Sorry about your son’s experience with the court system.
I don’t know about the law in CA, but, in my state, there’s no bias in favor of one gender over another, even though many men say there is.
However, unfortunately, the law does not penalize the spouse who committed a wrong (cheated, lied, etc.). So, there are men ordered to make support payments to exes who cheated on them during the marriage. It’s not right.
OTOH, I’ve been coming across many women ordered to make support payments to their abusive and/or cheating ex-husbands. IMHO, the whole system needs to be reformed.
In this murder case, though, this police officer proved to be dangerous. His ex-wife was right. He proved her right when he killed her.
We could not agree more that the whole system needs to be reformed.
It should start with “domicilliary address”. The court should set that day one. In my cases, 9 years apart, I fought for the domicilliary address to be the county we had raised our child in for many years OR any contiguous county. That worked. Both kids had both parents throughout childhood!
Either parent could move to Borneo if they wanted, they just would not get to see their child.
In our case, we both stayed here and raised the kids together, well, LOL, so to speak. But, we were both at all their events and the proof is in the pudding. One is a CPA and one is building houses. Both have college degrees.