Fix the backlog problem
Families should not wait years while children lose time they cannot get back.
Accountability • Urgency • Child Wellbeing
Time is not neutral for children.
Maine’s courts must move faster when childhood is on the line — with transparent timelines, fewer incentives for obstruction, and accountability for delay-driven harm.
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A mission for Maine families
Maine’s family court system is failing children in ways that are measurable, predictable, and preventable — and delay is treated like a nuisance instead of harm.
Urgency
Childhood isn’t renewable
Focus
Reduce conflict incentives
Method
Transparency + timelines
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Systems reform • Not case advocacy • Not seeking office for career or salary • Public documentation
Legislative priorities
Practical reforms grounded in one principle: the developmental health of a child outweighs administrative convenience.
Reduce conflict incentives
Close procedural loopholes that reward obstruction and turn delay into leverage.
Protect kids from weaponized process
Discourage tactics that erase a parent through exhaustion and financial attrition.
Transparency & accountability
Publish performance metrics and create review pathways focused on correction and prevention.
Values
Short, repeatable, and designed for clarity.
Time is not neutral for children.
Sunlight before punishment.
The developmental health of a child outweighs administrative convenience.
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