CHILD CUSTODY

Ms. Rockey has represented hundreds of parents, grandparents, step-parents and other relatives in visitation and custody cases. Ms. Rockey focuses on complex custody cases, including issues of:

• Child Physical & Sexual Abuse

• Domestic Violence

• Mental Health

• Substance Abuse

• Protective Parents

• Parental Alienation

• LGBT

Read more about Protecting Your Child in a custody case here. If you want Ms. Rockey to consider representing you or being a LEGAL CASE CONSULTANT in your case, send her an email with the form on the Contact & Consultation page here.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PROTECTION

Ms. Rockey has represented hundreds of battered women. In NC, you can apply for an emergency Domestic Violence Protective Order, pursuant to NCGS Ch. 50B (“DVPO” or a “50B”), any time on your own at the Clerk of Superior Court’s office or after hours, at the Magistrate’s office. You can contact the local battered women’s shelter for counseling, safety planning or an emergency and safe place for you and your children to stay. Ms. Rockey can help you file your case, or take the case after you file it, to represent you at the “10 day” hearing (the trial). If you want Ms. Rockey to consider representing you or being a LEGAL CASE CONSULTANT in your case, send her an email with the form on the Contact & Consultation page here.

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DSS/CPS CASES

Ms. Rockey has represented hundreds of parents in Department of Social Services (“DSS”)/ Child Protective Services (“CPS”) abuse, neglect, dependency, and termination of parental rights cases in Juvenile Court. If you have been contacted by DSS / CPS, you need to talk to a lawyer immediately. The sooner you get legal advice, the better the chance that you can prevent your children from being placed in foster care. If your children have been placed in foster care, you need a lawyer to represent you who has experience dealing with DSS / CPS to help you do the right things as soon as possible. If you fail to meet the requirements set by DSS / CPS and the Court, the end result will likely be that you will either have your parental rights terminated (so that your children can be adopted) or your children will be placed in the permanent guardianship or custody of someone else (possibly a relative). If you want Ms. Rockey to consider representing you or being a LEGAL CASE CONSULTANT in your case, send her an email with the form on the Contact & Consultation page here.

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USING THE FULLY RATIFIED

EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT

“Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.” XXVIII, U.S. CONSTITUTION

The fully legal and ratified ERA provides women, who have been discriminated against because of their sex, with legal Strict Scrutiny by the courts, over a 70% chance of winning their cases, to protect the rights of women suffering systemic abuse, and to set strong precedents for other court cases to come, including:

Protective Mothers, who seek to protect their children from the children’s physically and/or sexually abusive fathers, lose custody to those abusers often 55-70% of the time, and sometimes even lose contact with their children. This has been happening all over the country since the 1980s.

Read Ms Rockey’s ERA LEGAL BLOG and about the Protective Mothers’ ERA Appeals below.

For more info about why this has been happening for decades, review my article Protecting Your Child, and the other pages regarding Preparing for Your Consultation & Gathering Evidence.

Other types of cases in which women’s rights will be strengthened after the ERA is declared the valid 28th Amendment, although, it can, is and should be used widely in cases now, include:

• Survivors of Sexual Assault who, instead of having the law enforcement system protect them and criminally charge their perpetrators, the criminal investigators turn on them quickly, don’t do even minimally adequate investigations of the real crimes, and turn viciously on the victims, intimidate, coerce and frequently criminally charge the victims, causing them further mental anguish, lasting physical injuries, and causing these victims to have to endure bogus, expensive and lengthy criminal court cases, as the defendants! I am here to sue the law enforcement agencies with civil rights violations, to demand a real investigation of the original horrific crimes, and to civilly sue the perpetrators.

For more info about these cases, watch the Netflix Documentary VICTIM / SUSPECT.

If you want Ms. Rockey to consider representing you or being a LEGAL CASE CONSULTANT in your case, send her an email with the form on the Contact & Consultation page.

