of women and children. In some especially shocking cases, they even granted custody to fathers who had been accused of molesting their own children. Yet despite persistent allegations of cronyism, incompetence, sexism, racism, bribery, and fraud, the judges wielded such political...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292709587
• ISBN13: 9780292709584
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"