Frank Parlato
Harvard Grad Jailed for Missing Legal Payment
On August 14, 2024, CT Superior Court Judge Erika Tindill jailed a mother for failing to comply with a court-ordered payment to her ex-husband’s attorney.
The mother, Nishani Naidoo, a corporate lawyer, graduated from Harvard University and Columbia Law School. Judge Tindill had ordered Naidoo to pay $37,512.50 to CT family law attorney Gary Cohen, who represented her husband in a contentious matrimonial.
In her divorce and custody ruling, Judge Tindill dissolved Naidoo’s marriage on March 6, awarding Naidoo full legal and physical custody of her two minor children and certain marital assets, including a rental property.
Court Orders Payment to Ex-Husband’s Attorney
Judge Tindill ordered Naidoo to pay attorney Cohen for her husband’s legal fees on or before May 1, 2024. When she did not pay, Judge Tindill held a hearing on July 18.
Naidoo explained in a letter posted on social media, “I did not have that type of money at the time, and I do not have that type of money… I had asked the judge for an extension of time to pay Gary Cohen, as I would only have the money to pay him once the property sold. The judge told me I could withdraw money from my retirement accounts, but I told her that I could not withdraw money from my retirement accounts to pay legal fees (there are only specific reasons you are allowed to withdraw money from retirement accounts). She was upset with this.”
Judge Rejects Request for Extension
At the July hearing, Naidoo told the judge that the rental property would be sold and closed by the end of August, at which time she would pay attorney Cohen in full.
In the meantime, Naidoo said in her social media post, “I offered to pay (Cohen) $2,500 (the maximum I could put on my credit cards) and the remainder when the property sold in a few weeks. He refused that offer.”
During the July hearing, Judge Tindill told Naidoo that attorney Cohen should not have to wait until the end of August, but that Naidoo must pay him by mid-August, or face arrest on August 14.
Mother Jailed Despite Imminent Property Sale
At the August 14 hearing, Naidoo’s ex-husband, Vipul R. Kumar, appearing in court, informed Judge Tindill that Naidoo was the sole provider and caregiver for their two minor children. He asked the judge not to incarcerate her.
Despite a reported closing date of the rental property on August 26, Judge Tindill reiterated Cohen needed to be paid immediately, not in 12 days. The judge ordered the mother arrested for contempt of her court orders.
Consequences of Incarceration: Job Loss and Childcare Concerns
In a social media post written before her imprisonment, Naidoo said, “If I am put in prison for not being able to come up with $37,512.50, who will take care of my children? I will have a criminal record and will not be able to get another job. And all of this will be because I asked for a few more weeks for the property to be sold so I could make the payment I am being forced to make.”
In addition to her arrest and imprisonment, Judge Tindill ordered Naidoo to pay $15,000 in sanctions, on top of the $37,512.50 she must pay to Cohen.
According to reports, Naidoo lost her job last week because of her arrest and incarceration. It is unclear who is taking care of her children.
Judge Tindill set another hearing for August 26, when Naidoo’s rental property is scheduled to close. According to Naidoo, her ex-husband had already paid Cohen about $140,000 in legal fees.
Frank Parlato is an investigative journalist, media strategist, publisher, and legal consultant.
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STMatty you seem to have a very high regard for the way Naidoo conducted herself in this matter. Gary Cohen has maintained to the press, however, that Naidoo was ordered to pay his legal fees because of her “litigation misconduct”. There was no evidence of that from the trial transcript. Did you see any evidence of that in perusing through the files in the docket sheet? If you don’t mind talking to me, I can be reached through the contact page of this website.
Nishani’s case contains north of 300 entries. I did not read every single one. I read a random sampling while scrolling down.
She did indeed put up a good fight and I am impressed by her legal acumen.
I think it was beyond draconian for the judge to have issued a mittimus given the facts and circumstances.
I hope Nishani decides to practice family law when all of this is finally over. Her personal experience would be of great benefit to her clients. I would be happy to have a conversation with her about that.
Maybe give her a call to see if she is willing to look into doing this type of work. I am sure you can find her contact info in the legal documents.
I tried to send you an email through the contact page several times and always got an error message
STMatty the issue with Gary Cohen is not that he is such a “good lawyer”. The issue is that he is ABOVE THE LAW. His clients get the impression that they are invincible, that they can do whatever they want, that they can get away with murder.
This was, indeed, the case of Fotis Dulos who killed his wife Jennifer Dulos and would have gotten away with it, but for one minor misstep (from Dulos’ point of view) by Gary Cohen’s law firm. If you read the filings in this case, there is no doubt that Gary Cohen and Jacob Pyetrankar (Cohen’s partner at the time) knew something was afoot. Just now much they knew, nobody will know except for Fotis Dulos (who is now dead) and Gary Cohen and Jacob Pyetrankar. (Pyetrankar started his plans to move away from Cohen in December 2018, about 5-6 months before Jennifer Dulos was killed.)
Pyetrankar was still working with Cohen though at the time of Jennifer’s murder. In fact, it was Pyetranker who accompanied Fotis Dulos to the police station on May 25, 2019. And it was Pyetranker who committed the “misstep” that led to Fotis Dulos’ ultimate arrest. Read page 5, no. 8 of the arrest warrant. https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/read-the-fotis-dulos-arrest-warrant/2206792/
Fotis Dulos had committed the perfect crime. He had an alibi as to his whereabouts. However, the police were able to show that he was actually at different locations – and obtain surveillance video from those locations – because they were able to get location data from his phone.
On May 25, 2019, though, when Pyetranker accompanied Fotis Dulos to the police station, the police did not have a search warrant for the phone. Dulos had given his phone to his attorney Pyetranker when he went into the police station. When Pyetranker came into the police station, he said that they would not be cooperating with the police and they would be leaving. But then, oddly, he gave Dulos his phone, which Dulos then gave to the police. Dulos then gave the police his access code, allowing the police to put his phone in airplane mode to prevent the erasure of the data on the phone. The phone was kept in the possession of the police until a search warrant could be obtained later that evening. It is strange behavior to give the police your phone (and the access code) when you just told them you were not cooperating with them!
Another version of what could have happened that day – which could not be written in the arrest warrant as all data seized from the phone would then be inadmissible – is that Pyetranker, realizing what Dulos had done, knew that Dulos would get away with the crime unless the police had access to his location data. And Pyetrankar, not wanting to be an accessory after the fact, gave the police Dulos’ phone and access code. This would also mean that Pyetrankar would have known that the location data on the phone would be key to unraveling the mystery of Jennifer Dulos’ death. Which also begs the question: How much did Gary Cohen and Jacob Pyetrankar know and when did they know it? And could they have prevented this tragic death? Oddly, despite the high profile nature of this case, nobody mentions the fact that Gary Cohen and Jacob Pyetrankar were Fotis Dulos’ lawyer during the divorce trial.
