 |
|
|
 |
The author is twice married and
divorced. Her 1979 divorce entailed no substantial assets or children,
involved 1 attorney, cost $125.00 and took 3 months to finalize. Her
1997 divorce entailed undisclosed millions in assets, 2 children,
involved 10 attorneys, cost her over $200,000 and took 4 years and 4
months to finalize.
The divorce itself took 22 months. The
next 14 months were spent battling to receive the few assets she was
awarded as her ex-husband refused to turn them over as the court had
ordered. The next 16 months were spent in a lawsuit attempting to
enforce her children’s rights which ended when the money ran out.
The experience and outcome has been a
total “Nightmare in the Twilight Zone of Hell” ordeal where absolutely
everything that could go wrong did. The author’s motivation for writing
this book is to spare other couples and their children from the possible
devastating results in divorce and child custody court. If she would
have had the information in this book, she and her children would have
had a chance for justice in their case, and would not have had to suffer
the physical, mental, emotional, and financial abuse that they continue
to endure.
The state where the author divorced is a
community property state, which legally entitled her to a 50/50 split,
yet she didn’t receive a fraction of a fraction of half even though all
assets were acquired during the marriage.
Her ex-husband had nothing when he met her
and couldn’t read or write English; he had the speaking ability of a 5
year old.
The author founded their first corporation
from scratch. She didn’t receive a penny of compensation from that
corporation, or any from the 3 companies that stemmed from it, even
though her ex-husband’s first attorney stated in open court before the
first judge that “she is due compensation for her contributions.”
There were 14 commercial real estate
holdings attached to her ex-husbands name in one county alone. She
wasn’t awarded any of those properties, in fact, that evidence was never
even presented as the attorney that represented her through trial was
really working in her ex-husband’s best interest. There are countless
similar examples of incompetence, injustice, or immorality in the
author’s case. The author’s state is one of 8 states that allow private
campaign contributions to judge’s election campaigns. According to the 4th
of the 10 attorneys in her case, the author’s ex “made a very generous
contribution to the second judge’s first election campaign.” It is very
probable that he also made generous contributions to the first judge in
the case, at least 4 of the author’s attorney’s, and several witnesses
and employees.
The author was given 20 days to vacate the
5000 sq. ft. home she selected everything for down to the color of the
mortar between the bricks.
She had to sell the grand piano that her
children learned to play on for the deposit on an apartment and moving
expenses. She was awarded a vehicle along with the $702.21 monthly
payment, and $37,000 in joint credit card debt.
She was only awarded $1000.00 a month in
child support for 2 children, even though the previous year’s tax return
reflected earnings close to $600,000. She wasn’t awarded alimony, even
though she had lived with her husband for over 11 years. Her state
allowed alimony after 10 years of marriage. All the money from
liquidating the few assets she was awarded was paid to attorneys and
other divorce related debts.
The judge was in contempt of her own
ruling in her own courtroom as she refused to sign the QDRO (Qualified
Domestic Relations Order) that she herself ordered.
The author’s ex-husband openly admitted
before this judge that he had been committing adultery throughout the
entire marriage with no negative consequence to him in any way.
The very well renowned and respected
court-appointed evaluator in the author’s case recommended to the judge
that the author be awarded “Sole Managing Conservatorship” of the
children. The judge awarded their abusive and uncaring father “Joint
Custody with Primary Possession.”
The children, ages 10 and 11, at the
suggestion of the oldest child wrote letters to the judge begging her to
please not force them to go with their father, threatening suicide if
she did. The letters weren’t even acknowledged by the judge, and at this
point in time the pictures proving physical abuse that were personally
hand delivered to the judge by the author, are missing
from the children’s files.
President George W. Bush had personally
appointed the judge in this case, and was contacted about this
matter. The children’s suicide letters were included in the documents
presented to him in July of 1997. He responded by letter in February of
1998, (8 months later), stating that the Texas legislature would
reconvene in January of 1999, (11 months later), and that the author
should write a letter to her legislative representative at that time.
The author and her children’s survival are
due to one miracle after another and the angels that arrived with them,
saving them from the family law court system. Without them they would
have been homeless, and the author’s joint custody rights regarding her
children revoked for not being able to provide them a
home. Unfortunately, this scenario plays itself out in some form in
courtrooms across the United States of America everyday. Americans
shouldn’t need miracles to survive a system that promises “Justice for
All.”
|
|||||
|
||||||