Elaine Pudlowski in the news again

The St. Louis Record continues its exposure of the corrupt Missouri Guardian ad Litem and lawyer

Elaine Pudlowski

The St. Louis Record has published another story exposing corruption in the family court system.

This story includes the notorious St. Louis area lawyer and guardian ad litem, Elaine Pudlowski.

{Caroline} Less also filed a motion to disqualify the embattled GAL Elaine Pudlowski from her case in 2018.

“The GAL has failed to act in the best interests of the minor child and has not exercised independent judgment on behalf of the child in all matters...and above all has failed to recommend to the Court that all contact for the minor child with Respondent cease immediately in ignorance of the evidence of sexual abuse and in direct conflict with the recommendations of three separate individual therapists of the child,” attorney Patria Susia wrote on behalf of Less in 2018.

Pudlowski has now been mentioned in stories involving three parents in the St. Louis Record: Evita Tolu, Ken Rosa and Caroline Less.

Prior to when her exposure began in earnest in February 2021, Pudlowski ruled family court in the St. Louis area.

She had nearly one hundred court appearances in December 2020.

Now, it’s been nearly two years of constant exposure.

I noted this to Ken Rosa, “Elaine can't seem to stay out of the news. Nearly two years and negative articles continue to come in. No small thing. She once ruled court now she's exposed.”

Pudlowski was not the centerpiece of this story.

A divorced mom moved the St. Louis County Circuit Court last week for the recusal of St. Louis family court Judge Robert Heggie.

Caroline Less filed the pleadings after Judge Heggie issued an injunction, which prevents Less from receiving therapy notes about her 11-year old daughter’s treatment and prohibits her from filing complaints against therapists.

“It violates the current court-ordered parenting plan, which a motion to modify is needed in order to make a change of that magnitude,” she said.

The St. Louis Record is the trade journal for lawyers in the St. Louis area.

That makes exposure of Pudlowski that much more significant.

She is now being exposed in front of her colleagues.

While it’s good that she’s being exposed, this story only touched the surface on the case involving Caroline Less.