Any idea when the next court date will be?
Never, as long as Gaddy cooperates and gets court orders that memorialize the decisions that suit everybody. Remeber, first one into court on this one was Gaddy, with a Motion for Emergency Guardianship.
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Kirby [Mae/Ken's attorney] then drafted motions to file with the probate court in LaGrange, asking the court to order Beth Gaddy to allow the visits.McLeod said neither he nor nephew Ken Mullinax had done anything to cause problems at the hospital or hospice.
"We didn't cause a scene, we didn't cause anything in our sister's room, and we think we ought to be able to see our sister," McLeod said.
A second motion was to demand Gaddy "show cause" as to why she refused to allow her relatives to visit her grandmother and prohibited doctors from discussing the case with them.
Gaddy relaxed her position. She agreed to allow full visitation privileges, but only if Ken Mullinax promised never to talk to the media again or communicate in any way with Internet bloggers.
Mullinax refused and was on Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes" yesterday, where he provided a nationwide audience with details of the case. Hannity quoted from an exclusive story on WND, which was the first national news organization to investigate and report on the Magouirk case.
In another twist, Troup County Probate Judge Donald Boyd, who has had charge of the case since April 1, voluntarily recused himself.
Kirby told WorldNetDaily that Boyd gave no reason for his decision.
"There was no hearing," Kirby said, "But I talked to the granddaughter's attorney [Danny Daniel], and they have agreed to let my people visit without restriction with Mrs. Magouirk while she's in the hospital, and they have agreed to allow my people to have access to information from the doctors regarding medical care and treatment."
Kirby said that at first, they "allowed visitation of 30 minutes a day, and I told him we appreciated the gesture and we would observe our 30 minutes a day, but we still intended to go forward to ask the judge to give us more than that."
After further discussions today, he continued, "they decided not to place any restrictions on visitation."
Kirby added he would not pursue the "show cause" matter, if what he'd been told on the telephone is formalized in a court order.
Although McLeod and Ruth Mullinax have visitation privileges, Ken Mullinax does not.
Kirby said that has not been worked out yet.