Slam the Gavel

   Slam the Gavel podcast welcomes back Esther Deutsch to the podcast. She was last on Season 5, Episode 255, where we talked about how conflict is good for the business of family court.     Esther broadened her story and explained how the judge ordered on the record   that she couldn't even reach out to teachers at her children's school.       "The intention is to completely destro...

    Slam the Gavel welcomes Monica Ciardi to the podcast. Monica, at the taxpayer's expense has been forced into jail eleven times.  Within the eleven times, she was jailed in Morris County New Jersey from November to December 2024, and from January to the end of March and released in 2025.       Monica shared her experiences while jailed and how she came to be jailed. She also talked about w...

     Slam the Gavel podcast welcomes back Attorney Christine Miller. Christine was last on Season 5, Episodes 121 and 133. Today we discussed the massive coverage of the case of Judge Ogden finally recusing herself during a custody dispute when she should have done so earlier in the case when her own divorce attorney was representing the litigant. Christine has covered this case on her TIkTok @ken...

    Slam the Gavel welcomes back Evelyn Hemphill (Season 5, Episodes 98 and 125) and Dr. Bandy X. Lee (Season 4, Episode 23 and Season 5, Episode 249).       Today, we discussed Evelyn Hemphill's first Psychological Evaluation, which wasn't good enough for the family court to fit their false narrative, so a Forensic Evaluation was done by a player in the court system. It ended very vague...

        Slam the Gavel welcomes Marineka Bowman to the podcast. Marineka was last on Season 3, Episodes 104, 131, 159, 160, 174 and 184, Season 4, Episodes 22, 48 and 61, Season 5, Episodes 149, 210, 238, 248 and 258. HELLO DOGE.        Marineka came back on the podcast to update her case and discuss retaliation in the form of gang stalking. She was allowed to see her child on Sunday for $14.00/ho...

Slam the Gavel podcast welcomes Esther Deutsch to the podcast. Esther told her story of the money courts ignoring child abuse, disregarding evidence and withholding her children from her. They don't care about her children's well-being and they disregard exculpatory evidence if it doesn't fit their false narrative. A child suffers. Esther hasn't seen her children in FIVE years....

   Slam the Gavel welcomes Marineka Bowman to the podcast. Marineka was last on Season 3, Episodes 104, 131, 159, 160, 174 and 184, Season 4, Episodes 22, 48 and 61, Season 5, Episodes 149, 210, 238 and 248. HELLO DOGE.     Today Marineka updated her case on the child support that she tried to modify in the Supreme Court of Delaware. Apparently Judge R. Eckeard wrote back to her stating that the c...

   Slam the Gavel welcomes Heather Unbehaun to the podcast. She told her story of how she fled with her then nine year-old daughter in 2017, after the Judge John Dalton in Illinois illegally gave her abusive father full custody. She and her daughter were extremely close. Heather fled to protect her from her father, the emotionally abusive step monster as well as the corrupt court system.      They...

   Slam the Gavel welcomes back Theo Chino and Michael Caruso to the podcast. Michael Caruso was last on Season 5, Episode 192. Theo Chino was last on Season 5, Episodes 128, 143, 164, 187, 192, 204, 206 and 217.    We discussed the birth of LawsuitFactory.org and why it originated as Michael Caruso discussed his case and the need for this non-profit. LawsuitFactory.org will help so many parents t...

     Slam the Gavel welcomes Marineka Bowman to the podcast. Marineka was last on Season 3, Episodes 104, 131, 159, 160, 174 and 184, Season 4, Episodes 22, 48 and 61, Season 5, Episodes 149, 210 and 238.      Today we updated Marineka's case and how she is court ordered to go to Turning Corners, LLC (more like cutting corners) for counseling with her daughter, however the counselor has eithe...

    Slam the Gavel podcast, welcomes back Jessie Lake to the podcast. Jessie was last on Season 5, Episode 241. Today Jessie had an update on her case as well as a recording that was revealed to her of proof of  the forged hair follicle tests, "somebody did something here." To think that an important test could be forged to remove her first set of twins from her is egregious. Her lawyer...

   Slam the Gavel welcomes back Dr. Bandy X. Lee to the podcast. Dr. Lee was last on the podcast Season 4, Episode 23 (1-31-2023). Today we discussed Dr. Bandy Lee's lawsuit with impeachment initiative to bring transparency to the Star Chamber-like family court (Press Release).      Family courts are nefariously secretive, like the Star Chamber in England, which had been abolished approximate...

