South Carolina Judicial Corruption: Family Court System Often Overlooked

I’ve noticed that the moment any of the participants in Family Court think they may be recorded, they freak out. That’s because everyone participating in the fleecing of the unfortunate couple going through a divorce lies….your attorney will lie, the opposing attorney will lie, God forbid kids are involved, because then the GAL(who is also usually an attorney, because to quote Carlin, “it’s a big club and you ain’t in it) will also lie…and the judges if they need to will lie and even ordering “transcripts” won’t always prevent things said from not being recorded during actual hearings.

It’s a giant, corrupt system that turns on attorney’s making bank on the litigants misery. If at all possible, try to get your spouse to settle…even if you think you’re getting screwed by your spouse for $100K it will be cheaper that paying the jackals in the system and trying to “take it all the way”.

The reason they all lie is because what everyone wants is for you for you and your spouse to “settle”…fairness, justice, truth, etc. et al don’t matter one bit. What matters is their billable hours and their reputations. They’ll “mouth” all supposedly moral motivations they have…but it’s all BS.

Lee Marvin had it right during his BS civil palimony dispute back in the late 70’s….”they all lie”. Most men know they are relatively screwed in SC when it comes to divorce(though they are exceptions obviously) and even though supposedly the “tender years” doctrine is not supposed to be in effect, it clearly is and everyone knows it. There’s little value in a father’s relationship with the children in SC courts and no value in the “truth” regardless of which spouse is the better parent for the children.

It’s truly a horrible system that victimizes the unfortunate litigants on both sides usually harming the kids(if they are any) in the process.

I too have witnessed a story that sounds very much like this one coming out of the Charleston Family Court System. A father who’s never even been accused of mistreating his child has been kept from her for almost 15 months. The GAL breaks court orders. She weaponizes the court system against him. There’s been therapists practicing without the proper licenses. One of opposing counsels attorneys became the attorney for the counselor practicing without a license and placed herself in charge of when the father and child would start unjustified “therapeutic communications”. Court orders have been changed to portray the desires of the GAL and opposing counsel against and in no way represent the actual transcripts or understanding of the Judges who made the orders. I could go on and on. Someone needs to take a serious look into what’s going on within this system. It looks a lot like the problems that the Missouri family courts have been facing.

Ask investigative reporter Karen Winners from NY. She was hired to dig into the Charleston County Family Court corruption in a case involving a very wealthy woman (Ginsberg) trying to get custody of her grand daughter. They milked her of over One Million dollars fighting the system. Her own attorney played her, too. All about money and what can be sucked out of people who have it and have assets. They targeted her something bad. They intentionally violated her rights left and rights. At least the sitting judge (Segars-Andrews) was eventfully thrown off the bench after almost 14 years of that judges corruption.

When Attorney Winner was hired by Inge Ginsberg and came to town, she started investigating the 9th Circuit Family Court, it alerted local attorneys and put them in fear. Even the powerful lawyers were concerned. Winner started digging through case files. She was accosted and threatened for what she was investigating.

Karen Winner is a nationally renowned legal consumer advocate, author and attorney. In 1996, before she became an attorney, Winner wrote the nationally-acclaimed book, Divorced From Justice: The Abuse of Women and Children by Divorce Lawyers and Judges, (ReganBooks/Harper Collins. She is credited with creating the Statement of Client Rights, a consumer protection disclosure that all divorce lawyers are required to provide to their clients in New York. Winner gained national attention for her extraordinary investigations on behalf of victims of lawyer abuse and legal fee exploitation, exposing the dynamics of divorce court proceedings, uncovering the too-common scene of unethical lawyers using the fee-for-profit system for self-enrichment and insensitive judges misapplying the laws at the expense of women in divorce. Her book followed a report she wrote on the same subject, as policy analyst for the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs.

South Carolina has no statutes of limitations for anyone filing criminal complaints. Attorneys and Judges are not exactly immune, either. The entire SC family court system is a good place for lawyers to fan the flames and milk a litigant of everything they have. Before the internet, it was very easy for them to do this. Now, it easier to expose them.

Forget about the ODC. You can never trust those who are entwined in collusion with their friends in a money making area of practice who are friends of the SC Bar Association members. It is long past due to bust it all wide open. And Segars-Andrews can still face criminal complaints just as her cronies, can.

Be a Lion. Rise up against this old corrupt and lawless family court system.

So what say you, Spies for the system?