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To: Judge Emily MIskel 470th District Court; Judge Benjamin Smith 380th District Court; TX State House of Representatives; TX State Senate; TX Governor Greg Abbott; TX Commission on Judicial Conduct; TX State Bar; TX Attorney General
PLEASE SIGN TO IMPEACH Judge Emily Miskel and Help a Child See His Mother and Family Again
This petition calls for the impeachment of Judge Emily Miskel of the 470th Judicial District Court for breaching the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct through her misuse of power and authority over her Court. A magistrate who believes she can ignore the law and the rights of American Citizens in her Court is one who does not contribute to the betterment of society. In this Court, ruled by bias and personal opinion, as opposed to law and equitable reasoning, abused parties (attorneys and clients) are suppressed into adherence. For fear of suffering retaliatory interactions with this Judge in future cases, attorneys succumb to her authority, even if it compromises their ethics. Judge Emily Miskel is a prime example of a public servant who abuses a position of power and authority, which was designed to protect the rights of all who enter a Court of law. Instead she uses her position as Judge to further her own professional endeavors by cultivating business and political relationships. It would be more than inequitable for this abuse of power, which violates the rights of citizens, to go without penalty. To protect our own rights and the rights of our fellow citizens from such treatment, we must assemble, unite and demand reconstruction. Everyone in Collin County knows, including attorneys who are forced to accept the process, that District Court Judges such as Judge Emily MIskel act under the "good old boy" system making it understood that the attorney with the higher political reign wins every time such as found in Collin County records. It is a political hierarchy and Judge Emily Miskel along with others act not in the best interest of the child and its family but instead based on what decision will best further their political interests to ensure top campaign contributions by attorneys, and how much money they are paid under the table to give a favorable outcome for a certain party.
Why is this important?
Please also see the Petition to Impeach Judge Benjamin Smith of the 380th Judicial District Court, Collin County at https://petitions.moveon.org/sign/please-sign-to-impeach-1. Please sign and share.
Our case was transferred to Judge Emily Miskel of the 470th Court only after our rights were severely violated by Judge Benjamin Smith of the 380th Court who denied all our rights to this child. Judge Emily Miskel then, though fully aware that adequate service requirements were not met to the mother of this child or paternal grandmother as per Texas Rules of Civil Procedure, knowing the file was sealed by Judge Smith as requested by the paternal grandmother with whom he had a personal relationship, entered final orders in the suit affecting the parent-child relationship, giving full custody to the father although he was clearly proven unfit at the temporary hearing not only by counsel of the mother and maternal grandmother but also by his own parents, and though he had not even resided in Texas nor Collin County for the allotted time as he had only lived there 3 weeks, breaking the requirement of legal standing. Judge Emily Miskel also wrote off more than $12,000 in back child support owed to the mother by the father as he was absent from the child’s life since birth and had provided no monetary support. The child's mother was given no visitation privileges whatsoever, stating visitation was to be determined by and supervised by the child’s father, allowed no phone number to be listed in the Final Orders, and only a PO Box in McKinney stating the mother was to mail a letter to the PO box to discuss seeing and/or discussing the child. The mother was ordered to pay child support to the father. Judge Miskel had previously worked with the owner of opposing counsel's law firm, and knowing this was a CLEAR conflict of interest signed the order anyway.
Since that time, the child’s father and paternal family have been allowed to move the child out of state to an undisclosed location, changing phone numbers and blocking all social media profiles, giving the child’s mother and the maternal family no access to him for now 6 years. The last time the mother and maternal family saw the child was March 2015 only for 15 minutes while being videotaped by the paternal grandmother Marguerite Alba, who used her legal ties and legal assistant position with the Dallas Law Firm who represented her to, as she put it per witness testimony, “destroy” the child’s mother. Since the father has had custody, he has abandoned the child at least 5 times, moved him at least 9 times, changing schools at least approximately 8 times more.
