What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Michigan
Last May, 2008 my husband had told the Parenting Coordinator assisgned to his case that he was going to ask the Wayne County (Detroit) Court to remove her from the case because she made 2 binding decisions regarding his daughter with his former wife. In both cases she made these decisions without his input, only used info. provided by his ex-wife, and refused to meet with him (that's a whole different situation-not my question). The Parenting Coordinator was irate with my husband when he told her this, via telephone, told him off and hung up on him. Though their Agreement to Arbitrate clearly stated what she could and could not do, she decided that she was going to "temporarily suspend his parenting time" after he told her he was going to ask that she be removed, this was clearly addressed in the agreement as something she could not do. When my husband got to see the Judge a few weeks later he decided to allow the Parenting Coordinators Decision to stand, but that he was going to have a Guardian Ad Litem investigate the matter.
We recently found out that the Judge's Law Clerk, was in fact, also the "husband" of the Parenting Coordinator. So here is my question: Isn't there some kind of Conflict of Interest here? The Court never told my husband of the relationship, and we would have to assume that the Judge is not going to go against his Law Clerk's wife, but do we have any recourse here? We have filed a Complaint with the Chief Judge and the Citizen Advisory Committee, but we couldn't find a specific law relating to this because it is an unusual situation.
Thanks for any advice!What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)?
Last May, 2008 my husband had told the Parenting Coordinator assisgned to his case that he was going to ask the Wayne County (Detroit) Court to remove her from the case because she made 2 binding decisions regarding his daughter with his former wife. In both cases she made these decisions without his input, only used info. provided by his ex-wife, and refused to meet with him (that's a whole different situation-not my question). The Parenting Coordinator was irate with my husband when he told her this, via telephone, told him off and hung up on him. Though their Agreement to Arbitrate clearly stated what she could and could not do, she decided that she was going to "temporarily suspend his parenting time" after he told her he was going to ask that she be removed, this was clearly addressed in the agreement as something she could not do. When my husband got to see the Judge a few weeks later he decided to allow the Parenting Coordinators Decision to stand, but that he was going to have a Guardian Ad Litem investigate the matter.
We recently found out that the Judge's Law Clerk, was in fact, also the "husband" of the Parenting Coordinator. So here is my question: Isn't there some kind of Conflict of Interest here? The Court never told my husband of the relationship, and we would have to assume that the Judge is not going to go against his Law Clerk's wife, but do we have any recourse here? We have filed a Complaint with the Chief Judge and the Citizen Advisory Committee, but we couldn't find a specific law relating to this because it is an unusual situation.
Thanks for any advice!What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)?