Frank Spring operates as Court-appointed Guardian ad Litem in family court with an undisclosed conflict of interest with the Petitioner's counsel. He attempts to take an eight-year-old boy from his mother's home and move him into father Petitioner's home in a different state even though the father has never lived in the same state with his son before. Mother prevailed at trial and the boy was ordered returned to his Albuquerque home. Frank Spring was the Guardian in case DR 95-2675 from fall 2002 to August 2003 when he withdrew from the case after much incriminating information was put into evidence showing his bias against mother Respondent. Together both Frank Spring and Petitioner's attorney Sandra Morgan Little demanded that the case go to full trial, even after the custody evaluator returned an initial parenting plan making no changes in the primary parent and only standard, age-appropriate changes in visitation. This seemed odd to the mother, almost like the two were working together. Frank Spring eventually called for an emergency motion and had the child ripped out of school in the middle of the day and taken from his primary family with mother. In fact, mother was not allowed to be in her own home while Frank Spring and father entered it with the child and took selected items from her home to move to Oklahoma. At the end of many hearings Frank Spring could be seen shaking Petitioner father's hand and congratulating him. Two motions were filed in the case and ample evidence was presented at trial documenting Frank Spring's bias against the mother Respondent and in favor of the father Petitioner. Over a year later, Respondent discovered from Bernalillo County real estate records that Frank Spring is real estate partners with Tepper LLC. Download real estate information as pdf. The owner of Tepper LLC is Brad Tepper download LLC info as pdf , the husband of Jan Gilman-Tepper download marriage record as pdf, Sandra Morgan Little's partner in her legal firm. According to the Rules of Professional Regulation, this is a conflict of interest and by law it should have been reported by both attorneys

This information was reported to District Court Judge Ernesto Romero in the case, but he dismissed it without holding a hearing, claiming that mother Respondent should have noticed it earlier. Download Judge Romero's Order as pdf. Respondent has appealed his order and has made this conflict known to the Court of Appeals by Motion download the Motion as pdf.