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Thursday, April 2, 2009

In Whose Best Interest?

It seems Mr. Mills and his attorney, Jaye Meyer, are up to their old tricks again - power plays, wasting money and tormenting Venessa Mills.

In the provisional Temporary Order - the one drafted by Mr. Mills' attorney - one of the requested rulings was that Mr. Mills be allowed to continue paying the mortgage on the family home by using his child support payments. Let's repeat that - using his child support payments.

Judge Mangum did not include this stipulation in his final written Order. However, due to the loopholes in the Temporary Order system and the obvious bias of Judge Mangum overall,  Mr. Mills and his attorney are once again asking that this outrageous demand be added to the Temporary Order.

Is this justice? Are Mr. Mills or Ms. Meyer concerned with the best interest of the children here? Nobody looking at the evidence objectively could believe that.

Mr. Mills wants to use his child support payments to uphold his credit rating, while leaving Venessa Mills with only a few hundred dollars a month. And let's not forget that he makes over $100,000 per year and was only ordered to pay child support of around $1,300 per month. Just take a moment to compare those numbers - and realize that he is asking to pay the mortgage with the same $1,300 of child support.

This is the legal system that we are supposed to be content with? One that allows Mr. Mills to waste thousands of dollars on his attorney, and whatever else he uses his $9,000+ per month salary on, while Venessa is left with the task of continuing to homeschool her children until the end of the school year, feeding and clothing them and providing for their needs while with her, seeing them torn away and put into public school, having her religious beliefs ridiculed and scorned, and somehow mounting an adequate legal defense - all on only a few hundred dollars a month.

All the while, Mr. Mills continues to badger Venessa in any way possible. Now that he has finally moved out of the house, he uses email and approaches her vehicle when she picks up the children for school. And what for? To order her to pay the mortgage.

It doesn't take a mental health evaluation to reveal where Mr. Mills motivations really lie in this case. What is truly horrific is that his attorney and Judge Mangum are aiding and abetting all this.

Well, I have a demand for Mr. Mills' attorney and for Judge Mangum, too. Stop wasting time and money on malicious legal games and make sure Venessa and the children can continue their schooling in peace and have enough food to eat! The kids would love some cheese sticks, and they shouldn’t have to rely on neighbors bringing them soup.

And people have the cold-hearted apathy to say this is "only" a divorce case?

Why is Ms. Meyer allowing herself to be an accomplice to this injustice? If only she, and many other attorneys, would stop to realize that this is not just a case to make money from - it affects the lives of real people and children. There's no way that any attorney or judge can justify leaving a mother $200 a month, while the husband makes (and wastes) thousands, as being in the best interest of the children.

I am personally offended that an attorney who makes an estimated $300 per hour can help an adulterous husband torment an innocent woman and her children, slander Jesus Christ and twist the gospel of love - and at the same time be recognized with awards and plaudits from the legal profession.

Thank you again to those who are supporting and praying for Venessa and her children in the midst of all this, and to everyone who has sent gift cards. Your thoughtfulness and sincerity are greatly appreciated!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I think there might be a typo as when I listened to the recording on the WRAL website, Ms. Mills will be getting $2,500 every time Mr. Mills gets paid 4,500 which is more than half of what he makes and he is covering the health insurance for the children. Can you explain the difference in the numbers above? He has to pay for wherever he is living right now too and will get less of his paycheck than Ms. Mills according to what the judge said.

Robyn said...

There's no typo. Please download the case files using the link under "Fast Information." The provisional Order prepared by Mr. Mills' own attorney clearly lists the child support amount as $1,383 per month. And the cost of insuring the children is listed as only $87 per pay period.

I think you may have misunderstood whatever you listened to.

Anonymous said...

Oops, forgot something.

You want YOUR lawyer to draw up all agreements. When the lawyers draw up an agreement, they do so to the benefit of their client. Little words can be very important in "lawyer -speak"

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