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long as you stop when the Judge puts it in the court order and if you don't have the money to pay your attorney fees, that's OK too, because the Judge will order the grandma who brought this matter up and embarrassed the court to pay them

It's OK to hide out for 16 years and avoid you own child support, collect 6 DWIs, and a criminal record, tie your wife up with a chain and drag her down the driveway while her children watch and threaten to kill them if they try to run for help, if you wait 10 years after the last DWI the court will administratively dismiss that outstanding child support warrant and take those grandkids you've never had a thing to do with and give them to you.

It's OK if your very twisted wife, (who was abandoned by her own parents and left to be raised in foster homes) it's OK if she gets upset sometimes and beats the children with her fists, or shocks them with a dog collar or beats them with the dog collar antenna until it breaks into. You can't hold against a person those occasional little losses of self- control, especially when she is married to a known batterer. She must unleash all her pent up anguish somewhere and those kids, those kids, that the court just gave them, that are costing them so much money that now she can't get her teeth fixed and must compress her lips and try to speak so you don't notice all the decay, those kids are the perfect target.

It's OK for lawyers to lie to their clients, to tell them they are not allowed to appeal and cost them their chance of doing so

It's OK for attorneys acting as GALS to lie thru their teeth, conspire and show outright prejudice for the emotionally challenged, even when they are on the board of directors for the local mental health center. It's OK for them to take on a mantle of second defense council for one party, rather than being the independent unbiased liaison for the children that they were appointed to be.

It's OK for the attorney writing the court order to put "the parties agree" when no-one has agreed to anything

It's OK for one attorney to forge another attorney's name on a continuance agreement document, even if he gets the wrong attorney down there, just so that space is not left blank

Its OK that one child just suffered one beating with a belt because he only made A/B honor roll instead of straight As. Its OK that he doesn't talk much anymore, that he stays doubled over with stomach pain and vomits far too frequently

I thought I handled the children's issues in a manner where they could be heard as well as their mother in the privacy of the GAL, without another ugly court battle. I thought we could confide in the GAL, share what the children had told me without endangering them or jeopardizing them more than they already were. I thought the GAL's mental health affiliation would be beneficial in her understanding the mother's issues and that that experience would help the GAL to help Mom understand what she needed to work on as far as being Mom again. The GAL exposed the children in her written report, the GAL report stripped Mom of any chance of being Mom again. The GAL report put Mom having supervised visits at the home of the father who abandoned her as a child, too cruel for anyone to endure. I feel as though I have betrayed them all, exposed them and their confidences in me, while offering no solution. I feel that they feel it too, I thought I had helped them, then I read the GAL report and I thought I had hurt everybody and I cracked up, I had my first nervous breakdown, that's another article to write about.

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