I have appeared pro se in El Paso County District Court at numerous times over the past five-plus years commencing with my uncontested final orders divorce hearing in December of 2001. Today, my parenting and visitation rights with my now eleven-year-old daughter remain suspended despite the fact that I have never been charged with a felony much less been convicted of one. (The Court suspended my parenting rights less than one-day after final orders via an ex parte ruling without the requisite hearing pursuant to 14-10-129(4)CRS.)
During this time, I filed some twenty motions with El Paso County District Court and actually had two motions filed on my behalf by an attorney. None of these motions, even the two filed by my then attorny, have ever been ruled on by the Court. Pro Se, once interrupted, means “no say” in El Paso County District Court as every ruling is arrived at ex parte.
Currently, I am in the process of losing my “no say” objection to a stepparent petition for adoption of my daughter. Even though I have paid all child support for the past seventeen-months and attempted to telephone my daughter each week during the court allowed (benevolent) calling time, the Court has already demonstrated that they have arrived at their predetermined ex parte decision which will be made official next month. Oh, btw, the stepparent is my ex-wife’s divorce attorney who married her just four-months following final orders.
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but my experience is that pro se people are routinely given more latitude in presenting their cases by the Judges in my neck of the woods.
That might be true in Deer Tick, Alberta, but in Colorado District Court, the evidence to the contrary is overwhelming.
The attorney-stepfather’s name is Herman “Hal” Lohse. A court observer reports that the magistrate kept referring to him throughout the proceeding as, “Hal.” Doesn’t sound like Condor is going to get a fair shake, let alone any latitude.
Moreover, if I understand the procedural and factual background correctly, Hal and his wife (the mother) are alleged to have engaged in parental alienation these past several years and are alleged to now be trying to reap the fruits of their alleged wrongdoing by claiming that the child no longer wants a relationship with her father (Condor), and using that as a justification for the stepparent adoption proceeding. Nice.