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Stafford County VA Courts Judicial Corruption Stafford Virginia
I have not been a victim of Judge Haley but a victim of the corruption that goes on in Stafford County.
My experiences with Tandy Rinehart & Stafford county began in 2002. She was hired by my now ex husband, Timothy Stohler, to represent him in our divorce. He hired her after consulting with every good attorney in the area to prevent me from hiring them. She is a waste of oxygen. She did however manage to get my ex full custody of my daughter leaving me with "reasonable visitation". Whatever that means. After our separation we had joint custody with almost equal time. She wrote to my attorney it seemed almost everyday with complaints & allegations. I suspect to financially break me. My daughter adjusted well & was still excelling in school. When it came time for the actual divorce hearing she was able to convince the circuit court judge Ann Hunter Simpson that I was unable to care for my daughter, that I wasn't getting her to school, that I had never taken her to a doctor, that I wasn't helping her complete her homework, that I was leaving her with a sitter, ect. The truth is I was completely capable of caring for my children mentally & financially. I was their primary care giver & stayed at home for 6 six years. I was a self employed successful real estate agent at the time & had the flexibility of making my own schedule. She was in school everyday on time with all of her homework. She was a good student with good grades. She hadn't been to a doctor over that time because she wasn't sick or due for any immunizations. If the judge had ever bothered to ask for proof she would have seen the truth. Instead after a 20 minute hearing she ruled that he would have full primary custody & I would have visitation every other weekend & on Wednesday afternoon. She also said any further filings would be heard in the juvenile court. I immediately filed to get her back. At the very least I wanted joint custody. The judge at the next hearing was Bass. My daughter was also given a G.A.L., Julian Johnson. He spoke with me for about 10 minutes. When my court date finally came, rather than speaking for my daughter he only said that there has not been a "change in circumstance" therefore the order should remain the same, custody with the father. Now keep in mind I had never been charged with any crime nor had I ever neglected or abused my children. I didn't understand "material change in circumstance". I unfortunately thought the juvenile court would really look out for my daughters best interest, with both parents. I remarried in July 2004. I hired another attorney to help get her back. We never actually went to court because I didn't want to risk losing more time with her. We settled with joint custody. The visitation remained the same except that I would have her every other week during the summer. My attorney at that time, Melanie Rice, advised me that a judge may not give me that. So I just took what I could get. Every summer we take a family vacation. Summer of 2004 we went to Orlando. It wasn't until 2 days before that my ex finally agreed to let our daughter go. What kind of parent wouldn't allow their child a trip to Disney. Our attorneys argued for weeks before we finally got a memo from Tandy stating that he would allow her to go. Our court order at the time gave me 2 weeks for vacation. The summer of 2005 we went to Mexico. The summer of 2006 we were to go to the Dominican Republic. 2 days before we were scheduled to leave I received a call from Tim telling me I couldn't take her. First he said she was sick, then he was afraid of terrorist, then he finally admitted the truth. My new husbands ex wife, Julie Fletcher, aka Officer Fletcher of the Fairfax County Police Dept. had gone out of her way to find & contact my ex to slander me at an attempt to get even with her ex who I am currently married to. This is where it gets really confusing. My current husband was married previously & had 2 children. He was divorced long before I met him. His ex has constantly battled with him since they had divorced. She has used their children as pawns just as my ex is. On 2 prior occasions, before I married him she had tried to have him charged with child abuse. She even got their son to lie by promising expensive gifts. My husbands son one evening went into my purse & took a key to a fire box off my key ring. He went into the fire box & took the keys to my husbands gun safe. He then took a 45 out & began playing with it. He went into another location of the house & pried open a locked door which held the ammunition. He ended up loading the gun & accidentally shot himself. He was taken by ambulance to MWH & released that same night. Luckily the bullet went straight through & didn't do any serious damage. He told the police how he had gotten the gun. They investigated & could see the pry marks on the door. They ruled the shooting an accident & no charges were filed. After he spent a few days with his mother, my husband ex, he completely changed his story. He said his father allowed him to play with loaded weapons. He said he lied at the hospital because he was afraid of his dad. Well having been charged with abuse 3 times by his son he has decided to