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HFCRights's avatar

Yep , that’s what they do . I call it pass the chump . I had 6 before they made me a non-custodial parent. And after they denied the appeals , six more , all defending the unspeakable abusive Ex. Even with emails to the supervised visitor company from the Ex saying I don’t need supervision. Took another lawyer to file it . DENIED!

We need the repeals and Divorce to sever economic attachment.

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Bruce Eden's avatar

Have a new client in New Jersey. He paid his lawyers over $35,000 to screw him over. I was contacted by him through a referral from a client I had over 15 years ago who I won 2 pro se appeals for. This new client told me the court granted he pay approximately $6500 per month (about $80,000 per year) in pendente lite unallocated (not taxable) child support & alimony. This money is to pay for all of the wife's household & personal expenses (alimony), plus child support. He runs his own financial services business. The opposition based his income on his total gross business expenses of $500,000. His gross income is $150,000. His net is around $120,000. Yet, his ex is a teacher with an MBA and Special Ed license earning over $100,000 per year (10 months as teacher, plus her tutoring on the side). The ex's attorneys told the Judge to ignore the wife's income and only go after the husband's income. The Judge was intimidated by the ex's attorney, is is a partner in one of the county's more influential law firms. The husband's attorney actually choked in the courtroom and stumbled and bumbled her way through the hearing. The husband kept telling his attorney to object, that he couldn't pay that amount and be able to live in the lifestyle both parties maintained during the marriage. In New Jersey, the law says that the parties must be able to live a comparable lifestyle as they had during marriage and alimony cannot be a windfall for the wife and punishment against the husband. The wife and her attorney made lie after lie in her certification.

The husband called me and we went over his case. He sent me the last 2 motions filed on both sides. I saw the lies by the wife and her attorney. They were more than lies. They were unsupported false representations on official court documents. They are not only lies, but actual defamation/slander/libel. I filed a letter memorandum to the Judge calling it out, backed up with facts tearing apart the wife's motion and false certification seeking the money, and backing that up with the appropriate caselaw. The following week, I immediately filed a motion to vacate the entire pendente lite order granting the wife $6500/month, without including her income and assets. I set up the motion to make it easy to appeal if we aren't granted relief; even though statutory law and caselaw makes the case a "slam dunk" in his favor. I said the wife's (and her complicit attorney's) motion and certifications were a violation of law and caselaw, it was perjury, false swearing on official documents, presenting false documents to the court, making false statements to the court to influence the court against the husband, leaving out pertinent facts to influence the court, fraud, deception, misrepresentation, sharp lawyering and playing "fast and loose with the court process", lawyer misconduct, and much more.

There was a court hearing last week, and all of a sudden the Judge grew a pair. She told the wife's attorney she was not enforcing the order, and there was going to be a hearing on "amending" the order downwards. The wife's lawyer was jumping up and down in the courtroom. The husband said that the judge dug in her heels against the wife's lawyer because the judge knows she screwed up in granting such an outrageous amount against the husband--because it was not based on reality and we showed the statutes and caselaw that she failed to consider and analyze the support & alimony amounts. I told my client that if they raise the argument he can't file a motion to vacate because there must be a "final" JUDGMENT or order to vacate, I told him be prepared to argue that under federal and state law, every time a child support order comes due (weekly, by pay period, monthly, etc.) or a child support arrearage is recorded, it becomes a FINAL JUDGMENT BY OPERATION OF LAW. It is not only the law of the case, it is the law of the State and Federal Government.

And, the Judge told both parties, as soon as the hearing on "amending" or vacating the $6500/month award is over, she will be transferred out of the family division.

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Michael "Thunder" Phillips's avatar

Hey Bruce—thanks for sharing this. What a mess, but it sounds like you’ve done some serious heavy lifting to turn it around. That judge backpedaling and suddenly scheduling a hearing to amend the order says a lot—especially with her getting reassigned soon after. Seems like your filings hit a nerve and forced the court to finally reckon with the facts.

