Father Equal Treatment Act of 2007

THE HOLLAND BILL

To provide for equal treatment, irrespective of gender, in child custody proceedings, and prevent the misuse of restraining orders in judicial proceedings involving minor children.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the `Father Equal Treatment Act of 2007'.

SEC. 2. CHILD CUSTODY DECISIONS.

(a) It shall be unlawful for any judicial or government body to render a child custody decision based on gender.

(b) Child custody decisions shall be rendered only in respect to the best interests of the children.

(c) Any parent not accorded equal treatment pursuant to section 2(a) and 2(b) above may bring an action in the district court of the United States where the minor children reside. The court shall issue an injunction requiring equal custody until the issue has been adjudicated and an appropriate custody judgment is final.

(d) Any obvious gender preferential judgment shall cause the State wherein the decision was issued to be liable for the amount of $50,000 for each minor child, and the judge issuing the preferential judgment shall be suspended from the bench for a period of one month without pay. Any additional preferential judgments issued by the same, as so deemed by the district court, will be cause for permanent removal from family law court.

SEC. 3. UNLAWFUL USE OF RESTRAINING ORDER IN DIVORCE PROCEEDINGS INVOLVING MINOR CHILDREN.

(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to file a restraining order in any court of law under false pretenses where the malicious intent is to separate the other parent from his/her children. Examples of such malicious intent include:

(1) Fabricating unfavorable actions on the part of the other parent

(2) Fabricating unsubstantiated verbal, physical, or sexual abuse

(3) Fabricating unsubstantiated substance abuse

(b)Any person filing or influencing a person to file a restraining order pursuant to section 3(a) shall be guilty of a felony, carrying a mandatory sentence jail sentence of no less than 6 months, and the offended party will permanently become the primary custodial parent.