Thursday, April 3, 2014

First court order in new custody trial between Levi Johnston and Bristol Palin: None of Levi's motions have been dismissed, trial setting conference scheduled, evidentiary hearing required, court notes that "a best interest finding" in regard to their son Tripp has never been made in the past

Parental expert Bristol Palin: 
The custody trial she thought would never happen

By Patrick
UPDATE MAY 2014: Mentioned below are all our posts in which we reported the details of the new custody proceedings between Levi Johnston and Bristol Palin concerning their son Tripp. We published the complete legal exchanges between the parties, including the new affidavits and court orders. Almost all of these documents have never been published elsewhere.

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Tuesday, February 25, 2014

BREAKING - The heat is on: Levi Johnston files for joint custody and asks court to hold Bristol Palin in contempt and return Tripp to Alaska - UPDATE: Read Levi's new court filings! Levi asserts that Bristol took Tripp out of state against a court order, seeks a court ruling about the custody, provides detailed affidavit

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Thursday, March 13, 2014

New filings in the custody case between Levi Johnston and Bristol Palin - Exchanging legal arguments and new affidavits, and Bristol is on the defensive: No sign of necessary "written consent" by Levi to remove Tripp from Alaska, just the opposite

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Saturday, March 22, 2014

Custody trial Levi Johnston vs Bristol Palin, the next round - Levi's lawyer tears Bristol's legal arguments apart and shows that Alaska case law is not in Bristol's favour - "A child is not a chattel to be bargained away for consideration"

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Thursday, April 3, 2014

First court order in new custody case between Levi Johnston and Bristol Palin: None of Levi's motions have been dismissed, trial setting conference scheduled, evidentiary hearing required, court notes that "a best interest finding" in regard to their son Tripp has never been made in the past

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Sunday, May 4, 2014

Levi's and Bristol's custody trial is now scheduled not just for one, but two days!

Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston: The custody trial, part 2, is taking shape. While the new proceedings have been ignored by the media this time around, in sharp contrast to 2009/2010, when the media was all over it, we here at Politicalgates kept a watchful eye and published all the new exchanges between the attorneys. 

Levi's lawyer Darryl L. Thompson presented three new motions, and Bristol's lawyer John J. Tiemessen (who also is Sarah Palin's lawyer) responded to them, with both parties presenting new affidavits.

We reported about the new proceedings in great detail and published all the documents HERE, HERE and HERE.

Being challenged with facts and hard-hitting legal arguments in court is obviously not the favourite activity of the Palin-camp, and that's probably why, in a rather bizarre move and apparent "pre-emptive strike", the Palin-camp in January this year leaked the false fact to the media that Levi "lost" the custody case - at a time when the newly opened case hadn't even begun.

But now things are under way, as they should be. Superior Court Judge Eric Smith scheduled a trial setting conference on May 2, 2014 and made clear in his new court order from March 31st, 2014 that all of Levi's motions have legal validity, but as the facts are disputed, an "evidentiary hearing" on all the issues is required.

A very inconvenient fact for Bristol Palin, explained at the end of the order: A "best interest finding" in regard to Tripp's custody has never been made in the previous custody trial! There is also another interesting, and rather inconvenient remark: "The court also notes that the parties entered into the stipulation nearly four years ago when the parties' son was one year old, and it appears that they have not adhered to the agreement since its inception."

Well, that's only too true, as Levi could call himself lucky if Bristol allowed him to Tripp.

For example, during the last six months, while Bristol was in Arizona, Levi hardly saw Tripp less than a handful of times.

In the voluntary stipulation from August 2010, it was agreed that Levi should get access to Tripp twice a week.

But the court now also notes: "The court never approved this agreement."

So from this new court order it is more than obvious that things will now start over again. At the end of the proceedings, there should be a solution that really is in the best interests of Tripp. This is all that matters.

Things are looking good for Levi, and this comes as no surprise. What did surprise us however is the fact that the media not only published false facts before the trial even begun, but that up until now, virtually keeps total silence about it.

Therefore, we will continue to keep a watchful eye on the proceedings.

Here is the new court order from March 31st, 2014:






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