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Tom Padgett's Divorce
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Tom Padgett has two websites about himself and his cases. Let's look at his WebTV web page for a moment. There are countless distortions and misrepresentations on that site, but I'd like to look at some issues that put Padgett's lack of veracity in the highest relief How Padgett Claims his Divorce began On his WebTV page, Tom Padgett writes:
The truth, however, is that Padgett never mentioned Scientology in his divorce proceedings until 1993. What really happened in July of 1992? Well, Laura caught Padgett in an adulterous affair, when she visited him in Michigan (Padgett had been living apart from his wife and kids for nearly a year by that point.). Laura returned to Kentucky from Michigan and filed for divorce that same July, 1992. If there was an ultimatum by anyone, it was probably by Laura to Tom telling him to end his affair. Regardless, Tom Padgett's affair was the cause of the divorce, not anything to do with Scientology. Further support for the fact that Padgett invented Scientology as a reason for his failings is in the Pendente Lite hearing from September, 1992. Scientology is never mentioned once by Padgett in this hearing. In fact, Tom Padgett is asked an open-ended question about why he feels he should have custody of Beau and Julie instead of Laura having custody. (The question/answer begins at the bottom of page 70.) Padgett goes on for over three pages about why he feels that he's more fit to have custody of his children than Laura is, but he never mentions Scientology once. That's in response to
Q251 I'm referring to joint custody. You've brought up the--- or your lawyer has, of joint custody. Are you seeking joint custody? After his three-plus-page response, with no mention of Scientology, the lawyer asks Padgett:
Q254 Anything else? (Page 74) There could hardly be a more open invitation to tell everything that was on his mind, and his voluble response indicates that he was doing just that. But Scientology wasn't on his mind ni 1992 He certainly would have mentioned what he claims now is the most important things about why he wanted custody of his children. But there's not one mention of Scientology, or anything related to it, by Padgett in this long hearing. Him claiming on his web page now that "In July of 1992, I wanted to put an end to the influences of $cientology in our family ...." is not credible.
Padgett's falsehoods about his style of litigation
The very first words on Padgett's WebTV page are:
"After years and years of trying to settle the secular (not religious) differences between the mother of my children and myself, and being litigated to death in Kentucky since 1992...."Of course, the very first statement on Padget's website is false. Padgett was the one litigating like a scientologist in Kentucky. As established by court documents, Padgett had 7 lawyers during just the first five years of his case. Laura had only one lawyer during that time. At least three of his attorneys dropped him because of differences in how to handle the case. In all likelihood, he was asking them to do something unethical or improper in his case, and they refused to do what he wished. Padgett also claims elswhere that he had a hard time finding lawyers because of conflicts of interest or scientology harassment. Well, one of the very first Kentucky lawyers, Tom Turner, sued him for not paying his bills. In a small legal community, I think the fact that Tom Padgett was a deadbeat client would make it hard to find a lawyer-- his claims about "conflicts" and "harassment' keeping him from getting lawyers are false. Gee, that's just the very first sentence of Padgett's WebTV page. But that site and his other are full of falsehoods.
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