Family courts must protect children—not punish survivors. Support Marcia’s Law to bring accountability, transparency, and trauma-informed practices to custody cases.

Family courts are meant to protect children and families. Too often, they fail survivors of domestic violence, coercive control, and parental alienation.

Across the country, parents who follow court orders suddenly lose their children without explanation. Children are removed from safe homes without proper hearings. Survivors are silenced for reporting abuse. Abusive parents are rewarded for breaking the law.

This must stop.

Marcia’s Law will bring fairness, transparency, and trauma-informed practices into family courts nationwide.

 
Why This Matters
Every year, thousands of families experience:

• Unlawful withholding of children
• Custody changes without proper hearings
• Retaliation against abuse survivors
• Financial exploitation through child support
• Endless legal harassment
• Emotional trauma to children

These practices harm children.
They retraumatize survivors.
They undermine public trust.

No family should suffer this way.

 
What Marcia’s Law Will Do
Marcia’s Law will require family courts to:

✔ Protect custody orders from being ignored
✔ Prevent parents from benefiting from unlawful behavior
✔ Require written explanations for custody changes
✔ Recognize coercive control and post-separation abuse
✔ Stop legal harassment and intimidation
✔ Ensure safe, child-centered transitions
✔ Require trauma-informed judicial training
✔ Allow survivor advocates in court
✔ Establish independent oversight

This law protects families.
It does not protect abusers.

 
Who This Law Protects
Marcia’s Law protects:

• Children
• Custodial parents
• Abuse survivors
• Alienated parents
• Families in crisis
• Victims of legal manipulation

Every child deserves stability.
Every survivor deserves fairness.

 
Why I Started This Petition
I created this petition after experiencing firsthand how family court failures can tear families apart.

Through unlawful custodial retention and lack of trauma awareness, my family was harmed in ways no system should allow.

I founded Trauma-Informed Support Advocates, Inc. (TISA) to make sure no other family has to endure this.

This petition is about turning pain into protection.

 
Our Call to Action
We urge lawmakers and judicial leaders to:

• Support Marcia’s Law
• Reform family court procedures
• Require trauma-informed standards
• Enforce accountability
• Protect children first

No child should be taken from a safe home without lawful process.
No survivor should be punished for speaking up.

 
How You Can Help
By signing this petition, you are:

✔ Standing up for children
✔ Supporting survivors
✔ Demanding justice
✔ Preventing future harm

Please sign and share.

Together, we can change the system.

 
Contact Information
Organization: Trauma-Informed Support Advocates, Inc.
Website: https://traumainformedsupportadvocates.com/
Email: contact@traumainformedsupportadvocates.com