We miss this little boy every single second of every day. With every breath, I pray we will see him again. We were with him consistently since birth, but now we have all been stripped away from him. The place this Judge put him in does not provide him a healthy, safe environment. We have heard so many stories of civil rights violations by this Judge with other families. Please help us send a message to this Judge that her illegal, unethical, bias, partial rulings will no longer be tolerated. Please sign this petition to help us make a stand to impeach Judge Emily Miskel. There are many other families who have been destroyed by the bias, impartial, illegal corruption of this Judge. If your rights have been violated by this Judge, please contact us at https://www.facebook.com/injusticeincollincounty. Please sign and share our other petition to impeach Judge Benjamin Smith located at https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/please-sign-to-impeach-1 as he also grossly violated the Civil Rights of the child, his mother/paternal family.
The law provides strict policies governing Texas Judges by way of the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct. Texas law upholds that “our legal system is based on the principle that an independent, fair and competent judiciary will interpret and apply the laws that govern us.” It is required that a Judge should act as an arbitrator of "facts and law" to resolve disputes fairly only after allowing parties their right to testimony without showing bias or partiality "under the rule of law" while "establishing and maintaining high standards of judicial and personal conduct.” Canon 2A "admonishes Judges to conduct themselves in a manner to promote public confidence." Canon 2B states: "He (a judge) should not lend the prestige of his office to advance the private interests of others." Canon 3A(2) "admonishes judges to be unswayed by partisan interests." Canon 3B(5) states “a judge shall perform judicial duties without bias or prejudice.” Canon 3B(7) states “a judge shall require lawyers in proceedings before the court to refrain from manifesting, by words or conduct, bias or prejudice based on race, sex, religion, national origin, disability, age, sexual orientation or socioeconomic status against parties, witnesses, counsel or others.” Canon 3B(8) states “a judge shall accord to every person who has a legal interest in a proceeding, or that person's lawyer, the right to be heard according to law. A judge shall not initiate, permit, OR CONSIDER EXPARTE COMMUNICATIONS or other communications made to the judge outside the presence of the parties between the judge and a party, an attorney, a guardian or attorney ad litem, an alternative dispute resolution neutral, or any other court appointee concerning the merits of a pending or impending judicial proceeding.” It is clearly stated in the Texas Constitution Article 15 entitled “Impeachment” that "Any judge of the District Courts of the State who is incompetent to discharge the duties of his office, or who shall be guilty of partiality, or oppression, or other official misconduct, or whose habits and conduct are such as to render him unfit to hold such office, or who shall negligently fail to perform his duties as judge; or who shall fail to execute in a reasonable measure the business in his courts, may be removed by the Supreme Court."
Our case was transferred to Judge Emily Miskel of the 470th Court only after our rights were severely violated by Judge Benjamin Smith of the 380th Court who denied all our rights to this child. Judge Emily Miskel then, though fully aware that adequate service requirements were not met to the mother of this child or paternal grandmother as per Texas Rules of Civil Procedure, knowing the file was sealed by Judge Smith as requested by the paternal grandmother with whom he had a personal relationship, entered final orders in the suit affecting the parent-child relationship, giving full custody to the father although he was clearly proven unfit at the temporary hearing not only by counsel of the mother and maternal grandmother but also by his own parents, and though he had not even resided in Texas nor Collin County for the allotted time as he had only lived there 3 weeks, breaking the requirement of legal standing. Judge Emily Miskel also wrote off more than $12,000 in back child support owed to the mother by the father as he was absent from the child’s life since birth and had provided no monetary support. The child's mother was given no visitation privileges whatsoever, stating visitation was to be determined by and supervised by the child’s father, allowed no phone number to be listed in the Final Orders, and only a PO Box in McKinney stating the mother was to mail a letter to the PO box to discuss seeing and/or discussing the child. The mother was ordered to pay child support to the father. Judge Miskel had previously worked with the owner of opposing counsel's law firm, and knowing this was a CLEAR conflict of interest signed the order anyway.