I am not going to comment about Pyetranker and the Dulos case. There are a lot of versions as to what happened and I’ve heard almost all of them.
What I do know is that Yakov “Jacob” Pyetranker is considered to be a good lawyer. He drives to court in a Ferrari and wears what appear to be very expensive custom tailored suits.
I take serious issue with the innuendos you spew against the great Gary Cohen.
STMatty I am starting a new thread since it is hard to find the conversations we were having. Thank you for acknowledging that there are “incongruities” between the evidence/testimony and Tindall’s finding that Naidoo was wilfully in contempt of the daily calls. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WjtqiGpgm9iXfnuDCiGXZFITXQF8jBN_/view?usp=drive_link
If you read the rest of the transcript, and Tindall’s decision on 07/22/24 (Dkt. #324.10), you will find similar “incongruities”. Tindall found Naidoo wilfully non-compliant with the reunification therapist (the father was ordered to schedule reunification therapy during his parenting time which he never did; Naidoo scheduled the reunification therapy sessions during her parenting time!); Tindall found Naidoo violated the father’s parenting time on four occasions (the evidence shows the father did not pick the children up!); and, of course, Tindall found Naidoo wilfully noncompliant in not paying Gary Cohen $37,512.20 (Naidoo had asked for an extension of time and had shown Tindall her efforts to sell the property to get the money to pay Cohen; the closing was imminent and Cohen would be paid in a few weeks). Naidoo even filed an appeal, which stayed all the proceedings enforcing the order finding her willfully in contempt, but Tindall proceeded anyway!
As you yourself said, it made no sense why Tindall issued the mittimus (Dkt. #345). Ironically, the mittimus was issued using a Family Support Order. Naidoo is the sole provider of the children. Why is the sole provider of the children being imprisoned for not paying the non-provider’s attorney?? Why didn’t Tindall issue a money judgment in favor of Gary Cohen, and Cohen could go ahead and enforce his money judgment like any other judgment creditor? Why was the sole provider of the children being imprisoned using a Family Support Order???
These are just the incongruities with Tindall. Here are a few more “incongruities” with other judges.
Judge Marguerite Moore. If you have time and you are at the courthouse again, look at Dkt. #126, the sealing order sealing Naidoo’s filings where she requested the court’s help detailing her ex-husband’s abuse. There was no hearing on that sealing order. The time, date, duration were not specified. There was no articulation as to why the sealing order was issued.
Judge Gerard Adelman. Gary Cohen disclosed David Israel as an expert witness, but refused to provide even the most basic of the required expert witness disclosure such as his opinion, his report, the basis for his findings; etc. Naidoo filed a motion to compel (Dkt. # 252). Judge Adelamn permitted Cohen to evade compliance with the practice book disclosures pertaining to expert witnesses, by allowing Cohen to reclassify David Israel as a fact witness! (Dkt. #252.10)
Judge Edward Karazin: This was the judge who denied Naidoo’s request for a restraining order, even though the ex-husband never denied that he circled the house, parked in the driveway, tried to enter the house, etc.
When it comes to Gary Cohen, there are far too many “incongruities” from far too many judges. Journalists refer to these “incongruities” by a different term … it STINKS.
Investigative reporter: why is it so imperative to convince me? In essence, you appear to believe there is a significant level of corruption occurring in the CT family courts, and specifically in Stamford. Convincing me of your point of view is not going to get you, or your beliefs, anywhere.
What are you doing, or going to do, to expose what you want to expose and institute the changes you want to institute aside from your writings in the comments section of this blog?
I am surprised that Judge Karazin did not grant the TRO. He is known to err on the side of caution and grant TROs where women allege abuse, stalking, etc.
Vizcarrondo was assigned to be a judge in Danbury. So much for being accountable for one’s actions!
You be the judge. I put together some of the “evidence” on one of Tindall’s findings that Naidoo was in willful contempt. Something is definitely going on here. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WjtqiGpgm9iXfnuDCiGXZFITXQF8jBN_/view?usp=sharing
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In 2015, Nishani was arrested by the Greenwich police for disorderly conduct at the couples home. According to the article she caused injuries to her husband.
https://greenwichfreepress.com/police-fire/man-charged-with-disorderly-conduct-in-old-greenwich-49623/
The article said the husband sustained “minor injuries” and that she was arrested for disorderly conduct.
Does anyone know what specific injuries he sustained and how he sustained them?
He was causing problems in the house and would not leave. So she threw his laptop out so he would go and get it and she closed the door. He ran back and stuck his foot in the door and would not let her close it. She kept pushing the door until he left. He called the police and filed false charges. It was so bogus the prosecutor saw right through it and refused to prosecute. It’s all in the trial transcript
I stand corrected. That old article about the arrest failed to mention the facts put forth by “Read the Transcript.”
What sort of person sabotages the employment prospects of the woman who provides for his children?
This is typical. Causing havoc in the household. They won’t leave willingly to cool off. When you go to court to ask for help, you won’t get it.
He made up a false charge to have her arrested. The prosecutor refused to prosecute and nolled the charges. https://drive.google.com/file/d/10BE3aLmcKNWaoio5JJllg888a0ZkEXKf/view?usp=drivesdk
He tried to sabotage her from getting job on several occasions. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LxAqVGWsM0UBfZtw9J1gObD6EoPX-BNj/view?usp=drivesdk
Seems to be a pattern of coercive control. This man wanted his ex-wife in jail so she would lose her job. It never made sense why Cohen wouldn’t wait a few weeks to get paid … unless what they wanted was for the mother to be in jail.
From what I’ve read and gathered, Gary Cohen already got paid.. The funds at issue were to reimburse the husband part of Gary Cohen’s already paid fee. Once the money would be paid to Cohen, he would then transfer the funds to the husband. Therefore, Gary Cohen was a mere conduit for the transfer of said funds.
It is worth noting that neither Cohen nor the husband asked the judge to issue a mittimus against Nishani. That was entirely done by Judge Tindil on her own volition.
