The Divorced Dadvocate: Strategic Defense for Fathers
Jun 15, 2026 · 1 hr 5 min · 18 segments
Family court is drifting into a dangerous contradiction: more states are proving that default 50/50 shared parenting lowers conflict and supports kids, while new “coercive control” standards expand…
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Jude SandvallHost
Robert GarzaGuest
Anthony ThompsonGuest
And before I introduce them, I want to just lay the kind of lay the groundwork for our conversation today, because over the six years that we've been doing this, I started to see Now a crossroads, maybe, if you will, in family courts and the challenges that we're experiencing there.
And on the one hand, there's some progress that we're seeing and that is being made in many states across the country and really actually across the world.
Many states have adopted that now, and one of our guests is intimately involved in that.
But what we're also seeing is kind of not only a pushback on that, but really a loosening of what I feel feel is the already loose way and subjective way in which the courts, the family courts show up.
And that's with these coercive control laws, which actually expand the definition of domestic violence.
And then we're going to talk a little bit more with our guests about what they're seeing out there, because they are on the They are on the forefront of everything.
They are talking to dads every single day and doing an incredible amount of work.
And before I introduce them, I want to just lay the kind of lay the groundwork for our conversation today, because over the six years that we've been doing this, I started to see Now a crossroads, maybe, if you will, in family courts and the challenges that we're experiencing there.
And on the one hand, there's some progress that we're seeing and that is being made in many states across the country and really actually across the world.
Many states have adopted that now, and one of our guests is intimately involved in that.
But what we're also seeing is kind of not only a pushback on that, but really a loosening of what I feel feel is the already loose way and subjective way in which the courts, the family courts show up.
And that's with these coercive control laws, which actually expand the definition of domestic violence.
And then we're going to talk a little bit more with our guests about what they're seeing out there, because they are on the They are on the forefront of everything.
They are talking to dads every single day and doing an incredible amount of work.
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