RaiseYourRights.org is a non-profit organization dedicated to giving families jury trial rights when summoned into a family or juvenile dependency court. and now probate courts too. Our goals are to end all false allegations, to promote settlement, and to limit unwarranted governmental interference in families by giving the layer of protection of jury trial rights.
Cases involving removing custody or legal rights to children, are heard by a judge in family and juvenile dependency courts. Never by a jury. California probate cases rarely allow juries as well. This puts families at risk of long, drawn-out, highly damaging court cases. The right to a decisive trial by jury (only if needed) gives targeted parents and beneficiaries a way through this difficult process in a fairer, more democratic way. Join RaiseYourRights.org today!
Read the blog from our Executive Director for updates, news, and more about our ballot initiative.
Donations will fund our boots-on-the-ground effort to collect the required “in-person” signatures
Read the California Attorney General’s prepared title, summary, and fiscal impact on California taxpayers in family and CPS courts
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Jury Trial Rights for Parents
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Project Description: Raise Your Rights is dedicated to bringing jury trial rights to parents in all states. Individual rights similar to the ones that only parents in Texas have. Starting
Perception—especially in childhood—is fragile, impressionable, and often more enduring than we realize. In parental alienation, the manipulation works precisely because it distorts the child’s developing understanding of reality, relationships, and
I get to see you today I am not allowed to touch you, to tell you what I want to tell you, to let you touch me The supervisor is
Probate court judges generally do not provide jury trials for beneficiaries, just as family and juvenile dependency courts in California do not provide jury trials for parents. In both systems,
