Complaint Review: Diane Van Ness - Miami Florida

I am appalled that Diane Van Ness will be a speaker at the upcoming 2009 FLAFCC convention in Tampa.

Such greats at Neena Malik, Honorable Kreeger, Miguel Firpi, and the like will be presenting there, alongside of Diane. They must not be aware of the vile sagas of this white collar criminal, who commits her extortion tactics in the very field about which she will now speak in front of professionals.

I would like to make it abundantly clear about the cases with which I am intimately familiar. In one case, Diane Van Ness took children from their loving mother instantly, with no trial, no evidentiary hearing, no 14th Amendment rights whatsoever. These children had been scarred by the domestic violence they had witnessed the father perpetrate upon the mother repeatedly over many years. When the mother left him and took her beautiful children with her, they were already suffering from the third-party witnessing of the battering, along with the post-traumatic stress and severe parental alienation that came with this horrific package. When the older child, naturally, melted down (at the mother's home, of course; she had fled the abuser), Diane Van Ness snatched them up WITH VIRTUALLY NO CONTACT WITH THE CHILDREN'S PSYCHOLOGIST, WITNESSES, EDUCATORS, HOSPITAL RECORDS, or any contact with the mother's extensive decade long witnesses, either. She reported to the judge that the child(ren) must be acting like this because the mother must be abusing them. This is the ignorance of Diane Van Ness. IF CHILDREN TRAUMATIZED BY THE FATHER'S CHRONIC DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AGAINST THE MOTHER MELT DOWN AT THE MOTHER'S HOME, THE MOTHER MUST BE ABUSING THEM. SHE IS DANGEROUS AND ON THE VERGE OF MURDERING THEM.

As other writers on this site have stated, the extortion began. In a case that was clearly to be pro bono, for which there were no funds, Diane extorted the mother's entire salary, AND WOULD NOT LET THE MOTHER AND CHILDREN SEE EACH OTHER, AT TIMES FOR MONTHS AT A TIME, UNTIL SHE WAS PAID THESE IMPOSSIBLE SUMS. For years, Diane continued to report to the Court (as non-evidentiary status conferences only) that the mother has stopped paying her, stopped paying all child support, written only NSF checks. In reality, the mother had paid her religiously and extensively, beyond reason.

The witnesses, including Miami's top professionals in family law and psychology, called this case "one of the sickest" they had ever seen in their careers, in their opinion.

In another case, Diane Van Ness triple-charged her fees, to the mother, to the father, and to the attorney, and if the mother dared speak up about it, Diane filed a caseload of new, falsified reports about the mother and alleged abuse. When the mother went pro se and filed before the judge what Diane had done, replete with documentation, Diane immediately signed off the case.

Now, let's switch gears for a moment. We have extraordinary experts speaking at the upcoming FLAFCC. Dr. Neena Malik, ironically, writes the floowing on her webpage about her extraordinary work in cases JUST THOSE HIGHLIGHTED ABOVE. Here's what her UM webpage states:

"Currently in development is a prevention-oriented, dyadic therapy program for parents with young children. Focusing on at-risk populations, this intervention research program includes comprehensive evaluations of social and emotional development in young children and family-level functioning, with both cross-sectional and longitudinal components planned. This program offers training in models of dyadic therapy with parents and very young children, including infants and toddlers, and prevention-oriented research. The focus of this program is on children and families at risk for violence and families who have experienced trauma. Theoretical models to be tested include a focus on coercive interactions between parents and their infants and toddlers and the transactional influences of community level factors, such as neighborhood violence, family conflict and violence, parent-child interaction, and child factors on child development and treatment outcome."

Here is an expert model of didactic therapy, intervention, and other needed services.

Diane on the other hand, cries "Abuse" by the very mother who was protecting the children, and allows little to no contact for five years.

It is tragic and reprehensible that this abhorrant woman, Diane, who does not even have a law practice, will be standing next to Miami's top minds in family matters, as if she is a professional.

Let me reiterate, Diane Van Ness does NOT have a law practice. No office. No family law clients. No website. Only a PO Box Number. She only takes on 3 or 4 Guardian Ad Litem cases per year, which she handles out of her home. This woman is a fraud.

This woman is a criminal and I have all the documentation to prove it. I ask that she be called upon to step down from the FLAFCC Conference 2009 immediately.

Anonymous

Miami, Florida

U.S.A.