The board of the NPRA is sad to report the suicide early this morning of one of our members, a loving father, Gregory Eisenhauer.
Gregg lived in Alpharetta, GA and is survived by his three young children, Katie, John Patrick and David.
After a horrible three year court battle in Fulton County Georgia, Gregg finally received the judge's decision on Wednesday the day before Thanksgiving. That decision stripped him of any decision making in his children's lives and relegated him to "visitor" status with approximately 15% parenting time.
Gregg was a pillar of the community, and despite the many false allegations perpetrated upon him (as is usual in these cases) he remained committed to gaining shared custody of his children.
His former wife's attorneys, Nancy Lawler and Pilar Prinz did a brilliant job along with the aid, assistance and complicity of the Guardian ad litem, Susan Hurst; the Court Evaluator, Elizabeth King and the children's counselor Sandy Bastianello in breaking this father, financially and emotionally and casting aspersions on his good name. Gregg was a wonderful, involved and loving father at all times.
Judge Bensonetta Lane decided to rubber stamp the Court appointed evaluators rather than listen to the NPRA independent evaluators. Dr. Monty Weinstein and Karen Wagner testified as to Greg's fitness as a parent and the need to grant him shared parenting in the children's best interest.
Please keep Gregg and his children in your prayers. He will be truly missed. There will be a memorial service for him with details to follow.
Sincerely,
Dr. Monty Weinstein and Karen Wagner
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The greatest sadness (other than the impact to his children) is how easily I believe that this even happened. I've been there ---- on the edge of the cliff it was only via the grace of GOD that I'm still vertical today. After 12 yrs of battling the insane courts and 10 yrs of never seeing my own daughters I sometimes don't know what even keeps me going, other than to believe God has a bigger plan for me that I can't yet see. I wish Greg could of seen his.
ReplyDeleteThis is not the first time, very sadly, that a father has taken his own life under the duress of parental alienation from his children & a barage of attacks from the Georgia courts. I am a Stepmom of four amazing children who were put through the wringer along with my loving and caring husband. After reading about Gregg, my husband admitted to me that had I not come into his life, he was on the same path, G-d forbid! To all of the dad's out there, I am a woman who knows you adore your children, find a conselor, a family member, a companion and a support group to get you through this. We will continue to fight for the rights of Fathers and their children until justice is served in our courts. Even though divorce courts give out brochures that state the children have a right to love and be with both parents, and even step-parents, the courts in GA don't uphold these selfsame psychological and emotional studies done over the years in support of children and their fathers,amazing. Just because spouses don't get along, doesn't mean the children don't love and need their dads and vice versa. In fact, the courts should give custody to dads if moms use their children as tools to emotionally abuse the former spouse. Why? Because from our own experience, I know that the emotional and psychological toll on the child is more severe then on the father. The child has no way of discerning the truth, wants to trust the mother, but loves the father nad wants to be with him. The child lives in fear of the mothers anger, and in many cases, is made to keep secrets from the dad. This is child abuse and the courts need to protect the child from this type of abuse perpetrated on them by angery divorced women, no exceptions. Women should also be financially puniched when they withold visitation from the father, this is also emotional abuse of the child. Children first means custody goes to the father in such cases. Otherwise, the courts are giving lipservice to stating they protect the child. Stay strong dads! There are many women out there who are in full support of your rights and the rights of your precious children!
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