Posted on 12/29/2009 1:37:25 PM PST by Justaham
Sarah Palin's oldest daughter appears to have lost her bid to keep a bitter legal dispute with her 1-year-old son's father confidential.
An Alaska judge last week denied Bristol Palin's request to keep the legal proceedings of her custody dispute with Levi Johnston closed. Palin, 18, filed a petition in early November seeking sole custody of her son, Tripp, and child support payments. She had argued that the scrutiny the case could attract would turn it into a "media circus" that potentially could cause her son embarrassment as he grows older.
"In this day and age of the internet, media stories remain available for years, even decades, after they are first published, and anything printed in the media (whether it is true or not) will be available to Tripp when he is old enough to read," she said in an affidavit.
Levi Johnston, who is seeking joint custody, has pushed for open court proceedings, saying he "just wants a simple case on the merits." "I do not feel protected against Sarah Palin in a closed proceeding," Johnston said in an affidavit. "I hope that if it is open she will stay out of it. Bristol's attorney is her attorney."
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Just how much child support has Dick Hollywood paid from day one? Surely that should be public.
Levi, the gift that just keeps on giving. I can’t see that he’s got much of a case for joint custody. He’s shown no interest in the child other than to use him for his own lame fame. No support either.
Levi needs a good butt-whoopin’!
I was watching TV about a month ago (It may have been the last time I did such a silly thing) and some commercial came on with some stupid guy with an Alaska t-shirt on and a huge bodyguard. You can here girls off camera shouting “Levi, Levi over here” flash bulbs going off. After some consideration I realized this was the statutory rapist who got Palin’s daughter pregnant. See that this guy’s only accomplishment in life is to get a teenager pregnant then trash her family, I then realized why I had forsaken TV. Their values are not my values.
He should lose custody because his behavior indicates he’s only in this for publicity.
I wouldn't be surprised if even some of the non-jailed "Corrupt B******* Club" was contributing in hopes of getting back at Sarah for her upending their nest of ill-gotten gains.
I think we can all agree that Levi is a useless douche, but I'm not aware of any evidence that he's committed statutory rape. I think in any discussion our arguments are stronger if they are truthful.
Wimp!
I said the same thing in an other thread. I smell George Soros money in the neighborhood.
I heard a interview of Levi & he said he didn’t pay child support. His mom on drugs- maybe he supports dear mother.
He is a dumb jerk....
He posed naked for some magazine. He isnt a fit person.
He is white trash of the lowest denominator.
What he really needs is a good azz-whipping.
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