TN Family Brings National Attention To Child Custody Cases
Posted by admin on 27 Nov 2008 | Tagged as: TV, radio, videos, podcasts, divorce, equal custody advocates, fatherhood, news |
During this holiday season people are thankful for many different things.
Equal Custody for Parents
For Jeremy Hopkins, this Thanksgiving is the first big holiday he’s gotten to spend with his daughter Kate in 2 years.
The same amount of time Hopkins has wrangled through the Bradley County court system to get equal custody of his little girl Kate.
“All I want for my daughter is for her to have mom and a dad,” Jeremy Hopkins said in tears.
But his story - not unusual.
“The system allows this to happen, “Michael McCormick with the Institute for American Families said.
McCormick traveled from D.C. and stood on the Bradley County Courthouse steps Wednesday to shed light on the Hopkin’s case and many more like them.
In fact he says a million plus children pass through the family courts each year.