just walk away & let his ex keep the kids. Of course this doesn't help my situation. After finding out she had contacted my ex & started another custody battle costing me thousands I called her & threatened her life. On July 4th 2006 when I picked up my daughter she began crying. She told me her dad wouldn't be letting her come over anymore because Julie, my husbands ex had called him & told a lot of lies about me. That's when I called her & threatened her life. First of all he should have never had this conversation with a 10 year old. She alleged that we had left our children alone while vacationing in Mexico, again on a weekend trip to VA beach, that we allowed all of the children to play with guns, that we were asleep when the shooting accident happened & the neighbors had to call the police. This was all sooo far from the truth. She waited until August 16, the night before I was scheduled to leave the country to go to the magistrate & have a warrant put on me. I ended up only being convicted of a misdemeanor since my attorney explained to the prosecutor what the real deal was. She of course was present at my last court appearance testifying on my ex husbands behalf. He had decided as a result of the summer accident that he would use this to take away all of my visitation. While she testified she was caught lying more than once. Did I mention that she is a Fairfax County VA police officer? Yes & not only lying in court but making false police reports. Not just lying but being caught while she was on the stand! The investigating officer was present & testified & cleared up all of her lies. His other witness, his 6th babysitter in 2 years, Bernadette Brewer, also was caught perjuring herself on the stand. She says she had a conversation with me regarding the care of my daughter on a Friday evening when I picked her up for my weekend. She said this after she said she always leaves at 4. My daughter doesn't get picked up till 6 & my husband picks her up every Friday. Not only that but this Friday that she says she had this conversation with me at the front door I was actually broken down on I 95 near Quantico. & yes I had the tow receipt for proof. He had several other witnesses, none that we couldn't handle. My daughters grades had also been dropping. Since he was taking me to court I decided to file to full custody. We also had several witnesses to testify on our behalf. With all of our witnesses & documentation we had proven that my daughter is not doing well in the current situation. Dropping grades being the biggest proof. She has also become very withdrawn in school per her teacher & not focused anymore. We were also able to prove the several times he had denied me visitation violating the courts order. Our planned & agreed to vacation, Thanksgiving when he just took her out of town, many Wednesdays & some weekends. My daughter is also being neglected by him & the babysitter. He left her unattended in his truck, a Toyota Tacoma 4X4 while he went into a CVS pharmacy after dark & waited for a Rx. I agree with you when you this area a pedophiles paradise! The CVS is also down the street from crack central! The truck & our daughter were completely out of his view. A Mercedes ran a traffic light & went airborne through the intersection of 610 & Onville Rd & hit the truck my daughter was in so hard all the fuel & oil leaked out. My daughter by some miracle only got some scrapes & bruises. Her father is still unaware of what was going on. My daughter got out of the truck & began wandering around when a man approached her & asked where her parents were. She told him in the CVS. He went inside & shouted that there was an accident & a little girl was involved. That's when her dad came out. They had to end up totaling the truck due to so much damage. That's negligent parenting. Well the G.A.L., Shana Gertner, & judge Gerald Dalton didn't think it was big deal! Her babysitter is also incredibly neglectful. Her father, Timothy Stohler left our daughter with the sitter, Bernadette while she was sick. For 3 days my 10 year old daughter was medicating herself with antibiotics, Motrin & cough medicine. Her sitter never checked on her once. My daughter saw her only when she went downstairs from her room to get her meds & some chips. During my last court hearing Judge Dalton decided that her grades are dropping because I spend Wednesday evenings with her. He was obviously wrong since her grades didn't improve & she was recommended for summer school this summer. He also decided that if I wanted to continue my every other week visitation during the summer that I must quit my job! Then he increased my child support from 137 per month to 477 per month. All based on my W-2 of 29K last year! Unbelievable! How can I pay any amount of support when I've been forced from my job? This judge has caused an incredible amount of stress to me & my family. We have been financially ruined. I've had to use credit cards & take out a 2nd on my house. Well now DCSE is reporting delinquencies on my credit & sending letters threatening to suspend my drivers license. I of course appealed the decision & had to pay 3K to the court to do so. My appeal hearing is set for Sept. 18th. After everything that's happened I really don't have much faith that this court will do anything.
