Fighting for Child Support in Family Court, when you have no money.

FREE Call to ACTION!!!  

My name is Ginny Edmunds. I am a mother of 4. I have been in the Family Court System for 7 years actively trying to get proper support for my children. I have been unsuccessful until now. Along the way, I have learned that there are many ways to fight and many things that the system will do to you along the way. This is based on my experiences with 4 attorneys, one who was disbarred, errors, court errors, court systems, and new code changes that were designed to help the self litigant.

In order to help the other non primary wage earning parents in divorce, I am in the process of setting up a nonprofit in order to raise funds and awareness to change the California Courts operation procedure and open up their eyes to what is really occurring. The abuse of this system is costing California taxpayers a fortune. I am asking for help in the way of time. I will pay for fees to establish the nonprofit, and need some persons who will work on it for a modest extra income once we start getting contributions.

I am asking for all parents, who are in the system, or will be in the system, to participate either by donations or by offering their time to get the deficiencies looked at, and to raise awareness of this important issue. I can also help by giving advice, I am not a legal professional but I am studying paralegal and law at this time. This advice is based on my own experiences with the court in my fight for support while a very rich ex continues to abuse me and the children, while escaping his responsibilities to pay proper support. I will help you to understand the basic rights you have under the current California Law so that you can fight for yourself if you cannot afford an attorney, and so that you can make sure your attorney is doing the right thing if you do have one.

If any of you are interested in joining this cause, please email me and we can form a FREE group to make changes and help each other. My email address is ginny@ecobaby.com.

Here is what we can do. I am willing to help with legal codes and ways to get support and needs based attorneys fees at the beginning of a case.

I am trying to get a petition signed to get changes on the ballot in California.

We can march on the court house and demand that the courts follow the NEW ELKINS laws.

We can work together to make sure that children are getting the support they are supposed to get.

Here is my experience step by step which will all be laid out in my new book scheduled to be finished in December 2011. I have suffered through what many of you have suffered in part or in full. I hope my journey can help others, and will stimulate others to take action. I am in process of submitting the petition to the State of California and need $470,000 signatures to get it before the State Legislature.

"Family Courts destroying families one at a time

How taxpayers are robbed by this daily practice"

I will spell out my recent events, as they are currently before the court and I am busy putting it all together in court format.

August 25th, 2011 I go to court for my long awaited child support hearing that I filed again in February 2009. It is finally before the court.

The issues with getting it before the court were because I am 25% owner of my mom's company. Therefore, my ex is stating I make a lot more than I stated. However, this company has been receiving over $40,000 yearly in loans from my parents to keep it afloat. And certainly cannot pay me much, but more than I could make at any other job. I have provided all information in Discovery, so my ex has everything he needs to see that honesty in the bookkeeping. Yet he states to the court since 2004, that I make a fortune, and therefore, the child support case has not been heard.

Here is what he states in his documents filed here about support. Link coming.

OMITTED ASSETS HEARING - Proof of Judicial Error costing Children Support and keeping litigant poor

So I submitted this for Judicial Review to the Court House Presiding Judge, and Supervisors

Here is what I submitted. :

The result was the trial court erred and said I had not met my burden of proof. However, the burden of proof is on him to show how he disposed of the assets. Otherwise anyone would just take everything and withhold it from their spouse during divorce. So now I have had to hire an appeals attorney with my sons college funds that he needed this April. Hopefully this will then allow me to get the half that was rightfully mine, and get paid so that I can afford to send the other 3 to college as they get older. In the meantime, this court has taken the college funds from my 17 year old, due to their outright negligence in responding to this case as per the law of California. My rights as a stay-at-home mom, were to enjoy half of what WE, together, accumulated during our marriage. That right was stripped from the kids and from myself. When I finally get the transcript, I will post it. In the meantime here is the slew of proof that I submitted, that was then ignored by the court.

 

 

In addition I am unable to get the documents for the past assets or for current and past, undisclosed income by utilizing the mandated Discovery process. This is also a violation of California Family Codes, and Civil Codes, but without a judge seeing it, or addressing it, I lose my rights to information. Below are the letters I have had from opposing counsel, in violation of her duties to disclose, or have her client disclose his income, his bank information, his credit card information. So undoubtedly this will lead to another appeal. My case for a motion to compel is to be heard on October 11th, 2011. I have discovered a hidden bank account at HSBC by utilizing a legal investigation company (Able Legal Investigations). The court did not address the fact that this proves fraud, they ignored it in violation of California law.

Here is the current happenings in Discovery:

1. Correspondence regarding undisclosed accounts a legal investigator found for me. Click here for actual letters.

    a. Proves other attorney is knowingly refusing to comply with discovery

    b. Proves other attorney is refusing to answer letters

    c. Proves other attorney knowingly aids client in deceptive and unlawful conduct

Now I get a letter from the attorney I was hiring to plead my case. She will not accept my case as it is too complex. This is now the 4th attorney who finds it too complex and each charge me for the appointment. So I am out more money. Here is that letter.

Just yesterday, October 20, 2011  I got a 5th letter from another attorney who won't take my case after I paid her for 2 appointments.

Then the biggest thing I find out. In deposition, I find out the other attorney outright committed fraud by a declaration she made to the court in 2008, in order to get them to accept the fake MSA. Here is the proof. She stated in the declaration that the reason it was not filed is that it was at his previous attorney's office and he could not get it. However, in deposition in 2011, when I deposed THAT attorney, she, his current attorney said that she had it all along in 2004 and 2005. Yikes, this is fraud. She outright withheld information if it even existed.

As another piece of proof, when i filed for the arrears in 2008, May, she did not produce the MSA then either, she produced it October 22, 2008. It must have taken time to get a fake MSA made. No other explanation of withholding evidence. 

Below I lay out the other instances of fraud and concealment by this attorney, Carole Baldwin.

1. She filed false income and expense declarations in 2011, twice, here they are. How do I know they are false? Because I hired an investigator and he found 2 hidden bank accounts that were concealed during discovery, and those 2 accounts were used to pay legal bills to Ms. Baldwin and were not disclosed in the Income and Expense declarations. Here are those accounts, that I got after 3 months of asking, after they were hidden in discovery 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011. Here are responses which prove they were concealed. So that attorney knew those accounts were hidden, otherwise the $80,000 he paid her would not have been withheld from the income and expense declarations in March and September 2011. Otherwise that mathematical error is phenomenal in the odds of that happening. Two accounts not disclosed are the exact same amount not disclosed on the I and E's to the court.

My case has gotten so complicated and I have no money and he has a fortune in income, our community assets, and companies he began during our marriage. The courts are not following the law and getting me needs based awards or the community assets. So here is more of my case:

 

August 30, 2011 I went to court as they were trying to quash my attempt to get the financial information of the company my exes wife is running under his name. Here is an actual copy of that declaration by them and following is the proof that perjury is very functional in court. I prove that she lied in this declaration to hide her involvement.

Also the CSIdentity is the company he started during our marriage and the court will not let me go back before 2009, even though it would prove my ownership and is in violation of civil discovery codes. So I am appealing this and taking it up in civil court as well. I lost my request, and the income continues to be hidden. So I have filed appeal, and am filing a fraud case in civil court on my own.

For anyone who is not aware, the burden of proof is on the person trying to quash a subpoena to prove that it cannot yield any relevant information or is protected under the law by third party privacy rights. Neither were proven here.