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Monday, December 13, 2021
Sunday, September 10, 2017
OCSE PERMITTED VIOLATION OF POLICY BY EMPLOYEES TO HARASS AND INTIMIDATE CUSTODIAL PARENT
We received information from a custodial parent about an awful situation going on in her case with the Arkansas Office of Child Support Enforcement.
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| DIWANYA GILBERT |
The Office of Child Support Enforcement had a policy in effect that clearly states that employees cannot access or be involved in cases in which involves a family member or relative.
Diwanya's brother, Anthony "Tony" Gilbert, had court ordered child support payments that were to be made to the Office of Child Support Enforcement.
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| ANTHONY C. GILBERT |
Tony, did not want to pay the support for his children and fell behind a little. He owed $12, 577.90 back in March 2013 as indicated by this court order.
Tony had been ordered to pay just $45.00 per week by the court back in September 2012 and had a history of being in contempt for non-payment since his divorce in 1997.
Tony is a barber and has been for several years based on posting on his facebook page.
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| TONY AT WORK IN 2015 |
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| TONY AT WORK IN 2014 |
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| TONY AT WORK IN 2013 |
In 2012, the OCSE assigned Brooke Diane Cummings as the attorney. She was the assigned attorney until she left OCSE to go to work as a Revocation Hearing Judge for the Parole Board in April 2016.
Brooke is a colorful character. Brooke liked to play kickball and hang out at Midtown Billiards. Brooke also went to Haiti on a mission trip in 2014. In 2015 Brooke became an unmarried single parent.
Brooke had a run in with the law as a teenager and was placed in 6 months probation.
At this point we must make a disclosure, Ms. Cummings was the OCSE attorney on the case of the publisher of this blog as well. She did not to want be blogged about and in a telephone call to the publisher tearfully asked him not to do so.
Maybe it was a wild hair that made Brooke have fellow OCSE co-worker and the sister of the non-custodial parent accompany her to a court hearing and consult with her about the case.
Whatever the reason it was pure shenanigans and OCSE refuses to comment.
Whatever the reason it was pure shenanigans and OCSE refuses to comment.
Friday, June 17, 2016
NW ARK REGIONAL OCSE OFFICE HAS MANY COMPLAINTS - CASEWORKERS UNFAMILIAR WITH POLICIES AND PROCEDURES
We received an email from a reader that contained some disappointing information about OCSE employee YOLANDA WILLIAMS.
This is the email:
On a whim, we called the NW Arkansas Regional Child Support Office. We asked if there was a child support worker named Yolanda. We were told. "please hold."
When the line became active again the person that answered said, "this is Yolanda."
We asked what her last name was and she refused to give it citing the "5th Amendment."
We asked her why she would tell a non-custodial parent that had an open OCSE enforcement that the non-custodial parent could not be arrested for non-payment unless the amount was $10,000.00 or more?
Smart ass Yolanda hung up on us. As an Arkansas citizen and taxpayer I have issues with state employee's like Yolanda that treat the people that pay her salary like shit.
In fact, the Department of Finance & Administration has a written policy that each and every DFA employee must sign and a copy of it is placed in their personnel file that specifically states that employees are to "promptly and accurately to all request for information and complaints regardless of the source."
DFA CODE OF ETHICS
Apparently Yolanda needs a remedial training course in Child Support Procedures 101.
Now we don't expect smart ass Yolanda to know the law like an OCSE attorney should, but there are training modules and OCSE policy that outline the necessary steps to collect unpaid support that OCSE workers are to take, including the suspension of licenses, and automatic pickup orders that are standard in most all OCSE cases.
Here you go Yolanda:
Title 5 - Criminal Offenses
Subtitle 3 - Offenses Involving Families, Dependents, Etc
Chapter 26 - Offenses Involving The Family
Subchapter 4 - Nonsupport
§ 5-26-401 - Nonsupport.
(a) A person commits the offense of nonsupport if he or she fails to provide support to the person's:
(1) Spouse who is physically or mentally infirm or financially dependent;
(2) Legitimate child who is less than eighteen (18) years of age;
(3) Illegitimate child who is less than eighteen (18) years of age and whose parentage has been determined in a previous judicial proceeding; or
(4) Dependent child who is physically or mentally infirm.
(b) (1) Nonsupport is a Class A misdemeanor.
