Mellisse Weldon Brydges, and Negligence!
Mellisse Brydges abused her power and exceeded her authority, and duties, in her vindictive attempt to assassinate my character and try to get my petition for the appointment as guardian for my elderly disabled mother denied. Vindictive because I would not bow to her authority and Nazi Gestapo like power craze, on the first day we met. After I told her that I believed she would not do anything to benefit my mother, and that I would ask the court to replace her, she went crazy and started on a mission to destroy me and my ability to obtain guardianship for my mother. Read her official report by clicking here

Brydges quit as the investigator on the case after the court told her she could not bill for anymore time. So the court had to appoint a new court investigator since the case was not yet concluded. This caused additional unnecessary charges in the case.

After Brydges quit, she immediately sent me a huge bill for her work, work she was not empowered or authorized to do on my mother's guardianship case. She demanded I pay the bill. I tried to defend against the bill in court, as previously instructed by Commissioner Wayne E. Yehling, arguing that she did work which was not authorized by the law, not necessary for the case and not reasonable, work I never contracted for and work she did only to attack me and my character.

The bill as a whole is a huge fraud, and her attorney tried to get me to sign a paper that would get the taxpayers to pay it. Brydges' also lied to the court when she told them at the hearing regarding her being replaced, that all she had left to do in the case, after working for only 7 hours, that she only needed to do one last task, interview my mother, a requirement under the probate laws, so the court denied my request to replace her. However, Brydges' left the court that day and went out on a crazy rampage, and she accumulated an additional 30+ hours at $70.00 per hour doing work that exceeded her authority. She did eventually interview my mother, but said in her report and in a recorded interview with her by DPS, that my mother "stunk to high heaven" and that she "had to sit several miles away from her". Mellisse Brydges is clearly a beast who lacks any compassion at all for the disabled.

Brydges appears to pad her bills in other cases, when she knows the parties in the cases can't afford to pay her, the county then pays her at a reduced rate, 1/2 her rate. Double the time, pad the bill and the county taxpayers get robbed!!!

When I rejected her unreasonable bill, she asked a longtime friend to help her collect it through court proceedings, local attorney Stephen Gonzalez. Gonzalez has lied in court records about Brydges agreeing to pay his fees (now over $45,000.00 over a $2,900 bill), so he can collect a court award for his fees. Brydges has not paid the fees, because the two had a seceret arrangement, and a friendship, and it is fraud to say she would pay the fees in order to get a fee award from the court's. Gonzalez has a slimy history of his own (details to come).

Anyway, after Mellisse's attorney (and friend), Stephen Gonzalez identifies himself to Commissioner Wayne E. Yehling, at the first hearing on the matter of the bill,  as being the special attorney working with Judge Harrington (the Presiding Probate Judge) and F. Christopher Ansley, on the $150,000,000,000.00 (150 million dollars) Starr Pass Resort 'bank loan default' case, the Court ignores my pleas that Brydges was abusive in her billing, doing work not authorized, necessary or reasonable, and without due process, awards Brydges and Stephen Gonzalez ~$14,000.00 in a judgment against me personally and against my mother. The court did this without affording me an opportunity to prove her charges were unreasonable and unnecessary. Immediately after Yehling signed the order, Gonzalez had a Court Writ issued to the banks to empty out my mom's accounts. 

Basically, the court gave special favor to Mellisse Brydges, and denied me and my mother our right to due process, a $14,000 benefit for Brydges and Gonzalez. Case law has required Court appointees to prove their bills are reasonable and necessary when there is a dispute. Judge Yehling refused to obligate Brydges this lawful duty to prove her "outrageous bill" was justified or reasonable, or that any part of it and her work was even necessary to the case. The unlawful ruling by Judge Wayne Yehling includes $11,000.00 in attorney fees, a discount from the $30,000.00 worth of legal time which Gonzalez spent to fight for Brydges' $2,900 bill.

My case is not isolated, see a few of Brydges' other cases which resulted in the same billing abuse and unjust rulings by Judge Charles V. Harrington's posse.

Brydges must have some dirt on someone in the court, and Gonzalez obviously pulled some strings with Judge Harrington to get Commissioner Wayne E. Yehling to issue this unfair and unlawful judgment.

Shortly after, Wayne E. Yehling was given a judgeship, surely for his loyalty. Why else would they be so unjust and unfair in a simple guardianship case.