The Stand with Meg Show
🎙️ The Stand With Meg Show Defending Parents’ Rights. Protecting Children. Giving a Voice to the Voiceless.Hosted by Meg🎙️ Home of the FIRST EVER Family Rights survey. Evidence over silence.I'm Meg, investigative journalist and mom of five. I haven't seen or heard my kids' voices since January 29, 2024, and I learned this system the hard way, pro se. My story isn't unique, and that's the problem.I built Stand With Meg alone, a public record of 5,000+ family-reported submissions from all 50 states, DC, and 18 countries, documenting $950M+ in reported losses. Each episode exposes the patterns families report, elevates protective parents, mothers and fathers...
Reconnecting After 18: Dean Pappas on Family Court and Fatherhood | Season 4 | Ep. 2
Who profits when parents fight, and what happens to the years families lose along the way?
Author and father Dean Pappas joins Meg from Stand With Meg for a conversation about family court, separation, and the experiences behind his novel Love and Tyranny.
Dean shares his account of navigating guardians ad litem, therapists, legal bills, and disrupted contact with his daughter. He describes building, financing, and coaching her sports program, then having to disappear from it. Meg shares what it feels like to miss her children’s milestones, and together they discuss why turning 18 does no...
You Do Not Have to Wait for Rock Bottom with Mike Loverde | Season 4 | Ep. 1
What if you do not have to wait for someone you love to hit bottom?
On The Stand With Meg Show, I sit down with Michael Loverde, owner and clinical director of Family First Intervention. He holds a Master of Science in Addiction Studies and Counseling, and he is a Certified Intervention Professional. For 21 years he has helped families with substance use and mental health problems.
Mike says families do not have to wait for a loved one to want help. He says they already want relief. That is why they are using, and why...
Fatherhood, a Memoir, sold 200 Copies, Then a Court Order? Sean Coffin Tells His Story | Ep. 20
What happens when writing your own story becomes another battle?
Sean Coffin says his memoir, Resenting Joy, sold 200 copies in less than two weeks before a temporary court order stopped him from publishing it. In this episode of The Stand with Meg Show, Sean and his fiancée, Brittany O’Brien, join me for the story behind that moment.
Sean, a New York City teacher, coach, and father, recounts the intervention where he says he was accused of dealing drugs, the police response he describes, and the strain of navigating separation and family court. He als...
What About the Kids? Hope, Stories, and Parenting with Julie Lavender Le Doux | EP. 19
When the world feels heavy, what story is your child telling themselves?
On The Stand With Meg Show, I sit down with author, musician, and artist Julie Lavender Le Doux for a conversation about children, books, and the stories we carry about ourselves.
Julie introduces The Amazings Series, where a family that sees color lives in a town that sees only gray. We discuss the questions she wants her stories to raise about conformity, independent thinking, and the messages children hear from the world around them. Julie also explains how contemporary social and political debates...
No One Is Coming to Save You. How to Write the Affidavit That Gets a Case Opened. | Ep 18
⚖️ Every fraud indictment Shawn has put on this table started the same way. A victim walked into a law enforcement office and put what happened in writing. Nobody came to save them. They wrote it down.
Criminal trial attorney Shawn Lee walks real sworn affidavits, the documents that turn a complaint into a case: a Wichita Police detective's probable-cause affidavit in a Sedgwick County, Kansas false-information case (charged, not convicted, trial set for November 2026), a six-page FBI wire-fraud affidavit, an IRS Criminal Investigation affidavit for alleged wire-fraud conspiracy and money laundering, and Percoco v. United States, the Supr...
They Called Fake Court Orders a Conspiracy Theory. The DOJ Just Put One in an Indictment. | Ep 17
⚖️ Families have been saying "fake orders" for years and getting called crazy. This month a United States Attorney's office put those words in a federal indictment.
Criminal trial attorney Shawn Lee walks the actual indictment of a Madison County, Illinois guardian ad litem charged with bank fraud and mail fraud: over $400,000 allegedly withdrawn from minors' accounts, and a fake court order allegedly created and mailed to a minor to conceal it. Charged, not convicted. Then the timeline, with fraud counts continuing after a suspended law license and a cocaine arrest, while he was still a GAL. Plus Shaw...
