Family Court:
Fake Therapy

Administrative Family Courts (AFC) employ hourly or salaried individuals as administrative law judges (ALJs). The AFC courts function as the business processing center for Child Support, Child Protective Services, and Youth Detention agencies, essentially creating an enterprise ecosystem to sustain these agencies. When parents object, ALJs can ensure cases proceed by fabricating case facts, this can help ensure the maximum profits for the system on a per family basis.

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Family court management has been reported to use temporary orders to prolong cases by removing one parent from their active parenting role. Various strategies can be used to gain compliance and keep families entangled in a system that persists until children age out. One such tool is unjustified therapy recommendations. However, these recommendations are without merit and are costly services that generate income for the family court enterprise therapists while draining the families’ financial resources which further hurts them in court.

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For years, victims and survivors have complained about this abuse of power, where access to children is used as leverage and placed under unjustified conditions. It has been documented across states that family court-recommended therapy is rarely covered by insurance, as it doesn’t meet the criteria for "medical necessity"—which requires a diagnosed mental health condition by a certified professional with practice experience. Insurance plans have openly denied coverage, viewing these court-ordered therapies as a pay-to-play scheme focused on a fabricated relationship management recommendation rather than valid reasons or treating a specific mental health issue.