But the husband owes Naidoo a ton of money. If this money was just going back to him, then why didn’t he offer to offset the bills? https://drive.google.com/file/d/10FPoZ7gf5yZrQ9PPCSGy0gkCqePUjejE/view?usp=drivesdk
He also wrote false Internet reviews of her to try to sabotage gee efforts to get work. It’s all in the trial transcripts and exhibits.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LxAqVGWsM0UBfZtw9J1gObD6EoPX-BNj/view?usp=drivesdk
This is absolutely disgusting that her husband behaved in such a manner. I am disappointed in Gary Cohen for lending his good name and reputation to represent this individual.
I am an old client of Nishani. She is what a lawyer should be. She does not overcharge. It was always a flat fee. She got the job done. She went the extra mile to do what she needed to HELP her clients. I remember this one story she told me about her client who got robbed by his ex attorney. She got his money back and made sure the real estate brokers and lawyers involved lost their licenses – she filed the complaints with the licensing authorities and testified against them! She made sure the crooked lawyers lost their license and went to jail. And she didn’t charge her client extra for this. She helped him because what they did to him was wrong. I was sad when she stopped practicing law when her children were born. I understand now what she was going through. Nish, Martha and I are praying for you. 🙏
https://www.avvo.com/attorneys/10506-ny-nishani-naidoo-961339.html#reviews
As mentioned in a previous posts, I had some time last week while at the Stamford courthouse and read a sample of the pleadings and filings in this saga.
Nishani is indeed a very good attorney. She fought an uphill battle very hard. Her filings were spot on, and both her writing style and written legal arguments were superb.
In spite of all the odds against her, she won the case. She got sole legal custody of the children.
I don’t understand why Judge Tindill took the draconian step of issuing a mittimus, on her own accord, for the immediate arrest and incarceration of Nishani simply because she needed a few more days to pay the funds ordered.
Gary Cohen maintains that he was awarded $35,000 in litigation fees because Naidoo engaged in “litigation misconduct.” The trial transcript shows no evidence whatsoever presented at trial that Naidoo engaged in litigation misconduct. Naidoo herself maintains that she did not engage in litigation misconduct since she simply had no time for that as she was working and supporting and raising two kids by herself. It would seem that your review of the file comports with what Naidoo said, namely, she did not engage in litigation misconduct. When I asked her where the $35,000 number came from, she said Gary Cohen asked and Tindall gave. Because he was Gary Cohen, he didn’t need a reason for demanding money. I asked Naidoo why she did not appeal this and she said she got sole legal and physical custody. Cohen had threatened to take her kids away and put them in foster care, so after she got sole legal and physical custody she didn’t care about anything else.
This is absolutely disgusting that he threatened to take the kids and put them in foster care. Horrible..
Those positive reviews are from 2007. Anything more recent?
She stopped practicing for a long time when her children were born. I got back in touch with her today. She still has her same phone number. She said she really could not work with all of these problems going on and started part-time work for other attorneys when her youngest child started school. I hope and pray she gets through all this and gets back on her feet again.
Perhaps Nishani should consider taking on high conflict family cases in Stamford?
She definitely has the experience ( from her own case) and her legal acumen is first rate.
Cohen is a part of it. He knows what his clients do and he aids and abets them. I have been watching this man for a while. He was Fotis Dulos’ lawyer. You remember that guy right? He killed his wife. Cohen did all types of nasty things in court, and the judges just allowed it. The Naidoo case was filed soon after Jennifer Dulos was killed and we all said … here is another one. And Cohen is going to get away with it again. Naidoo filed a motion asking for help – Docket No. 107. Cohen filed a motion to strike or expunge Naidoo’s motion for help – Docket No. 109. There is no such thing. If she files a motion, Cohen can oppose it. And the judge can hear it and deny it. But you can’t simply silence someone, especially when they are asking for help. The judges went along with Cohen and silenced Naidoo. They did not even hear Naidoo’s cries for help and sealed her motions! We read what she filed before it was sealed. Her ex husband is a monster, and she was begging for help. But Cohen using dirty tricks and corrupt influence buried her pleas to the court for help. Cohen needs to be stopped before more people get hurt.
Court insider: you can indeed file a motion to strike parts of a pleading and motion. I’ve done this on several occasions in civil cases.
All Nishani needed to do was to file an objection to Cohen’s motion to strike and file a memorandum of law why the motion to strike should not be granted. I don’t recall if she did these things. There is ample caselaw in CT she could have cited.
The court just sealed all her motions begging for help. There were no hearings. There was no findings as to why her motions should be sealed. This is not the proper procedure for sealing court records. And her motions were never ever ever heard. They were simply buried … forever. That is not how it works at all.
I bet Jeff Diamond had something to do with that. He is the family case-flow coordinator. He decides if and when your motions are heard once you file a case-flow request.
I strongly suspect Cohen has an “in” with Jeff Diamond.
This one broke my heart. Gary Cohen was beating up on Naidoo in court and she wanted to get a break and visit her mother in South Africa for Christmas. That was in 2021. She needed her ex husband’s permission to travel with the children and he kept stringing her along. So she filed a motion asking the court for permission to travel. The court said no!! And then her ex husband cut the kids off right before Christmas that year. Gary Cohen knows the ex husband’s tactic is to isolate her, and Gary Cohen aids and abets him. https://drive.google.com/file/d/10DWTt9PMbOxF5QT97W8hIOTjC6b-WTv-/view?usp=drivesdk
Court insider: to be fair, it is very common, even post judgement, for such denials to occur, particularly in high conflict cases.
Just like the Dulos case, her husband was enabled by Gary Cohen to think he could do whatever he wanted and he would get away with it. He stopped Naidoo and the kids from going to South Africa so he could isolate them. He cut the kids off and stopped seeing them. And then he stopped paying child support in December 2021. He has yet to pay any child support to this date. If he had any other attorney, they would tell him he cannot do these things and get away with it. But he has Gary Cohen, so he knows he can do whatever he wants and he will be above the law.
Naidoo filed for a restraining order because her ex husband was stalking her. He would come to her house and walk around the house several times to intimidate her while she was inside. One time he tried to come in the house when the door was open and she had to quickly shut it. He would drive around and around the block for over an hour. He would park in the driveway so she could not leave. If it was any other lawyer, the restraining order would have been granted. But it was Gary Cohen. So of course the restraining order was denied. Then Cohen said Naidoo had to pay his legal fees for defending her ex husband on the restraining order! Gary Cohen’s corrupt influence is going to end up in more innocent people getting hurt. This man has to be stopped.
Do you have any specific evidence that Gary Cohen is the reason why the TRO was not granted?
No. But I have seen TRO’s granted based on just one of those things happening to someone. Her ex husband was intimidating her and harassing her. If his attorney was anyone other than Gary Cohen, that TRO would have been granted.
