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21Sep/110

A lone child faces the horrors of the NY Divorce Industry

I can't stop thinking about the incredible strength that it took a child to fight the corrupt NY Divorce Industry. This child was banned as pro se from all contact with his children except one-way phone calls with the Mother on speaker phone. Yes, a court can rule these cruel punishments against someone with no lawyer. In any case after years of this humiliating nonsense the child wanted to see her father.

The police were called multiple times to physically restrain her from seeing her father. Yes the police blindly enforce this nonsense in Westchester. Finally after being threatened to be sent to an in-patient mental institution, which btw the school was ok with, this brave child who was scared to death fought back.

With a brave lawyer detached from the insiders filth of ny divorce the child won an order of protection from her dangerous and wealthy mother and won the right to see her father. Thank god for family court and a judge who saw through the filth of supreme court but the the damage is done and there's no justice - but $500,000 on legal fees from the wealthy mother.

13Mar/110

Where is justice in New York Divorce?

Looking at 65% wage garnishment for back child support and maintenance that was set based on income I never made.

Couldn't show what I was making because I was forced to trial pro se where I was denied the right to present any financial evidence - precluded based on outright lie.

Can't appeal because the cost is astounding with no certain outcome.

Can't have attorney who railroaded me disciplined because even with documents showing outright lies and a judge's decision that reversed one of his outright lies New York State Grievance Committee, 2nd department could give a rats ass about prosecuting cut-and-dry gross ethical violations.

Can't go to Family Court because they won't touch an order from Supreme and I have committed the crime of having a job that pays me money - though not enough to pay my ex the $7,000 a month I'm supposed to pay - more than my take home pay.

Can't go back to Supreme because I owe old divorce lawyers over $30,000 after having become impoverished spending over $70,000 as my children were being threatened (didn't lose kids)

Can't get any legal assistance because there is not a free lawyer in the world for a middle class white idiot - especially a broken one.

Can't live on 65% wage garnishment, can't pay back taxes, car, groceries or anything of much value.

Can't leave the state because I love my kids.

Can't get anyone who matters to listen and help because the institutional bias is that anyone who complains is a whako. Just another whining dead-beat dad bitching and moaning. Ignore the loser who whines.

Bankruptcy is only relief that exists as far as I can tell and GF leaves me for doing it.

Anyone want a drink?

16Mar/101

What’s it like to be pro se in NY Supreme Court?

Here is an open letter written in total frustration hoping for some sympathy. Of course it doesn't come but in the most frustrating experience it seems to be all I can do.

I am in the midst of being financially ruined in matrimony court and my civil rights are being violated because I can’t afford representation. I am pro se and I have had every obstacle imaginable placed in my way during my representation. Opposing counsel was allowed to deliver discovery documents on second day of trial – after written requests to judge and opposing counsel for documents, opposing counsel is allowed to submit letters treated as motions while I am banned from writing letters to the judge. In light of this, I still send response letters, yet my letters are ignored and reprimanded by the court. I have been precluded about speaking about 2008 and 2009 financial years as the court picks and chooses the best of 2008 and 2009 to hold me accountable for. I delivered thousands of pages of discovery documents and was found in contempt, however, not the judge or the opposing counsel can name a document that I didn’t provide. Opposing counsel has blatantly lied in court and there is no recourse, no investigations, nothing, yet I am held to some incredible ethical standard. I have asked multiple times for a written preclusion motion yet my requests are ignored so I am being denied my basic rights of due process.
The majority of my preclusion hearings took place in the back office of the court where I was screamed at and ridiculed by judge’s staff. It was the most humiliating experience of my life – by a mile. It was like walking into a Socialist country, I truly thought I had left the US.

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The ruling of the court stripped me of 100% of my assets and left me with a failing business that I was barred from speaking about in trial. My child support payments exceed my current income and I haven’t a prayer to make my equitable distribution payments at the current pace of things. The ruling was based on 2007 numbers, combined with the best of 2008, yet I was precluded from speaking about 2008 and 2009.

There was a decision rendered in December that had objectionable pieces but did not merit the time for appeal. However, now I have one week to respond to a judgment based on a revised decision that was issued last week. However, the two decisions are wildly different and reflect all of the concerns raised by opposing counsel – submitted via letter, while all my responses – submitted via letter – resulted in angry phone call from the court to no longer send the same letters that opposing counsel sent. The statements in the decision are so incredibly at odds with the testimony that it defies any sense of logic. It’s not even as if they read the testimony. No one has printed the transcript and I don’t have the $2500 to do so to properly respond.

