Mom sues judge over 3-year custody battle

Submitted by Matt on Wed, 2013-12-04 04:36

Article here. Less a story specific to MR but certainly tangentially relevant. Justice delayed is justice denied, and plenty of NCPs (almost all dads) know this from experience. The divorce/child custody mill is just far too easy for the wrong kind of people to exploit. Excerpt:

'A Manhattan mom is fed up with all the delays in her three-year child-custody battle — so she’s suing the judge.

Public-relations exec Maggie Rhee Karn claims in her $10 million federal lawsuit that Manhattan Family Court Referee Marva Burnett has been stringing out the case for more than three years, costing the mom more than $200,000 in legal fees while allowing her ex-husband to control major decisions about their 9-year-old’s schooling and religion.
...
Kenneth was given temporary custody after a court-appointed attorney for the child expressed concern to the judge that Maggie would relocate to a third apartment, according to a partial transcript.

“This is the worst case I’ve ever seen,” said Lask, a veteran family-law attorney.

A Westchester dad fighting for custody of his 2-year-old son sued Burnett this past March, claiming she left a motion pending for 474 days.

Maggie has been in court 40-plus times since 2009, when she filed for full custody and her husband countersued to have his daughter half of the time.
...
“This case has never been about the best interest of my child, but appears to be a financial profit to everyone Referee Burnett appoints,” Maggie wrote in a letter last February to Administrative Judge Edwina Richardson-Mendelson.

Kenneth’s attorney, Cheryl Solomon, told The Post that Maggie is partly to blame. Solomon noted that the mother has switched counsel twice and filed appeals that have slowed down the process.'

Like0 Dislike0

Comments

I mean, seriously. It's like buying a hang-glider. May be fun to take out and play with, but it's a lot of work. You only keep paying for it, too. It's not likely you'll make any money off it. But it'll cost you, you can be sure. And what if it crashes ( i.e., gets sick, dies, etc.)? All that invested, and lost.

On top of that, it's not really yours. Should the gov't decide to, they can take it from you. They can if your wife says she wants it even if she put it together but never paid for its upkeep or to take it out to a legally-recognized hang-gliding place.

It can also seriously grow to despise you. You may have earned it; but then, you may not have. Nonetheless, it'll probably want you to pay for its college.

A hang-glider... Hating you or wanting to go to college. :)

As you can see, my analogy doesn't quite make it.

But an ex-coworker once observed that having a kid is the most expensive hobby you can take up-- in many ways. Struggling through the madness of child custody battles and "family court" is just one.

Like0 Dislike0
Submitted by Matt on Wed, 2013-12-04 04:49