AREC executive director admonished by a circuit court judge

Irrespective of staying admonished by a circuit courtroom judge for failing to sufficiently present for his unique requires daughter and disabled ex-wife, the government director of the Alabama Actual Estate Fee has failed to shell out his court-ordered payments or deal with his portion of his daughter’s clinical expenditures, in accordance to lawful filings. 

Vaughn Poe, who was appointed to the AREC by former Gov. Robert Bentley in 2017, and appointed afterwards that yr by Gov. Kay Ivey to the Alabama Soil and Water Conservation Committee, asked for a hearing in September to settle promises that he’s failed to make many youngster assistance and alimony payments and failed to provide other guidance for their severely disabled daughter. Those statements came following the judge in the case, Jefferson County Circuit Court docket Choose Debra Winston, admonished Poe for failing to fiscally help his ex-wife and their daughter. 

It is unclear if Poe disclosed his divorce to possibly Bentley or Ivey, or to the AREC board prior to it voting him executive director in 2020. Poe should have filled out a “gubernatorial appointment application” – a sort everybody appointed by a governor in Alabama should fill out – prior to his authentic appointment in 2017. That kind involves that he record any prospective embarrassing cases, any debts and any civil legal motion to which he’s a social gathering. 

Considering the fact that the authentic divorce submitting was entered in Jan. 2016, Poe should really have bundled it and his alleged money owed on the sort. 

Additionally, though Poe’s divorce scenario and the allegations versus him could be viewed as a personal make any difference for other state organizations, it is altogether diverse at the AREC because of its positioning overseeing extra than 18,000 certified people across the point out. Aspect of the oversight obligations of AREC features making certain that genuine estate experts meet up with both ethical and ethical specifications, and the board has suspended and revoked the licenses of agents who failed to meet these types of requirements. 

In that light-weight, the facts contained in the Poes’ divorce filing could be problematic for Vaughn Poe. In addition to the allegations of failing to shell out clinical expenses and other money owed, he acknowledged in testimony right before the courtroom, in accordance to the authorized filings, that he not often frequented his daughter, who was born with myriad health and fitness issues. The Poes’ daughter suffers from cerebral palsy, hydro encephalitis and bilateral bracheoplexis. She is confined to a wheelchair and involves almost frequent treatment and frequent remedy classes.

“(Erika Poe) testified that the Husband had only visited the kid ‘six or seven times’ because 2010 and that he had not witnessed the kid at all because September of 2016,” one filing go through. “(Vaughn Poe) admitted that he only frequented the boy or girl various instances for each 12 months. He testified that it was ‘cumbersome’ to see (the little one) and that all the things was ‘drama and irritation.’”

At the time of the filing in May possibly 2018, Vaughn Poe hadn’t found his daughter given that 2016, the filing states. 

Generating matters even worse, Ericka Poe sustained intense injuries in a 2010 automobile accident – she broke her neck, back, left leg and fingers – leaving her completely disabled and demanding a long time of recovery. 

For the duration of that time, Ericka Poe was residing around Tuscaloosa, and Vaughn Poe, who was living and operating in Montgomery, would spend the weekends with his spouse and daughter. 

Subsequent the accident, Vaughn Poe’s visits turned significantly exceptional, according to the legal filings. Ericka Poe’s loved ones, as a substitute, commenced to support with the treatment of the couple’s daughter, like delivering financial support. According to the court records, Vaughn Poe was not furnishing normal monetary assistance through that time. 

Judge Winston took Vaughn Poe to task, telling him he wanted to “step up” and be a father, and she referred to as it “unfair” that Ericka Poe and her relatives were being forced to soak up approximately all of the professional medical and other costs for raising the couple’s daughter, according to the filings. 

The lawful filings also observed that Vaughn Poe was creating much more than $8,700 for every month and owned a farm in Hale County. 

Choose Winston ordered him to pay $1,250 for every thirty day period in boy or girl assist and another $500 per thirty day period in alimony. She also essential him to pay out again-youngster aid and to support in the acquire of a specially-outfitted van to accommodate his daughter’s wheelchair. 

According to on the internet records, Vaughn Poe has manufactured normal youngster aid and alimony payments considering the fact that the ruling in 2018. On the other hand, the July 2021 submitting states he nonetheless owes more than $3,700 in back-youngster support, owes yet another $1,500 in alimony, has unsuccessful and refused to cover 50 percent of his daughter’s health care expenses, never offered the courtroom-requested funds for the van and unsuccessful to give the funds to pay back for Ericka Poe’s attorney, as ordered by the court. 

Issues remain unanswered: Did Poe fill out a gubernatorial appointment software, and did he do it honestly? Was he vetted by the two governors who appointed him? Did AREC vet him ahead of hiring him, and just before making him the choose of integrity more than 18,000 in the point out?