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I have no recourse for justice. I will file the proper responses and do my business but in the meantime the court is ruining me while denying me my civil right to defend myself. As a citizen trying to navigate this process it is impossible. There is such immense bias towards the attorneys that it is impossible to defend myself. The process is arcane and arbitrary and seems to follow no standards of conduct or accountability on behalf of any of the constituents.

The trouble is that this is not a parking ticket or a DUI, this is about my complete financial ruin. This is about a process that strips me of greater than 100% of my assets, assigns child support based on non-existent income and denies my every right of defense. I am lucky because while the court has decided to ruin me financially they have stripped my friends of their children and their assets and I am not in this situation.
I am being forced to pay numbers that would defy any objective legal test and I am banned from supplying evidence to the contrary. It is the most Kafkaesque experience of my life and beyond my imagination.

14Feb/100

Avoid the Biggest Mistake You Can Make in Divorce

I have an incredible claim to make. After watching friends, self, relatives, etc. suffer through litigated divorce processes I have distilled the most critical mistake that we all make in divorce. It is what leads us to wasting untolds amounts of money, to trashing our spouses, to hurting our children and to everything bad about NY divorce.

What is this nefarious thing? What is the incredible morsel of information that I am hiding from you?

It is understanding.

1. Understand the process. Don't get pissed off about a Request for Judicial Intervention, don't get pissed about an initial claim for full custody, don't get pissed because you have to fill out a statement of networth and don't get pissed when you have to respond to a discovery process. UNDERSTAND the process. If your spouses attorney is REQUIRED to get information in order to advise their client don't be pissed. If your spouse must say things because of the process don't get pissed. UNDERSTAND the process you are in and remember that all the people you are paying tons of cash to do this crap every day of their lives. They know the process. LEARN IT. Understand it and don't rush to judgment before understanding.

2. Understand that everyone is at their worst and cut people lack.

3. Understand you are at your worst.

4. Understand that your kids need your love and attention no matter how bad the court is f'ing you.

The more you understand the less mistakes you will make.

4Feb/100

Beginning to see day light

Spoke with someone starting on the journey of court divorce and still afraid of the unknown. Made me realize that even though every cent I had and more was awarded to my ex I am seeing daylight again. The end of a long journey. Finally. Anyone contemplating leaving a life that has become miserable and suffocating should know that after the death is rebirth. Death can be divorce or death of old habbits that killed your relationship but rebirth will come.

19Jan/100

Affairs Don’t Matter in Divorce Proceedings in Most Cases


Your spouse is having an affair and now you are breaking up? You think that your spouse is having an affair and you want to catch them red handed with a private investigator? I am sorry to tell you that virtually no one will care about this in the legal system. It can certainly help you emotionally to know the truth but unless conditions are extreme it will not make any difference in New York, especially in Westchester County. In NY adultery is a low level crime so you must prove it at a criminal level, not the normal subjective bs of civil court. This means major expense and a whole new level of complication in your case that will not yield you much in the end except higher costs and maybe peace of mind.

So my advice is that even if you want to know about the affair for piece of mind don't tangle up your proceeding with the details. No one really cares about it and it is such an emotional issue that a predatory lawyer can easily exploit this to their benefit.

8Jan/100

What are you fighting about? Stop fighting and move on with your divorce.

What are you fighting about? How much time do you spend fighting about your partners impressions of your positions as opposed to your actual positions. Imagine this scenario -

Wife: I have a relative coming from out of town tonight and I would like the kids to stay here, can we switch your overnight this week?

Husband: You are denying my visitation?

Fight ensues

Example 2:

Husband: I am going to have a hard time making the complete payment for xyz this month and I will need to spread it out.

Wife: You are torturing me and never pay your fair share.

Fight Ensues

In both cases the responses did not accept or listen to the opening statements and the other party responds with a judgment having little to do with the pertinent issue. Fights and frustration ensue because the issues were not heard and all of the sudden you are arguing about impressions of positions and not addressing the real issues.

Address real issues and keep your impressions for your own thoughts. Challenge your impressions and try taking things at face value today.

5Jan/100

Every person going through divorce should have this book!

Every person going through divorce should have this book - Conversationally Speaking by Alan Garner. Old - yes, but essential. If you haven't read this book it will save you $$$$$$$$ in lawyer fees so read it. The better you communicate the better your divorce will be.