Court insider: do you work in the Stamford courthouse?
Who was the judge that denied the TRO?
The father owes the mother a lot of money as well. Let’s see if Tindall is going to treat the father the same way she treated the mother. https://drive.google.com/file/d/10FPoZ7gf5yZrQ9PPCSGy0gkCqePUjejE/view?usp=drivesdk
I just so happened to be at the Stamford courthouse today and looked up this case and all of the filings. I read the decision Judge Tindall issued for the divorce.
The judge was pretty brutal in her description of the defendants parenting and her alleged alienation of the children from their father, nevertheless she gave the defendant full legal custody.
The father/plaintiff/Cohens client has not seen his children since mid 2023 and the judge gave him generous visitation/parenting time and zooms when he does not have the kids.
The father/cohen did not file a motion for stay to keep the mother out of jail. The motion for stay was related to a rental property in Manhattan and the ruling in the divorce on that issue.
As far as Gary Cohen is concerned, he is indeed a very good attorney. This case was definitely not a slam dunk win for him even though his opponent ended up in prison for contempt.
You should read the trial transcripts. The father had actually not seen the children since December 2021 – by his own volition! He simply cut the children off and never called or emailed them (they have their own phones and their own emails). The trial transcript and the decision are very much at odds as the defendant kept telling the judge this. The defendant, at one point, tells the judge that if the father wanted a relationship with the children, he should start by apologizing to the children for the way he had treated them, to which Tindill responds … you know he will never do that. The father seeing the children in June was random appearances at school events where he took photos to show the court what an involved parent he was. However, he could not identify his own children in the photos! The cruelest part of the case was the closing argument. The mother implored the judge to allow the children to continue living with her. The father had never taken the kids to school or picked them up; he had never packed their lunches or participated much in their caregiving at all. Cohen’s response was that children should be taken away from the mother, and if the father could not take care of them, they should be put in foster care!
Can you post the transcript where Gary Cohen allegedly said that? I find it hard to believe!
Alienation you say? Dad doesn’t want the kids, but the mother alienated them? More Connecticut nonsense.
The mother filed this on June 16, 2022. https://drive.google.com/file/d/15QbgwYp6vVGSpJdF8w_hWdCNfgmp5fLu/view?usp=drivesdk
Sorry that date is 06/16/2023
If Judge Gerard Adelman enters your case in any capacity as a mother, you are sure to lose your assets and custody of your children. He is a misogynistic patriarchal sadist who enjoys wearing his black robe on the bench so all below him have to cow-tow and call him Your Honor. Adelman is back up in RFTD Middletown (I believe) as he is the only family court judge who thrives on the misery of families being torn apart. I personally was in his court for years and he admonished me many times that I would be in jail, I would “see my children in an orange jumpsuit on weekends, and he would punish me personally for any mis-step. And guess what ..Adelman gave my ex-husband full custody – physical and legal – of our beautiful children as punishment for my belief that I was a domestic abuse victim and for alleging my ex was lying to the court about hiding his assets when he spent 7 figures on his lawyers…but he was broke and put $1 on his child support maintenance worksheet and put $0 for income. Adelman took custody away from Kathy Sorrentino, Paige Taylor Stvan, tortured Dianne Hart (RIP) and Karen Riordan. He also put Kathy in jail when her son ran away from his allegedly abusive father who Adelman ordered the 14 year old boy to live with. Just to name a few of his victims. No one else in their right mind wants to rule RFTD …but I believe he thrives on the misery of others.
Does Adelman do this only against women or does he do this to everyone depending on who their lawyer is and his connection to said lawyer?
If Adelman is assigned to your case…you better get Gary Cohen to represent you!
What is the connection between Adelman and Gary Cohen?
Adelman was originally the judge in this case and Naidoo appealed 6 of his decisions showing how deceptive and corrupt he was. Then Adelman was mysteriously taken off and replaced with Tindill. It is possible that Naidoo is being punished because she exposed their corruption in her appeal.
Well to be fair, Naidoo got full legal custody of the kids.
The saying about Cohen is he can “make elephants fly” in the courtroom – the judges give him just about anything he asks for. So that makes me wonder just how bad the father was that the mother got custody. I want to read the trial transcript now. Is someone going to post that?
I’ve seen Gary Cohen in court and I have heard him make legal arguments. He is a very good orator and he knows the law and the facts of his cases better than the back of his hand. Personally, I would never take on a case knowing he is opposing counsel. If I take on a case and Gary Cohen suddenly files an appearance as opposing counsel, I would sit down with my client and tell them the truth about how good Gary Cohen is and refer them to Wayne Effron/Reuben Midler.
Gary Cohen is a terrible lawyer. He only gets away with what he does because he is peddling influence. If Cohen was a good lawyer he wouldn’t need to be buying influence at Capital Grille. He is milking his clients of hundreds of thousands of dollars and does things that are not even in the practice book. But the judges give him everything he asks for. Why?? That is the question that needs to be answered … and the answer is not that he is a good lawyer.
Court insider: how is Gary Cohen, as you allege, buying influence at Capital Grille?
Does he have clandestine meetings with judges and politicians at the restaurant?
You also state that judges give Cohen everything he asks for. Why do you think that is? Are you alleging he pays off judges?
Please share what evidence you have.
You be the judge. I don’t know how good of a lawyer Cohen is, but something fishy is going on. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WjtqiGpgm9iXfnuDCiGXZFITXQF8jBN_/view?usp=sharing
Based on the portion of the transcript you provided and the court order, there indeed appears to be little congruence between the testimony given and the court order.
But, how is that the fault of Gary Cohen and not the judge herself, assuming there are no other transcripts which validate the judge’s ruling?
The judge used a child support enforcement order to jail the mother. The mother is the sole provider for her kids! This money she is being jailed for was for the support of Gary Cohen!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/14CBB0k8SNvAPBW2o4dUwxWF6obvam7Am/view?usp=drivesdk
“Junk science” is what narcissists and corporations call the truth when it doesn’t suit their desires.
It is refreshing when there are cases where the truth wins.
Kudos to Judge Tindill.
Kids you say! How ignoramus of you when there are children involved.
Really? Kudos for putting a mother in jail and inducing fear and anxiety in her kids.
You believe in the debtors prison? Wtf is wrong with you?
Anyone watched Hell Camp on Netflix? Putting fear and anxiety in children. Teen nightmare. In the beginning you will see Ct’s Rosa Delauro front and center at a press conference. Purple hair and all. Yet she does nothing about the children’s hell going on in her own state. DCF nightmare and Linda ‘s reunification camp. “Reunification therapy”. She lets the Ambrose children be silenced. Connecticut politicians doing nothing about their own state. Why you ask? . The funding family court system brings to the state. Raises benefits and retirement , cost savings.
