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Kirk Siddell

Linda Smith

Visiting the Grandma, Grandpa and Aunt Siddell

Our lesson - don't blink - the years pass by so quickly - love on family now to enable you to have meaningful memories and are able to prevent elderly family members from abuse and financial exploitation.

The Burns Home - This is the home where Bill and Ralph kept a room specially decorated just for Kirk for his visits to Michigan. The current owners weren't home so we weren't able to see inside. But Kirk remembered every room and the joy he spent with Bill and Ralph when he was a young boy.

This is our kind, generous and loving Aunt Linda

Linda is Bill Johnson's beloved sister. It's despicable what the Michigan Probate Mafia has done to this beautiful God-loving woman.

Bill Johnson and Ralph Siddell loved Linda and David Heilman said the most despicable things about her at deposition that were unkind and not true.

The only goodness that has come out of this horrible situation is that we became closer as a family. We will not let distance and time come between us again, and we will not let another family be defrauded the way our family was defrauded.

Detroit called for a visit to White Castle!

All Saints Episcopal Church

Saugatuck, Michigan

Bill and Ralph's beloved House of Worship

This charming little church in Saugatuck needs every penny that Bill and Ralph desired for them to have.

Let's do a little "dishonesty" recap:

1. Jeffrey Helder did not transmit notice under MCL 700.7604(1)(b) to All Saints Episcopal Church.

2. Heilman and attorneys Brower and Caulley concealed Linda's litigation from Kirk for over a year by circumventing the provisions of MCL 700.1403(c)(i), MCR 5.102 and MCR 5.120. Check!

3. Brower and Heilman signed responses to interrogatories under the penalty of perjury stating that Ralph had no living relatives at his death. Check!

4. Notwithstanding Ralph's identification of Kirk as Ralph's son in his trust, Heilman claimed at deposition that Kirk was not Ralph's son, Ralph relinquished his parental rights, Kirk was adopted by his mother's second husband. Check!

5. Notwithstanding that Bill and Ralph named Linda as a fiduciary in the very same document that Heilman was named in, and kept her as a lessee of their safety deposit box at Macatawa Bank with unencumbered access to their home whenever she desired, Heilman said he was appointed trustee because Bill and Ralph didn't trust her. Right. Check!

6. Notwithstanding that MCL 700.7604(1)(b) requires the application of statutory definitions MCL 700.7103(n) and MCL 700.1107(k) and (n) as mandated by MCL 700.1102 in order to be construed properly, Heilman, Brower, Caulley and Kuiper omitted that controlling legal authority and offered false evidence (the letters under MCL 700.7604(1)(b)) in pleadings transmitted via U.S. Mail and email, to advance Stoutin and Heilman's personal interests under the RASLT. Check!

There's more, but this should be sufficient to demonstrate serious dishonesty (MRPC 8.4 by) by attorneys who omitted controlling legal authority (MRPC 3.3) to obstruct the fair administration of justice (MCR 9.104(1) through (5)) to aid and abet breach of trust. MCL 700.7901

We should believe the accountings submitted by Heilman, Brower and Caulley, right?

Maybe if you're an ID10T - Computer Language for an Idiot

If these actors are capable of lying about easily refutable facts and law, what about the hard stuff -- where did the money go? The beneficiaries are entitled to know under MCL 700.7814(1).

We allege that due to the fraud of Heilman and the attorneys who participated in the Michigan judicial proceedings -- including the attorney All Saint's retained to purportedly protect their interests, we esimtate that this small, historic and aging church was robbed of over $500,000.00.

At a hearing on December 17, 2024, Heilman, and Angela Caulley would have the court believe that Kirk and Linda are at fault.

But if you follow this legal puzzle, you will see the truth.

David Heilman has multiple conflicts of interests and cannot serve as trustee pursuant to MCL 700.7303(d). He must be removed, and Brower, Caulley, Kuiper and Morris reported to the Michigan State Bar for dishonesty and aiding and abetting breach of fiduciary duty and fraud.

A forensic audit must be performed at the expense of Heilman, Brower, Caulley, Kuiper and Morris.

Until a forensic audit is prepared for Bill's Trust and Ralph's Trust, the church will never be able to determine the amount that WHJJ and RAS intended for the church to have.

All Saints Episcopal Church retained Laura Morris of Warner, Norcross + Judd who filed an appearance in the judicial proceedings on June 13, 2022.

