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DOCKET NUMBER: FBT-FAOS-4005711 S:

SUPERIOR COURT

MARISA S. SODERLUND (RINGEL)

J.D. OF FAIRFIELD

vs.

AT BRIDGEPORT

KARL E. SODERLUND

JUNE 20,2014

MOTION FOR ADVICE FOR THE GUARDIAN AD LITEM

POST JUDGMENT
The undersigned, Guardian Ad Litem Attorney Eric A. Wikstrom, hereby
respectfully represents the following:
1. The Court (Frankel, J.) in the above-referenced matter appointed the undersigned
counsel as Guardian Ad Litem in January 2011 for the parties' minor children, to wit:
Cooper Soderlund, born May 2000; and
Jacqueline Soderlund, born September 2002
2. The parties most recently appeared before the Court (Klatt, J.) on January 22,
2014, regarding all outstanding motions related to the mother's access to the minor child,
Cooper Soderlund.
3. At that time, the Court conducted a full hearing and issued certain orders as to
reunification therapy and parenting access.

4. At present, the mother, minor child alld the father participate in therapy with Dr.
Brien O'Callahan, in Fairfield, Connecticut.
5. Recently, the mother has requested a copy of the undersigned Guardian Ad
Litem' s entire file from March 2013 through the present.
6. The undersigned, Guardian Ad Litem, has very serious concerns about the
adverse effect of the dissemination of the contents of her file upon the minor child,
Cooper Soderlund. The undersigned Guardian Ad Litem offers the following in support
thereof:
a. In the past, the Mother has posted text and articles to a web site that she
created called, www.pamperedinluxurywithsoileddiapers.com, that
discussed details about this court case and issues related to the family; at
the request of the undersigned Guardian Ad Litem, the Court ordered the
Mother to take this website down, so as to avoid the children's exposure to
same during the year 2012.
b. During the year 2013 and into 2014, the Mother has actively posted details
about her post judgment dissolution of marriage action and her children
online, on the following websites:

1. Coalition for Connecticut Family Court Reform;

2. Family Civil Liberties Unton;
3. And Justice for All;
4. Twitter;
5. Facebook; and
6. Pinterest.

c. The Mother also testified before the Connecticut legislature in a public

hearing on March 31, 2014 (see the following link:
httos://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFMKNMLlwAw), regarding the proposed
legislation regarding GAL Reform and also submitted written testimony on January 9,
2014, attached hereto as Exhibit A.
7. If you conduct a Google search for the Mother's name, all of this information
will be available at your fingertips. What the Mother has already published online is ,
damaging and detrimental enough for both minor children in this matter, especially with
respect to the minor child Cooper and his estrangement from his Mother over the past
year.

8. If the information present in the un-aersigned Guardian Ad .Litem's file is

disseminated online, including but not limited to, the conclusions and evaluations of
outside providers, it will become readily available to the minor child, Cooper, which is
not his best interest.
Wherefore, the Guardian Ad Litem respectfully requests that the Court enter the
following Orders:
1. Order that the Plaintiff Mother be entitled to review the undersigned Guardian
Ad Litem' s fileat any time under the supervision of Attorney Christopher T.
Goulden, but prevent her from ma.king copies of same; and
2. In the alternative, order that the Plaintiff Mother refrain from disseminating the
contents of the undersigned Guardian Ad Litem' s file online and that she refrain
from providing copies of any document to the minor children or any non-party
who is not her counsel of record in this matter.
3. Enter such further and other orders as this Court deems fair and equitable under
all of the circumstances.

