Updates
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Warrior Family Advocacy appeared in two interviews over the past 12 months. The Star Chamber Podcast 30 July 2025:
How to lose your children DoD style in 1,2,3 family advocacy administrative proceedings and their potentially devastating outcomes.
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=QlBuCEcQui4
Walk the Talk Foundation, 6 July 2024: How to lose your children DoD style in 1,2,3 family advocacy administrative proceedings and their potentially devastating outcomes.
Stories of Service (S.O.S) Podcast, 9 October 2025:
Army Veteran Exposes Family Court Bias Against Service Members
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cluPf6kNgjs
Military.com, 25 December 2025: A System Few Understand: Why FAP IDCs Face Rising Scrutiny and Calls for Reform
Presentation to the Association and Family Conciliation Courts (AFCC) annual family law conference held in New Orleans, La in May 2025.
Key Effort 1: Education
Key Effort 2: Policy Change
WFA is proud to report that the Department of War responded in October 2025 to WFA’s NDAA 2025 direct report requirement on addressing the issues Servicemembers and Veterans are facing in family court, specifically child custody determinations. WFA has also led the charge to advocate for change to the Family Advocacy Program Incident Determination Committee which exists within each of the military branches and is overseen by the Department of War Military Community and Family Policy.
Key Effort 4: Legal Support
Over 100 Service-members and Veterans served in the past 24 months.
$5425.00 in funds distributed since 2024 to Service-members and Veterans to assist with legal fees associated with child custody matters.
Key Case: Service-member parent experienced an absolute nightmare. Their two children were taken overseas to Germany by their former spouse who is a German citizen. This was a violation of the child custody order. WFA provided funds to the Service-member parent to support hiring an attorney in Germany to file a Hague Convention motion.
What is the Hague Convention on Child Abduction:https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/International-Parental-Child-Abduction/abductions/legain-info-for-parents/why-the-hague-convention-matters.html
Need help finding legal services: Please reach out to the American Bar Association (ABA) through the ABA Military Pro Bono Project. (Add this to the first page of the website).
Key Effort 5: Research and Publications
Family Court Review 2025: Got your six? Veterans and the family court system.
Military Law Review 2025: The procedural due process concerns of the army family advocacy program case review committee.
New articles and important resources related to child custody when a Servicemember or Veteran.
https://www.dailyjournal.com/articles/370501-veterans-issues-come-to-family-law
Are you also wanting to effect change?
Reach out to the following:
1. Officer of Congressmen Mike Turner of Ohio. He has been a vocal advocate of Service-members and Veterans who have to deal with issues of child custody where their service is weaponized against them.
2. Reach out to Mark Ludwig of the National Council for Equal Shared Parenting https://ncesp.org/
3. Reach out to the Department of War Office of Military Community and Family Policy.
