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Monique Brown's avatar

I, too, am a victim of the Orange County Family Law system. I filed for attorney’s fees in April 2023. Our case was assigned to Commissioner Robert Kholar, who has now dragged this matter out for over two years.

This followed multiple continuances requested by my ex’s attorney to intentionally stall the case. We finally began hearings in December of 2022, only for Commissioner Kholar to suggest we vacate the private judge after sevearl hearings so that he could rule. After several costly and exhausting hearing after the attempts to vacate the private judge, he finally resumed the case — only to side with my ex’s attorney after a year and a 1/2 of hearings, claiming my attorney should have filed within six months of the final judgment from the private judge for fees instead of letting it go and file substitution then trying to collect.

This ordeal has added at least $150,000 in unnecessary legal fees to the $160,000 existing and countless all-day hearings that achieved nothing but further financial and emotional damage. At each hearing, he made everyone remain in court for a full day, only to delay resolution.

As of now, it’s still sitting on submission with no ruling in sight. It has been one of the most painful, traumatic experiences of my life, extending what’s now been a 10-year divorce battle that began in May 2016.

This process has devastated my life and the lives of my three beautiful children. The corruption, inefficiency, and lack of compassion in the Orange County Family Court system is beyond words — and no family deserves to endure this.

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Marissa Hernandez's avatar

Five of us already filed federal suits in the California Central District Court between 2021-2022: each of them have survived into discovery. I 🙋‍♀️ am one of those plaintiff's🙋‍♀️ . Given the fact that my court had an order to show cause why LA County shouldn't be sanctioned $1,000 and our cases now make up 50% of the federal cases that allow the publishing of juvenile case files in federal proceedings, rather than submitting under the seal.

... I don't think LA County is very pleased with the massive assaults we've been having against them in Federal Court. Since then, an ARA (the supervisor's supervisor) revived a closed referral. The state losers couldn't even secure a custody removal over me after the referral was reactivated. They lost THREE times. So, to hold me to jurisdiction, my son was taken without a warrant; I was subsequently gagged; and because even that week claim for exigency would've died, the supervisor and paternal grandmother had my other daughter medically raped.

I still have my youngest daughter (8 yr.) residing in the home with me. In 2023, I exited the court. Not because i conformed, or becomes my federal suit. But because I learned how to reverse engineer the structure; CPS made sure to take not of their past mistake: I'm now in a box.

My response to that is a supplemental pleading on my existing case under Article III, alleging facts to show our access to court has been totally and utterly usurped by CPS agencies: so the court may declare that our rights have been violated: & to enjoin further abuse: https://www.facebook.com/groups/14thamendcafamilies

I also spent the last 6-months working on an algorithm to pull exactly what we need to file these cases.

You're welcome to come with us too! Ideally, we're looking for 100 in California, but the claims are being written to function universal. Our California group has not problem mashing up with other states who can do any deeper research into the state cases that support these cases. However, the relief is mostly rooted in U.S. supreme court opinions

I'll be taking this over to my group! I'm making it my effort to ride this train as long as it'll drive!

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Marissa Hernandez's avatar

Five of us already filed federal suits in the California Central District Court between 2021-2022: each of them have survived into discovery. I 🙋‍♀️ am one of those plaintiff's🙋‍♀️ . Given the fact that my court had an order to show cause why LA County shouldn't be sanctioned $1,000 and our cases now make up 50% of the federal cases that allow the publishing of juvenile case files in federal proceedings, rather than submitting under the seal.

... I don't think LA County is very pleased with the massive assaults we've been having against them in Federal Court. Since then, an ARA (the supervisor's supervisor) revived a closed referral. The state losers couldn't even secure a custody removal over me after the referral was reactivated. They lost THREE times. So, to hold me to jurisdiction, my son was taken without a warrant; I was subsequently gagged; and because even that week claim for exigency would've died, the supervisor and paternal grandmother had my other daughter medically raped.

I still have my youngest daughter (8 yr.) residing in the home with me. In 2023, I exited the court. Not because i conformed, or becomes my federal suit. But because I learned how to reverse engineer the structure; CPS made sure to take not of their past mistake: I'm now in a box.

My response to that is a supplemental pleading on my existing case under Article III, alleging facts to show our access to court has been totally and utterly usurped by CPS agencies: so the court may declare that our rights have been violated: & to enjoin further abuse: https://www.facebook.com/groups/14thamendcafamilies

I also spent the last 6-months working on an algorithm to pull exactly what we need to file these cases.

You're welcome to come with us too! Ideally, we're looking for 100 in California, but the claims are being written to function universal. Our California group has not problem mashing up with other states who can do any deeper research into the state cases that support these cases. However, the relief is mostly rooted in U.S. supreme court opinions

I'll be taking this over to my group! I'm making it my effort to ride this train as long as it'll drive!

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