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AMy L Neiman is a court appointed minor counsel in a high conflict divorce cases that involved minor children. She is usually makes sure that her clients are in a custody of the most problematic parent while the "normal" parent puts all his energy, health and money to save his/her children. This kind of situation is a predictable earnings of government money for up to 17 years and up to 100, 000 dollars per child. These children are being abused by denying their basic rights by the criminal and/or mentally ill custodial parent, minor counsel, social workers, police officers and more...
Here is an open letter of one of the parents that were slaved into the battle to save his 3 y.o. son and 8 y.o. daughter from their mentally ill mother and from their court appointed minor counsel the MONSTER Amy L Neiman (Santa MOnica, CA)
"OPEN LETTER TO AMY L NEIMAN, ESQ, SFLS, SUPER LAWYER 2005
Hello Amy,
It came to my attention that you continue to deny the visitations with my younger children to my 11-year old daughter and I. It appears that you spare no effort to ruin my normal relationship with my children and any meaningful relationship between siblings. I would like to remind you that despite your tireless and repeated efforts to find any proof of wrongdoing, neither my 11-years old daughter, nor I have ever abused my younger children. All allegations against us were far-fetched and false.
Whether you do it on purpose or unwittingly, your actions are alienating the children against their parents and estranging the children from each other, not to mention that you support and maintain your clients’ (8-years old girl and 3-years old boy) complete isolation from their extended and loving family.
I’d also like to remind you that whether you like it or not, I am a law-abiding citizen. You have the right to personally dislike the father, who has never committed and was never convicted of any crimes, and you have the right to sympathize, feel compassion towards, and be fully supportive of the mother, who has the proven (beyond reasonable doubt) history of violence towards the children and otherwise, including battering the children, attacking a policewoman, destroying property, causing injuries to her husband (that would be me), etc. Let us also not forget her using drugs and being a patient at a mental hospital. However, you do not have the right or a good reason (or excuse) to not do your job, which includes helping your minor clients to have a relationship with their older sister, their father, and their extended family. If you feel otherwise, please, let me know. I would be very interested to know what you think your job is in this case.
You have already tried (unsuccessfully) to tighten the visitation rules for the children and their father through court. Despite His Honor’s clear words that he wants to normalize the relationship between the children and their parents and his refusal to tighten the rules, you continue to take unilateral actions to prevent normal contact between the parents and children. The court takes these relationships very seriously, as you were reminded by Hon Judge Meisinger on 06/17/2010.
You refused to let 11-years old sister to see her 3-years old brother, who loves and missed her a lot and suffers because of not seeing her. He does not like to talk on the phone, as you hopefully know. You stated that the sister can see her brother on paid visitations only, knowing that there is no money for it. I would like to remind you that she has not committed any crime, either. By denying the rights of visitation to the 11-years old child and her father you made your clients suffer and inflicted emotional distress on all the children, not to mention their father, thus once again taking steps to prevent all involved from having normal and meaningful contact with each other.
You are well aware that the entire family struggles to find the money to finance the meetings between the children and between the younger children and their father at least once a month. So knowing that, you’re trying to double the price for these precious meetings by demanding additional paid monitors without any reasonable cause. This action effectively eliminates even the rare occasions when the children may see each other and their father. This is an extortion of money from my family, as well.
While the convicted criminal and mentally unstable mother (who was also on probation for her conviction for battering the children) was able to meet with all three children wherever she wanted three times a week, you limited the law-abiding and normal father to meeting with the three children in the prison cell-size room and requested the presence of one or MORE paid monitors. By doing so, (aside from everything else) you demonstrate to the children that their mother, who abused them and is a convicted criminal, has more rights than their father, who did nothing of the kind and is a law-abiding citizen. You are planting the idea into the children’s mind that it is better to be a criminal and abuser than to love and defend your children and be a law-abiding citizen. As a Certified Family Law Specialist you have to be aware that you are creating the wrong role model for the children, and thus you are ruining their future, not to mention potentially endangering the society and American democracy by ruining the children’s morals.
To reiterate, ever since you had become the minor counsel in this case on 08/26/2009 the contact between the father and children were reduced to the point of insignificance, the contacts between the younger children and their extended family dropped to zero, and all attempts to improve the situation, even those agreed to by my wife, were refused and denied by you.
Your role in this case can be described in three words – abuse, alienation, and isolation.
