EXCLUSIVE: Mindy McCready's Lawyer Asks Court's Help In Custody Case
May 28 2018, Updated 10:19 a.m. ET
Troubled country singer Mindy McCready is fighting to win back custody of her son in a Fort Myers, Florida, court and her lawyer is asking help from the court to move the case forward.
Attorney James Moon claims that the reunification process that could ultimately allow Mindy custody of her son Zander (who is currently in the care of Mindy’s mother Gayle McCready Inge) has been halted because the Florida Department of Children and Families hasn’t received her medical records -- which it can freely retrieve on its own.
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“The state keeps making all this stink about ‘we want these records, we want that’ and telling us we never complied…and Mindy signed a bunch of medical releases when her rights were taken away so the State could have gotten records all along,” Moon told Breaking Celebrity News exclusively.
In his motion filed Thursday, Moon writes that at the last hearing on July 7 the court gave “additional directives to the State…to prevent any further confusion on what was to be expected of each participant in this matter,” but no court order has been filed, leaving his case at a “standstill.”
“I want them to go out and do their job and get Mindy’s records. They have the ability to get Mindy’s records. They have HIPAA releases that she (Mindy) signed before, and they don’t need HIPAA releases because the court made a determination that Mindy’s rights of privacy are outweighed by the state’s need to have medical records. So they can go out and get these any time they want and they have made no attempt whatsoever.”
The reunification process was provisionally re-opened back in May, and Moon believes the state’s delay only makes Mindy look bad in the eyes of the court.
“The matter will remain at a virtual standstill until…the State elects to collect records of treatment…and gives this court the appearance that the natural mother is intentionally not complying,” he wrote in the filed paperwork.
Moon said he disclosed Mindy’s medical records, those of which he has access to, but has not been informed by the state if those are satisfactory.