(2) However, nonsupport is a:
(A) Class D felony if the person:
(i) Leaves or remains outside the State of Arkansas for more than thirty (30) days while a current duty of support is unpaid. However, it is an affirmative defense to a charge under this subdivision (b)(2)(A)(i) that the defendant did not leave or remain outside the state with the purpose of avoiding the payment of support;
(ii) Has previously been convicted of nonsupport; or
(iii) Owes more than two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) in past-due child support, pursuant to a court order or by operation of law, and the amount represents at least four (4) months of past-due child support;
(B) Class C felony if the person owes more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000) but less than twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) in past-due child support, pursuant to a court order or by operation of law; or
(C) Class B felony if the person owes more than twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) in past-due child support, pursuant to a court order or by operation of law.
(c) The court may direct that a fine imposed upon conviction of nonsupport or a bond forfeited in connection with a prosecution for nonsupport be paid for the support and maintenance of the person entitled to support.
(d) A district court located in a county having a population in excess of two hundred thousand (200,000) inhabitants shall cause a warrant of arrest to be issued upon affidavit of a spouse or any person who is responsible for maintenance of a dependent child that states that nonsupport has taken place.
(e) Any person found guilty of nonsupport is also responsible for the court costs and administrative costs incurred by the court.
(f) The state may take judgment against any defendant convicted of nonsupport for any money expended by any state agency for the support and maintenance of the person with respect to whom the defendant had a duty to support.
(g) It is an affirmative defense to a prosecution under this section that the defendant had just cause to fail to provide the support.
There are other individuals that have voiced concerns or made complaints about this particular OCSE office.
OCSE Director/Administrator Alan McVey needs to get a handle on this rogue office and see that they are doing the right thing and collecting funds that are due to care for children pursuant to vaild court orders.
This is the email:
On a whim, we called the NW Arkansas Regional Child Support Office. We asked if there was a child support worker named Yolanda. We were told. "please hold."
When the line became active again the person that answered said, "this is Yolanda."
We asked what her last name was and she refused to give it citing the "5th Amendment."
We asked her why she would tell a non-custodial parent that had an open OCSE enforcement that the non-custodial parent could not be arrested for non-payment unless the amount was $10,000.00 or more?
Smart ass Yolanda hung up on us. As an Arkansas citizen and taxpayer I have issues with state employee's like Yolanda that treat the people that pay her salary like shit.
In fact, the Department of Finance & Administration has a written policy that each and every DFA employee must sign and a copy of it is placed in their personnel file that specifically states that employees are to "promptly and accurately to all request for information and complaints regardless of the source."
DFA CODE OF ETHICS
Apparently Yolanda needs a remedial training course in Child Support Procedures 101.
Now we don't expect smart ass Yolanda to know the law like an OCSE attorney should, but there are training modules and OCSE policy that outline the necessary steps to collect unpaid support that OCSE workers are to take, including the suspension of licenses, and automatic pickup orders that are standard in most all OCSE cases.
Here you go Yolanda:
Title 5 - Criminal Offenses
Subtitle 3 - Offenses Involving Families, Dependents, Etc
Chapter 26 - Offenses Involving The Family
Subchapter 4 - Nonsupport
§ 5-26-401 - Nonsupport.
(a) A person commits the offense of nonsupport if he or she fails to provide support to the person's:
(1) Spouse who is physically or mentally infirm or financially dependent;
(2) Legitimate child who is less than eighteen (18) years of age;
(3) Illegitimate child who is less than eighteen (18) years of age and whose parentage has been determined in a previous judicial proceeding; or
(4) Dependent child who is physically or mentally infirm.
(b) (1) Nonsupport is a Class A misdemeanor.
(2) However, nonsupport is a:
(A) Class D felony if the person:
(i) Leaves or remains outside the State of Arkansas for more than thirty (30) days while a current duty of support is unpaid. However, it is an affirmative defense to a charge under this subdivision (b)(2)(A)(i) that the defendant did not leave or remain outside the state with the purpose of avoiding the payment of support;
(ii) Has previously been convicted of nonsupport; or
(iii) Owes more than two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) in past-due child support, pursuant to a court order or by operation of law, and the amount represents at least four (4) months of past-due child support;
(B) Class C felony if the person owes more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000) but less than twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) in past-due child support, pursuant to a court order or by operation of law; or
(C) Class B felony if the person owes more than twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) in past-due child support, pursuant to a court order or by operation of law.
(c) The court may direct that a fine imposed upon conviction of nonsupport or a bond forfeited in connection with a prosecution for nonsupport be paid for the support and maintenance of the person entitled to support.