Ivan V Rubtsov
Father of three"
Almost 2 years these 2 small children are begging to see their sister and their Dad and their grandparents and there is NOBODY to hear it or to care. Actually, the older sister has another minor counsel named Ruth L Estep who does the same - means NOTHING to help her 12 years old client to have ANY kind of contact with her siblings. NOTHING IS HERE GOING BY THE CALIFORNIA FAMILY LAW OR AMERICAN CONSTITUTION.
MONEY IS THE ONLY BEST INTEREST THAT IMPORTANT.
Thank you for reading
The complaint has been investigated and resolved to the customer’s satisfaction.
When Minor's Counsel has an agenda which results in hurting children deeply, the must be removed. Nadine Jett is hte most atrocious minor;'s counsel who I believe despises kids. She is in a perfect position to hurt them, go against their wishes, and do the opposite so they cry and hurt. She is disgusting.
I agree the problems with minor's counsels who are private attorneys getting appointed by family court judges in high conflict custody cases is profound. Minor's counsels in Children's court have a completely different focus, doing it for the benefit of the child at a very low rate of pay. It was the family court's original attempt to get children represented in their courts using the model of Children's Court, however, it became incestuous since the pool of candidates are private family attorneys. In my case Mark P. Gross was appointed at $150 per hour then got his fees raised to $500 per hour more than a month after he was appointed without a hearing or any change in circumstances to warrant such increase. The judge was Scott Gordon who inserted that pay increase order into the file, and he is a good friend of Gross. Now Gordon is in criminal court however when he retires--on a pension from court & prior policeman work-- he is certain to get many referrals from Gross of clients who get persuaded to use a private "retired" judge to settle a case outside of court as a better option--and lucrative one for Gordon who gets Gross's nomination. That's the payoff since Gross stayed in my divorce case for seven years at Gordon's ridiculous rate, complicating it and aligning with the impaired parent who took control of our assets and paid Gross, and I had to pay him half so that he got $200, 000 in attorney's fees! Gross did all the same abusive and neglectful things to my child mentioned regarding the other attorney. Then Gross took another $40, 000 from my Ex to get the court to tag an additional $100, 000 in fees onto me when he was finally relieved, as if I had the assets to pay it. No matter for Gross though, all he has to do is show the court I cannot pay it--as if he is surprised--then the county will pay him the additional $100K! That's the safety net the court offers court appointed experts. Our taxes pay for these public service people. Meanwhile, I had to endure seven years of Gross joining in the fictitious smear campaign with my Ex until a full six-day custody trial happened with Gross sitting next to my Ex in full form (every hour at $500 per) as his attorney advocate trying to get the judge to give primary legal and physical custody to him. It was so painfully obvious my Ex cannot handle parenting and that it was not in the child's best interests and not what the child's expressions/desires are. The judge could not possibly give custody to my Ex once the evidence was all laid out. Gross lost Ex's bid for custody and was most shaken up when the judge did not rule the way he wanted. It is very unusual for a judge to rule against a minor's counsel and the only way to make sure it happens is to produce a massive amount of evidence demonstrating clearly in many different ways the minor's counsel is wrong. Even then there is no guarantee the judge will have the strength to rule against the minor's counsel but mine did because he is basically a good man seeking to do the right thing. The cost of getting clear evidence out in front of a judge against a rogue minor's counsel is significant and most often prohibitive to the parent who is trying to save the children. Gross and Amy have this reputation in LA as does Bill Spiller. If you can avoid any of these three attorney appointments, or avoid getting subjected to the court appointing a private attorney to hold out as minor's counsel at all, that is the best thing you can do in these cases. I beat the odds at high cost, but the value of my children having the wonderful lives they have now is well worth it. I would fight it again if I had to, even though I wish no one had to.
To all those with morals and to all those who love all children, that this David J. Glass Esq. PhD would giggle & laugh at me while waiting to see the judge. Shortly after this attached letter dated [protected] was received by the community of Malibu, CA this David J. Glass Esq. PhD conspired to injure a 3rd party (myself), suborned perjury and falsified evidence just before he closed down his practice and went to FMBK Law.The CA State Bar has just received a 2nd complaint regarding this matter.
Hollander
2-12-12 Mr. Graham J Miller
REGARDING CHILD ABUSE
To The Principals of Malibu Elementary Schools and To Whom it may concern within the LAUSD and SMMUSD administrations, Directors or other persons.
Dear Sir Madam or MS,
I am writing to you firstly as a parent. I have a child in a Malibu public school. I am also writing as a Citizen, and therefore concerned in a more global manner with issues that I personally find disturbing and relevant. I believe a possible failure to perform to ethical codes of several professions, let alone what any normal person may find to be reasonable is about to, and could in the future lead to embarrassment, public consternation and at best a complete lack of faith, trust and confidence in the above agencies.
