Mark Dagostino

As a young reporter working for the Boston Globe’s New Hampshire Weekly bureau in Manchester, I began fielding complaints about the horrors of the NH Family Courts… in 1992. And the flood of complaints has never stopped coming in the 33 years since. I have also been personally involved in witnessing the case of a close friend, who has been dragged back to the family court, fraudulently, and relentlessly, by her ex for 13 straight years — with no negative consequences to him, whatsoever — specifically due to the unsustainable discretionary actions of Mark Weaver, Jennifer Lemire, and other unethically biased judges in the Brentwood court alone. A portion of that case is currently unresolved and active at the NH Supreme Court, and is available for your review: case# 2023-0443. From tampering with records and transcripts, to blocking rightful testimony, ignoring all rules of evidence, discriminating against those who should be protected by the ADA, refusing rightful recusal requests, showing favoritism and cronyism, to endangering the health and well-being of children and the mothers who bore them without so much as a properly served hearing, I have witnessed this division of our Judiciary act with impunity while directly harming, rather than helping, for decades. While attempts at reform (such as the abolishment of the Marital Master program a few years ago now) were meant to help, they only made matters worse by giving these judges more unfettered and unmonitored power. Today, nothing short of abolishing the family division can come close to resolving the long history of harm and the tremendous cost to New Hampshire families, and taxpayers, that the existence of this lawless and uncontrolled kangaroo court has perpetrated on our citizenry. I say this as a bestselling author and journalist who has covered some of the most extreme cases of courts gone wrong in this country. The time to make this change is long overdue.