(d) A district court located in a county having a population in excess of two hundred thousand (200,000) inhabitants shall cause a warrant of arrest to be issued upon affidavit of a spouse or any person who is responsible for maintenance of a dependent child that states that nonsupport has taken place.
(e) Any person found guilty of nonsupport is also responsible for the court costs and administrative costs incurred by the court.
(f) The state may take judgment against any defendant convicted of nonsupport for any money expended by any state agency for the support and maintenance of the person with respect to whom the defendant had a duty to support.
(g) It is an affirmative defense to a prosecution under this section that the defendant had just cause to fail to provide the support.
There are other individuals that have voiced concerns or made complaints about this particular OCSE office.
OCSE Director/Administrator Alan McVey needs to get a handle on this rogue office and see that they are doing the right thing and collecting funds that are due to care for children pursuant to vaild court orders.
Wednesday, January 13, 2016
OCSE SENDS BILL FOR FEES NOT ASSOCIATED WITH CASE
We were recently contacted by a non-custodial parent that received a bill for IV-D Fee Remittance. The non-custodial parent was confused as their case is not a IV-D case, so they contacted OCSE.
The OCSE attorney assigned to the case was contacted by the non-custodial parent and was informed that indeed the case was not a IV-D case.
Is this a usual mistake made by OCSE or are they trying to collect fees from this non-custodial parent for fees they do not owe?
How much money has the OCSE collected in this manner?
Wednesday, June 3, 2015
ALAN MCVEY APPOINTED AS OCSE ADMINISTRATOR
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| ALAN KEITH MCVEY |
Alan K. McVey took over as the OCSE Administrator, a.k.a. Director, on April, 24, 2015 with a salary of $106,942.99.
McVey grew up in Des Arc and after graduating from UALR with a degree in Political Science, he went to work for his dad's timber business. McVey left the family business to became a loan officer at the Des Arc branch of the Farmers and Merchants Bank of Stuttgart.
In 1996 McVey joined the staff of Gov. Mike Huckabee as a policy advisor. In 1998 he was appointed as the deputy director for the Arkansas Department of Economic Development. McVey trudged along at ADED until September 2006 when he accepted a position as executive director of the Delta Center for Economic Development at Arkansas State University.
McVey left employment at ASU in February 2015 under mysterious circumstances.
McVey, as the old folks in Des Arc say, was left without a pot to piss in, and needed to find a job. When all hope was lost, providence provided a position.
Well, at least an old friend did.
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| MCVEY LET HIS FACEBOOK FRIENDS KNOW OF HIS GOOD FORTUNE |
The old friend that bailed McVey out was none other than his former boss at the ADED, now the Director of the Arkansas Department of Finance & Administration, Larry Walther.
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| LARRY WALTHER - DFA DIRECTOR |
You might be thinking what experience and or knowledge does McVey have of the Arkansas Office of Child Support Enforcement. Our guess is none, unless he picked up one of the brochures at the front desk when he came to check out his new office in downtown Little Rock...
Nothing in his past had anything to do with the child support system in Arkansas or elsewhere (unless he was an absent parent and paid child support).
McVey's appointment is another fine example of Gov. Hutchinson putting friends and supporters on the public payroll. Check out another blog we have about another DFA office that has some other examples of cronyism.
CLICK HERE FOR - Bad Arkansas Alcoholic Beverage Control Division
Maybe Walther is going to use McVey to clear house at OCSE like McVey did at ADEA...
CLICK FOR MCVEY'S FACEBOOK PAGE
CLICK FOR MCVEY'S TWITTER FEED
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
DAN MCDONALD RESIGNS POSITION
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| MCDONALD LIVING OUT LIFE-LONG DREAM OF MEETING MINNIE MOUSE |
Dan McDonald has bid adieu to the Arkansas Office of Child Support Enforcement.
We don't know the exact circumstances of his departure (was he allowed to resign in lieu of being fired, or replaced by the new administration) and are not likely to find them out from the Department of Finance & Administration.
What is known for sure is that he was removed from the DFA email server on March 28, 2015.
Kay Demailly, the former Assistant Administrator and General Counsel was named as his interim replacement.
Saturday, January 24, 2015
OCSE DIRECTOR DAN MCDONALD'S CELLPHONE RECORDS OBTAINED
A review of the documents reveals that McDonald likes to send a lot of text and video/photo messages. McDonald also appears to like to surf the web via his state issued phone, especially late in the evening.