Sherry
stafford, Virginia
U.S.A.
My experiences with Tandy Rinehart & Stafford county began in 2002. She was hired by my now ex husband, Timothy Stohler, to represent him in our divorce. He hired her after consulting with every good attorney in the area to prevent me from hiring them. She is a waste of oxygen. She did however manage to get my ex full custody of my daughter leaving me with "reasonable visitation". Whatever that means. After our separation we had joint custody with almost equal time. She wrote to my attorney it seemed almost everyday with complaints & allegations. I suspect to financially break me. My daughter adjusted well & was still excelling in school. When it came time for the actual divorce hearing she was able to convince the circuit court judge Ann Hunter Simpson that I was unable to care for my daughter, that I wasn't getting her to school, that I had never taken her to a doctor, that I wasn't helping her complete her homework, that I was leaving her with a sitter, ect. The truth is I was completely capable of caring for my children mentally & financially. I was their primary care giver & stayed at home for 6 six years. I was a self employed successful real estate agent at the time & had the flexibility of making my own schedule. She was in school everyday on time with all of her homework. She was a good student with good grades. She hadn't been to a doctor over that time because she wasn't sick or due for any immunizations. If the judge had ever bothered to ask for proof she would have seen the truth. Instead after a 20 minute hearing she ruled that he would have full primary custody & I would have visitation every other weekend & on Wednesday afternoon. She also said any further filings would be heard in the juvenile court. I immediately filed to get her back. At the very least I wanted joint custody. The judge at the next hearing was Bass. My daughter was also given a G.A.L., Julian Johnson. He spoke with me for about 10 minutes. When my court date finally came, rather than speaking for my daughter he only said that there has not been a "change in circumstance" therefore the order should remain the same, custody with the father. Now keep in mind I had never been charged with any crime nor had I ever neglected or abused my children. I didn't understand "material change in circumstance". I unfortunately thought the juvenile court would really look out for my daughters best interest, with both parents. I remarried in July 2004. I hired another attorney to help get her back. We never actually went to court because I didn't want to risk losing more time with her. We settled with joint custody. The visitation remained the same except that I would have her every other week during the summer. My attorney at that time, Melanie Rice, advised me that a judge may not give me that. So I just took what I could get. Every summer we take a family vacation. Summer of 2004 we went to Orlando. It wasn't until 2 days before that my ex finally agreed to let our daughter go. What kind of parent wouldn't allow their child a trip to Disney. Our attorneys argued for weeks before we finally got a memo from Tandy stating that he would allow her to go. Our court order at the time gave me 2 weeks for vacation. The summer of 2005 we went to Mexico. The summer of 2006 we were to go to the Dominican Republic. 2 days before we were scheduled to leave I received a call from Tim telling me I couldn't take her. First he said she was sick, then he was afraid of terrorist, then he finally admitted the truth. My new husbands ex wife, Julie Fletcher, aka Officer Fletcher of the Fairfax County Police Dept. had gone out of her way to find & contact my ex to slander me at an attempt to get even with her ex who I am currently married to. This is where it gets really confusing. My current husband was married previously & had 2 children. He was divorced long before I met him. His ex has constantly battled with him since they had divorced. She has used their children as pawns just as my ex is. On 2 prior occasions, before I married him she had tried to have him charged with child abuse. She even got their son to lie by promising expensive gifts. My husbands son one evening went into my purse & took a key to a fire box off my key ring. He went into the fire box & took the keys to my husbands gun safe. He then took a 45 out & began playing with it. He went into another location of the house & pried open a locked door which held the ammunition. He ended up loading the gun & accidentally shot himself. He was taken by ambulance to MWH & released that same night. Luckily the bullet went straight through & didn't do any serious damage. He told the police how he had gotten the gun. They investigated & could see the pry marks on the door. They ruled the shooting an accident & no charges were filed. After he spent a few days with his mother, my husband ex, he completely changed his story. He said his father allowed him to play with loaded weapons. He said he lied at the hospital because he was afraid of his dad. Well having been charged with abuse 3 times by his son he has decided to just walk away & let his ex keep the kids. Of course this doesn't help my situation. After finding out she had