Father & Co.
Michael "Thunder" PhillipsWhat happens when the system designed to protect families becomes the source of harm? Father & Co. investigates family courts, custody disputes, and the mental health consequences of institutional failure.
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When Parental Alienation Becomes Child Abuse, and No One Can Cite It
Part four of an eight-part series examining five unreported appellate opinions in Reichert v. Hornbeck.
The Shadow Docket
On June 2, 2023, the Appellate Court of Maryland issued the most consequential unreported family law opi...
The Price of the Circuit
The family court network documented in this series does not run on professional inertia alone. It runs on federal money — billions of dollars annually flowing through grant programs that, by design or by structural drift, subsidize the s...
The Government Has Been Counting the Wrong Days
A Navy captain with 27 years of service audited his own PERSTEMPO record. What he found exposes a system that was never designed to measure what it claims to protect.
By Michael Phillips | Father & Co. | The Military Family Justice Proj...
The System Let Her Down First
On Thursday, an Arkansas judge dismissed the second-degree murder charge against Aaron Spencer, the Lonoke County Army veteran and farmer who shot and killed Michael Fosler in the early hours of October 8, 2024, after finding his 13-...
The Closed Loop: How AFCC Captured Maryland's Family Courts
By Michael Phillips | Father & Co.
When the Montgomery County Circuit Court ordered me to communicate with my son Dylan’s mother, Christina Avgerinos, through OurFamilyWizard, the premise was straightforward: a tamper-proof, timesta...
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I write across politics, law, media, family, and technology for Thunder Report, The Blue Heron (MDBayNews), Father & Co., and Tech Bay News. Interests include sports, science, psychology, music, space—and ADHD-fueled curiosity.
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