Jean Lorraine Richardson

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UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT
DISTRICT OF HAWAII
In re:
JEAN LORRAINE RICHARDSON,
Debtor.
Case No.: 15-01389
Chapter 7
Related: ECF 81
ORDER DENYING ALL SUBSTANTIVE RELIEF
SOUGHT BY WAY OF DEBTOR’S MOTION TO REOPEN
Debtor Jean Richardson filed a motion asking the court to reopen her
bankruptcy case so she could seek to set aside orders of this court and the
Guam courts and pursue claims for millions of dollars of compensatory
and punitive damages against her ex-husband, Darius, her ex-husband’s
attorney, and others. This court reopened her case but directed her to show
Date Signed:
June 4, 2026
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cause why it should not deny all other relief.1 Ms. Richardson filed a
lengthy and timely response.2
Ms. Richardson acknowledges that, due to the passage of time, she
could only obtain relief from this court’s orders if she could prove that
those orders were the product of fraud on the court. Ms. Richardson
obviously disagrees with the conduct of Darius’ attorney and the chapter 7
trustee, and she plainly thinks that this court’s orders were erroneous, but
that is not enough to justify relief from orders that were entered about ten
years ago. Accordingly, Ms. Richardson’s requests for relief from this
court’s orders, and for damages based on events and conduct that those
orders resolved, are DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE.
Ms. Richardson alleges that Darius’ attorney used improper influence
over a judge of the Guam courts to induce that judge to make rulings
favorable to Darius and unfavorable to her. She has not offered any
admissible evidence to support these allegations. But even if she had any
1 ECF 82.
2 ECF 86.
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evidence, she has not convinced me that a federal bankruptcy court sitting
in Hawaii can or should set aside orders entered by a Guam territorial
court. Accordingly, Ms. Richardson’s requests for relief from the orders of
the Guam courts, and for damages based on events and conduct that those
orders resolved, are DISMISSED. It would be improper for me to bar Ms.
Richardson from making those requests in the courts of Guam, but I wish
to emphasize that I am not finding that those claims are plausible, let alone
meritorious.
The clerk shall promptly reclose this bankruptcy case.
END OF ORDER
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