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Roughly 2.5 million domestic violence cases are reported each year; more than 1 million are false reports.

A system originally designed to protect against violent acts is now being used as a strategical tactic in divorce and child custody cases.

The powerful 30-minute documentary "DVI: The Inside Story" examines the impact of false domestic violence claims and a system that promotes these false allegations.

DadsDivorce.com editor Matt Allen interviewed filmmaker Tom Lemons about how the system is being abused and the devastating effects these false allegations have on men's lives.

Watch the interview below. A link to the documentary, which is well worth watching, is below the video.

By Matt Allen

Editor, DadsDivorce.com

Men who live in the South are more likely to get divorced than any other region in the country, according to a new report from the U.S. Census Bureau. The Northeast region has the lowest divorce rate.

The report's findings show the South has higher rates of marriage, higher rates of people marrying at a young age, and higher rates of divorce.

The data may come as a surprise to many who associate living in the South’s Bible Belt as being more socially conservative, yet the divorce rate is higher there.

By Matt Allen

Editor, DadsDivorce.com

There are now more children who live with unwed, cohabiting parents than with divorced parents and that affects fathers rights to child custody, according to a recent report. 

The National Marriage Project and the Institute for American Values reports there are 12 times as many cohabiting couples with children as there were in 1970.

By the time children reach 12 years old, 42 percent of them have lived with cohabitating parents while only 24 percent have lived with parents who have divorced, according to the National Survey of Family Growth.

If you are in a cohabiting relationship, you need to be aware of your rights to your children and if your partner has any rights to your assets should the relationship end.

Studies have shown non-marital unions are much less stable so it’s important to protect your interests before a break up.

Massachusetts is the latest state to enact sweeping changes to its archaic alimony laws, as alimony reform movements are gaining momentum around the country.

Both houses of the Massachusetts legislature unanimously voted to change the alimony laws, which put an end to lifetime alimony obligations and a cap on payments based on the duration of a marriage.

One of the forces behind the alimony reform movement is Elizabeth Benedict, a novelist and journalist whose op-ed piece in the Boston Globe in 2008 helped moved forward the alimony reform movement in Massachusetts.

Benedict talked with DadsDivorce.com editor Matt Allen about "medieval" alimony laws and what other states are in desperate need of reform. (Note: you can learn more about alimony reform movements in various states by visiting the sites MassAlimonyReform.org and FloridaAlimonyReform.com.)

By Matt Allen

Editor, DadsDivorce.com

Dr. Richard Warshak is widely known as one of the world's leading parental alienation experts.

So when he says change is coming to an adversarial family law system that promotes child custody disputes, people listen.

In a column appearing on HuffingtonPost.com, Warshak wrote the American Bar Association Section on Family Law partnering with the University of Baltimore School of Law Center for Families, Children and the Courts has launched a massive initiative that is poised to bring family law into the 21st century.