   Slam the Gavel welcomes Marineka Bowman to the podcast. Marineka was last on Season 3, Episodes 104, 131, 159, 160, 174 and 184, Season 4, Episodes 22, 48 and 61, Season 5, Episodes 149, 210 and 238.        Marineka came on to the podcast to update her case and explaining that there are false allegations made upon her friend that lives with her at her apartment by Attorney Laura Brooks and the...

     Slam the Gavel welcomes John Scott from Florida to the podcast. John is the victim of multiple DCF Civil Rights Violations by a caseworker that has since left DCF. It all started November 6th, 2023. The caseworker, B. Bachelor, was rude, made malicious insinuations and wanted John to go into detail about DV that was done to him by his ex while in front of the children. This caseworker crimina...

     Slam the Gavel welcomes Natalia Dalton back to the podcast. Natalia was last on  Season 3, Episodes 26 and 144. Today, Natalia gave updates to her case and talked about her three filings. Natalia wants her passport back as well as her drivers license despite being in the arrears. She is paying an egregious amount of child support that should never have happened in the first place. The judge w...

    Slam the Gavel welcomes William Danh to the podcast. William has been fighting for his rights to see his daughter for years. His daughter was born in 2012, and didn't even know he had a daughter until 2023 when the mother called him up looking for child support. A paternity test was done. However, the mother, living under various addresses had applied for $20,000 in TANF that was granted....

   Slam the Gavel welcomes back Cristin Badal, who was last on the podcast, March 6th, 2025, Season 5, Episode 243. Cristin is here to update her case regarding an Anti-SLAPP. An Anti-SLAPP: Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation. The Anti-SLAPP is devised to protect people from lawsuits that are set out to SILENCE or COERCE people for exercising their unalienable First Amendment right. F...

     Slam the Gavel welcomes Cristin Badal from NJ to the podcast. Cristin discussed the exposure of the systemic corruption and legal abuse she endured during her divorce case, Badal v. Badal in Morris County, NJ. Cristin detailed how her estranged husband weaponized the "silver bullet" divorce strategy, a premeditated legal attack designed through hearsay and lies to strip Cristin of h...

Slam the Gavel welcomes back Deanna Kloostra to the podcast. Deanna was last on Season 5, Episodes 60 and 201. Today we discussed the case of  14 year-old, Emily Pike, a teen who was missing and found murdered in Arizona. Deanna talked about the group homes, foster care and CPS that contribute to unhappy children and families that suffer through the systems.      Talking at length about being a Pr...

   Slam the Gavel welcomes Jessie Lake from Missouri to the podcast. Jessie tells her story of having twin girls absconded with by the Head of DSS in an article written in April 25th, 2020 by the Columbia Daily Tribune by Jackie Rehwald. The plot thickens. The girls were being forced to call the Head of DSS, "mom." There were also forged drug tests involved and plenty of conflicts of int...

    Slam the Gavel welcomes back Marc Fishman to the podcast. Marc was last on Season 5, Episodes 202 and 224. Marc Fishman, a Pro Se Litigant was on to announce his ingenious win in is case against Parental Alienation. Marc filed an Order to Show Cause, arguing that when a custodial parent willfully interferes with an order for visitation the non-custodial parent should not be penalized for misse...

   Slam the Gavel welcomes grandmother Claudette Collins who is a retired from healthcare and is a former Sunday School teacher in British Columbia, Canada.       Claudette has been falsely accused in Alberta Courts without evidence by her oldest adult daughter. Claudette has evidence, but the courts won't look at it and there has been court staff interference with court files. Removing names...

   Slam the Gavel welcomes Marineka Bowman to the podcast. Marineka was last on Season 3, Episodes 104, 131, 159, 160, 174 and 184, Season 4, Episodes 22, 48 and 61, Season 5, Episodes 149 and 210. Today we talked about constant Custodial Interference in keeping a mother from her daughter, favoritism with the father from staff and religious discrimination by staff at a Child Inc. Visitation Center...

   Slam the Gavel podcast welcomes Agness McCurry. She discussed how family court is in control and case fixing is going on. Federal Court was discussed  as well as Equal Protection Clause. To Reach Agness McCurry: TikTok: @agnessmccurry555 or agnessmccurry@gmail.com ****** Supportshow (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/maryannpetri) Maryann Petri: dismantlingfamilycourtcorruption.com https://www.tikto...

    Slam the Gavel welcomes back Attorney Kim Korven from Canada.  Kim was last on the podcast Season 5, Episodes 200 and 216. Today we discussed 50/50 shared parenting and its pitfalls to coparenting when a new relationship enters the picture.     Kim discussed, that, "The legal system is used to perpetuate abuse. The coercive control and gaslighting is unrelenting and its impact is Parental...