State orders audit of Marin family court

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Dear Justice George, and Ms. Holton, and Assemblymember Jones:
I am writing to report about and seek immediate investigation of the apparently felonious
destruction of Marin County custody mediation files, reportedly at the order of Judicial Council
member/ Marin Court Executive Officer, Kim Turner. I am requesting a prompt investigation and
report regarding this matter. I am further requesting that Ms. Turner be immediately suspended from
all official duties as a Judicial Council member and Marin Court Executive Officer if she was, or is
suspected of being, in any way involved in unethical and/or criminal behavior. I trust you will
immediately inquire about this.
Family Code Section 1819:
(a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), upon order of the judge of the family conciliation court,
the supervising counselor of conciliation may destroy any record, paper, or document filed or kept in
the office of the supervising counselor of conciliation which is more than two years old.
(b) Records described in subdivision (a) of child custody or visitation mediation may be destroyed
when the minor or minors involved are 18 years of age.
Government Code 6200:
6200. Every officer having the custody of any record, map, or book, or of any paper or proceeding
of any court, filed or deposited in
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Family Court Mediator File Destruction Investigation
any public office, or placed in his or her hands for any purpose, is punishable by imprisonment in the
state prison for two, three, or four years if, as to the whole or any part of the record, map, book,
paper, or proceeding, the officer willfully does or permits any other person to do any of the
following:
(a) Steal, remove, or secrete.
(b) Destroy, mutilate, or deface.
(c) Alter or falsify.
Sworn 2010 testimony of Marin Family Court Services mediator Meredith Braden (in a case
involving a young child):
"Q. Okay. Well, generally do you have a file for
each mediation case?
A. It’s a little complicated. We do keep files currently, but at one point the directive was that we
were no longer keeping files. They were all destroyed.
Q. They were all destroyed?
A. Yes.
Q. Can you tell me who directed you to do that?
A. It was Kim Turner, to the best of my knowledge, yes.
Q. What do you mean by to the best of your knowledge?
A. I mean, we were told, through our supervisor at the time, that that was the policy from above him.
Q. Who was your supervisor?
A. Leo Terbieten. But he has since retired.
Q. When did he retire?
A. At the end of 2009.
Q. End of December?
A. Yes.
Q. Okay. So between the period of September 21st, when you interviewed these parties, and the end
of December, then were you instructed to throw away your files?
A. You know, I don’t remember the exact dates.
There were — all of the files were destroyed at some point in the Fall. Obviously it was after
September 21st. And then the policy was reversed at some point, also in the Fall, prior to December, but I couldn’t tell you exactly when. And so since that time we’ve been maintaining the files again."

Mark G wrote:

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This is just McCarthyism, plain and simple. You do not present any facts to support your vile personal attacks against these judges. It's no different than those people who are running around right now carrying posters of President Obama with a Hitler mustache.

You have no idea how very wrong you are. If I could I would post my name, but I have already suffered reprisals from this bench and don't wish to continue to do so. All I can tell you is that if anyone ever tries to call this bench to account for how litigant monies are spent, they may find themselves fighting for their financial lives. I am.

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So when does the class action suit commence?
Where is the legal team to dismantle this Family Court madness?
The timid response by Sen. Leno's crack squad and the trepidation on behalf of the California BAR is already an engaging and damning documentary.
Here, being financially ruined by an overzealous commissioner of the court, Indiana continues to collect on behalf of California and will not invest one minute tampering with this interstate Family Court agreement...Blind Faith burrows deeper into the bizarre maze of malfeasance.

Again, where is the class action suit against Marin County Family Court?

what do you mean wrote:

what do you mean by Felix Berenberg will be audited?
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All (Quacks) should be audited. Unfortunately, this quack has passed away before his bias/corrupt could be printed.

Mothers Halloween Nightmare. The story of an abused an alienated child perpetuated by Dr. (Quack) Felix Berenberg. no rest no peace 4u

Judge Verna Adams is lazy and good for nothing. I tried to have her hear my case ex parte and she refused stating she was not the judge on the case. Then why are you sitting in his seat?????

She does not read anything that is given to her and finds ways not to make a ruling. Get rid of that old bag!!

P.S. I have full custody of our child

The Sonoma County Family Court System is also highly questionable. In particular, the family court service mediators are poorly trained and given far too much power. I am currently trying to figure out if one of their mediators (who has acted wholly unprofessionally) has the right to interview my nine-year-old child without my permission. My son's father and I share legal custody. I am in favor of the mediator contacting our son's long-term therapist given that she could then gather information without affecting him. Does anyone know if I am legally obliged to allow this person to meet with our son? And how did folks go about getting the Marin Court System audited? Sonoma County needs this, too.

another worried mom wrote:

The Sonoma County Family Court System is also highly questionable. In particular, the family court service mediators are poorly trained and given far too much power. I am currently trying to figure out if one of their mediators (who has acted wholly unprofessionally) has the right to interview my nine-year-old child without my permission. My son's father and I share legal custody. I am in favor of the mediator contacting our son's long-term therapist given that she could then gather information without affecting him. Does anyone know if I am legally obliged to allow this person to meet with our son? And how did folks go about getting the Marin Court System audited? Sonoma County needs this, too.

I had and not sure it is over in Alameda County with the same problem. I was forced to take my Daughter for several years to a mediator of the court and all the Mediator did was lie about my Daughter and myself. The mediator went as far as having the court stop all of her therapy appointments because my Daughter kept telling them all that her Father was touching her inappropriately. I was appalled and shocked. I do not know what to tell you. They are all crooked and not to be trusted at this point. They completely took my Daughter away from me over summer because she was afraid of her Father and said we had too close of a relationship. I got her back because her Father slipped up in front of the mediator and decided he did not want to have our Daughter live with him. I am still in this and still very scared most the time. The Attorneys are very much involved in this gross turn on the laws. There are a few out there, but you have to have thousands of dollars to keep up with it. Like most after almost seven years I am destitute. I do not think I am much help, but here if you need to talk. I am sorry you are going through this. There are some people on this site that say different, but I have proof in all my documentations I have saved. There area many of us who have collected documentation and we are working on this.

Debra wrote:

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I had and not sure it is over in Alameda County with the same problem. I was forced to take my Daughter for several years to a mediator of the court and all the Mediator did was lie about my Daughter and myself. The mediator went as far as having the court stop all of her therapy appointments because my Daughter kept telling them all that her Father was touching her inappropriately. I was appalled and shocked. I do not know what to tell you. They are all crooked and not to be trusted at this point. They completely took my Daughter away from me over summer because she was afraid of her Father and said we had too close of a relationship. I got her back because her Father slipped up in front of the mediator and decided he did not want to have our Daughter live with him. I am still in this and still very scared most the time. The Attorneys are very much involved in this gross turn on the laws. There are a few out there, but you have to have thousands of dollars to keep up with it. Like most after almost seven years I am destitute. I do not think I am much help, but here if you need to talk. I am sorry you are going through this. There are some people on this site that say different, but I have proof in all my documentations I have saved. There area many of us who have collected documentation and we are working on this.

Thank You, Debra, for this very kind response. I am sorry that your situation sounds extremely difficult as well. I would like to speak with you. How do you suggest we connect with one another? How have you connected with the other people with the same problems? I imagine we are both a little worried about going public at this point. Hope to hear back from you.

--worried mom