From: mind_snap@webtv.net (Cult Reporter)
Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology
Subject: Padgett Litigation UPDATE 29
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 08:40:21 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <16463-39F6D4B5-4@storefull-212.iap.bryant.webtv.net>

"The purpose of a law suit is to discourage
rather than win!"    L. Ron Hubbard

OCTOBER 16, 2000

CIVIL CASE:

Laura Padgett filed a motion for protective
relief attempting to prevent routine discovery
of financial and medical records.  Her motion
was sustained to the extent that depositions
shall take place "in court" rather than a
normal forum of a law office.  The Judge, a
local maternal family friend, can instantly
strike discovery questions rendering an environment of court sanctioned
obstruction
of justice.   Laura Padgett is the complaining
witness in the criminal action against her ex
Tom Padgett - a declared SP enemy of the
Church of Scientology.

Since Laura Padgett filed this motion requiring
Tom to return to Kentucky from Massachusetts,
he filed supplementary motions in response to
her continued litigious conduct.

Most importantly, a motion was filed to require
prevention of:
1. CHILD/PARENT ALIENATION SYNDROME 
- an A.P.A. diagnosis when one parent keeps
a child or children from another, and
2. PERMANENT ESTRANGEMENT - a negative phenomena strongly warned to the
court in March of 1996 in this case by expert witness  Rev. Dennis
Erlich.
3. DISCONNECTION - a mandatory severance
between Scientologists and their family members, friends, and loved ones
which sadly
includes young innocent children against their
will and wishes.
4. CHILD ABUSE - a vast harm acknowledged by most child psychologists
and child psychiatrists when one parent's unchecked
anger motivates keeping children from the
other parent.  Additionally noted was the
potential harm caused by Hubbard's Child
Dianetics alternative mental health theories
and application as noted at:
www.taxexemptchildabuse.net Essentially this motion was to restore and
unrestrict visitation between a father and his minor son.  This motion
was not ruled on,but was sent back to a court-appointed Domestic
Relations Commissioner to be heard thus requiring yet even more
litigation.

Tom Padgett moved the Madisonville, Kentucky
court to strike the testimony of locally appointed
psychologist Donna Nichols, whose professional integrity and ethics in
the case 
was impeached by a 1997 investigation by her
licensing agency, The Kentucky State Board of
Psychology.  The judge overruled this stating
that state governmental agencies regulating
professional conduct has no authority nor
carries any weight in his courtroom!!!

A motion filed to get an actual written order
for a legal guardian ad litem for the minor child involved of which the
parties agreed to one in July 1999,  was overruled.  The judge's 
comments were there was no need for one in this case and in a round
about way stated
he didn't want any "outsiders" from Hopkins
County involved.  The July 1999 agreement
appointed a candidate from Louisviile, 2 1/2 hours to the east of
Madisonville.  The father
disagreed that the child needed his own legal
guardian since the mother only wanted to settle
their parental differences through more litigation
in the courts (her parents hometown court.)

A motion filed for routine discovery of Laura
Padgett's income through the signed releases
of IRS 4506 forms from 1994 to current, was
overruled.  Tom Padgett objected strenuously as the court sustained an
earlier motion from Laura Padgett requiring the same of him.  Statutes
mandate the discovery of both parties'
incomes and financial information to determine
support obligation and the awarding of attorneys' fees and court costs.
Tom has provided all of his,  Laura's will remain a
secret in a very unfair environment of unilateral
discovery where bilateral disclosure should be
the norm in any jurisdiction.  Experts and others concerned, have
opinioned this was a strategy
to prevent discovery of exorbitant amounts
of monies flowing to and from various Scientology organizations, front
groups and
Laura Padgett including sizable "donations!"
This ruling complicates the criminal action
filed by Laura Padgett, since Tom had a
Pre-trial Diversion Agreement with the Commonwealth of Kentucky that
discovery
of all factors leading up to the current child
support disputes would occur to resolve that
case!  Technically he's now in default and this
could be yet another trick to get him back into
prison.  This judge is the same magistrate
presiding in both cases - a dreadful and fatal
conflict of interest.

A motion for a partial ruling on a past motion
for reduction of support obligation was deferred back to the local
Domestic Relations
Commissioner to be heard.  Tom called the
Kentucky Child Support Enforcement in Frankfort re: emancipated children
issues
rendering a discovery that he had been
"overpaying" child support by fifty percent (50%) for the past 29 months
since the older
child reached 18 and had graduated from
high school in May of 1998.  He wanted immediate credit and adjustments
made as
it would dramatically effect the outcome of
the criminal case putting the horse before
the cart. The older child, a daughter who has denounced scientology, is
in college and has indicated that she wants any support to be directly
from her dad rather than through her mom.

Tom's motion to the court for an Order requiring
Laura to attend the mandatory  Hopkins County
Parent Education Class for divorcing parties was overruled.  Tom
attended the class in October 1998.  The Judge noted that rule
went into effect in early 1998 long after this
action was filed in 1992 - a good "legal" response but not a valid
psychological reason.
The Judge did, however, "recommend" Laura
to attend to appear reasonable, but would not order it.  Since the class
is facilitated by psychologists, Laura cannot attend as taboo per LRH
policy.  Hubbard defines "psychology'' in his book Child Dianetics as;
"A cult which rose and expired in the first half of the 20th century."  

Tom Padgett filed a "notice of objection" with
the court noting that  Laura's civil attorney
was covertly flaunting that he has the judge in
his back pocket in this case and that this
is making it difficult to retain and maintain
local representation for the father.  The judge didn't touch this
matter.

To summarize the outcome of this 10-16-00
day in court, in Scientology's Doubt Formula
(alleged to be technology,) Hubbard instructs;
"Decide whether it (the person or group,) should be attacked, harmed,
suppressed, or
helped." 

End

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