I have recently been informed by my daughter Lily-Jane Faith Miller that her mother has taken her out of Callahan elementary (Northridge); and she is now at some school in Malibu district. (Grade 2)
My reasons for my concern follow.
Within the Malibu school district there is a teacher, (C Cullen) who has accused her ex-husband of two counts of sexual abuse of their son, and 5 other counts of abuse of their son (11). This alleged abuse according to Ms. Cullen and her Attorney took place over the past 5 years.
I would like a notation in my daughter’s file that she is never to be placed in class with the above person as her “(my daughters)” teacher. I apologize in in that I amenable to provide more details on my daughter’s whereabouts (school) but her Mom has not provided that info. I’m sure Dr Jacob the principal at Callahan would be able to assist.
In MS Cullen’s divorce and custody case she utilized the services of a Mr. D Glass Esq.(Attorney) Mr Glass is also a PhD in Psychology .Mr. Glass was also utilized by the mother of my daughter, Lily -Jane in my own divorce and custody matter. Mr. Glass a Psychologist/ Attorney and mandated reporter saw fit to bring allegations of sexual abuse of a child and 4 allegations of other forms of abuse of MS Cullen’s son Sammy before family court. These all were investigated by the Police DCFS, and the District Attorney. They were found to be without either Medical or Credentialed 3rd party verification and closed therefore as unsubstantiated. These allegations were brought by MS Cullen via the services of Mr. Glass and occurred regularly before the summer school break on a yearly basis. MS Cullen had also recently remarried a Mr Brian Winsick another Teacher and coach in the Conejo Valley. Their marriage took place just prior to the allegations beginning.
I will now outline my concerns and reasons for the request of the notation in my daughters file.
It is my belief that the relationship between this teacher Ms. Cullen and her attorney and my own ex-wife and the same attorney is cause for reasonable concern. That to avoid any unfortunate incident where god forbid I was to be accused by my daughter’s mother of something similar as MS Cullen accused her ex-husband of it is imperative no establish able link is in place as could lead to suspicion of collusion. The worst case scenario that Ms. Cullen at some time becomes my daughters teacher and subsequently claims are made that perhaps my daughter had inferred to MS Cullen that I had abused her ( Lily-Jane) and MS Cullen then could relate this to my daughters mother through their mutual attorney, or contact at school is beyond horrific. I feel the separation of my daughter and this teacher protects LAUSD/SMMUSD and my daughter and me.
In a more global sense I am concerned that a teacher married to another teacher and coach and an attorney who is also licensed as a psychologist made no attempt to make aware the LAUSD or the SMUSD of their concerns. (Two allegations of Sexual abuse and five other allegations of abuse.) Surely some ethical codes of their respective professions would demand other relevant or parties who could be impacted be advised.
When a teacher finds the resources to pay $500 an hour to a Beverly Hills Attorney for 5 years surely there is a need for verification that such allegations will bring in terms of the expenses the County and State will bear during the protracted conflict. Especially if the accused has been made indigent by the continued claims and has suffered stress or work issues stemming from such accusations and is no longer paying taxes.
As a parent I certainly would be outraged if I knew my child’s teacher was aware of a legitimate abuse situation and if, as in this case it included Sexual Abuse allegations and that teacher did nothing to bring attention to it as could protect other children I would expect answers. Specifically why and how a person(s) (2 Teachers, (Coach), An Attorney/Psychologist) would go ahead and consciously disregard accusations of such a serious nature, and then they having brought these allegations before family court and the district attorney go ahead and let other parents arrange activities with the person they were accusing of abuse in a manner as would expose other children to the accused.
What is more disturbing and I expect the press will find disturbing is that repeated allegations of this nature are often utilized in family conflicts and that this is acceptable is in fact a failure of morality within our society. I believe this failure may have had a profound societal impact.
That the failure of an application of evidentiary standards as are normally applied in criminal matters may have allowed credentialed persons possibly with questionable motive to use family court in a manipulative and deceitful way to achieve their own ends appears to me to be worthy of consideration.
This epidemic of claims of abuse of children caught in such situations, (family breakups) versus children, who suffer actual abuse, desensitizes the general public and governmental agencies and allows real and dangerous criminals to hide and operate with virtual impunity in our society. It is beyond Peter and the Wolf it is an ongoing crime against humanity. To falsely perpetrate something that I believe leads to what we are now facing in the LAUSD and SMMUSD and may have exacerbated, perpetuated and indeed by lack of action condoned events and actions that possibly has led to emotional; mental and even physical harm to any child is heinous.