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The status of the ERA & why Women need a Court Order declaring it to be the 28th Amendment

To learn why Women need the ERA recognized by the Courts and published in the U.S. Constitution, watch #KamalaLopez in her documentary, EQUAL MEANS EQUAL

See the trailer & reviews here, watch it streaming on demand, as it is has the background on the ERA, with interviews of national feminists, like Gloria Steinem, and with an explanation about all the rights it will protect. Kamala Lopez and her activist group, Equal Means Equal (.org), (for which I have served as a Legal Advisor since 2023), used that documentary in states that had not yet ratified the ERA, working extremely diligently to gain the last three states needed to finally fully ratify the ERA. They, as always, PERSEVERED! Working in coalition with other ERA advocates, they were successful in getting Nevada, Illinois, and on January 27, 2020, the last necessary state to finally RATIFY THE #ERA, Virginia!

January 27, 2020 was date the ERA, per Article V (five) of the US Constitution, legally became the 28th Amendment to our national Constitution.

However, under Trump’s Attorney General, Bill Barr, the Dept. of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel declared in an Opinion that only applied as the official legal analysis for the Executive Branch, that the unconstitutional Deadline in the Resolution (preface/introduction with reasons for the ERA) — but was not in the TEXT (words) of the proposed Amendment — was valid, meaning that, until there is a Court Order finding it is valid and it is the 28th Amendment. So, the Archivist refused to certify and publish it until there is a court order saying that the ERA was the 28th Amendment.

However, the Archivist’s duty to publish immediately is a federal law, 1 USC §106b, which is a mandatory, gives the Archivist an independent duty she/he must publish forthwith (immediately) all amendments for which she/he receives ratifications of it from 3/4 (38/50) of the states, which had occurred after Virginia ratified. Further, the Archivist has no actual legal authority to use any discretion as to whether the Archivist can decide whether or not to publish a newly ratified Amendment. When the Archivist receives the Ratification from the final necessary state, boom, without any thinking about it, the Archivist SHALL (must) publish the Amendment forthwith (immediately). That list of ratifications is on the Archivist’s website. So, Trump and Attorney General Bill Barr, in my legal opinion, OBSTRUCTED JUSTICE for all women, approximately 51% of our population.

Further, under Article II, every President has a Constitutional legal DUTY to “TAKE CARE that the laws be faithfully executed”(carried out), here 1 USC §106. So, Trump again is blocking women from full legal equality!

We now have no choice but to seek a court order declaring the ERA.is the valid 28th Amendment, which has been established, but now we’re using different types of cases than in 2020. EME is seeking such a court order declaring that the ERA is fully ratified, with a class action in federal court now.

Ms. Rockey was lead counsel for the over 80 friends of the Court and filed the Amicus Curaie Brief in all levels of federal court, which is included at this link. See her ERA Legal Blog that covers Ms. Rockey’s, and others’ efforts since 2020.

The ERA will give Protective Mothers nationally about a 70% chance of winning their Custody cases to be able to protect their Children.

It will also protect many other rights denied to women for 250 years! Watch the award-winning documentary film EqualMeansEqual(.com) explaining many different rights the ERA should protect now but will protect after the U.S. Supreme Court declares that the Equal Rights Amendment IS the 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Graphic above used with permission of KAMALA LOPEZ, ERA Activist Extraordinaire, the writer, director, producer, narrator, & interviewer of this documentary, Equal Means Equal (.com), and Founder and Executive Director of the ERA Advocacy organization, Equal Means Equal (.org). Kamala is also an amazing and experienced actor. (If you have IMDBPro, look at her reel). I am trying to get her to play Elizabeth Cady Stanton (“ECS”) in my film, The First Suffragist, who convened the first women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls, NY, in 1848. Feminist director and activist, Angela Shelton, is attached. It includes Susan B. Anthony’s trial for voting illegally. ECS’ great-great granddaughter, through the Elizabeth Cady Stanton Trust, is currently and has been an amicus on EME’s Amicus Briefs, including the 2020 ERA Amicus I wrote to the U.S. Supreme Court (EME v. Ferriero) and EME’s current case, Equal Means Equal, et al. v. Trump, in federal court in Boston, in which there is an argument on September 15, 2025. See EME’s .org Legal Actions and News pages for more info on their cases, including the Texas Reproductive Rights cases. PLEASE BECOME AN EME MEMBER &/or donate to them (tax deductible) on EME’s national ERA advocacy organization, Equal Means Equal (.org).