Nishani shows up in the family courtroom for years wearing expensive designer clothing/shoes/handbags and enough gold jewelry to put Fort Knox to shame, then she’s surprised the judge doesn’t believe her when she whines about having NO MOOOONEEEEEEEEEYYYYYYY!
She was forced to pay some of her husbands legal bills because of her frivolous, high conflict, zero-compromise litigation approach. Then she was shocked when judge said enough is enough.
So these are the consequences, Nishani. Hope you are enjoying the jail experience.
Too poor to pay what you owe, but able to hire a publicist. What a joke you are.
Nishani has hired not one, not two, but THREE publicists.
But she lies to the court and claims poverty.
She’s a dunce.
Maybe she learned in jail that her shit does, in fact, stink.
I have known her for years. She does not own ONE single item of designer clothing and has one pair of flat shoes she wears to work., and a pair of sneakers she wears when she is with her children. She owns absolutely NO jewelry.
She is being punished because she refused to go along with the corruption in family court.
She is supposed to show up in rags to the court house? 😔
The corruption is shown in her appeal of Adelman’s orders
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1W1Zm_fanvdOiAu8YalTOmbdMi4RWjRYZ/view?usp=drivesdk
Really? Kudos for putting a mother in jail and inducing fear and anxiety in her kids.
You believe in the debtors prison? Wtf is wrong with you?
Gary Cohen has hired a public relations firm to deal with this. “Court Observer,” “STMatty” and “Gary Cohen fan” are being paid to run interference and cause obfuscation on this story. Cohen is going to ask for a gag order on Monday
All this stuff about her retirement account and whether she can take money out of it is BS.
Anyone who thinks an extremely highly paid career commercial attorney like her has no cash savings is drowning in the Kool Aid.
Fortunately it the judge’s decision that matters in the real world, not keyboard warriors.
FWIW she has been involved in covering up waaaaay more corporate fraud than any alleged legal mistakes claimed in this article.
It’s not unreasonable to request the payment plan. A few more days until the property closed. She was not refusing. They just want to demonstrate power and control.
She has the cash. She didn’t need a payment plan. She was lying because she’s a narcissist who has to always control everything. This whole matter could have been settled years ago if it wasn’t for her abusive controlling behavior. Her narcissism is so out of control she preferred to lie and delay even though it led to jail. Now she’s playing the victim.
She’s a walking, talking, breathing master class in narcissism.
Thank you Court Observer.
The moment I read this brief story which I only heard of for the first time here this week, I had a very strong suspicion this woman is a narc.
You have to be very entitled to think that a judge is going to obey you and swallow your bold-faced lie that you can’t take money out of your retirement.
says the licensed, authored and highly acclaimed psychologist. Another self proclaimed expert trying to get their 30 seconds of fame. Look in the mirror narc.
I don’t need a psychology degree to know that you are cuckoo @6:49am.
Poor @6:49am is triggered.
🤡
Apparently she lives in Old Greenwich, CT which is one of the wealthiest areas in the country. Many people there earn very high salaries and have very little in savings because the cost of living is high and the need to keep appearances is immense.
Yes, Naidoo clearly wanted to demonstrate power and control when she lied about being unable to withdraw from a 401k.
Judge called her bluff. Sounds like it’s about time.
She was going to pay Gary in 2 weeks? Why did he need to get paid now, or she goes to jail??
… Jill Plancher … Lynda Munro … Gary Cohen … Norm Pattis… (yawn)
“… The plaintiff, Mark Sargent, appeals from postdissolution orders entered by the trial court during a status conference. The plaintiff argues that the court denied him due process by not affording him notice and an opportunity to be heard at a postdissolution status conference. We dismiss the appeal as moot.
The parties’ marriage was dissolved in August, 2012, following an uncontested hearing. The dissolution judgment incorporated by reference the parties’ separation agreement, which provided that the plaintiff had sole legal custody of the parties’ three minor children, that the children were to reside primarily with the plaintiff, and that the plaintiff was to make decisions related to school, medical and religious issues, and extracurricular activities.
At a postdissolution status conference held on August 29, 2013, the court, Emons, J., issued orders relating to the guardian ad litem for the minor children, Joan Oppenheim, a doctor of psychology, that are the subject of this appeal.1 One of the issues raised at the conference was the plaintiff’s denying Oppenheim private access to the children. Oppenheim reported at the status conference that after one of the minor children had “run away” from the plaintiff’s home, Oppenheim had wanted to speak to the child privately. She had arranged for the child to be seen by an evaluation psychiatrist because his regular therapist was on vacation. Oppenheim explained that the plaintiff had not allowed private access to the child and had declined to allow the child to be seen by the evaluation psychiatrist. Oppenheim further stated that when the defendant, Pamela Sargent, had taken the children to a meeting, the plaintiff also arrived and told Oppenheim that she could not see the children in his absence, even though Oppenheim had told the plaintiff several times that she would not conduct a session with both parents present.
The court told the plaintiff’s attorney to go into the hallway and “have a heart-to-heart with [the plaintiff] because I will make orders in this case that could be anywhere on the spectrum from an admonishment to removing custody. Okay, so please tell him how important it is to cooperate with the court and with all the treaters and evaluators for the benefit of his children.” Following two recesses and discussions of other issues, the court brought up the issue of “individuals ․ being denied access, especially Dr. Oppenheim.” The plaintiff’s cocounsel, Attorney Kevin Murray Smith, stated that no agreement had been reached, and that the plaintiff would not agree to private sessions between the children and the guardian ad litem until he was given direction by Smith’s cocounsel, Attorney Norman A. Pattis, who was not present at the hearing because he was on trial elsewhere. The court advised Smith to notify Pattis that if the plaintiff wanted to confer only with Pattis, then Pattis was to be present at all hearings. The court ordered the plaintiff “to allow the [guardian ad litem] and every therapist in this case to do their job which involves the children without him being present unless he is invited.”
The plaintiff’s counsel raised the issue of the defendant’s automobile accident; her car reportedly had hit a tree while the children were in the car. He said that “perhaps [there would be] some changes to things as a result of that.” Attorney Gary Cohen, the attorney for the guardian ad litem, stated: “This may be an appropriate time for me to ask the court to enter an order that [the plaintiff] may not contact or be in the presence of my client without my being present. There’s no reason for me to give reasons, but my client is represented by counsel. She chooses not to engage with [the plaintiff] unless I am present during that engagement.” The court responded by ordering the plaintiff not to contact Oppenheim without Cohen’s being present.