Quick question: in what capacity are you representing your client in this case? Are you officially pro se with him, filing as a legal advocate, or acting as a litigation support consultant? I’m always curious about how others are navigating these systems, especially in states like New Jersey where the courts are notorious for bending the rules depending on who’s in front of them.

Appreciate everything you’re doing to call out this kind of abuse. Keep us posted on how the hearing goes.

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Bruce Eden's avatar

Legal Technician & Constitutional Consultant.

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Justin Mcphail's avatar

How is this for timing? On May 21, 2025 I filed a motion in the Mississippi Supreme Court to reconsider their previous order denying my request for leave to proceed without prepayment of fees. Where I was confined for 'civil contempt' in Grenada Mississippi Jail for 6 years and 2 months continuously. The contempt action arose from proceedings for modification of child custody similar to many cases the Mississippi Supreme Court has denied IFP status to since the MLB ruling. The motion argues that incarceration was weaponized for the purpose of achieving what three years of modification proceedings had not, physical modification of custody using the raw dictatorial powers of the state. aka de-facto termination by means of incarceration.

Will it be enough? Who knows?

The link below is the Mississippi Supreme Court December 2024 order denying pauper status It includes a blistering dissent by Justice Griffis that lends credibility to the convoluted nature of the case and the fact that the Court is well aware of it. For whatever that is worth.

https://law.justia.com/cases/mississippi/supreme-court/2024/2024-ts-00849.html

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Michael "Thunder" Phillips's avatar

Wow—first off, just the fact that you're still standing and filing motions after 6 years and 2 months in jail for so-called "civil contempt" is a testament to your strength and clarity of purpose. That’s not justice—that’s coercion in its purest form. De facto termination of custody rights through incarceration isn’t just unconstitutional—it’s state-sponsored abuse.

I haven’t read the dissent yet, but I definitely will. If Justice Griffis is calling it out, that says a lot about how deep the problem goes and how undeniable the misconduct is. I hope your motion lands where it needs to—and even if it doesn’t, the record you’re building matters.

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Justin Mcphail's avatar

I will certainly accept your encouragement and apply it liberally. Thank you for your feedback.

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Bruce Eden's avatar

Based on parental rights being the highest fundamental liberty interest, and the administrative family courts taking away those rights with faux hearings, how much longer will fathers be able to withstand this relegation into being slaves to third-worldism in the family courts? How much longer will it take before a number of fathers take everything in their hands, all at once, and take out courthouses, law offices and judges' homes???? As we see, lawlessness by illegal immigrants in Los Angeles could be the impetus for fathers being denied their children to initiate the "nuclear button". Time will tell. People say fathers will do nothing and go quietly into the night. After looking hundreds in the face and seeing the anger over the decades, time is short for judges, lawyers, and other parasites feeding off of the "destruction of the family" courts. They need to start looking over their shoulders.

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Michael "Thunder" Phillips's avatar

Do we go burn the cars of judges and raid small businesses just because? Imagine a hacker taking down some of the court systems for ransom. Something needs to happen. I just don't know if I can condone similar violence to what is happening in LA. We could hire the lunatics who climb structures to hang flags, or dump paint all over themselves.

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Bruce Eden's avatar

I don't know if that is the answer, but there are only a few options left before all Hell breaks loose. Too many fathers have committed suicide over family court tyranny. One father immolated himself and burned to death on courthouse steps. This is NOT THE WAY EITHER!!!! Fathers are leaders in this country. They are the oil that keeps the machines running, the brains of the operations, the heart, soul and muscle of the Nation. You start causing them to do crazy things to themselves, there's a major problem with the judiciary. (As we can see with lawfare against politiicans, this "lawfare" has been going on for over 50 years against fathers--thanks to Communist Radical Feminists). If tyrannical Communism is running our judicial system, what is the way out of it???? Communism is anathema to our entire Constitutional Republic. When the judiciary has turned against the Republic, that's called Treason and Sedition. What's the punishment for Treason and Sedition???????

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