Mark A. Massey, Esq.
Pasadena,#2REBUTTAL Owner of company
Mon, December 02, 2013
We learned too late that "Marcia" lied to us about having beat her young son on a regular basis, and that the allegations in this regard against her were true - as demonstrated by the evidence upon which the juvenile court removed her son and ultimately placed him in legal guardianship with her out of state relatives after Marcia failed to make any efforts to get him back (by attending counseling - too much sacrifice for her apparently). We came onto her case after the guardianship was in place based upon her lies to us. Attorneys may not review confidential court files in juvenile dependency cases, so her word was all we had to go on. We also learned too late that Marsha is a diagnosed schizophrenic who knows how to lie to your face very easily and well. So. we took her case. The judge would not allow us to withdraw for over two years after we took the case, despite that Marsha, not we, consistently failed to appear for hearings reviewing her son's case, failed to cooperate with us in handling her case or to communicate with us at all, and refused to pay the rather large legal fees and costs that accrued by our being required to appear on her behalf for every hearing during those two plus years. Marsha's entire story is just that, a story. She is a compulsive liar and a sick individual who abandoned her son to the system rather than to seek treatment for her mental illness, or to make any effort at all to get her son back. That didn't really mattet however, since her 8 year old son vehemtly refused to be returned to the visious beatings which Marsh inflicted upon him over those tender years he was required to remain in her care.