Atheists & Agnostics

That is the practice of the Courts, the PARTIES PICK THEIR OWN COUNSELORS. The court ONLY order Counseling. Once a Counselor is picked the Court will enter an order to that the party MUST go to that Counselor and finish the counseling sessions, who in turn will file with the court a paper saying the sessions were completed. If someone dislikes the counselor they themselves had selected, they could ask the court to appoint someone else, but it is up to the party to find the new counselor NOT the courts.

Thus this counselor was one PICKED By the Mother, who later disliked going to the sessions. Religion, I suspect was only one of many reasons, the main reason is the mother did not believe she needed such counseling (Such refusal is not uncommon, thus the tendency for the courts to ORDER such counseling).

My point is the proper procedure was to ask the court to change the Order to a different counselor, but it had to be one who agreed to counsel and been approved by the court (Which is also the requirements of the counselor this Mother is objecting to) AND found by the Mother (Again just like the first counselor).

Thus the Court only ORDER her to go to Counselor, one of her own selection. The Courts did NOT select this counselor, the Mother did (or more accurately I suspect her attorney). The Mother is now complaining about being ORDERED to go to counseling that she did not believe she needed. No one ordered her to go to a religious counselor, she selected this one herself. That is the practice in the courts, for the Courts can NOT order a Counselor to see someone unless such a Counselor agrees, thus when the Court Order for Counseling is entered, all the parties first have to agree to it.

Thus since this was an agreed order, no appeal. The Mother's only option was to find another counselor and get the Court Order changed. Instead of doing that she disobeyed a court order and then lost her kids till she obeyed the order.