Bridget Marks

Bridget Marks was in the fight of her life for custody of her twin daughters whom she had had with a gambling mogul by the name of John Aylsworth–a married philanderer by all accounts. Bridget was accused of all that and the trial court gave the kids to the father and his wife. But she appealed. I am not sure if was the Appellate Division or the Court of Appeals but which ever it was, Bridget got her custody back.

Now it turns out that she didn’t stop there. She enlisted legislators up in Albany to draft a new law called “Bridget’s Law” that basically says that a parent cannot lose custody if they make a “good faith” effort to protect their kids. Says the New York Post. What happened was that John reconciled with his wife and both he and she proceeded to sue for custody of the girls he had with his consort Bridget and they won! The court felt that it was in the best interest of the babies to be raised by the father and his wife and not be their mother who was the father’s mistress in the past.

Apparently Bridget had accused the father of “molesting” the girls. And we know in New York there is an automatic transfer of custody if the court feels that the custodial parent invents charges of molestation and encourages the children to bring such charges (usually against the father) and essentially “poisons” and “alienates” the children from the non-custodial parent.