I believe because of the actions as I have described many prior red flags have been ignored in many abuse situations and much suffering and harm and expense could have been avoided if a less commonplace attitude of children was the norm.
Indeed in the immediate situation with (C Cullen, B Winsick )either the allegations were scurrilous and a product of vitriol, and an attorney(PhD Psych) with who knows what motivation (7 Claims) and that these claims were worthy of public expense .Or these persons were aware the claims they were bringing were false and therefore not worthy of reporting to LAUISD/SMUSD or other parents.? The alternative is an admission of negligent lack of reasonable due diligence and surely a great lack of concern for the school both pupils and other teachers and parents has been flagrantly displayed in total disregard for the safety and welfare of minors. Whether this is or should be a concern for the bond holders of these persons I do not know. Mr. Glass, Glass family Law and former associate of (Kolodny & Anteau) One of the most respected family law firms in the United States (Mel Gibson Getty, etc.) has been investigated by the CA Bar already in this matter and while the complaint was not upheld a letter suggesting the possibility of civil redress was issued by them.
The APA also found he did no wrong apparently within their own ethics code.
The fact remains an Attorney/Psychologist and a Teacher and a Teacher/Coach surely have some duty to the community. The positions of trust and respect they are afforded should allow the general public a reasonableness within their expectation of propriety and protection of the innocent by such credentialed persons.
Perhaps the LAUSD/SMUSD could incorporate or suggest to the CA Bar a cooperative relationship of a professional nature that would allow this protection to be afforded our children as well as draft a code for the LAUSD/SMUSD’s own employees in such situations.
Certainly recent events could lead one to surmise that a better clarified way of maintaining the safety and welfare of our children, from both bonifide and false claims of abuse would be helpful. The harm that both real and imagined events can bring to families, as well as collateral persons and an institution such as children’s learning environment should be minimalized at all times.
Sincerely Yours,
Graham J Miller.
885 Avenue of the Americas
Penthouse 1A
New York. NY. 10001
3-13-13
Dear Ken,
It’s been more than a year since the letter of 2/12/12 and the apparent subsequent closing shortly thereafter of Glass Family Law. I understand he is now not promoting himself as uniquely blended in Psychology and Law but is at another firm doing probate work. Interestingly enough his resume at FMBK Law has claims of credentials I understand you believe are false based upon you direct written response from organizations Mr. Glass claims to be a member or associated with. Who does that reflect upon him or the diligence and propriety of the firm which now employs him?
It occurred to me that the complete contrast in our cases is almost deafening in the way it shouts hypocrisy, maleficent practices, and flat out perjuries within statements written under penalty of perjury and oral statements within hearings and written statements within submitted briefs screams of the manipulation of parents. This IMHO by attorney’s, the bench and minor’s councils within the family court system in CA at least. Given I was asked to waive my Fifth Amendment Rights in family court? And did so .The issuance of restraining orders on both of us within 3 weeks of my letter of the 12 of February under quote Justice Convey in your instance (“by the slimmest of margins”)one has to wonder at the coincidence…Right? Of course I was judged as having stalked by proxy because I hired a PI to prove my daughter was being housed with a felon (cultivating under a Federal Indictment), , , and the mother knew it.
Indeed in your instance you were falsely accused of molestation by the mother of your son seven ( 7) times and then of stalking (8th)when the child was too old to falsely accuse the father of abuse .I note your minors council never interviewed your child even though Sammy was ten (10) . In your case no abuse took place yet you were put on monitored visitation and visitation reduced to police station pick-ups permanently. It would seem logical Ken that at some time you become a safe parent. When is that after your four (4th) parenting class? Or after the third 3rd interview with the District Attorney’s Office. How about after the 8th sheriff or 13th DCFS investigations. What grade gives you a pass? Or is it like our friend who ponied up a Million dollars.
In my case I alleged that the mother was negligent or deliberately sub parenting in a manner as was provocative .Lj was taken to UCLA med center at three & half (3 ½) .and on morphine and intravenous feeding for 6 weeks after the neighbors call the police because they could hear her screaming. I had previously stated the mother did not have the skills or empathy and may have been suffering some mental distress.
Then two (2) years later numerous blood noses (daddy don’t put sunscreen on …its very sore) and Minors counsel accused me of overreacting etc. Yet my daughter now is showing a scar across her nose as her face has grown. Also when the symptoms that caused the first hospitalization reoccurred I took Lj to the Doctor without custodial privileges and was again accused of being alarmist yet the child’s diet was immediately changed by the mother and things improved.
