Kevin G. Hessler

Judge Hessler is biased towards women and should be investigated. Everything is supposed to be in the best interest of the child but he has granted a verbally and mentally abusive man tie breaking authority and residential custody giving me the child’s mother every other weekend. On top of that a man that doesn’t pay taxes and gets “paid under the table”, me a hard working mother of 2, has to pay this man child support. Did I mention this verbally and mentally abusive man is financially supported by his mother! My child has been wrongfully taken away from me. I am not a druggie. I am not an alcoholic. I have a child with my current husband and a stable job. I get to see my son every other weekend which means his younger brother only get to see him then too! Judge Hessler has stayed with this case due to it being F1FJ. And anything I do to better my family and myself has been ignored. The main person that is being hurt and affected by this ignorance is my 6 year old son. He is scared of his father and begs me not to send him. And what now?? He has him for most of the time. No wonder Montgomery County is going to shit, this system is truly absurd! JUDGE HESSLER NEEDS TO BE LOOKED INTO. HE NEEDS TO BE REMOVED AND INVESTIGATED. Enough is enough! I have been fighting a losing battle for 6 years with him. Is he being paid off or is just out to hurt children and women?

[Redacted by Ed.] As referral judge for my request to recuse the Trial Judge (Schweitzer), denied my request based solely on “noncompliance with motions rules“ even though recusal request is not even a motion. Did not care at all that all of the attorneys in the case committed fraud on the court (“one of the most serious offenses possible in a court of law“ punishable by disbarment), raising concerns about his interest in upholding up integrity of legal proceedings. Completely non-responsive to the substance of my recusal request, which was based on concerns about prejudice and appearance of impropriety, including trial judge not caring at all about my reporting or attorney, ethics, violations, and misconduct; allowing my former attorney to lie in court; intentionally excluding me from private discussion with both attorneys, who came out :-) if not laughing. All raising concerns about judicial impropriety. Also took one and a half months to decide recusal request, which should be decided as quickly as possible; during that time, the challenged judge is not supposed to make decisions in the case, but she kept doing so, including and appropriately denying my request for reassignment to a different judge, which should be decided by the administrative judge. Unfortunately, administrative judge (Bonifant) [Redacted by Ed.]; did not care that all the attorneys in the case had committed fraud in the court permitted by the trial judge; when I tried to report problems, his staff insisted only on verbal discussion, and would not allow me to communicate concerns in writing, even though I said this would be necessary with a Judge Bonifant because I’m not comfortable with him. When I said i did not know the name of the person that I was talking to from his office, this person actually hung up on me. There is no accountability at Montgomery county circuit court, because the administrative judge is not willing to uphold the integrity of proceedings, or the code of ju

I have been involved in constant litigation with my son's mother for the past 15 years, and I feel like I have encountered every nasty, condescending, and not up to speed on family law that I can imagine. Judge Hessler is the ONLY judge that I have encountered in the Montgomery County Circuit Court system who demonstrated an intimate knowledge of my case. The case had to run over two days and couple of 1/2 days, and Judge Hessler was able to speak to details from the initial hearing days that happened 8 weeks prior. Most importantly, Judge Hessler let both of us speak when answering questions. This allowed the litigants to give a true window into who they are as people, why they feel the way they feel about the issues, and allows him to get a good feel for the litigants. The other nasty and condescending judges would berate me when I tried to supplement my yes or no answer with actual information to explain why I feel the way I feel. These incompetent a-holes weren't interested determining the truth - they had already made up their minds before they entered the courtroom imo. In terms of even handedness, Judge Hessler denied many of mine and my son's mothers motions and made the payments of my son's extraordinary medical expenses more fair so that both parents share the costs more evenly. I still bear the overwhelming burden of costs, but I don't feel indentured to her whims any longer. Judge Hessler took the time to explain matters, and his rulings in a very calm manner and didn't make it about himself (I wish I could rate that nasty Master Lisa Segel who wouldn't let me speak and wanted to talk about her hearing problem throughout the hearing. Judge Salant is another loser but you can read his reviews for yourself). In summary, neither party got everything they wanted, but his rulings were based on what is reasonable, lawful, and really feasible in our case. It saddens me that I didn't have Judge Hessler in any of my hearings prior to this. I wonder h