Later in the hearing, the defendant’s counsel stated that after one of the parties’ children had run away from home, Oppenheim had made an appointment for that child to see a particular psychiatrist and that the plaintiff did not bring the child to that particular psychiatrist, but rather to a different mental health professional. The defendant’s counsel requested that the child continue treatment with the psychiatrist selected by Oppenheim. The court ordered that the child continue treatment with the psychiatrist selected by Oppenheim “until or if the experts, not [the plaintiff] but the experts who have been in the midst of all the therapy and all the evaluations, suggest that that’s where he belongs.”2
Prior to the August 29, 2013 status conference, the plaintiff had filed a motion to dismiss Oppenheim as the guardian ad litem for the minor children because of bias. Oppenheim was the guardian ad litem for the minor children at the time of the August 29, 2013 status conference. She later was removed as the guardian ad litem for the minor children, and on November 25, 2013, the court, Munro, J., appointed Attorney Jill Plancher to be the guardian ad litem for the minor children. In December, 2013, the court ordered Oppenheim to turn over her complete file in the matter to Plancher. The plaintiff’s appeal is only from orders issued at the August 29, 2013 status conference.
On appeal, the plaintiff focuses on the August 29, 2013 orders of the court that (1) Oppenheim be permitted to meet with the children privately and (2) the plaintiff could not contact Oppenheim directly without first going through Cohen. These orders will be addressed in turn. …”
https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/ct-court-of-appeals/1694704.html
Why are you posting a novel about a different case?
You do realize literally, nobody leads that.
Because the state is currupt. The Frank report is the place to out it.
Because a few people saw Gerard Adelman sitting with the public watching a hearing in the Sargent case — and because the same small group of the worst judges and lawyers monopolized the worst cases, destroying children and families in Connecticut “family courts” for the past 40 years.
Victims of those cabals recognize the names and see the patterns. Too bad mainstream news outlets don’t. If they would, you’d know why I posted that information in this forum.
For those who know what’s been happening, please note:
“… Munro, J., appointed Attorney Jill Plancher to be the guardian ad litem for the minor children. …”
Jill Plancher was also the GAL in this case for a few months. Naidoo had her removed because she showed that Plancher LIED to the court.
If Jill Plancher lied to the court, then I would think there would be a complaint to the judicial branch to get her removed from the list of GAL’s in conjunction to a bar complaint.
It may be family court, but perjury is still a crime.
This is a joke . The bar association doesn’t do it about these guardian ad lithiums. Disgrace.
Because people like Jill Plancher & Gary Cohen are ABOVE THE LAW. They do whatever they want and get away with it. The real question is why do the judges allow them to do this?
I don’t believe Gary Cohen is on the current judicial branch list of GAL’s.
I wish she could get my GAL removed….
It is safe bet that if you are on the GaL list in Connecticut it’s a requirement to be dishonest. You won’t last or get assigned to any case. The worst of society walks the halls of the family court houses.
The mother knows too much about the business of junk science.
… LAWRENCE S. EBNER
Counsel of Record
NISHANI NAIDOO
ATLANTIC LEGAL FOUNDATION 1701 Pennsylvania Ave., NW Washington, DC 20006
(202) 729-6337 lawrence.ebner@atlanticlegal.org …
https://atlanticlegal.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/ALF-Amicus-Brief-Johnson-Johnson-v.-Ingham-No.-20-1223.pdf
I hope someone working in the courthouse will tell us if Gerard Adelman had something to do with the decision to incarcerate.
Adelman was originally assigned to hear the trial and heard a lot of the pretrial motions. He denied all of Naidoo’s petrial motions and she appealed 6 of his orders. On the day of the trial, the parties were informed that he was not available. The parties came back to court the following day and Tindill was assigned
It’s obvious that Adelman recused himself and Tindill was assigned in his place to reduce the likelihood of a successful appeal based on some sort of judicial misconduct and/or overt bias. Happens all the time.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1W1Zm_fanvdOiAu8YalTOmbdMi4RWjRYZ/view?usp=drivesdk
Here is her motion in the appellate court. You can see how she is talking about a lot of “irregularities” that were going on when Adelman was involved.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1W1Zm_fanvdOiAu8YalTOmbdMi4RWjRYZ/view?usp=drivesdk
… politics controls families with junk science.
Did the predator class in that state decide that mother was in their way?
ALF’s Amicus Brief:
“… The amicus brief, authored by ALF Executive Vice President & General Counsel Larry Ebner with the assistance of ALF Associate General Counsel Nishani Naidoo, explains that junk science undermines due process by causing or exacerbating jury confusion and prejudice. Although most States, including Missouri, have adopted the principle — established by the U.S. Supreme Court in its Daubert trilogy and now codified in federal and state evidentiary rules — that trial courts must act as gatekeepers to ensure that only reliable expert testimony be presented to juries, the Missouri trial court failed to fulfill that crucial role in this case. As a result, the plaintiffs were permitted to present junk science causation testimony that glossed over the important differences among each of the plaintiffs. …”
https://atlanticlegal.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/2020-ALF-Annual-Report.pdf
“… Booking Date: 8/14/2024
Age: 53
CHARGES:
CHARGE DESCRIPTION: PURGE CIVIL COMMITMENT
BOND AMOUNT: $15,126.00 …”
There must be something in the water in the court houses in Connecticut that spreads evil and corruption. They all seem to have it.
It’s nothing in the water. It is the fact that CT is a small state both in population and geography. The Bar is pretty small and everyone knows one another in the legal community through someone else.
The Founders never intended for Americans to trust their government. Our entire Constitution was predicated on the notion that government was a necessary evil, to be restrained and minimized as much as possible.
[…] Constitutional and Civil Rights activist Peter Szymonik had some comments on the jailing of a mother for not paying legal fees of her ex husband, which he argues is nothing short of debtor’s prison. See Mom Jailed for Not Paying Ex’s Lawyer in CT Family Court […]
This is so disgusting!!! Judges are incompetent and need some training! This guy is a loser she was the bread winner and taking care of the two kids. Judge Tindell was probably jealous of her graduating from Columbia and chooses her to lose her career and pay this loser $37,000 dollars asap. I deal w women good loving moms for over 30 years who are losing their children to DV abusers, sexual abuse, child abuse and judges are awarding the abusers custody a National epidemic! Absolutely no transparency or accountability in our courtrooms! Read “Prosecuted But Not Silenced” to see how far they go!!! https;www.amazon.com/dp/1683507800 By Maralee Mclean
And I assist numerous fathers who have been drowned by false allegations of DV, child abuse and so on …. the numbers and are staggering and trump yours.