Laura Morris, who purports to be experienced in estate and trust administration on her firm's website, should have sought Heilman's removal as trustee pursuant to MCL 700.7302 and MCL 700.7303(d) due to his substantial and irreconcilable conflicts of interest between:

1. The personal interests that Heilman and Stoutin obtained under the March 8, 2017 Restatement to the Ralph A. Siddell Living Trust that was obtained when Ralph Siddell indisputably required and received personal care as defined under MCL 750.145m(m). As a matter of law, on March 8, 2017, Stoutin, Heilman and Helder knew that Ralph Siddell was a vulnerable adult under MCL 750.145m(u)(i) and (iii) and MCL 750.174a(15)(c), and knew with Bill gone, that Ralph was vulnerable to exploitation under MCL 400.11(f). Since Ralph indisputably required cognitive supervision, he did not have the mental capacity to create the March 8, 2017 amendment pursuant to MCL 700.7601.

2. Heilman was not interested in protecting the interests of the remaining trust beneficiaries of the Ralph A. Siddell Living Trust. In fact, Heilman transmitted defective notice under MCL 700.7604(1)(b), concealed litigation from beneficiaries for over a year by circumventing MCL 700.7814(1), MCL 700.1403(c)(i), MCR 5.102 and MCR 5.120.

3. Heilman was not interested in, and did not protect the interests of the beneficiaries under the William H. Johnson Jr. Living Trust because that would have affected the amount of money he received under the Ralph A. Siddell Living Trust.

CRITICAL: Laura Morris clearly knew that attorneys Brower and Caulley were representing multiple competing interests in violation of MRPC 1.7. And then once their scheme was discovered where Heilman and Brower committed perjury on July 20, 2020, and allowed Heilman to commit perjury on December 18, 2020, they were in deep water themselves.

The violations are astounding, and Brower and Caulley's dishonesty under MRPC 3.3, MRPC 8.4 and MCR 9.104(1) through (5) deserve all that the Michigan Attorney Grievance Commission has to offer.

Pursuant to MRPC 8.3(a), Neil Jansen of Mika Meyers, Thomas Kuiper of Kuiper Kraemer, Laura Morris of Warner, Norcross + Judd were under duties to report the misconduct of Jeffrey Helder of Cunningham & Dalman, and that of Robert Brower and Angela Caulley of Miller Johnson. These attorneys knew that Heilman, Helder, Brower and Caulley concealed material information in violation of MCL 700.7814(1). They knew these attorneys signed documents under oath (MCL 700.1306) that contained false information and omitted controlling legal authority. They knew that Brower committed and suborned perjury on July 20, 2020 and December 18, 2020.

State Bar ethics opinions (e.g., RI‑88, RI‑149, RI‑171, RI‑232, RI‑314, RI‑101) clarify that “significant” misconduct includes patterns of unethical conduct, misappropriation, serious dishonesty, perjury, among other attorney violations. Isn't perjury sufficient to demonstrate dishonesty?

These attorneys should have immediately notified the probate court that until Heilman was removed as trustee the court lacked jurisdiction to enter orders binding the trust beneficiaries pursuant to MCL 700.1403(b)(ii)(D). Alas, these attorneys did not.

After seeking Heilman's removal, Laura Morris should have requested a forensic analysis of the Edward Jones securities accounts managed by George Alan Stoutin. Had she done that, she would have obtained a trust instrument created July 1, 2017, that Heilman continues to conceal from trust beneficiaries to this day.

From Edward Jones Account Statements and Portfolio Summaries we discovered that All Saints Episcopal Church would be entitled to 50% of the following assets under the William H. Johnson Jr. Living Trust:

WHJJ's IRA in the amount of $98,620.69. Distribution of Bill's IRA has not been accounted for. Heilman produced no beneficiary designations, nor the 1099-R. The IRA remains a mystery of where that money went.
WHJJLT Acct. 839-11354 - $192,800.09
WHJJLT Acct. 839-25620 - $110,315.06
Genworth Reimbursements of over $250,000.00 should have remained in the WHJJLT for which $180,592.12 is missing.
In 2018, over $149,264.00 was transferred out of Edward Jones Account 839-26576 with no detail or description as to where the money went.
Further, All Saints Episcopal Church was entitled to the following assets from the Ralph A. Siddell Living Trust:
Ralph's Social Security Income and Chrysler Pension remain unaccounted for - where did that money go?
At Ralph's death the Edward Jones Portfolio Summaries demonstrated Ralph held the following accounts:
- Acct. 839-82058 with a value of $209,095.32
- Acct. 839-25885 with a value of $222,834.38
- Acct. 839-26574 with a value of $10,534.63
After Ralph's death, accounts vanished from portfolio summaries. Where did this money go?
The annual accounting transmitted on January 6, 2021, by Brower on behalf of Heilman does not measure up. In other words, the math ain't math'n.