Foreshadowing Doom in the Arkansas Court of Appeals

Just the facts. I don’t want to speculate as to motivation. It is just too depressing to think the Justices at the Arkansas Court of Appeals are as conniving and disingenuous as Circuit Court Judge Susan Kaye Weaver and District Court Judge Charles Clawson.

Susan Weaver used her position of power to transfer my assets that were held in trust to a man who put in writing his intent to defraud me of over $75,000 by convincing me I was paying off the “mortgage” then foreclosing on the property after I gave him “cash”.

I was dismissed from the suit as an individual, but “the trust” was found in default. Judge Weaver said that I could not speak on behalf of the trust.

The reason courts give for forbidding an individual from representing himself as trustee of a trust is that the trustee is a fiduciary to beneficiaries and the settlor of the trust. A person must be authorized to practice law to represent anyone else’s interests.

I was settlor, trustee and sole beneficiary of my trust. My sons were contingent beneficiaries, meaning if I did not terminate the trust before I died, they would become beneficiaries later, at my death.

To be certain that I can represent myself in all my trust capacities, I amended the trust to remove my sons. The purpose of the trust was to transfer property to my sons without paying the high taxes at probate. The government takes about four times as much of an estate that was not transferred through a trust. But Judge Susan Weaver and her friendlies already looted my trust. There was nothing left to give to my sons anyhow.

Now, I am not an attorney. I am inexperienced compared to most attorneys. I made a mistake.

When I filed a notice of appearance with a copy of the amended trust, I came into a glich in the electronic filing system. It would only let someone with a bar number file the entry of appearance. So I used the “motion – other” document type.

Instead of telling me I used the wrong document type, the Court proceeded as if my entry of appearance was a motion. It did not look like a motion. It did not smell like a motion.

But the Justices of the Arkansas Court of Appeal pretended it was a motion and denied my Constitutional right to represent myself, in all my different hats.

Then, the images of the entry of appearance were not posted on the online docket. That alone makes me suspect that the Justices were trying to hide something. But I promised not to speculate. [UPDATE] The Clerk added the images and apologized. She said that the error was made because my case is marked “Under Seal” because 10 pages are supposed to be under seal.

Here are copies of the entry of judgment, the amended trust and my motion filed today that explains the facts recited above to the COA and asks them to strike their “Formal Order” denying my right to self-representation without giving a reason.