Last night, I recalled I had actually put five pills aside "just in case". So then after your suggestion, I emailed dad and told him to mail the meds to me. He responded and agreed. So thank you so much for that idea!
Gam, I thought about you because I think you may be very close to some of this, if not right in it. If you are in the county that starts with letter M, let me tell you it was initially supposed to be in front of George. She got ill, and the senior, retired Vivianno filled in. This was huge, and in our favor - given his reputation. When he was on the bench, I figured we had it. Nonetheless, I did not know exactly how hard he was gonna come down on dad! And I had one of the most brilliant and thoughtful attorneys I've ever seen. Wish I'd have known him from the beginning. Brilliant.
Kiddo has been just fine since returning home. Away from the influence of his dad, he seems to do okay and accept things and roll with them.
I thought you were in my court, interesting court for sure. You are so lucky the lovely George got ill and you got Vivianno. I'm betting when Vivianno was chewing your ex out, his face was the color of a beet, his veins were sticking out in his neck and the things he was saying on court record were unbelievable, lol. I have no clue how he gets away with saying some of that stuff on court record.
I have known him since I was little, my mom started out working for the Circuit Court, then moved to Probate, Vivianno was the Probate Judge at one time and her boss. I have worked on many of his campaigns as a kid. My one daughter had him as a Judge, while he can do some screwy things and things I am sure could be appealed, he does not tolerate parents playing games at all. He will arrest someone for contempt right in the middle of the hearing, he once arrested my daughters ex's lawyer for contempt. He scares the crap out of me and my one daughter that had him, but I was not happy when he retired, she got his daughter for a Judge, however her and her ex have not been to court in 5 years, so don't know how his daughter is as a Judge.
George, is still a Probate Judge, however she got sanctioned by the state and can only hear Mental division of Probate cases, she has been banned from Will and Estates cases. Huge mess at Probate Court since she became a Judge there, her and the other female Judge got into it, the other Judge whistleblowed on her to the state and it just went from there. That other Judge didn't even run again, she had enough of the misery with George. So what do they do with George, then send her over to Circuit to fill in, and give her all family cases. She does not know the first thing about family law. I won't even get into her lack in the Mental Division, have to deal with her for work.
My other daughter's case started last Aug and she got lovely George. Close to a dozen times in court in 7 months and not once did she make one darn decision on the case. She does that with all her cases, she lets each hearing go on and on, at the end of it, she either schedules a hearing with FOC or a Ref or kicks it back to FOC for some parenting, custody or support investigation. Some strange reason the same Ref gets all her cases, and that Ref is not one of the experienced Refs in that court. Another strange thing, the head Ref, David Elias(sp?)sits in on many of George's cases. I have seen neither of these things be the norm in over 10 years sitting in those courts. Brilliant lawyer after brilliant lawyer walks out of her courtroom shaking their head, most of them end up making deals outside the courtroom as there is no reason to go back and see the Ref or FOC, they have already made recommendations, done numerous investigations. Not sure she even reads the cases before hearing them, she sure don't remember facts about the case and she ignores the lawyers when they correct her that her fact is wrong. She insisted for 7 months that my daughters case was a divorce and it was not. She kept disagreeing with my daughters lawyer because as she said "in a divorce this and that happens". The case was not a divorce, dad had disappeared before child was born, reappeared 3 times and then disappeared for good when the child was 10 months old. Didn't show back up till the child was almost 3, child don't remember him, dad lives out of state. What a crap show George made out of this, drug it on way to long. Vivianno would have had it all done in a couple hearings, open and shut case.
Very lucky for you that she was ill, you would not have gotten anywhere with her. Lots of good about that court and their FOC, there is also lots of bad to, but once you know that court and the ones in it, you can always get somewhere pretty fairly with your case. That was until George showed up. Try to avoid her at all costs, matters little as your going to get the Ref making the decision anyways, so your shot is to convince that Ref. That Ref flip flops each time, one time she is really good and listens to the case, the next time she don't want to hear a thing and already has made her decision.
So to sum up(yep I know I'm long winded, lol), go through FOC as much as possible, if that is not working then try like heck to convince the Ref. If you object to the Ref, George will not make a decision but send you back to the Ref. Good news though the Ref seems to have flip flop decisions, so you have a chance the Ref will make a different decision when you see her again.
