You played a role in traumatizing my daughter. You know NOTHING about what was going on.

I knew there was a problem when you told me in the courthouse that day, "Just meet him at the American Girl store." I remember the chill I got when you said that and looked at me with look on your face which showed that you were enmeshed with his vindictiveness. Do you know why I met him at the mall with my daughter? Did you ever read the PPO affidavit I wrote in support? Did you ever ask me why I believed I had no other options but to file for a PPO in June 2013? Did you know that I was keeping a gmail account journal in order to analyze the events in the home to determine if things were staying the same or getting worse? Did you know that I was being threatened in my marital home? My children were too? Do you know what it's like to be afraid in your home and to hide in a closet as he raged? Do you know what it's like to distract and take the kids outside to play when the raging started? And then to be locked out? (The family counselor was SHOCKED to hear that.) That happened SO many times and so, in a sense, I WAS crazy to think that I was dealing with and managing the situation in that manner.

And lest you think I'm having some sort of mental breakdown, think again. This is not about ME. It's about my daughter and it's about reacting to an obsessive and manipulative alienator, no eradicator, who is blinded to the effect that this has had on my daughter. It's about him not being able to set aside his ego and recognize that my daughter DOES need me and she DID ask for me and he DID deny her, again and again. He is not a god and cannot control the natural effects of this situation.

How dare you use dirty divorce tricks to delay my divorce when you knew NOTHING about what I was dealing with and to help your client, your friend, delay the divorce an entire year?

Have you ever used a knife to open a huge bag of cheese and said that you wish you could stab [your wife] with it?

Matthew Muggeridge, you are full of bullshit posting an article about the effects of divorce. You filed insufficient divorce papers for my ex, did not even cooperate to start discovery, you ignored the Scheduling Order, worked hand-in-hand with your client/my ex (your friend) to say, "Oh, just meet them at a mall" with a snarky look on your face and tone (which was a nod to what I did when with my ex), you ignored the date for the actual divorce which was January 2016, you withdrew essentially on the eve of trial (approximately 40 business days before the divorce), which set into motion an ADDITIONAL YEAR of litigation during which my daughter continued to suffer various harms which have made a mark on her identity, her psyche and her spirit. The delay of the trial an additional year wreaked so much stress and harms upon my children and only served to enable my ex to continue his reign of domination over this family which he wields vindictively in pathological fashion. Thanks to YOU, my daughter ended up in a different state locked up in some sort of mental facility (with NO notice to me, 5 days in advance per the COURT ORDERS) for months which is yet another chapter in her childhood that I believe would not have happened if you did not cause a delay of my high conflict divorce an ADDITIONAL YEAR. Do you understand that my ex is a cunning abuser which is why I sought a PPO against him which I then agreed to drop when his lawyer wrote up an agreement for him to stay away and go to counseling (the lawyer could have written up counseling for the family; I should have suggested that too). Do you understand that because of you and how you extended a high conflict divorce - my daughter has been harmed and in ways that statistically can carry LIFELONG harms? Remember when you told me that it's important to finish up a case, even if imperfectly? Why did you cause a delay of my case an additional year? You harmed my daughter and that harm compounds and carries statistical future risks. You don't know your client/friend. You only know what he told you. I told you that you probably shouldn't have represented your friend and you agreed so you don't have the judgment and clearly, the knowledge, to practice as an attorney. Before you call me crazy, I am reacting to a crazy situation that never should have happened. Such bullshit this case is. In mediation, he said that I should have primary custody and then when he was not cooperating/communicating about the private Christian school, he filed a motion to change the temporary JDR order (granting me primary custody). Then, at the Review in June 2017, he testified that he withdrew my daughter from that private school (not explaining) and then registered her in the local public school. But guess what? I argued that since she was no longer in private school, I should have access to school records and be able to participate etc. He emailed the judge soon thereafter along with the school records the judge requested that he reenrolled her in the private school. So flash forward to today, I find out from my son that my daughter no longer attends that private school and is, essentially homeschooling which is where we all started. The controversy over the school was just a sideshow for the "erase the mother from the child's life" campaign. I hold you responsible, Matthew Muggeridge, along with my ex for what my daughter is dealing with right now. So before you call me crazy, my ex is the crazy one - I just emote more and the custody evaluator wrote that he suspected he has narcissistic personality disorder. Yes, I blame him too. BUT YOU WERE THE PROFESSIONAL WHO MADE MORE THAN ONE DECISION THAT CAUSED MY HIGH CONFLICT DIVORCE TO BE EXTENDED AN ENTIRE YEAR.