Kent County
www.legalabusesyndrome.org.

In a recent survey of people like you who have been to court:
Average amount paid in legal fees was $127,900;
The largest was $500,000 and the lowest was $6,000.

Average number of court appearances including appeals was 48.

The average case lasted eight years.  

The longest case is now going on 18 years,
the shortest case was two years.

Most were not satisfactorily completed.  
After great effort an expense, money ran out,
lawyers would not take the case, and justice was not achieved.  

Regardless of cost,
there was no closure for people using our justice system.


Ryan v Ryan

This is the famous case where

Judge Patricia Gardner
and
Attorney Mary Benedict

Violated this fathers due process.

This was what the Court of Appeals had to say

“‘[T]he Due Process Clause does not permit a State to infringe on the
fundamental right of parents to make childrearing decisions simply
because a state judge believes a ‘better’ decision could be made[.]’”
Hetzel v Hetzel, 248 Mich App 1, 20; 638 NW2d 123 (2001), quoting
Troxel, supra at 72-73. Indeed, this case is about the intentional misuse
of the legal system to circumvent laws designed to protect and maintain
the integrity of families. Procedural rules are also designed to protect
parents from the risk of an erroneous deprivation of the parent’s liberty
interest in the management of their child. In re Brock, supra at 107. The
trial court’s structural error deprived defendants of the opportunity to
defend the allegations before the trial court issued a series of orders
that stripped defendants of their right to exercise care and custody of
their daughter. In re PAP, supra at 155. Because the trial court never
properly assumed jurisdiction, all orders based on the wrongful
assumption of jurisdiction are void ab initio. In re Kurzawa, 95 Mich App
346; 290 NW2d 431 (1980).


Guess What the County Commissioners Did?
Read the cover up!

KENT COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Thursday, May 27, 2004
Administration Building - Room 310
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Meeting called to order at 8:30 a.m. by Chair David J. Morren.
Present: Commissioners Agee, Boelema, Bulkowski, Hiddema, Koorndyk,
Kuipers, Mast, Mayhue, Morgan, Postmus, Tanis, VanderMolen, Vaughn,
Vonk, Voorhees, Wahlfield, Chair Morren
Absent: Horton, Rolls – 2 (Excused).
Invocation: Commissioner Voorhees introduced Associate Pastor Dave
Christian,
Resurrection Life Church, who gave the invocation.



5-27-04-51 – McGINN-LOOMIS SETTLEMENT
WHEREAS, the County, as insurer for its employees, has provided
representation for County employee Adele McGinn-Loomis, a defendant
in a federal civil rights action titled Ryan v. McGinn-Loomis, has also
provided representation for the Hon. Patricia Gardner upon Plaintiffs’
demand to depose her in the action, and has sought to preserve its own
prospective interests with legal representation; and
WHEREAS, the action at issue is a wide-ranging, multi-faceted dispute,
with other litigation pending that does not involve the County,
concerning the rights of Miller, Johnson, Snell & Cummiskey attorney
Tim Ryan and his wife to parent their daughter without judicial
interference, as well as other domestic and relational matters; and
WHEREAS, the County is now being threatened by Plaintiffs that they
intend to add the County as a party to the lawsuit, as well as several of
its elected and appointed officials who may require separate
representation; and
WHEREAS, the attorney fees and costs of proceeding with this case are
expected to run as high as $500,000, including representation of at
least three parties and perhaps more if the County is named as a party,
as well as attorney fees payable to Plaintiffs by law if they should even
nominally prevail in a jury trial on their claims against County employees,
and subsequent post-litigation insurance coverage proceedings; and
WHEREAS, in addition to attorney fees and costs, continued litigation of
this matter has the potential to raise spurious yet high-profile allegations
against the County and divert the County’s human resources, including
those of elected officials, the judiciary, and staff, to frequent and
in-depth attention to this matter based upon Plaintiffs’ record of
aggressive maneuvers; and
WHEREAS, despite the greatly fantastical, contentious, and vindictive
nature of Plaintiffs’ claims, the County is now in a position to prevent the
likely expenditure of an additional $400,000 by settling this case for
$115,000, which settlement has been determined by counsel to be in
the County’s best interests; and
WHEREAS, the County, in exchange for its settlement, will receive
agreement from the Plaintiffs that they will not publicize the various
allegations they have raised, all of which the County and its employees
have denied, nor will they have any non-business-related contact with
Adele McGinn-Loomis.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Kent County Board of
Commissioners appropriates the sum of $115,000 in settlement of all
claims raised by Plaintiffs in Ryan v. McGinn-Loomis and any other
litigation related to the subject matter of the case, in exchange for the
County’s receipt of a settlement agreement that, at a minimum, prohibits
Plaintiffs from publicizing any of the allegations made in the case, and
further prohibits Plaintiffs from having any non-business contact with
Adele McGinn-Loomis.
Motion by Commissioner Morgan, supported by Commissioner Agee,
that the resolution be adopted.
Motion carried:
Yeas: Kuipers, Koorndyk, Vaughn, Mayhue, Bulkowski, Postmus,
VanderMolen, Mast, Agee, Voorhees, Boelema, Hiddema, Tanis,
Morgan, Wahlfield, Vonk, Chair Morren – 17.
Nays: 0.

These County Commissioners
are still serving Kent County
and who knows what else they are covering up.

Agee

Bulkowski

Morgan

Tanis

VanderMolen

Vaughn

Vonk

Voorhees

This is an election year!
Vote them out!



What Judge Patricia Gardner
did to this father
she did four years later
to Deanna
owner of this web site!
Impeach
Judge Patricia Gardner