Since that time, the child’s father and paternal family have been allowed to move the child out of state to an undisclosed location, changing phone numbers and blocking all social media profiles, giving the child’s mother and the maternal family no access to him for now 6 years. The last time the mother and maternal family saw the child was March 2015 only for 15 minutes while being videotaped by the paternal grandmother Marguerite Alba, who used her legal ties and legal assistant position with the Dallas Law Firm who represented her to, as she put it per witness testimony, “destroy” the child’s mother. Since the father has had custody, he has abandoned the child at least 5 times, moved him at least 9 times, changing schools at least approximately 8 times more.
We miss this little boy every single second of every day. With every breath, I pray we will see him again. We were with him consistently since birth, but now we have all been stripped away from him. The place this Judge put him in does not provide him a healthy, safe environment. We have heard so many stories of civil rights violations by this Judge with other families. Please help us send a message to this Judge that her illegal, unethical, bias, partial rulings will no longer be tolerated. Please sign this petition to help us make a stand to impeach Judge Emily Miskel. There are many other families who have been destroyed by the bias, impartial, illegal corruption of this Judge. If your rights have been violated by this Judge, please contact us at https://www.facebook.com/injusticeincollincounty. Please sign and share our other petition to impeach Judge Benjamin Smith located at https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/please-sign-to-impeach-1 as he also grossly violated the Civil Rights of the child, his mother/paternal family.
The law provides strict policies governing Texas Judges by way of the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct. Texas law upholds that “our legal system is based on the principle that an independent, fair and competent judiciary will interpret and apply the laws that govern us.” It is required that a Judge should act as an arbitrator of "facts and law" to resolve disputes fairly only after allowing parties their right to testimony without showing bias or partiality "under the rule of law" while "establishing and maintaining high standards of judicial and personal conduct.” Canon 2A "admonishes Judges to conduct themselves in a manner to promote public confidence." Canon 2B states: "He (a judge) should not lend the prestige of his office to advance the private interests of others." Canon 3A(2) "admonishes judges to be unswayed by partisan interests." Canon 3B(5) states “a judge shall perform judicial duties without bias or prejudice.” Canon 3B(7) states “a judge shall require lawyers in proceedings before the court to refrain from manifesting, by words or conduct, bias or prejudice based on race, sex, religion, national origin, disability, age, sexual orientation or socioeconomic status against parties, witnesses, counsel or others.” Canon 3B(8) states “a judge shall accord to every person who has a legal interest in a proceeding, or that person's lawyer, the right to be heard according to law. A judge shall not initiate, permit, OR CONSIDER EXPARTE COMMUNICATIONS or other communications made to the judge outside the presence of the parties between the judge and a party, an attorney, a guardian or attorney ad litem, an alternative dispute resolution neutral, or any other court appointee concerning the merits of a pending or impending judicial proceeding.” It is clearly stated in the Texas Constitution Article 15 entitled “Impeachment” that "Any judge of the District Courts of the State who is incompetent to discharge the duties of his office, or who shall be guilty of partiality, or oppression, or other official misconduct, or whose habits and conduct are such as to render him unfit to hold such office, or who shall negligently fail to perform his duties as judge; or who shall fail to execute in a reasonable measure the business in his courts, may be removed by the Supreme Court."
How it will be delivered
To be delivered to Judge Smith; Judge Miskel; TX House of Rep; TX Senate; Governor Abbott; TX Commission on Judicial Conduct; TX State Bar; TX AG; & Supreme Court. It will be included with all complaints filed against Judges Smith & Miskel; father/paternal reps Jeffrey Anderson/Paula Bennett ONDA Law FIrm & Mike DeBruin/Aubrey Connatser Law Firm; Sharon Easley & Brook Fulks who instead of protecting our interests furthered the interests of the opposing parties; & Joseph Sarpong of the TX AG.