Do you operate in the Stamford courthouse?
Ok Joan. We all know you are a Richard Gardner. Stop assisting in the abuse of women and children.
Was Richard Gardner actually Joan’s “therapist”?
According to her statement in podcast. She also claims she was a family friend.
Alienation industry hard at work. It’s all the mothers fault. I think people are getting the picture that you are full of shit.
Absolutely do not believe that!! Take a real look at the stats…
Self reported studies to support the fatherhood initiative. Funding from men’s rights organizations. There are women abusers. These alienation industry people target women. Big dollars, started when the welfare reform act started. The residents alienation industry expert also has a degree in government. I’m sure she knows all about the welfare reform, fatherhood initiative, men’s rights funding. Convenient psychiatric diagnostics only related to divorce with alligations of abuse. # Dulos evaluation.
Peter getting himself back in the spotlight.
Naidoo has been playing games forever and the judge finally put down her foot.
Nice to see Nishani face some real consequences for a change.
All the tears spilled for her make me laugh.
“… Nice to see Nishani face some real consequences for a change …”?
👉 Consider telling readers here what prompted you to type those mean comments.
👉 Her husband didn’t ask the judge to send her to prison.
Why do YOU want her in prison?
Strongly recommend fully investigating a story before publishing. Get all the facts.
Another day in the depths of hell Connecticut family court. All about the money. Shut the place down 😡👎
It’s only about money if the marital estate has significant assets. Then the high priced attorney’s, GAL,s, custody evaluators, visitation supervisors, etc swarm to drain and feed off what should be the inheritance of the feuding couple’s children.
For everyone else it is family relations and DCF that handles messy cases with the sort of diligence and passion one would expect from low paid highly overworked government employees.
In some way this is true and make sense, however even minimal assets and federal funding plays a part in the family court system mess. Access and visitation grant from the fatherhood initiative provides money. We have PPE loans. These state employees benefit and retirement rely on making the MOU work. It runs deep. Billions of dollars to Connecticut colleges. Yale is now partnered for money through the MOU. . Union dues, paid legal fees from insurance. Personal finance and assets are obvious. Why do you think William Tong is ignoring the entire mess along with the judiciary committee? They don’t want to fix family law, it’s bringing cash to the state of Connecticut.
An Excerpt from Divorce In Connecticut Blog July 22, 2015
“…Attorney Gary Cohen had been grieved by a former client for extorting $300,000 for himself and another $300,000 for the client’s ex wife’s lawyer. Miraculously, the grievance panel found that Cohen had engaged in unethical conduct. Chohen was then required to perform something like 200 hours of “community service” pursuant to a subsequent settlement with the Statewide Grievance Committee.
Judge Lynda Munro was assigned to “oversee” Cohen’s community service. However, Cohen wasn’t up to doing the required hours of community service. So Judge Munro then gave Cohen credit for community service performed on his behalf by one of his associates whom Cohen presumably paid. Thus, Judge Munro unilaterally eliminated the Statewide Grievance Counsel’s community service penalty. Judge Munro subsequently retired from the bench and was until recently a partner at the law firm of Pullman & Comley, which just happened to be the law firm that represented Cohen in the grievance matter.
This is a monied case. CT is a no-fault divorce state, yet the courts drag out litigation for the wealthy families to drain savings and line the pockets of attorneys and GALs. This case was filed in August 2019 and it took until 8/2024– FIVE YEARS to end litigation, yet it still goes on…
Why is it taking years for CT families to obtain a no-fault divorce?
And this is another RFTD case– where cases are supposed to move swiftly and efficiently– five years! ANd the courts blame the families for the lack of efficiency and years in litigation.
There is no oversight in CT. The Judiciary committee is comprised of attorneys- who are there to protect their own.
The legislatures rely on the word of the judiciary committee who have a vested interest in protecting their peers.
This is also an equal protection constitutional issue. Why is it that families and kids without money do not get the same level of attention and court intervention as families and kids with money?
Most of these judges doing this are out of the Stamford Courts.
It happens in all of the CT courts. You just don’t hear about it as often due to the silent media.
This is absolutely not true. It’s all over the state.
Is the Family Court System Gaslighting Parents?
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/family-court-system-gaslighting-parents-amanda-sillars-6ra4c
The Stamford based GAL in my divorce case warned me never to mention parental alienation because it will make her angry.
Nevertheless, I kept on mentioning parental alienation.
The docket shows hearings scheduled in RFTD in Middletown:
August 26th at 11am
August 29th at 2pm
… preferably court watchers who know what Connecticut law says about the facts in evidence in that case.
By the way, they jail men all the time for being in contempt of paying child support. It never prevents these men from then going out and getting a job.
What’s your point?
You should be concerned that it’s a debtors prison. These are not criminals.
The point is her story does not ring true.
Ms. Tindall sent the mother to jail for the “family court” lawyer — not for the family.
I don’t think the judge would send the mother—who also happens to be a lawyer—to jail if the opposing attorney was not Gary Cohen. For some reason there is a giant mystique surrounding that man. Whether it’s his custom tailored expensive suits, his exotic late model vehicles, his legal acumen, or just his glorious smile, the whole family court system in CT bows down to this legal legend.
Scary how delusional you are with your statement
Scary how scary your comment is.
It’s not meant to be scary. It was meant to be sarcastically true
This is not child support it’s legal fees. This judge should be disbarred and made to pay fines she has no way of paying or go to jail.
Correct! And the judge used a child support enforcement order to put the mother in jail for not paying the ex husband’s lawyer on time! The mother is the sole provider for be children!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/14CBB0k8SNvAPBW2o4dUwxWF6obvam7Am/view?usp=drivesdk
Agreed. The judge is manipulating the process to throw her power around. It stinks badly. A black judge against a white woman. This looks really bad!
For criminal contempt it must be proven that her actions were willful. How did she willfully refuse to pay when she demonstrated she could pay $2500 toward the bill?
Why are family court judges involved at all in payments to attorneys?
Why are taxpayers paying for court time so attorneys can be paid by a date certain?
Let Gary Cohen chase the mother for payment. Why is Tindal stealing 15,000 from this family? She’s a family court judge more concerned with a corrupt attorney than the love, safety and security of three kids. Sick sick woman Tindall
Why are family court judges issuing TROs which restrict constitutional rights utilizing a standard that is much less stringent than on the criminal side? Totally unconstitutional.
