MonicaRawlins

Judge Monica Rawlins issued a restraining order against me based on allegations made by my ex-husband despite the lack of any direct evidence supporting his claims. She also issued a restraining order against my current husband, even though he was not present during the conflict between me and my daughter and had no involvement in the alleged incident. During the first hearing, the judge laughed about the restraining order against him before ultimately dismissing it and minimized it as “just a formality,” despite the emotional and financial harm it caused us, including the need to hire legal counsel to defend him against the allegations. After the second hearing, Judge Monica Rawlins took approximately two months to issue a ruling, leaving my family in limbo while I remained under severe custody restrictions and continued paying substantial legal fees. Before the second hearing took place, Texas House Bill 3783 (HB 3783), also known as the Safe Haven Act, became effective and prohibited Texas family courts from using reunification-style interventions that require children to have no contact with a parent as a condition of therapy or reunification. Despite this major legislative change, and despite my attorney specifically arguing that the law constituted a substantial change warranting modification of the existing order, my case continued operating under a framework that severely restricted my contact with my children and no timely corrective action was taken by the court. Judge Monica Rawlins ignored significant evidence I presented during the case, including documentation of repeated custody interference by my ex-husband. Even while I was limited to only one hour of parenting time per week during family therapy, my ex repeatedly scheduled trips and vacations that caused the children to miss my already extremely limited court-ordered visitation. Despite ongoing violations of my parenting time, the court did not take any corrective action or enforce the existing custody orders. I was the only one who had to follow the court order. Concerns regarding underage alcohol exposure involving the minor children were also ignored. Both I and the family therapist raised concerns that the children were allegedly being provided alcohol or exposed to inappropriate alcohol-related situations during parties and family trips at my ex-husband’s home. Despite these concerns being brought before the court, no action was taken and no investigation was done.

Monica Rawlins appeared unfamiliar with important evidence and details in my case, and I felt my filings and concerns as a pro se parent were not given meaningful consideration. The resulting orders left major issues unresolved and unenforceable, leading to continued litigation, additional hearings, and ongoing conflict rather than a clear and workable path toward reunification and co-parenting.

Didn’t acknowledge ex wife assault

She ignored evidence of my ex husband violating the temporary orders and standard orders and did not require any evidence from his attorney or the Amicus when they committed perjury against me.

She is up for reelection and my amicus Danny hoke contributes to her election campaign and there is a conflict of interest and they are very unfair. Have separated family and have to desire to reunify