Untitled EpisodeShe's a Doctor. Family Court Still Took Her Kids. Custody MD Author Dr. Adwoafuaa Nwokocha | Ep 16
👩‍⚕️ She spent her days saving other families' children. Family court still took hers.
I sit down with Dr. Adwoafuaa Nwokocha, Houston family medicine physician, first generation Ghanaian American, mother of five, and author of Custody MD: Fighting for the Woo. In her words: homeless with a newborn and a Northwestern degree, medical school as a single mom, then a custody battle where she describes a full year without her children, three nannies whose courtroom stories contradicted each other, and Physician of the Year won in the middle of the worst season of her life. We talk faith, rebuildin...
What If the Medication Changes Who You Are? Black Box Warnings and Forged Drug Tests. | Ep 15
Criminal trial attorney Shawn Lee lays five prescriptions on the table, a sedative hypnotic, an opioid, a benzo, an amphetamine, and an antidepressant, and reads the FDA's black box warnings out loud: warnings that apply even when a drug is prescribed, supervised, and taken exactly as directed. He walks through the FDA's warnings on substance-induced disorders, his theory of pseudo-addiction and how patients end up on medication cocktails, the Lindsay Clancy case, and the fraud half: negative drug test certificates for sale online, and why he argues a bought result filed in a virtual custody hearing could be evidence...
A Family Court Judge Is Now a Convicted Felon. How Records Requests Took Her Down. | Ep 14
Criminal attorney Shawn Lee walks Meg through the conviction of Ohio family court judge Leslie Ann Celebrezze, who pleaded guilty to felony tampering with records and got 60 days in jail, and the legal concept underneath it: willful ignorance and deliberate indifference. Plus a live walkie-talkie experiment that shows how court-ordered co-parenting apps turn a five minute miscommunication into a $120 bill, the real conspiracy statutes, and the DOJ's Ferguson report on courts that ran on revenue. Shawn's theory, not legal advice.
NEXT LIVE: Episode 7 premieres Sunday, August 30 at 5 PM, and right after, Meg and Shawn take one public...
It's a Felony Everywhere Except Family Court | Who Actually Investigates False Court Documents? | Ep 13
Handing a lawyer a false document that gets filed in court is a felony charge in criminal court. So why do families say the same conduct gets called "a civil issue" in family court?
In Episode 5 of The Shawn Lee Report, criminal trial attorney Shawn Lee walks through a real Kansas felony charge for exactly that conduct and explains why he argues the criminal code does not stop applying just because the filing happened in a family case. His framework, his analysis, taught at a kitchen-table level.
In this episode:
• A real Kansas felony ch...
Untitled EpisodeIt's Not an App. It's Social Media. What's Actually in Your Parenting App's Terms. | Ep 12
Is a court-ordered parenting app just an app? Shawn's argument: it is social media, with profiles, messaging, monitoring, and mandated costs, and once you call it what it is, the legal questions change completely.
In Episode 4 of The Shawn Lee Report, criminal trial attorney Shawn Lee walks through what is actually in the parenting app's terms of service, who profits from the professional contracts around these platforms, what the Meta lawsuits could mean as precedent, and why he reads mandated digital communication through the lens of "scheme or artifice to defraud." His framework, his analysis, taught at...
Why Won't The Cops Do Anything? The Exact Words That Get A Detective Assigned. | Ep 11
Families ask this more than any other question. I filed a report, so why won't the cops do anything?
Criminal trial attorney Shawn Lee answers it by laying out every player in American law enforcement, patrol officer, deputy, detective, SWAT, state police, FBI, task force, and walking a single report from the moment you dial to the desk where it usually stops. He gives the exact escalation he has personally used to get a detective assigned, why there's a shortage of detectives and a surplus of SWAT, and why complex fraud needs a task force rather than...
How to Report Fraud — You're Going to the Wrong Court · A Criminal Attorney on Motions vs. Complaints
Families pay for motions when what they may need is a law-enforcement complaint. Criminal trial attorney Shawn Lee walks through wire fraud, mail fraud, and honest services in plain English — where to send a complaint, what belongs in it, and the $8.75 billion math on the survey complaints. Shawn's framework, presented as education, not legal advice.