What kind of retirement account does she have that won’t let her take out money? She doesn’t have a 401k? They let you withdraw money for any reason.
I think she willfully refused to pay when she lied and said she couldn’t cash out any of her retirement accounts.
Despite reportedly being over the age of 80, Gary Cohen is known to be the best and most well connected divorce attorney in CT. He is the one big shot hedge founders run to when their marriage is on the rocks. He commands the highest hourly rate amongst all the elite matrimonial attorney’s and gets the job done for his client, whatever that may entail.
The highest paid attorneys get the job done because it’s done through connections and favors in violation of all due process or best interest.
That’s why everyone runs to Gary Cohen. He,s got all the connections. You can see some of his connections at the Capital Grill restaurant in Stamford, rumored to be one of his favorite hangouts.
Thanks for the info, Gary.
Gary Cohen does not need to troll and advertise on the FR. He is well above that!
Gary Cohen has a history of unethical conduct and extortion. He’s protected by judges in CT.
Thank you for posting this dangerous but common outcome that happens daily in CT courts.
CT media WILL NOT report on family court crimes.
Tong knows all about it. The corruption goes to the top and judges are out of control.
Tindal should be removed from the bench for this.
Along with Kenefick and Grossman
There is a small circle of family attorneys who control the show in Stamford.
If you look at Gary Cohens profile when you look up his juris number he has only had 1 presentment in his entire career.
How is this possibly in the ‘best interest’ of children?
Best Interest was created as a mechanism upon which court appointed criminals rely to traffic and abuse children.
It’s purely discretionary and there is no oversight and no requirements whereby the judges have to demonstrate they considered the “16” criteria which assesses “best interest”
Tindals ruling proves family court is a weapon to steal money from innocent families and enrich attorneys.
Don’t you get it? It is in the best interest of the children to have the legal bills paid so that the litigating parents children’s college funds are drained and put into the college funds of the lawyers children.
Therefore, all of this is indeed in the best interests of the children; the children of the lawyers involved!
Best interest of the children is determined by the personal biases and professional favors owed by a GAL who is paid $400 plus per hour in Stamford. This determination is then rubber stamped by the judge.
CT has a ruthless family court system where innocent parents are jailed and branded with restraining orders as punishment by the courts. Parents with no criminal history or even a minor offense for decades are destroyed by family court judges who line the pockets of criminal attorneys. Children are traumatized by family court rulings.
In this case you have a father who also pleads with the judge NOT to jail his ex-wife; the mother of his children, and Tindall refuses because enriching attorneys is the name of the game in family court.
… Raymon Everett Holmberg (born December 10, 1944) is a former educator, school counselor, and Republican North Dakota senator. Once tied for the longest-serving state legislator in the United States, Holmberg resigned from the state Senate in 2022 (after 45.5 years) upon investigation into his alleged child sex tourism and receipt of child pornography. …
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Think about this situation for one minute. If it is true that the judge is essentially jailing a mother— who happens to be a lawyer herself and the sole breadwinner for her children—because she did not pay Gary Cohen; then if you are ever in need of a divorce attorney, Gary Cohen is the one you should liquidate all your assets to hire because judges literally criminalize his opponents.
This is shocking. What’s the connection between Cohen and the judge?
This probably doesn’t shock most victims of the worst Connecticut “family court” judges.
They the attorneys and judges are all sc*m b*gs creating chaos for profit
Blood sucking leeches
Perhaps the connection is sexual?
Whatever happier to the constitution?
Welcome to Corrupticut., the “constitution state”
Women have no constitutional rights. They have never been archived. This judge is a piece of crap. Just like many others on the bench. If you have daughters move out of the state of Connecticut.
This is not about gender…women or men. This is about the lawyers. If you get the right lawyer, at the top of the pecking order, like Gary Cohen, you get the “justice” you desire regardless of your gender. If your lawyer is lower on the totem poll than opposing counsel you get screwed.
Stop with the gender crap it happens more to men than women. This is a corrupt court system. All they do is swindle cases in the direction to extort an extract as much money as possible from the families wake up.
It’s a true fact Biden administration didn’t archive the ERA. Is a contributing factor in the family court system problems. All family court system contributions should be discussed. We need help all the way around to fix the entire family court system problems.
Jail the mother Pay the attorney. Keep the cannoli.
Lawyers first!
Terrorize the parents. Connecticut judicial branch hard at work with our tax dollars. Financial feast for the bar association.
What happened to a trial by jury ?
No jury trials permitted in CT family court.
It is a court of equity; not law.
Jury trials would END the child abuse the courts inflict on children and would end the blatant larceny that drains families of lifelong savings.
That may be true but in order to get to equity, which is decided by the judge, you need to get a finding of fact. This is where a jury would be helpful.
“… blatant larceny that drains families of lifelong savings …”
This doesn’t make any sense. You absolutely can withdraw money from a 401(k). The taxes suck, but not as bad as $15,000 and loss of employability.
Is this yet another narcissist who thinks the law doesn’t apply to her?
Says the narcissist.
Say father’s rights groups. Off with her head. She didn’t agree to 50/50. She is a narcissist. Cause anyone not agreeing and going to court is mentally ill. We have a psychologist to apply mental health diagnosis to anyone who doesn’t agree with our point of view.
I have no idea if she agreed to 50-50 or not. All I know is what I read in this article that she claims she couldn’t withdraw any money from her retirement accounts.
That’s total bullshit.
It is also rrreally hard to believe that this lawyer’s employer would fire her because she was late making a payment. What, she didn’t have the verbal skills to explain to them?
She will have no problem making money in the future with her credentials since a minor charge like this does not prevent anyone from practicing law.
This post stinks to high heaven of complete bullshit.
It’s accurate. The transcript will demonstrate it’s all true. Look at the docket.
The conduct of the judge is outrageous and you refuse to consider the truth because you blindly believe in the system.
What part of the article do you believe is false and why?
What do I believe is false?
1. That Naidoo could not withdraw money from retirement accounts to pay legal fees (that’s bull)
2. Naidoo will now have a criminal record (um, isn’t this a civil case?)
3. Lie #3: Naidoo will now be unemployable (why? Over a civil issue like this? In most places, you can still practice law even if you have a felony)
4. Her employer will fire her/has fired her over just this one issue (yeah right. As if she is not able to take any leave or sick time from work. If they fire her over this, guaranteed, it is the culmination of a history of problems they have with her.)
That is not the legal problem.
This is not a reason to put someone in jail. She was making a payment plan. Malicious conduct. Sore loser. Sham on the judge .