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Here is my nomination. Try to beat it.

Attorney William Z. White filed an untenable lawsuit against me on behalf of the man who defrauded me of hundreds of thousands of dollars. The fraudster client convinced me he thought of me as his “wife in the eyes of God” and we would spend the rest of our lives together. He then borrowed over $260,000 with no intention of paying it back.

I began to realize the fraud. I said I was breaking up and not giving the fraudster any more money.

He convinced me to stay with him by signing a contract that said if we broke up we would split our assets, other than my share in a family owned company, 50/50.

After the fraudster was caught buying the services of hookers, I threatened to break up again.

Fraudster convinced me to stay by transferring title in the property bought with my money to a trust. I was the trustee and the beneficiary. To give the fraudster some protection, we wrote a mortgage for the amount we paid for the property. I even agreed to an interest payment that was legal usury.

After the fraudster nearly killed himself in a drunk driving accident, I broke up. I didn’t want to be collateral damage and I was not willing to put up with the sexual infidelity.

Step in Willy White.

(Well, an attorney who is now a judge, Billy Jack Gibson, represented the fraudster at first. He did not file a lawsuit for the fraudster.)

White filed a suit in 2018, naming me as an individual and the trust. He used the character chain “and/or” for all the claims against the trust.

The suit was dismissed in 2020 for lack of prosecution.

Then White came up with a plan. He used a similar plan on a case where he represented Richard Gawenis. It didn’t work out well for them in the Gawenis case, but try, try again.

White refiled the case against me and didn’t serve a summons. He was going to ask Judge Weaver to give him default judgment.

Judge Susan Weaver gave default judgment to revoke a trust on the Gawenis case even though the trustee of the trust involved was not served summons or notified. If that was an isolated case, I’d say it was due to Judge Weaver being less than the brightest bulb. Since Weaver was already made aware of the error by a licensed attorney, and she set aside the order, it looks like Weaver was colluding with White when he tried the same act a second time.

On my case, Attorney White didn’t even issue a summons for the trust defendant.

Unfortunately for the conspirators, I noticed the second lawsuit on Court Connect on my own.

I fought Weaver and White for about 9 months. It was obvious they were colluding.

Finally, White sent me a couple boxes of documents I requested through discovery. One paper was a letter written by the fraudster and signed that described the plan to defraud me more.

I presented the letter to Judge Weaver.

Here is the dumbest idea I’ve heard of concocted by an attorney. Since the attorney couldn’t beat me in court, even with an unethical and/or moronic judge, he dismissed me with prejudice.

I am not allowed to represent the trust, because that would be considered the unauthorized practice of law.

There is not a single attorney amongst the dozens I asked who would represent the trust. The honest ones said it was for fear of retaliation by Judge Weaver. The others said they were too busy to earn $300 per hour from me.

So, the trust lost by default.

Willy White looked like Pinocchio when the wooden headed boy got applause from his first performance. Pinocchio was clapping and laughing with the crowd, so proud of himself.

Here is where the plan fell apart.

A dismissal with prejudice means it was on the merits. Since the non-defaulting party prevailed on the merits, the joint defaulting defendant should also be dismissed. There was no merit to the joint claims.

Since the claim was that I and the trust clouded title to the fraudster’s property and trespassed on it, and I “proved” that I did not trespass or cloud title, the statements in the complaint that I and the trust did anything must be deemed false. The trust must also be dismissed. It would be a second dismissal, so it would be with prejudice.

Judge Weaver acted like she is not aware that default judgment is not mandatory and that the judge should use discretion when handing out default damages.

Judge Weaver knew there was an avalanche of evidence against the fraudster. But it is so much fun for Judge Weaver to “play” with other people’s trust funds. (She was quoted by the Democrat Gazette as saying so.) Judge Weaver gave the property that may be worth $350,000 to the fraudster, and then said she approved the transfer of the asset to an irrevocable trust designed by William White.

To make it look like there was some reason for giving the property to the fraudster, Judge Weaver wrote in her order that I did all the bad things that were claimed in the complaint, even though I was dismissed on the merits.

Hopefully the Court of Appeals will reverse the erroneous ruling and dismiss the case against all defendants. Then I won’t need to file a malicious prosecution and fraudulent transfer case to recover the property.

The dumbest idea I have heard of concocted by an attorney is to dismiss one joint defendant who has his him on the ropes with the expectation that the defaulting joint defendant will lose on the exact same claims, and the order will hold up on appeal.