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The Respondent

Exposing the Cartel of Family Law

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Length 8 hours 25 minutes
Language English
Narrators Greg Ellis, Kevin Michael Richardson & Andrea Romano

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With The Respondent: Exposing the Cartel of Family Law, Hollywood veteran Greg Ellis delivers a gripping, unvarnished first-person account of family breakdown and the social, political, and legal forces that are fueling this national health emergency. It further exposes and condemns a gender bias that presumes that fathers are less effective caregivers.

Family breakdown is the single greatest threat to American society. Every day, more than four thousand children lose a parent because of our archaic and inhumane family-court system. Every day, ten divorced men commit suicide. And now, one in three children in our country are without their father.

The Respondent is Ellisโ€™s personal story about a Hollywood dream razed by internal and external forces. Part memoir, part meditation, and part manifesto, itโ€™s a timely and heartrending portrait of perhaps the most misunderstood aspect of the American legal system. Through its candor and moral strength, The Respondent offers guidance and hope. As such, itโ€™s an indispensable read for not only parents enduring the grief of child separation, but all interested in learning about the gross overreach and unrelenting brutality of family law.

Greg Ellis is a published author, television director, Annie Awardโ€“nominated voice artist, and Emmy Awardโ€“nominated actor. He has appeared in Oscar-winning movies, directed Hollywood superstars, produced and written television shows, starred in Broadway musicals, and voiced animated characters for movies, television series, cartoons, and over 120 video games. His major motion picture film credits include the Pirates of the Caribbean series, Titanic, Star Trek, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, and Beowulf. His television credits include 24, X-Files, CSI, Dexter, NCIS, and Hawaii Five-O. With his production company, Monkey Toes, Mr. Ellis has written and directed projects for Kiefer Sutherland and Stephen Fry. He is also the host of several popular video podcasts, including The Respondent. Additionally, he runs the Alive Institute, which helps people address past problems and improve their future, and the multimedia child-advocacy program the Respondent, which inspires family champions through the nonprofit Children and Parents United (CPU).

Greg Ellis is a published author, television director, Annie Awardโ€“nominated voice artist, and Emmy Awardโ€“nominated actor. He has appeared in Oscar-winning movies, directed Hollywood superstars, produced and written television shows, starred in Broadway musicals, and voiced animated characters for movies, television series, cartoons, and over 120 video games. His major motion picture film credits include the Pirates of the Caribbean series, Titanic, Star Trek, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, and Beowulf. His television credits include 24, X-Files, CSI, Dexter, NCIS, and Hawaii Five-O. With his production company, Monkey Toes, Mr. Ellis has written and directed projects for Kiefer Sutherland and Stephen Fry. He is also the host of several popular video podcasts, including The Respondent. Additionally, he runs the Alive Institute, which helps people address past problems and improve their future, and the multimedia child-advocacy program the Respondent, which inspires family champions through the nonprofit Children and Parents United (CPU).

Twice Emmy nominated Kevin Michael Richardson has a storied career voicing villainous characters in animation and video games. In film, Richardson voiced Goro in Mortal Kombat and Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge, Captain Gantu in the Lilo & Stitch series, and Deus Ex Machina in The Matrix Revolutions. He has also voiced characters on Seth MacFarlane's shows Family Guy, The Cleveland Show, and American Dad!. Richardson is also known for his roles as Trigon in both Teen Titans and Teen Titans Go!, Antauri in Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!, as the second voice of Dr. Hibbert and various others in The Simpsons, Rosie in F Is for Family, Barney Rubble in The Flintstones: On the Rocks and the Mauler Twins and Monster Girl in Invincible. He received two Daytime Emmy Award nominations for voicing the Joker in The Batman (2004โ€“2008).

Iconic voice director and eight-time Emmy Award winner Andrea Romano has been casting and directing voices for over thirty-one years. Her credits include a five and a half year stint as casting director at Hanna Barbera, directing Disney's DuckTales, Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers, and some seasons of The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, many of Universal's Land Before Time home videos, Tiny Toon Adventures, Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain, as well as Batman: The Animated Series, Superman: The Animated Series, Batman Beyond, Teen Titans, and Justice League. Also for Warner Bros., Andrea directed twenty-three direct to video films in conjunction with DC Comics and Warner Home Video. Her other credits include three seasons of The Boondocks for Sony, Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Legend of Korra, El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera, and SpongeBob SquarePants for Nickelodeon, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Turbo Fast, The Adventures of Puss in Boots, and Voltron: Legendary Defender.

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โ€œYou will need some help. This book is that help.โ€

 โ€œI encourage you to read Greg Ellisโ€™s book, The Respondent, a fresh and updated take from an American divorce court, where some things have changed (now men are seekingโ€”and in some instances even gainingโ€”sole custody of their children, either justifiably or as the result of the malignant parental alienation that plagued them for so long) and some things are, unconscionably, the same. Divorce court, divorce mediation, custody evaluations, forensic accountingsโ€ฆItโ€™s all a foreign land to most people and one where you can easily lose your sanity coming to terms with the senseless rules that govern there, rules that will potentially affect the rest of your life. You will need some help. This book is that help.โ€

โ€œThe Respondent is both a chilling reminder and essential therapy for anyone navigating the recrimination and trauma that is modern American divorce. It is also both diagnosis and prescription, mediating on the depths of the crisis and the way out. Greg Ellis sets the record straight and shatters the myths of divorce court. If youโ€™re trapped in the dungeon that is the family court system, The Respondent should be your constant companion.โ€ 

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