Not forgetting being accused of 10K in support arrears that the judge threw out as falsified spreadsheet CSSD said I never owed anything. As well as the LCSW saying the Mothers accusation I yelled at our daughter and threw a phone at her was a work of fiction. Perhaps that is why we have a letter from the Bar suggesting we pursue “civil action”.
Given all this I am the one who is separated and monitored.
My point is you are not a molester as the DA stated yet you are punished and to the opposite I can prove the mother has been, may still be or is a least using sub care of my child in a provocative manner where my child may be suffering yet I am punished, . Quote (LCFS, , ‘ The Mother is not currently negligent”)
Really?
Finally we have our friend who only after paying a million dollars was taken of monitoring, all accusations and interference stopped and can see his children when he wants.
Here is the situation Given the violence in society killings in families, how much damage has been done to children and women, mothers Fathers parents and extended family by the propagation of this kind of duplicitous behavior within what seems to be a culture of deceit built around self-aggrandizing and financial self-serving that in fact amounts to fiscal abuse of children. What training skills and so on are lost in funneling the parent’s income to third party leeches using false or manipulated circumstances to serve their own interests?
In my case I spent more than $ 47, 072 seeing my daughter for twelve ( 12) hours each month for the last year.
I kept my second residence in California, (rent) paid child support, Airfare from NY once a month air fare for a weekend from oversees and monitor costs including the monitors meals, go-cart rides, Taxis/transportation, lunches, entertainment, getting around, clothes, toys, books & games and adventures that I as her father are able to spend upon the daughter that I have raised!
What type of enhanced opportunities could a different approach have made?
If fathers are the enemy what will mothers become once a more robotic agenda is achieved .They will be phased out as well. Women should consider the short amount of time science is giving them to make the correct adjustments to this situation and police their own ranks from peers lawyers and malevolent individuals who care little for children, and will eventually throw mothers to the wayside in preference of the state. I mean do little girls really need to be born with a womb anymore?
The societal cost of the emotional and mental anguish to children and subsequent family killings from person caught up in this situations is surely not worth the salaries of a the firms and government agencies who benefit from this culture…>All mothers, children and Fathers are at risk and more so daily as those uneducated to the manner they will be manipulated and have their conflict orchestrated to the fiscal advantage of others.
My being asked to waive my 5th in family court because a stated somebody was a dead man walking, professionally speaking .It would seem I know what I’m doing as David J. Glass Ph.D. is now hobbled from abusing any more families and a judge who asks me if I wished merry Christmas to a Jewish Lawyer as a hateful gesture seems to be setting me up for something, especially since you had received notices mailed to your residence disclosing that David Glass would be on vacation during the “Christmas holidays”.
Yet you Ken are a longtime Jewish friend and my father spent weeks in a cattle car on his way to Stalag IVIII in Poland.
Was it not the Nazis who first separated children from parents?
And then when I request the transcript from that hearing, I pay for it I and then get not the original but a copy and my money order is handed back to me and no one will say who was given the original?
Lj says to me at age of 6 when I tell her mom loves her and will always be in her life
She state’s to me …“She’s going to live a lot; she’s never going to die?”
What is this child going to hold her mother responsible for and by what means will she do so?
The enabling of conflict by those who seek to gain financially is simply evil and no different from an arms dealer who supplies both sides .The killing of life be it on an emotional, intellectual, financial, mental, spiritual and /a or physical level is a death and no different from actually using a mechanical device. Too knowingly do so to children whose spirit is pure is inherently foul.
To surmise IMHO the individuals and associated firms in our cases are only the tip of the iceberg.
Michael J Kretzmer. David J.Glass Ph.d, Lori Darakjian, Elise Greenberg of Carlson & Greenberg, Psychologist Angus Strachan Ph.d of Lund & Strachan, FMBK Law, Kolodny & Anteau represent a blight upon what was once a noble profession .
Please get back to me with your thoughts, I am thinking about copying this letter and the letter of [protected] to the California Attorney General.
Thanks
Graham.
Ps I’ll be in LA for visitation. It snowed in NY this week.
I totally agree the appointed minors consel has no clue what there doing they have no best intrest of the child for sure they make up more storys that are flat out lies and lets not forget the judge thats right there helping minors consel in ruining the childs future its just so sad family law is so currupt that you cant trust anybody for the best intrest of the child it is all a game to them that way they all have something to talk about over cocktails after there so called work day