Click to view McDonald's cellphone records
Wednesday, January 7, 2015
OCSE TELLS NON-CUSTODIAL PARENT THEY WILL CLOSE HIS ENFORCEMENT CASE IF HE DOES NOT ATTEND HEARING.
A Non-custodial parent received a crazy, confusing letter from the Arkansas Office of Child Support Enforcement that advises him that if he does not attend an upcoming hearing, his child support case will be closed. This would appear to be great news for all non-custodial parents. If you want to have the OCSE close your case and get rid of them, simply avoid going to hearings.
Apparently the OCSE sent the non-custodial parent the letter the custodial parent should receive.
This is another example of why drastic changes need to be made at the OCSE starting with the director.
Click to view letter
Friday, December 26, 2014
OCSE DIRECTOR DAN MCDONALD USES RESOURCES OF OFFICE FOR PERSONAL USE.
In a previous post information was detailed regarding misuse of public funds by OCSE director Dan McDonald (see post dated
October 16, 2014, OCSE Director Abuses
Travel Funds).
Further investigation has revealed that McDonald has also
used the facsimile machine in his office and long distance services to send
personal documents unrelated to his performance of duties or in connection with
his employment.
McDonald should be held accountable for his actions and
should be removed from his position.
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
OCSE WASTES FUNDS ON GIVEAWAY ITEMS
According to documents obtained from the Office of Child
Support Enforcement, since 2010 OCSE has spent over
$30,000.00 for promotional items such as pens, keychain flash lights, clips and
plastic goodie bags to be given away mainly at the Arkansas State Fair.
Why does the OCSE need to waste tax funds for promotional
items? Couldn’t these funds be better used applied towards additional positions? A
large number of complaints were recently featured on several Facebook pages of
local television stations and featured in on-air newscasts about lack off and extremely
poor service by OCSE (see previous posts).
From emails obtained it appears that when DFA Deputy Director
Tim Leathers saw all the OCSE swag at the Arkansas State Fair in 2012, he
did not recall approving their purchase (DFA procedures require an approval
letter from him for such items). Subsequent emails indicate that the required
approval for 2012 purchases was not given prior to the purchase of the items
even though this had been an issue in 2011.
Additionally the keychain flashlights were junk and fell apart easily
posing a possible choking hazard to children.
Twana Porter, Manager of Communications and Outreach for OCSE, was so concerned about the cheap quality
flashlights she purchased being a possible choking hazard, that she told Sharon
Pojar, the purchasing supervisor at the time, she “will not be using them for
our outreach activities”. When Porter
was contacted by this blog about what happened to the unusable flashlights, she
refused to answer or comment. The
question of what happened to the flashlights that cost $2,275.00 remains
unanswered at the time this post was published.
Also in 2012, Pojar asked other OCSE employees “Can we
refuse the keylites? We do not fell [sic] they are a save [sic] item to
dispense to the public”. In another
email Pojar berated the performance of a subordinate, Chad Bland, who
apparently failed to follow established procedure regarding purchase orders
which appears to have resulted in errors in orders.
A previous post revealed that the OCSE NPOWR! program spent
almost a million dollars and has a failure rate of over 75%. The NPOWR! Program
spent close to $5,000.00 for stationary and envelopes alone. In the real world the NPOWR! Program would
have been shut down long ago as the services it purports to offer are already
being provided by the Department of Workforce Services and it is a failed program.
How long will the people of Arkansas and their elected
officials allow this agency to continue in this manner? It’s long past time for a change in
leadership at the Department of Finance & Administration and the Office of
Child Support Enforcement.
Tuesday, December 9, 2014
SEARCY OCSE REFUSES TO REVIEW PAYMENT RECORD WITH NON-CUSTODIAL PARENT
On October 30, 2014, Pam Lunsford, Child Support Supervisor I at the Searcy OCSE refused to review child support payment history with a non-custodial parent telling him that a recent judgment obtained by OCSE "makes anything before it invalid".
The judgment obtained by OCSE in fact "validates" the payment history which allowed OCSE to obtain a judgment for alleged missed payments. Lunsford's obsurd utterance is unfortunatley a typical response of an OCSE worker.
When confronted with possible errors made by OCSE, instead of admitting the mistake or trying to resolve the matter professionally, Lunsford refuses to answer a simple question saying "We can't give you an answer you will understand" insinuating the non-custodial is stupid.
