Child safety
Safety screening, urgent help boundaries, child protection concerns, and language that avoids minimizing abuse or coercive control.
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Pick one topic and make the draft safer, clearer, or more practical.
These topic cards help reviewers focus on one public issue at a time. Feedback should improve text, process, implementation, or safeguards without revealing private family facts.
Due process
Notice, opportunity to be heard, records, timing, access, and practical safeguards for fair process.
Review this topicCourt operations
Scheduling, forms, continuances, orders, handoffs, and implementation details that reduce avoidable family confusion.
Review this topicGAL and neutral fact-finding
Neutrality, scope, accountability, records, conflicts, child contact, and standards for fact gathering.
Review this topicMediation and supports
When mediation helps, when it should pause for safety, and what preparation lowers conflict.
Review this topicAttorney fees and affordability
Fee pressure, access to counsel, pro se realities, limited-scope help, and implementation concerns.
Review this topicData transparency
Public reporting, court-process transparency, delays, outcomes, and privacy-preserving measurement.
Review this topicImplementation costs
Municipal, county, state, court, school, provider, training, and technology impacts.
Review this topicConstitutional and process issues
Separation of powers, court independence, equal protection, procedural safeguards, and drafting limits.
Review this topicPlain-language voter summary
Whether ordinary voters can understand what the bill does, what it does not do, and what risks remain.
Review this topicBEST REVIEW FORMAT
One topic, one risk, one proposed fix.
The most helpful comments point to public text, explain the risk, suggest replacement language, and cite an official source, public report, statute, court rule, research source, or implementation example.
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Public education, not legal advice
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Safety boundary
Safety overrides site content
If someone is in immediate danger, use emergency and crisis resources first. Do not use this site to submit private allegations, child names, sealed records, medical files, or confidential court materials.
Child-first boundary
Children should not carry adult conflict
Tools are designed to reduce adult confusion and pressure, not to make children document adult disputes, choose sides, or act as messengers.