How do you divorce your own toxic-abusive step-daughter?
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- Category: Justice
- Published: Friday, 27 March 2026 18:38
- Written by Lawrence A Robinson
By Lawrence A Robinson
My wife, Maud Darlene Hicks-Robinson, doesn't want a divorce from me, it's her daughter DJ Styles,, who wants her mother and I to divorce.
My wife, Maud, is very happy, especially since we purchase our forever home in 2017. I would hear her on the phone or see her Facebook page of her talking to her girlfriends;
Maud: Girl, I'm living my best life.
Friend: Girl, you're living your best life.
She would post pictures of herself sitting by our pool with a glass of wine that sparkles in the moon light. Or, share photo of she and I walking along the beach holding hands on one of Florida's West coast beaches, or maybe having lunch at a restaurant in Stonecrest, while on a business trip.
Life was good, my wife was very happy and so was I.
My wife’s youngest daughter, DJ Styles, on the other hand was a toxic, abusive chaos driven person. I noticed her self-serving attitude from the beginning, about 22 years ago. I was told by my family members that DJ was different and had serious issues that I could not see, and that I should remember that she is not my biological daughter but my step-daughter and I should treat her as such.
I didn’t deal with DJ much but allowed my wife to handle situations that involved her. For the first seven years that decision worked. Then, when DJ was about nineteen, she became more dominating. My wife and I seek counseling. Our pastor, Bishop Leonard Holt recommended that we counsel with Bishop Carroll Johnson. Bishop Carrol Johnson was a friend of ours as well.
After explaining the situation, Bishop Johnson and Pastor Muriel suggested that we give it 36 months to work itself out. He figured that DJ would be out of the house, the problem would be solved and the family unit would still be in tack.
But DJ saw this as a win for her and ten years after that, she is still living at home, more toxic and abusive that ever.
Before my wife’s heart attack in September, 2022, my wife was barely able to control boundaries of DJ. Her daughter was now about thirty years old, still living at home, she has no respect for me and less respect for her mother. She had always been toxic and manipulative and became more divisive and meaner over the years.
After the heart attack, my wife could not set or keep boundaries on her daughter. Maud was very accommodating of her daughter, even when decision was against Maud’s own best interest.
We own a five-bedroom home, three bedrooms upstairs and two primary bedrooms downstairs. We setup office space in one bedroom downstairs. Sometimes, she was on a Zoom meeting or concentrating on someone taxes and I was creating audio content for my news magazine at the same time, conversation became confusing. So, we decided to create a studio/office in the garage.
We decided to get a home equity loan, enough to set up the studio/office, paint the house, replace the roof, do some other upgrades and pay some bills.
The loan was for $50,000 and was to be deposited in our joint account. The day before the deposit was to be made, Maud had a medical issue and I took her to the emergency room. Maud felt better but was kept in the hospital overnight. Maud said that I should go home because DJ was going to come and sit with her.
The next morning, $50,000 was deposited into our joint account. When I checked the account online, only $6,000 was there. Later that day, when DJ brought Maud home, I asked what happened to the money. She told me that she didn’t want to talk about it right now. Two days later, I was served with divorce papers.
I didn’t yell or slam doors because the stress could send Maud back to the hospital. The next day I went to the bank and met with the bank manager.
I told the bank manager that there is a problem with my joint account with my wife. He brought the account up on his screen and we looked at it together. It showed the deposit had been made then withdrawn in less than ten minutes. I asked “Where did the money go?” He said that only persons listed on the account could have removed the money. I asked him to look at my wife’s account. He adjusted the screen so that I couldn’t see it, said something about account holders privacy.
He told me that the money was moved into my wife’s account and then some of it was moved into another account. I asked if the third account belong to DJ Styles, my step-daughter? He looked at DJ’s account and said, “Woah!” Was that you wife’s daughter? He said that my wife and DJ came into the bank a few days ago to refinance the daughter’s car.
The bank manager said that there is a situation here. He said that he will give this information to the bank’s fraud department.
Two days later I called the bank manager. He told me that all signatures were legal and the bank is not at fault. However, this is very suspicious activity. He recommended that I get the DCF to investigate for senior financial abuse.
A few days later the DCF investigator told me they will investigate. I talked with them over the phone and gave them all the information. About two days later, a DCF investigator came to our home to talk to my wife. The investigator told me that DCF Rules only allow them to talk to the target of the investigation and will not talk to me again without my lawyer. Of course, I don’t have a lawyer, so DCF investigator would not talk to me again, but my wife’s lawyer, LaZondra Randolph, knew everything and was caught suppressing information during a Pre-Trial meeting with the judge.
Other instances where DJ and her younger brother Joseph Styles allegedly committed other federal crimes includes:
DJ took my wife bank card and made unauthorize purchases. My wife found the theft and reported it to the bank, resulting in a fraud investigation. The bank said that the signatures looked legal and suggested that it was likely someone inside the household who committed the theft. My wife dropped the case.
DJ Styles and brother Joseph Styles allegedly stole their mother and my identity and forging our names and successfully defrauded the Social Security Administration of over $90,000 dollars over a decade.
Attorney LaZondra Randolph knew about all of this, or should have know because the DCF investigator knew it and only talked to Attorney Randolph.
Attorney LaZondra Randolph knew of the crimes of DJ Styles. Attorney Randolph knew DJ Styles tendencies and patterns over the years was to take financial advantage of her mother. Attorney LaZondra Randolph knew, or should have know from conversations with the DCF Investigator that DJ Styles, my wife’s 32-year-old daughter was orchestrating this whole divorce thing and was committing crimes of senior financial abuse against her own client, the petitioner.
Attorney LaZondra Randolph knew what was going on and still followed the directions of DJ Styles anyway, leaving all ethics behind. Attorney Randolph even going to the extent of hiring a Co-Counsel, John R. Nelson, to allegedly steal and sell her own client’s home to enrich themselves.