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| Gary Tackett, OCSE Field Manager, looms over non-custodial parent. |
Searcy OCSE video link
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| Lunsford gets our vote for best Grumpy Cat imitation |
Friday, December 5, 2014
COMPLAINTS ABOUND ABOUT OCSE IN FACEBOOK POST
Numerous individuals voiced complaints in a post made on the Facebook page of the CBS Little Rock affilate KTHV today.
Last month the ABC Little Rock affiliate KATV ran stories and had several Facebook posts regarding complaints about the Arkansas Office of Child Support Enforcement.
Hopefully, the newly elected Governor will clean house at the OCSE to ensure that the agency is rid of its incompetent leadership and ineffective, wasteful programs.
KTHV Facebook page
Tuesday, December 2, 2014
UPDATE TO JULY 31, 2014 POST
An email chain between Dan McDonald and his DFA bosses reveals that McDonald and others liked the photo of McDonald bearing it all used on a flyer promoting this blog.
Sunday, November 9, 2014
OCSE DIRECTOR MAKES OUTRAGEOUS STATEMENTS
Click to watch the OCSE video
OCSE WASTES FUNDS ON INEFFECTIVE PROGRAM
The Office of Child Support Enforcement’s NPOWR! Program has
cost taxpayers almost a million dollars, mostly in employee salaries, since
2008. The 90 day program has a failure
rate of over 75% but OCSE still wastes taxpayer’s money in a failed duplicative
program. According to OCSE the NPOWR!
Program is “a partnership with the Department of Workforce Services (DWS) that
offers noncustodial parents employments placement and readiness services”.
In fact the NPOWR! Program is nothing more than a boondoggle and a gross waste of state employee salaries that could be used to fund other needed positions. If a noncustodial parent received unemployment benefits prior to being
“accepted” into the NPOWR! Program, they have already used the exact same DWS
services that the NPOWR! Program utilizes.
The only benefit for the noncustodial parent is that the OCSE defers
punitive options such as driver’s license suspension, for the 90 day period, but
OCSE could do that without the NPOWR! Program if they so desired.
This is another reason Dan McDonald should be fired and perhaps Richard Weiss, the Director of the Department of Finance & Administration, and Tim Leathers, the Deputy Director, should be removed for allowing this terrible waste of taxpayer funds to exist in their agency.
Sunday, November 2, 2014
THOUSANDS AIR COMPLAINTS ABOUT OCSE
Little Rock television station KATV aired stories on October 30, 2014 and October 31, 2014 in which thousands of Arkansans detailed complaints about the Arkansas Office of Child Support Enforcement.
The majority of complaints concererned caseworkers and the apparent lack of training, nonexistant interpersonal skills and extremely poor customer service. Many called for OCSE Director Dan McDonald to be fired.
There is pressure from the Federal government for state child support agencies to take on visitation issues. There are merits to this movement as the child support agency is looking out for the interest of the children, not the parents. The Arkansas Office of Child Support Enforcement needs new leadership to fix the current problems with the agency and prepare to meet the challenges of the future.
KATV Facebook Post
http://www.katv.com/story/27171555/child-support-six-parents-six-ideas
http://www.katv.com/story/27164525/child-support
KATV / OCSE Emails
Thursday, October 30, 2014
KATV ASKS PUBLIC FOR COMMENTS ABOUT OCSE
KATV asked their Facebook users to make comments about the Arkansas Office of Child Support Enforcement and then ran a story about what the public had to say about the OCSE. KATV is sending old Dan McDonald the comments and has requested information about complaints made to OCSE.
There are hundreds of complaints posted by custodial and noncustodial parents about OCSE caseworkers and bad experiences with OCSE. The issues range from lazy caseworkers, delayed receipt of payments to false information reported to credit bureaus. There are several comments that even ask for old Dan McDonald to resign.
KATV News Story
KATV Facebook page
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| Old McDonald at his "farm" |
Thursday, October 16, 2014
OCSE DIRECTOR ABUSES TRAVEL FUNDS
Documents reveal that OCSE Director Dan Donald used state funds to pay for hotel stay in Colorado with his wife.
Recently obtained documents indicate that OCSE Director Daniel G. McDonald used the state to pay for a five day stay at the Denver, CO Sheraton, in 2012 costing taxpayers $1,119.15. McDonald also used an "Executive" car service to get around Denver, also at the taxpayers expense. Not only did he fleece the taxpayers, he cheated the Denver Sheraton out of a double occupancy rate. McDonald also received 2090 Starpoints! McDonald should do the right thing and reimburse the state for one half of the amounts he charged on his expense report.
