Diane Van Ness, under the guise of working "to protect children" as a Guardian Ad Litem in the 11th District Court of Miami, Florida, ABUSES HER POWER AS FOLLOWS:
1. Files all these pleadings before the judges as non-evidentiary.
2. Files only before one or two judges with whom she is friends; in other words, she gets spoon-fed these cases by these judges and does not circulate.
3. Falsifies, in fact often creates, these "high conflict, " "emergency crisis" cases, then inserts herself into the midst of the investigation, thereby appearing to be powerful.
4. Refuses any and all contact between parents and children until they pay her and her colleagues in full by the first of the month. If not paid, and often her demands are not affordable, she cuts off parental contact immediately.
5. Then, reports to the 11th Circuit Court in her "official" documents that parents and children have had regular contact.
6. Refuses any and all contact with one parent's contact list, in spite of the fact that a GAL is required by statute to do a full and objective investigation. This, while she has regular contact with the other parent's contact list. The parent whose list she is contacting is also the parent that is paying her large sums of money in full.
7. Obstructs any and all information by professionals on the case, including children's psychologists, who insist there was no child abuse in these cases.in fact, often these witnesses who are never contacted are shocked and call Diane's cases "sick" but she refuses to allow them to speak at her non-evidentiary status conferences to explain that there was no child abuse amongst these outstanding, loving parents and their precious children.
8.instead, hires young psychology graduates straight out of college, with no experience and naive to the process, to perform such unethical deeds as testifying in court against parents they've never treated. This Diane does without advance notice to the attorneys that the same psychologist will be testifying (telephonically), so that there is no time for rebuttal. This Diane does with a complete disregard for the fact that she and her young psychologist friends are breaking the APA Code of Ethics.
9. Continues to demand large sums of money from parent until left homeless, often with severe consequences such as car reposession and bankruptcy.
10. Then files in court that parent does not pay as per court orders and has "abandoned" the children, when in fact, parent has been begging to see children and children have been begging to see parent.
11. Continues to refuse to file any and all documents stating that parent is outstanding, physically and mentally without diagnosis, professional, and the like.
12.instead files her own self-created docs depicting parent as evil and mentally ill, getting naive or vindictive friends to file supporting docs.in fact, contrary to what is permitted in a court of law, Diane herself quotes from the DSM IV, even though only a doctor is allowed to quote from same in order to avoid misinterpretation. While most judges would never allow this, Diane's judge friends who spoon-feed her these cases, apparently allow this.
13.in spite of requirement by statute to be objective, she literally throws away and dismisses any and all docs that go against what she is stating to the judge. This includes doctor reports, employer reports, and hundreds of pages of official docs and pertinent papers. She then proceeds to concoct her own bizarre stories of what is going on with these parents, in spite of all the evidence to the contrary which she will not allow to be heard.
14. Disallows any and all witnesses, doctor reports, bank docs, and the like, at any and all of her non-evidentiary status conferences. Continues to run her entire "high conflict" cases disallowing all of the above, screaming "hearsay" and "non-evidentiary" all over the place, thereby blocking the truth of these cases. Blocks any and all 14th Amendment Rights of these innocent families.
15. Becomes inappropriately "loving" to the children, while blocking any and all contact between the children and the natural loving parent. States in court that she "loves these children very deeply." Then, as an example, shows up at their birthday party with extravagant gifts, while forbidding any and all contact between natural parent and children on their birthdays.
16. If anyone finally speaks up, whether attorney or parent, to have judge hear financial and emotional damage, Diane immediately files onslaught of new docs, including severe and false allegations which must now be fought as well. This is the parent's and attorney's "punishment" for speaking up about the extortion... This onslaught of new reports and filings is so severe that no parent or attorney can surmount them to get to the genuine time in court that they deserve constitutionally.
17. If professionals on the case, such as forensic psychologists, child psychologists, and the like, try to speak up, Diane threatens them with their reputations and their practices, shutting them into a state of fearful and low-key silence.
18. All the while, Diane continues to report to the 11th Circuit judges that the case is progressing slowly, and there is regular contact between parents and children, even when there is none for as much as one month at a time.
19. Diane never discloses to the Court that these cases that pay her so highly by the first of the month, in fear of parental contact being shut off, should have been pro bono. Any and all attempts at making them pro bono are refused by her. She continues to charge far more than the parents earn, then reports to the judges that she is handling the case pro bono.
20. Continues to charge more than parent earns even while she is on vacation 1/3 of the year up north. If parent complains, or cannot or will not pay, Diane again cuts of parental contact with children, while she is on vacation.
21. Will not sign off a case until large sums of money completely disproportionate with what the parents earns are paid to her in full, at times with only a few hours notice. This, in spite of the fact that she is required by statute to sign off a case if both parents have signed her off.
22. Screams and threatens not to sign off a case until these monies are sent to her by immediate wire, within a timed deadline.
23. Hand-writes or machine types hysterical letters stating her financial demands and false stories about the parents on the case, in order to feed into her bizarre claims that these parents are mentally ill.
24. Sends her extortion letters in writing, via email or hard copy. It is not clear whether she is aware, or unaware, that she is committing this extortion. It is hard to believe that an attorney would send same demands in writing, on letterhead, undisguised. It is as if she believes she has the power to commit extortion and is not ashamed.
25. Acts as both attorney and guardian ad litem simultaneously, against Florida Statues.
26. Demands psychiatric reports about parent, then extorts more money from parent, as she simultaneously files parent's personal psychiatric report in court as public record, against all GALL statutes, and all HIPPA and other related laws.
27. Denies any and all of the above.in fact, her classic response is that she laughs, calling the parents and professionals alike incompetent and mentally ill.
28. Years go by without so much as one evidentiary hearing. Children are traumatized, missing their beloved parents. Diane has a complete disregard for the short-term and long-term effect she is having on these children and parents, including the children's own development.
29. Diane continues to collect parents' entire salaries during these years. She continues to deny the same.
30. Diane then allows herself to be allegedly nominated, according to her, for the Ray Pearson Guardian Ad Litem Award for after destorying multiple innocent families, in some cases, traumatizing children for the long term. The judges of the 11th Circuit Court are completely in the dark about what she does behind the scenes.
30. Then, after all of the above, she appears in public as a professionally polished attorney. (If you take a moment to read her rebuttal on this site, it is verbose, objective and polished.)
A forensic psychologist would be able to explain the manner in which Diane Van Ness mirrors, in my opinion, the precise profile of the Classic Extortionist. Polished, objective and aggressive in the very field in which she chooses to torment her victims.in this case, her victims are the very mirrors of people she describes in her inappropriate conversations with parents and professionals, in which she details her own childhood pain.
This is a professional who should not be awarded, and who should be disqualified from any future GAL cases, for the protection of innocent families and children, as well as the protection of the professionals on these cases who refuse to "obey her commands."
Please, please, please use any guardian ad litem but Diane Van Ness. If you need any documentation for virtually everything that was stated, please feel free to contact us by legally protected anonymity on usacomplaints.com. Thank you.
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