contacted my ex & started another custody battle costing me thousands I called her & threatened her life. On July 4th 2006 when I picked up my daughter she began crying. She told me her dad wouldn't be letting her come over anymore because Julie, my husbands ex had called him & told a lot of lies about me. That's when I called her & threatened her life. First of all he should have never had this conversation with a 10 year old. She alleged that we had left our children alone while vacationing in Mexico, again on a weekend trip to VA beach, that we allowed all of the children to play with guns, that we were asleep when the shooting accident happened & the neighbors had to call the police. This was all sooo far from the truth. She waited until August 16, the night before I was scheduled to leave the country to go to the magistrate & have a warrant put on me. I ended up only being convicted of a misdemeanor since my attorney explained to the prosecutor what the real deal was. She of course was present at my last court appearance testifying on my ex husbands behalf. He had decided as a result of the summer accident that he would use this to take away all of my visitation. While she testified she was caught lying more than once. Did I mention that she is a Fairfax County VA police officer? Yes & not only lying in court but making false police reports. Not just lying but being caught while she was on the stand! The investigating officer was present & testified & cleared up all of her lies. His other witness, his 6th babysitter in 2 years, Bernadette Brewer, also was caught perjuring herself on the stand. She says she had a conversation with me regarding the care of my daughter on a Friday evening when I picked her up for my weekend. She said this after she said she always leaves at 4. My daughter doesn't get picked up till 6 & my husband picks her up every Friday. Not only that but this Friday that she says she had this conversation with me at the front door I was actually broken down on I 95 near Quantico. & yes I had the tow receipt for proof. He had several other witnesses, none that we couldn't handle. My daughters grades had also been dropping. Since he was taking me to court I decided to file to full custody. We also had several witnesses to testify on our behalf. With all of our witnesses & documentation we had proven that my daughter is not doing well in the current situation. Dropping grades being the biggest proof. She has also become very withdrawn in school per her teacher & not focused anymore. We were also able to prove the several times he had denied me visitation violating the courts order. Our planned & agreed to vacation, Thanksgiving when he just took her out of town, many Wednesdays & some weekends. My daughter is also being neglected by him & the babysitter. He left her unattended in his truck, a Toyota Tacoma 4X4 while he went into a CVS pharmacy after dark & waited for a Rx. I agree with you when you this area a pedophiles paradise! The CVS is also down the street from crack central! The truck & our daughter were completely out of his view. A Mercedes ran a traffic light & went airborne through the intersection of 610 & Onville Rd & hit the truck my daughter was in so hard all the fuel & oil leaked out. My daughter by some miracle only got some scrapes & bruises. Her father is still unaware of what was going on. My daughter got out of the truck & began wandering around when a man approached her & asked where her parents were. She told him in the CVS. He went inside & shouted that there was an accident & a little girl was involved. That's when her dad came out. They had to end up totaling the truck due to so much damage. That's negligent parenting. Well the G.A.L., Shana Gertner, & judge Gerald Dalton didn't think it was big deal! Her babysitter is also incredibly neglectful. Her father, Timothy Stohler left our daughter with the sitter, Bernadette while she was sick. For 3 days my 10 year old daughter was medicating herself with antibiotics, Motrin & cough medicine. Her sitter never checked on her once. My daughter saw her only when she went downstairs from her room to get her meds & some chips. During my last court hearing Judge Dalton decided that her grades are dropping because I spend Wednesday evenings with her. He was obviously wrong since her grades didn't improve & she was recommended for summer school this summer. He also decided that if I wanted to continue my every other week visitation during the summer that I must quit my job! Then he increased my child support from 137 per month to 477 per month. All based on my W-2 of 29K last year! Unbelievable! How can I pay any amount of support when I've been forced from my job? This judge has caused an incredible amount of stress to me & my family. We have been financially ruined. I've had to use credit cards & take out a 2nd on my house. Well now DCSE is reporting delinquencies on my credit & sending letters threatening to suspend my drivers license. I of course appealed the decision & had to pay 3K to the court to do so. My appeal hearing is set for Sept. 18th. After everything that's happened I really don't have much faith that this court will do anything.
Sherry
stafford, Virginia
U.S.A.