Meg hosts. Criminal trial attorney Shawn Lee teaches his framework for organizing records and understanding possible fraud questions — his theory to evaluate, presented as general legal education, not legal advice. The cast of characters is fiction.
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Why Shawn Calls Virtual Court a Fraud — Rule 8.2, the Cast of Characters, and the $50,000 Invoice
Open courtrooms forced settlement and kept everyone honest in public view — Shawn's theory on what Zoom court took away. Plus the ethics rule that stops lawyers from naming names, the fictional cast led by Robert Baratheon that lets Shawn teach the patterns anyway, and auditing a guardian ad litem's bills for wire fraud clues. Education, not legal advice — and the characters are fiction.
Meg hosts. Criminal trial attorney Shawn Lee teaches his framework for organizing records and understanding possible fraud questions — his theory to evaluate, presented as general legal education, not legal advice. The cast of characters is fic...
Family Court Isn’t Justice. It’s a Machine.
You’d be safer walking through a dark alley at midnight than through the doors of an American family courtroom. Let that sink in.
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We’re told family court is where families go for protection. For fairness. For justice.
But what if that isn’t true?
In this episode, we break down the data behind more than 2,251 submissions from families across all 50 states, and the picture is devastating. This isn’t just about one bad judge. Or one bitter divorce. This is bigger than me. Bigger than one family. Bigger t...
The Weaponization of American Courts: James O'Keefe Silenced | Stand With Meg
Welcome to the Stand With Meg show! In this explosive episode, we uncover how Miami’s domestic violence court was just weaponized to silence investigative journalist James O'Keefe. After publishing the truth about Matthew Tyrmand, O'Keefe was hit with a restraining order by Judge Marie Elizabeth Mato, forced to surrender his firearms, and placed under an unconstitutional prior restraint order. We break down O'Keefe's emergency appeal citing Near v. Minnesota and how this blatant violation of First and Second Amendment rights exposes a deeply broken judicial system.
But this isn't just about James O'Keefe—it's a nationwide epid...
America's 50-State Nightmare: The Data Behind the Family Court Engine
Welcome to another episode of the Stand With Meg podcast. In this episode, we are diving into our massive, newly updated 50-state data report. We have now collected testimonies and data from 1,979 families across all 50 states, and the findings expose a coordinated, nationwide crisis.
Listen in as we break down the shocking national statistics of America's Family Courts and Child Protective Services (CPS) to reveal the true scope of the damage being done to parents and children. We discuss:
The 50-State Scope: How 1,979 documented cases prove this...How Melissa Buescher Proves Kansas Family Courts Are Broken
Welcome to The Stand with Meg. In this powerful episode, we expose the shocking reality of the Kansas family court system through the harrowing custody battle between Petitioner Melissa S. Buescher and Respondent Michael B. Buescher. Melissa breaks down her compelling testimony before the Kansas Judiciary Committee on Child Support and Child Custody Oversight, detailing what she describes as a complete collapse of systemic oversight.
We trace her case's troubling transfer from a Pottawatomie County IV-D child-support jurisdiction to a non-IV-D Trustees case in the District Court of Shawnee County...
The Engine of Separation: How Family Courts Systematically Break Families
Welcome back to the Stand With Meg podcast. In this episode, we unpack the dark reality of America's family courts, focusing on the "engine of family separation" and the systematic patterns that have turned corruption into standard court procedure.
Drawing on groundbreaking data collected from 1,953 families across all 50 states, we reveal how the system traps parents, drains their finances, and fractures families. We take a deep dive into the 9 recurring mechanisms used by the system to break families, including:
Weaponized False Accusations: Discover how 37.1% of separations are initiated by malicious false...
