Anybody here ever file one? This is what I'm thinking about. Some examples:

  • Ex files a false DV or other accusation. You prove it is false. Court doesn't award you legal fees or it has some adverse effect on custody. Your lawyer is culpable for being aware of a crime and not reporting it; OC is culpable for filing a false report.
  • Ex hides assets. You find them, court does nothing. Same.
  • Your lawyer provides bad advice that runs up your legal fees and maybe affects the settlement--like he doesn't file discovery, tells you to move out of the house, whatever. He had a duty to protect and failed you.
  • Lawyers not challenging GALs who make custody recommendation without providing a report, basis, or any reason, but your lawyer sits there like a monkey with a thumb in his ass and tells you to take less than 50-50. Duty to protect fail.

I could go down the list of the bad shit OC did in my case. Lies, defamation, so on. I can show those things were false. Court did nothing, and it caused me harm. My lawyer did nothing, so that's a failure of duty to protect or report a crime. Judge just sits there an lets it happen.

In several cases, my lawyer sided with opposing counsel, or provided plain bad advice. Missed deadlines. Discouraged me from pursuing issues that ended up with me surrendering marital assets. Negligence.

I'm thinking about how this system is basically a scam. Judges don't shut down conflict, they provoke by not punishing OC for making false claims, filing unnecessary rulings. That runs up legal fees, and lawyers don't shut it down because they know you're net worth and how much they can take by wallowing in the conflict. Judges are protected with multiple layers of shields, same with mediators, and mediation is pitched as confidential as if that facilitates it, but all it does is allow the lawyers and mediators to manipulate clients and play games. Nobody is responsible for the bad shit that happens, but when you get OC that is willing to lie and abuse the legal system, your lawyer should fight that. When you get a lawyer that fails you, he should be responsible for damages. I'm not talking about if OC or your lawyer makes one bad call, I'm talking about a pattern of abuses or failures that leads to a shitshow of a case.

I don't expect to get anything back, but a complaint to the bar. I don't expect that to go anywhere either, but if it's done enough times, maybe.

If anybody has ever filed an ethics complaint against OC, their lawyer, or any of the bottom feeders, I'd be interested in seeing it and hearing what happened after it was filed.