GUARDIAN AD LITEM,
litRICA A. W

'

hristo er T. Goulden
set for The Guardian Ad Litem

Larracuente and Goulden, LLC

1000 Bridgeport Avenue, Ste. 102
Shelton, CT 06484
Phone No: 203-925-0400
Juris No: 419147
ORDER

The foregoing motion having been heard, it is hereby ORDERED

GRANTED/DENIED

BY THE COURT,

Judge

Clerk

CERTIFICATION

...
This is to certify that a copy of the foregoing motion, has been mailed, postage
prepaid, on the above date, to:
Marisa Ringel

214 Hulls Highway

Southport, CT 06890
Attorney Janis Laliberte
Sullivan & Laliberte, LLC
3 7 Bridgeport A venue
Milford, CT 06460

Members
TESTIMONY FOR PUBLIC HEARING
The Task Force to Study Legal Disputes Involving the Care &. Custody of Minor Children
Connecticut Legislature
c/o Legislativejudiciary Committee Office
Legislative Office Building/Office 2500
Hartford, CT 06106
Thursday,January
Dear Task Force Members:

2014

The GAL appointment of Atty. Sandra Lax happened in my case in May of 2005. Her term was
contracted until 2008, 3 years, but she stayed on the case without contract, yet still billing, until 20 l 0.
I was backed into a comer, in a surprise, all out, multi-fronted, litigious aggression by my ex-husband's
litigation team. My ex is an artist whom reports a low-level eaming, but he has the resources of a 20 30
million dollar family behind him that is willing to fund litigation. Hence the very large problem for me ..
My ex's access to money and his being in fight-mode draws G.Al& closer to him. They like to stick by his
side; the money side.
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In the first 1/2 year of divorce, there were many aggressive accusations. It was at this point that my
attorney said; 'We need a GAL, a tough one. We need Atty. Sandy Lax, a GAL he worked with on a
prior case. Backed up against the waU, not having ever heard of a GAL before, but in an emotional state
of shock, I said "OK" to him in blind trust. In 2005, she was a $10,000 retainer. My ex and I split her
50/50. She quickly went through that retainer and needed another, and more money, and so on, up
through 2010-which was 5 years later. She was $450.00 pe1 hour.
She did a good job initially, getting the aggressors calmed down. I thought that the initial SI0,000 Prejudgment was earned fairly.
Post:Judgment, it felt like my ex was using her to harass me. He called her dozens of times each year at
the 3450.00/hour rate to talk to her about how bad I am at this, that, and the other. It certainly was very
profitable to her. She made a lot of money listening to him and on follow-ups of all of the nonsense.
Another GAL, Atty. Erika Wikstrom, was appointed injan. 2011 when I was not even there in Cowt.
She was brought in via my ex's second attorney, who wasjanice Laliberti who has a very close working
relationship with Atty. Wikstrom. This GAL is $300/hour on her invoice but, the real cost to me,
because I consider her mismanaging this case, with her facilitation of the demise of the parenting plan,
makes me feel like she is 35,000 dollars/hour. I would say this case was a mess when Attny. Wikstrom
was appointed, but it blew up to a far lower level than seen before in its 6 years prior to her appointment.
We entered a new low in the family dynamic.
Sandy I.ax's total billings on this case was 871,347.00. I would say lOK of that, the Pre:Judgment part,
was worth-while. The rest was not.
Atty. Wikstrom's total billings for this case to date are S8,685.00 and none ofit was worth-while. As a
matter offact, I would say her value to my family is negative 112 million dollars because I believe she has
participated in causing damage in her facilitation and enabling of the parental alienation of my 13-year

old son, Cooper. My son has decided he does not want to spend time with me so he hasn't since March
24th of 2013. I have been denied all-access to my son for 9 112 months and continuing. Erika Wikstrom
has written this on this matter, ''Ms. Ringel is confused about my role in this matter. My role as Guardian
Ad I.item is not to protect her parental rights, as that would be the role of her attorney." Well I don't
have any more money Jeft for an attorney. She knows I am Self-Represented so her thinking is flawed.
Judge Klatt said this on the matter "You can't make a child like you. Pm sure be loves you, but you
cannot make him like you especially once he's
a teenager.,, So basically the GAL and Court
are turning a flawed blind eye to Parental Alienation and doing nothing about it. The GAL is billing me
$300.00/hour for this atrocity regardless.
My beautiful daughter,jacqueline (Age 11), is benefitting from 50/50 shared parenting time. My
brilliant son, Cooper (Age 13) is not.
The GAL role in Connecticut is out-of.control.

Marisa Ringel

214 Hulls Hwy.

Southport, CT 06890

203-543-7193
madsaringcl@gmail.com