Inside the Kansas House Judiciary Committee Hearing: What a Judge Said About Family Courts Should Alarm Every Parent
Dive deep into the heartbreaking, high-stakes testimonies presented before the Kansas House Committee on Judiciary. This episode exposes the systemic crises facing parents and children navigating the Kansas family court and child support systems. From allegations of "pay-to-parent" financial gatekeeping and undocumented hearings to the lack of due process in ex parte custody removals, we unpack the firsthand accounts of parents fighting to stay in their children’s lives. We explore how courts manage (or mismanage) Guardian ad Litem (GAL) fees, child support enforcement, and mandatory supervised visitation, leaving many families financially ruined and separated.
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Justice Denied: Judge Keven O’Grady, the Sands Case, and the Cost of Procedure
In this episode, I break down the disturbing allegations surrounding Judge Keven O’Grady, the Nicholas “Nick” Sands case, and how court procedure can be used to block truth. This case raises serious questions about Kansas family court, default paternity rulings, DNA testing, wrongful death settlements, inheritance rights, and whether judicial finality is being prioritized over biological truth and basic justice. From missed deadlines and denied testing to the financial stakes tied to legal paternity, this episode exposes why the Sands case has become...
Civil Rights vs. Civil Wrongs: Inside the RICO Case Rocking Pennsylvania’s Family Court
Welcome to The Stand With Meg Show — where we defend parents’ rights, protect children, and give a voice to the voiceless.
Today, we're pulling back the curtain on a jaw-dropping federal lawsuit that’s shaking the pillars of local government. In Jackson v. Ziccarelli et al., one pro se father, a disabled combat veteran, takes on the entire Westmoreland County legal apparatus. Judges, DAs, police, lawyers, and agencies are all named in a civil RICO complaint alleging conspiracy, fraud, malicious prosecution, and the unlawful seizure of his children.
We break down the 50+ page filing and federa...
Blueprints of Justice: Two Mothers, Two Battles, One Broken System
Welcome to The Stand With Meg Show — Defending Parents’ Rights. Protecting Children. Giving a Voice to the Voiceless.
Today’s episode is a masterclass in grit, grief, and the guts it takes to face down the family court system. We unpack two seismic legal battles: the decades-long civil rights case of Deanna Fogerty and her daughter Presley Hardwick in California, and the ongoing digital-fueled federal litigation of Meg’s story rooted in Missouri and Kansas.
One is a war waged over twenty years for accountability. The other is a real-time campaign for visibility and systemic reform...
Fighting for Fairness: The 3-Day Deadline Debate in Federal Court
On this episode of The Stand With Meg Show, I pull back the curtain on the federal case Meghann R. Miller v. Kansas DCF — and the procedural battle threatening to silence a mother’s fight for justice.
You’ll hear two powerful segments:
The Deep Dive — A clear, factual unpacking of the arguments I filed in federal court, including allegations of due process violations, retaliation for protected speech, and bureaucratic failures that prolonged my forced separation from my children.The Debate — A sharp legal clash over whether my 3-day late filing — caused by trauma an...Dismantling Corruption: Dr. Teri Ann’s Fight for Families, Freedom, and Arizona
What happens when the system takes everything — your business, your voice, your rights — and refuses to give you due process? You fight back.
On this episode of The Stand With Meg Show, I sit down with Dr. Teri Ann, a mother, mental health advocate, and now grassroots gubernatorial hopeful from Arizona. After building a behavioral health practice serving thousands, her business was demolished by a broken court system and corrupt agencies that refused to follow the law. She didn’t back down. She filed lawsuits. She filed to run for office. And now she’s fighting for every fa...
"DCF Took My Daughters": A Mother’s Fight for Justice
Welcome to The Stand With Meg Show — Defending Parents’ Rights. Protecting Children. Giving a Voice to the Voiceless.
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Today’s episode exposes what too many families know too well: that no family is safe from a system built on hearsay and broken incentives.
 Our guest, Alma B, is a mother, survivor, and relentless advocate. After Florida’s DCF took her daughters without cause, she endured two years of trauma, silence, and supervised visits — while her young daughters suffered isolation, self-harm, and unspeakable abuse.
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Now, Alma is reclaiming her voice and fig...
Family Court is Failing Our Kids: One Father’s Fight for Fairness
Welcome to The Stand With Meg Show — Defending Parents’ Rights. Protecting Children. Giving a Voice to the Voiceless.
