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STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS, CONT’D
• Remember you can have any advisor you want. That person may be an attorney, a trusted friend, a clergyperson, or someone with expertise in Title IV. And you can have more than one.
• Take a look at the CPG clergyfinder to identify the Bad Guy’s canonical residency. It may or may not be diocese where he works. In most cases, the diocese where he’s canonically resident is where you want to file your complaint. But if you have a dirtbag bishop when it comes to clergy discipline, you can also file where the misconduct occurred. If it makes sense to do that, go for it, and let the bishops involved duke it out.
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• Worst case scenario: Title IV complaints are only preclusive if there has been an accord or the matter has been heard by a hearing panel. So if you’ve been dismissed, you can keep at it, until the statute of limitations in the canons runs (2 years for some things, 10 years for most things, no statute of limitation for two things — sexual abuse of a child or violence).
