Your request is being processed... Court Forces Hispanic Catholic Woman To Follow Orthodox Jewish Rules

[trillium13 84]

Laura Derbigney tries to bring a little of her Hispanic upbringing into her family life.

"I like to shop at Hispanic-owned stores," she said. "I make tacos, I make enchiladas, I make flautas."

But not on the weekends, according to a court order.

She can't prepare pork or other traditional foods on weekends. She can't drive or use electricity on Saturdays. In fact, a judge has mandated that this Hispanic Catholic from Chicago follow Orthodox Jewish restrictions during the Sabbath.

The reason? Her new husband, recently divorced from a strictly observant Jewish woman. A divorce court has ruled that the seven-year-old son of that marriage must live an Orthodox lifestyle even while in the care of his father and step-mother, according to an NBC Chicago report.

(Scroll down for an interview with Ms. Derbigney.)

The boy's mother has even asked that Derbigney and her husband buy the boy's food from a specific grocery store, on suspicion that he was fed a non-kosher hot dog at his father's house.

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Joel Brodsky, Derbigney's attorney, is incensed. From NBC:

"Just because you're divorced, the court can't say how to live your lives or what grocery store you can go to," Brodsky said. "The next step is going to be a Muslim father with custody. During the next visitation, is the mother going to have to wear a burka? That's where we're heading. Divorce courts have to stop getting in the way of religion."

If the case and its lawyer sound oddly familiar, it's because they are. Strangely enough, this is the second case this year of a Chicago custody dispute involving a Jewish mother and a Hispanic Catholic.

Brodsky was also the attorney for Joseph Reyes, a father whose Jewish ex-wife demanded that he not take their daughter to church after he baptized the girl without her mother's knowledge. A judge issued a restraining order preventing him from taking her to church, which he violated. In the final ruling, Reyes was allowed to bring his daughter to worship with him.

In this more recent case, neither of the seven-year-old boy's biological parents could speak to the press due to a gag order.

But Laura Derbigney asked the one question that drove straight to the heart of the problem:

"What about my culture in this? What about my husband's culture?"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/18/court-forces-hispanic-cat_n_580231.html

wth, I don't know how that "your request is being processed" got into the title.

If a mod is able to remove that, feel free.

Edited May 19, 2010 by trillium13

[Dr. Obvious 49]

If raising children with her religion was so important to her, then she should have thought about all of this before she married someone outside of her faith and then divorced him.

Edited May 20, 2010 by Wacken

[Nagishkaw 510]

0i.

[thongd4me 69]

That's par for the course in divorces processed by the US court system.

Unfortunately the norm is to crush the father until he looks like

a gelatenous pulp spit out by a Gozzilla-knockoff B-movie monster.

If the kid is in the father's custody the kid is in the father's custody.

If the kid is in the mother's custody, it seems okay that she

only ask for money but not give even the slightest hint that

the kids are actually alive. My ex is of the opinion that she

just merely has to wish something to get the court to agree.

As far as my rights that are in the divorce agreement,

they don't actually exist in reality.

What about when the kid is in the mom's custody, does he

get Christmas presents and have a decorated tree prominently

in the living room? Fairness is never an issue in US divorces.

Fuçk you and have a nice day!

Finished my rant. I'll go back to my corner and take a seat...

Edited May 20, 2010 by thongd4me

[The_Dude 1,142]

You're a bit late on this topic, I posted it 2 days ago

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