In today’s powerful episode, Meg is joined by Ben, founder of Menbuse and creator of the AI-powered custody tool "DocketMind." Together, they expose the silent epidemic of father erasure in family court and the cultural biases that pit mothers and fathers against each other — all while the court cashes in on broken homes.
Ben opens up about the emotional and financial cost of fighting for 50/50 custody, how it reshaped his view...
Life in Prison for Judges? Breaking down The Family Justice Accountability Act.
Welcome to The Stand With Meg Show — Defending Parents’ Rights. Protecting Children. Giving a Voice to the Voiceless. In today’s explosive episode, we deep dive into the most radical family court reform proposal ever written: the Family Justice & Accountability Act, authored by Francesca Amato.
What would it mean if judges, CPS workers, and court appointees lost their legal immunity for knowingly violating constitutional rights? What if wrongful child removals could lead to life in prison?
We break down the FJAA's unprecedented provisions — from mandatory minimums for judicial misconduct to abolishing “Parental A...
JUDGY JUDGE: Exposing Family Court Corruption - CHRISTINE MILLER — Attorney. Advocate. Truth-Teller.
In this episode of The Stand With Meg Show — Defending Parents’ Rights. Protecting Children. Giving a Voice to the Voiceless — attorney Christine Miller joins me to expose the truth about family court corruption.
With 15 years as a public defender and criminal lawyer, Christine never faced a single bar complaint. But when she began speaking out about the systemic failures in family courts, she faced retaliation from judges determined to silence her. Now, as the creator of Judge-y.com and co-host of The JudgeMental Podcast, Christine is giving families the tools and truth...
Accused by the Hospital: A Parent’s Fight Against False Allegations
In this gripping episode, Meg from Stand With Meg sits down with Sarah, a mother whose life was shattered after a children’s hospital falsely accused her and her husband of child abuse. What began as a concerned ER visit for their infant’s sudden illness turned into a terrifying ordeal of misdiagnoses, unjustified investigations, and the traumatic removal of their children. Together, Meg and Sarah expose the alarming pattern of wrongful accusations emerging from certain medical institutions, the failures of due process, and the lasting impact on innocent families. This emotional and eye-opening conversation is a call to acti...
FROM SURVIVOR TO STATE REP: Melissa’s Fight Against Systemic Child Trafficking
What happens when a survivor refuses to stay silent—and runs for office?
 FROM SURVIVOR TO STATE REP: Melissa’s Fight Against Systemic Child Trafficking
On this episode of The Stand With Meg Show, we rip the mask off a system that hides behind “protection” while families are torn apart. Melissa Steele—mother, survivor, and candidate for Illinois House, District 109 (2026)—shares how a lifetime of institutional failures pushed her from pain to purpose. From DCFS at the hospital within hours of birth, to years of alienation, turnover, and gag-order culture, Melissa names what so many...
Paid-Off Judges, Missing Transcripts, and a Father Who Fought Back
When sneaker shop owner Kevork Kiwanian walked into family court, he had no idea he was about to lose everything. No criminal record. No abuse. Just a father fighting for his kids — and facing a system designed to silence him. In this episode, we expose the shocking truth behind missing transcripts, corrupt judges, and the clerk who risked it all to tell the truth. Kevork’s story is proof: when parents speak up, power gets scared.
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Exposing Family Court Corruption: RICO, Weaponized Justice & Parents’ Rights | Richard Luthmann
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In this powerful episode of The Stand With Meg Show, we dig deep into the hard truths most people ignore—until it’s too late. I sit down with Richard, a legal mind and fellow advocate, to talk about the brutal realities of family court, CPS, and the massive financial and emotional toll they take on families fighting to protect their children.
 not just talking theory—we’re talking lived experience, federal RICO cases, and the legal walls that keep families trapped while those in power profit. Richard breaks down th...
Judicial Immunity Is the Cover-Up: How Family Courts Are Shielding Abusers and Silencing Survivors
Welcome to The Stand With Meg Show — Defending Parents’ Rights. Protecting Children. Giving a Voice to the Voiceless.
