Gay Marriage Ends Alienation Begins

It had to happen eventually. The Homosexuals have fought for marriage and now, like the rest of us, they fight for access to their children.
Welcome to Family Court Hell Guys.

Discord grew after gay couple profiled in series adopted a child
Joshua Glazer and Eric Hyett married in May 2004 on the first day same-sex couples could wed in Massachusetts.
By Patricia Wen
Globe Staff / September 14, 2008
It was a warm, sunny morning in May 2004, the first day same-sex couples were allowed to wed in Massachusetts. Eric Hyett and Joshua Glazer had joined the line of giddy, nervous, hopeful souls waiting outside Brookline Town Hall to get marriage certificates.

Wearing dark suits and blue ties, and flowers in their lapels, they had arrived with a sense of the historic moment, but also very traditional expectations for their married life ahead. They looked forward to sharing good work, travel, a peaceful, happy home and, some day, children to raise together.

And, as it happened, the years ahead would bring them all those things – until, too soon, the happiness ran dry, and peace gave way to war.

Two years into their marriage – a uniquely public affair, chronicled in depth in a Globe series – the two men had been euphoric when a single pregnant woman from New York City selected them to raise her baby. After she delivered a healthy boy on Sept. 11, 2006, the infant went into the arms of Hyett and Glazer, who later jointly signed the adoption papers. Last fall, they moved the expanded Hyett-Glazer household to Manhattan.

But soon thereafter, for reasons they still struggle to describe, their relationship imploded. Now the couple is locked in a custody battle over their adopted child, a battle that would take a bizarre and desperate turn, and lead to Hyett’s appearance as a handcuffed defendant in court last week.

The shattering of their family became fodder for New York tabloids which last month chronicled Hyett’s decision, after a long-weekend visit with his son, to flee with him to Israel, triggering headlines calling him “Gay Dad ‘Kidnapper’.” Glazer, who has had primary custody of the boy, successfully retrieved the child with the help of international authorities. The boy, he said, is happy to be “back to his routine.”

Hyett pleaded guilty last week to custodial interference. He has been held since Aug. 22 without bail in a solitary cell on Rikers Island in New York City. Under his plea agreement, he is expected to remain there for the balance of his 45-day sentence.

In a prison interview, Hyett, 38, a business consultant who graduated from Brookline High School and Harvard College, said the past year had been emotionally devastating, including coping with news that he is HIV positive. (Glazer said he has so far tested negative.) Hyett insisted he is mentally stable, but made an irrational decision to travel to Israel with his son to try to gain custody, through a different jurisdiction and more say over the upbringing of his child.

OK we’ve been through this before so we know what’s coming.
Spend everything you have on a “good” Attorney, Fees, Court Appointed Psychologists, Guardian Ad Litems, Evaluators, Mediators, Social Workers then you lose your home and all your assets. After countless family court appearances, dismissals, postponements, mental breakdowns and years of your life your Attorney “withdraws” from your case because you have no more to give.
Your back to square one and the Family court and all its dependants have transfered everything you had, begged, borrowed and stole to themselves.

We knew you were comming so we baked you a cake.

Now, your not going to wait with a gun in a parking garage after court for the “honorable” judge, so grab a sign and come with me.