Report Filed: Michele Bermel Michelle Bermel Extremely unethical law guardian, which was PROVEN in court. She should be forever banned from “representing” vulnerable children. Complete disgrace. One lawyer I spoke with speculated drug use and believes she is being referred significantly less cases Chappaqua New York!!
I understand why provisions are in place that will not allow for an easy removal of law guardian. The husband wouldn’t like her/him if he feels he/she sides with the wife and vice versa. At the same time, there should be more channels of awareness to the actions and inactions of law guardians as a whole. In my opinion, a law guardian should be held to a higher standard as they are representing children who are not only vulnerable because of their age but also as they are going through the many transitions of divorce. Ms. Bermel should lose her license for what she has done and I am going to dedicate myself to have that happen. I fuly intend to re-open a filing with the ethics committee in an attempt to spare others – in partiular children – from her wrath. I also intend to lobby for higher standards in law guardianship to include harsh punishments for those abusing authority of their role in their representation of children. Protector versus prey. Bermel is not a protector. She is a shamefull disgrace. I truly don’t know where to start with Bermel. She was the law guardian for our children during a three year divorce. In a nutshell: 1) Bermel intentionally misrepresented and actively manipulated our children throughout the processs. One of my daughters felt so little trust for her she secretly taped a session. 2) Bermel did not advocate in the best interests of our children. As an example, we had a full psychiatric evauation scheduleed for our daughter after many months of my ex unnessarily lentthening the start of the process. We had agreed to the evaluation in Bermel’s office with Bermel. At the last minute and after he and I had spent approx. 1K meeting with the psychiatrist he decided on in-network only when he had many thousands in the bank and had agreed in Bermel’s presence to the use of thiis particular psychiatrist for our daughter. Ms. Bermel allowed for his whim. Rather than utilize the authority of her role to advocate for our childr’s needs she simply responded “Be that as it may””. It took almost two full years longer for my husband to once again agree to a full evaulation. By then
