An Example On How Attorney Douglas A Thornton of Surry NH Unethically Runs His Law Practice – He Prides Himself On Being A Guardian Ad Litem That Is Smarter Than An Eight Year Old!

I recall speaking with Attorney Douglas A. Thornton of Surry NH, during my divorce.  He was the court appointed Guardian Ad Litem.  I repeatedly told him that my ex-wife was doing everything in her power to alienate the children from me.  I explained how she was making things up and that she was using the kids against me.  Thornton doesn’t believe in Parent Alienation. 

Thornton I remember told me that he was smarter than an eight year old (my oldest son’s age) and knew how to question him to get his answers.  Maybe Doug Thornton can go on the show “Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader.”  It would be truly amusing. 

Doug Thornton questioned my sons alright.  He played right into my ex-wife’s warped mind and got all the wrong answers.  As I posted in a previous article, my ex-wife, the one who in my “opinion” has multiple personality disorders.  Thornton was told by my attorney that there were counseling records obtained in discovery from my ex-wife and in our opinions, she was diagnosed with multiple personality disorders and was refusing to be treated.  I remember Thornton’s response all too well.  He said that the records came too late for him to consider them for his findings and he also didn’t have the expertise to interpret them.  Shame on Doug Thornton!  It was his job as GAL to look into the counseling records.  His actions aided my ex-wife in alienating the children from me.  He is incompetent as a GAL and an attorney and should be disbarred. 

I remember listening to Doug Thornton in court speaking to one of the court officers and making a joke of his job.  He said that he had a good routine.  As a GAL he was paid by divorcing parties and as a bankruptcy attorney, he would get paid by these same people at a later time when they had to file bankruptcy.  Does this sound unethical? 

Doug Thornton approached me in court after this comment and asked about the remainder of my bill that I owed him.  I owed him a small amount of money.  I explained I was doing my best but had been experiencing extreme financial hardship.  I had noticed in documents that my ex-wife had paid Thornton very little and she owed him a considerable amount of money.  When I asked him if he would work with me he became irate and threatened to bring me to court and to have me found in contempt of court.  I stated to him that my ex-wife according to his records had hardly paid him and he said that was none of my business. 

I realized some months after my divorce was finalized and I had paid Thornton’s bill that I had no records to show that my debt was paid.  I contacted Thornton and asked him for a final statement.  He became irate with me. 

Below is the first and second email I sent him politely asking for a statement.  Read the emails from the bottom up to follow the conversation.   All correspondence has my name blacked out to protect my minor children.  Read from the bottom to the top to follow the conversation. 

Thornton responds after the second request and states he is busy and is avoids the request.  I then send him another email telling him that I find it ridiculous that he billed over $5,000 for his services and can’t understand why I can’t get a statement.  Thornton then accuses me of throwing my weight around as a police officer.  I have to email him back and tell him I am no longer working as a police officer.  Read the email below and start from the bottom and read to the top. 

So after this bullying email from Doug Thornton, he writes me a letter and sends it to me in PDF format.  He asks me to give this to my current attorney.  I find the third and fourth paragraph disturbing. 

In the third paragraph, Thornton justifies not giving me a final statement since in the past I questioned why he was singling me out and telling me he was going to file court action against me for owing a few hundred dollars when my ex-wife owed him thousands of dollars.  Thornton states that he makes no determination whether it is profitable to pursue fees and he knows of no law that requires him to spend time to collect on a bad debt.  I know I paid Thornton in full.  What does he mean by this?  It appears to me that he may have overbilled me and is letting my ex-wife get away without paying.  Do you see a problem with this.  A GAL that would do this is UNETHICAL. 

In the fourth paragraph, Thornton defends himself as I had stated to him that I had counsel (Which my counsel was dealing with some post divorce issues and wanted me to get up to date records).  I never told him what the counsel was for.  He made an assumption it was to file a lawsuit against him.  Why would Thornton think this way?  From my experiences it’s because he did something wrong.  See the letter below.

So now that you have the facts, do you think this attorney is unethical?  Do you think he has something to hide?  You definitely do not want to give this guy any business.  He will do to you what he did to me.  I feel like he robbed me blind.  As a GAL My opinion is that he is incompetent.  I have had specialized training on questioning children.  When I asked Thornton on the witness stand if he had any training on forensic questioning of children he said no.  I believe it.  So what do you think?  Is Douglas A Thornton smarter than an eight year old?

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Attorney Doug Thornton - GAL for Cheshire County Family Court, Another Unethical Attorney Who is Incompetent To Do Their Job

In my opinion, Attorney Doug Thornton of Surry New Hampshire who was the GAL appointed to my divorce case is about as incompetent as a person can be. Again, these are my opinions. I will give some information and let you decide.

Doug Thornton is biased towards Fathers. He feels that a mother should be the primary care giver. My ex-wife was constantly making complains about me. She stated to Doug Thornton that I was abusive towards her. Funny, she made reports to her Attorney Jaye Rancourt every time we had a custody exchange. Attorney Rancourt would write nasty letters to my attorney describing how I was out of control in front of the kids.

Being smart, I was always keeping witnesses around me. I learned this from my tenure as a police officer. In one particular circumstance while doing a custody exchange at a local Mr. Mike’s Convenience Store, I asked a couple of the workers to watch the exchange. The exchange went well so I thought. After the fact the nasty Rancourt letter came about how I was out of control. In regards to these two workers. One was inside listening through the speakers at the gas pumps and another was outside picking up trash just feet from us and actually walked between us. Both gave me written statements that there were no issues. Do you think Doug Thornton would be fair enough to look into this incident which was well documented? Of course not. Again, the ex made me out to be the bad person and this idiot believed her.

I can’t speak about any of my ex-wife’s records so let me just say that my ex-wife in my opinion had some issues with her counseling records. Doug Thornton didn’t want to hear it. As a matter of fact, he told the court that he didn’t take the records into account as they came to him too late and he didn’t have the expertise to interpret them. Who was it too late for? I’ll tell you who. My children who are the victims of parent alienation. By the way, I believe that Doug Thornton leans towards not believing that there is a such thing as PAS. Shame on you Doug Thornton.

Oh yea. When it came time to pay this guy. He wouldn’t give me a final statement for my account. I believe that he made me pay my bill in full and he wrote off a portion of my ex-wife’s bill as he became very defensive with me.

I will try to find some correspondences that I have from Doug Thornton and post it. He was very rude.

If you get a chance to read this Doug Thornton, you should be ashamed of what you did to my two children. I have lots of pictures and videos showing how happy they were when they were part of my life. With your help their mother has made them hate me. People like you make me sick.

I plan on filing complaints with the Better Business Bureau and the Professional Conduct Committee in NH. I will keep you all posted.