Recently obtained documents indicate that OCSE Director Daniel G. McDonald used the state to pay for a five day stay at the Denver, CO Sheraton, in 2012 costing taxpayers $1,119.15. McDonald also used an "Executive" car service to get around Denver, also at the taxpayers expense. Not only did he fleece the taxpayers, he cheated the Denver Sheraton out of a double occupancy rate. McDonald also received 2090 Starpoints! McDonald should do the right thing and reimburse the state for one half of the amounts he charged on his expense report.
Friday, September 19, 2014
Complete List of OCSE Employees And Salaries
OCSE Employee List with Position and Salary
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6bAeBjaZ__rQ0dlNnVGbWhRcGc/edit?usp=sharing
You can check on any Arkansas state employee at these sites:
http://www.arkansas.gov/directory/
http://transparency.arkansas.gov/Pages/default.aspx
http://www.arkansasonline.com/right2know/statesalaries/
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
OCSE Attorneys That Have Been Investigated By The Office Of The Committee On Professional Conduct
This is a list of current OCSE attorneys that have been the subject of an investigation by the Office of the Committe on Professional Conduct and been found to have committed a violation of one or more of the Rules of Professional Conduct.
(1) Catherine P. Dean. Dean was charged with misconduct and was found to have commited six violations. Dean failed to on two ocassions to complete a guardianship case (but she did take $500 from the client); Dean failed to keep the clients informed and avoided contact with them.
UPDATE 3/3/15. Dean has left the OCSE and is now a part-time deputy prosecuting attorney in Mississippi County. Let's hope she can handle the work load there, she sure had issues with that at OSCE. link to her new job
Dean Documents: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6bAeBjaZ__rSTI0aF9NQlE1Zzg/edit?usp=sharing
(2) Mark L. Ross. Ross was charged with misconduct and was found to have overdrawn three separate bank trust accounts on the IOLTA attorney trust. These type of accounts are only for funds that belong to a client and are not the attorneys own funds (hence the separate account).
Ross Documents: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6bAeBjaZ__rRXR0dWM5WEsxX2s/edit?usp=sharing
(3) Susan G. Jones. Jones was charged with misconduct and was found to have commited three violations. Jones took $440 to handle a divorce proceeding and avoided contact with the client for about seven months. Jones finally did what she had been paid for after the client threatened to take action against her.
Jones Documents: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6bAeBjaZ__rRjNqUXUxWDBEWmM/edit?usp=sharing
Arkansas Rules of Professional Conduct:
https://courts.arkansas.gov/rules-and-administrative-orders/%5Bcurrent%5D-arkansas-rules-of-professional-conduct
You can check to see if any attorney in Arkansas has been investigated and found to have committed an infraction at this site:
https://courts.arkansas.gov/administration/professional-conduct/opinions
(1) Catherine P. Dean. Dean was charged with misconduct and was found to have commited six violations. Dean failed to on two ocassions to complete a guardianship case (but she did take $500 from the client); Dean failed to keep the clients informed and avoided contact with them.
UPDATE 3/3/15. Dean has left the OCSE and is now a part-time deputy prosecuting attorney in Mississippi County. Let's hope she can handle the work load there, she sure had issues with that at OSCE. link to her new job
Dean Documents: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6bAeBjaZ__rSTI0aF9NQlE1Zzg/edit?usp=sharing
(2) Mark L. Ross. Ross was charged with misconduct and was found to have overdrawn three separate bank trust accounts on the IOLTA attorney trust. These type of accounts are only for funds that belong to a client and are not the attorneys own funds (hence the separate account).
(3) Susan G. Jones. Jones was charged with misconduct and was found to have commited three violations. Jones took $440 to handle a divorce proceeding and avoided contact with the client for about seven months. Jones finally did what she had been paid for after the client threatened to take action against her.
Jones Documents: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6bAeBjaZ__rRjNqUXUxWDBEWmM/edit?usp=sharing
Arkansas Rules of Professional Conduct:
https://courts.arkansas.gov/rules-and-administrative-orders/%5Bcurrent%5D-arkansas-rules-of-professional-conduct
You can check to see if any attorney in Arkansas has been investigated and found to have committed an infraction at this site:
https://courts.arkansas.gov/administration/professional-conduct/opinions