In this episode, Meg sits down with Julie M. Anderson-Holburn, founder of Unveiled and Uncensored, a fierce investigative journalist exposing corruption in family courts, CPS, and law enforcement. From personal betrayal to legal warfare, Julie's journey is a devastating glimpse into the underworld of judicial immunity and its use as a weapon against protective parents.
Together, we uncover:
How judicial and quasi-judicial immunity shields judg...Hollywood on Trial — Breaking Down the Blake Lively Lawsuit for Non-Lawyers
This episode breaks down a high-profile legal fight into clear, understandable terms — no legal background required. Whether you're a fan, a follower, or someone trying to make sense of headlines, we translate complex court filings into plain English.
Blake Lively has filed a federal lawsuit alleging sexual harassment and retaliation on the set of It Ends With Us, naming Justin Baldoni and Wayfarer Studios as defendants. In return, she faces a defamation suit in Texas by Street Relations Inc. and Jed Wallace — a case raising major jurisdictional and ethical questions.
We explain the filings, the lega...
Built to Break Us: Inside My Fight Against Online Lies, Family Court Injustice, and the TikTok Machine
In this episode, Meg — mother, truth-teller, and pro se plaintiff — shares the raw, ongoing story behind her civil lawsuit Miller v. Crawford in Caldwell County, Missouri. As of today, she faces her opponent in court, seeking a Temporary Restraining Order to stop an onslaught of online defamation, harassment, and attacks targeting her children and her family.
This podcast is not a victory lap — it’s a testimony from the front lines. Meghann takes you through:
The emotional and financial impact of being targeted by viral liesWhy protecting her children from public scrutiny is non-negotiableHow TikTok has been wea...Lively v. Baldoni: The Lawsuit Behind It Ends With Us
In the first installment of our deep dive into the It Ends With Us legal saga, we focus on the explosive lawsuit filed by Blake Lively and her team against Justin Baldoni and Wayfarer Studios. With accusations ranging from sexual harassment to breach of contract and retaliation, the complaint paints a stark contrast to Baldoni’s public advocacy against toxic masculinity. We break down the legal claims, the public contradictions, and the chilling details Lively's side says Hollywood tried to silence. This is not just about a movie — it's about power, persona, and the high-stakes fight to define accountability in t...
Civil Rights in Custody Court: The Federal Lawsuit of Meg from Stand With Meg
In this episode, we examine the groundbreaking federal lawsuit filed by Meg from Stand With Meg in the United States District Court for the District of Kansas. The case, Meg from Stand With Meg v. McCalla, et al., challenges alleged civil rights violations stemming from an ongoing child custody dispute in Johnson County, Kansas.
Representing herself pro se, Meg alleges that a court-appointed Guardian ad Litem, a children's therapist, and a psychologist—working in coordination with county actors and her ex-husband—conspired to fabricate abuse allegations, suppress exculpatory evidence, and deny her parenting righ...
GAL Gone Rogue: The Federal Lawsuit That Could Blow Up Family Court Corruption in Kansas
In this explosive episode, Meghann R. Miller (@StandWithMeg) breaks down her groundbreaking federal lawsuit Miller v. McCalla et al, exposing systemic corruption in Johnson County, Kansas family courts. From false reports and unauthorized psychological evaluations to 14+ months of forced separation from her five children—Meghann pulls no punches.
This isn't just a custody case—it's a constitutional crisis.
She exposes how Guardian ad Litem Randy R. McCalla acted as "judge and jury" without oversight, how licensed professionals fabricated abuse allegations, and how due process was thrown out the window. Meghann reveals a pattern of collusion, ADA...
The Writ of Mandamus in Davis v. Searcy – A Fight for Due Process
In this compelling episode of Justice Unmasked, Meg and JD uncover the high-stakes legal battle at the heart of Davis v. Searcy, a case pending before the Supreme Court of Ohio. Bridget Davis has filed a writ of mandamus against judicial officer Amy Searcy, alleging a violation of her fundamental right to due process. The case shines a light on the ministerial duties of judges, questions of judicial authority, and the far-reaching implications of failing to properly exercise jurisdiction.
We’ll explore Davis’s claims, including:
The alleged denial of jurisdiction i...