Divorce case in 6/2021, since then continued motion to modifies, trial, ex parte TRO’s, contempt’s filed, etc. there’s no end in sight.
Legal Knowledge: Has ex parte communications with counsel, psychologist, makes retaliatory orders for being vocal against him and/or the court house, admits on record to not abiding by the law and tells litigants to write a writ if they want to but he’s still going through with the unlawful order, does not care if people have or actively attempting suicide due to his rogue orders, sleeps through hearings/trial, does not follow mandatory court house rules that would make litigation come to an end, is hit and cold you never know what you are going to get, he writes orders that do not have a motion, he refuses to go on the record, he is not timely in trying to resolve matters keeps them lingering as we’ve been at this for years, seems to favor abusive men giving them full custody and child support from the victim mother, will not allow children to testify.
Fairness & Impartiality: Favors abusive wealthy men. not children and not women.
Judicial Temperament: He is hot/cold. you never know what you are going to get.
Communication: He allows opposing counsel to write orders and he just signs them. often in the orders things are written in there that were not even discussed or up for motion but he still signs off on it.
Timeliness: He lets all his high earner abuse cases linger for years while his low income families resolve their divorces within months.
★☆☆☆☆Litigant
Was in Heggie’s courtroom for the majority of 4 years.
Legal Knowledge: Heggie has no apparent understanding of the laws. This is demonstrated by his refusal to follow them, issuance or orders that directly contradict the law, and his frequent outsourcing to other court personnel while simultaneously deflecting responsibility.
Fairness & Impartiality: Robert Heggie has an unwavering hate towards women and mothers. He has a default disbelief that any man could be abusive. Punishes women for leaving abusive men by discrediting them, favoring the husband, and placing children in dangerous situations that do not even remotely align with the DEFAULT 50/50 standard. In addition to this, you’ll notice in his courtroom a dad can be a suicidal alcoholic and get granted sole custody, yet an alcoholic suicidal mom will be placed on supervised visits. Robert Heggie has an undeniable patter of placing women on supervised visits, without evidence, without cause, and without a path out.
Judicial Temperament: On the days he is awake, he can be quite moody. He one moment can appear borderline sedated, while moments later he is storming out of the courtroom due to an attorney just requesting to go on the record. He has a proclivity of interrupting attorneys and litigants when they begin to follow the law and request due process. He disguises it as “well, hold on a second.” He is a wild card and no one appears to know what to expect when you walk into his courtroom. One day he appears to have never met you. Another day, he magically remembers your children’s names, who was given the house in the divorce, and details he was never privy to.
He refuses to allow lost litigants to present their cases. Defaults to a mindset of “when we get to trial,” yet never allows cases to get there. He is extremely unprofessional, and his ego is beyond out of control.
Communication: Rulings are procedurally wrong and factually false. He hand writes orders that are not only illegible, but extremely vague. It is easy to believe this is intentional. His intentional vague comments leave room for interpretation, violation, and ultimately lack of progress forward. Ruling often reflect a mere fraction of the issues discussed. His rulings omit the law and are often, based upon his mood of the day and his personal feelings for the day. His clerk gate keeps motions by allowing excessive timelines to pass without an up to date docket.
Timeliness: He has an excessively prolonged docket. Meaning, far too many of his open cases have been open much longer than 12 Months. He allows months to go by without any changes. He has a 22:1 ratio of scheduling trial and actually holding trial. When a hearing is held, weeks can go by without a ruling. Again, going back to his lack of knowledge of the law. And instead, it appears that he holds ex parte communication in order to determine how he will rule based upon the insight of his favorite attorneys, the GALs he appoints, etc. He does not care about the families he keeps separated for months, and even years.