Daneshrad

FACTS

The Underlying Family Court Proceedings In 2009, Ferial Aryeh (Ferial) filed a petition to dissolve her marriage to Jamshid Aryeh (Jamshid).1 During the proceedings, the family court granted Ferial’s ex parte application for an order directing Jamshid to sign a release form that would authorize Ferial to access information at Washington Mutual Bank regarding a line of credit that was under Jamshid’s name alone. Ferial contended the line of credit was secured by the family residence, and that Jamshid had borrowed money on the credit line and then failed to make payments, all without Ferial’s knowledge until a notice of default was recorded against the property. Ferial subsequently applied to the family court for an order to show cause (OSC) for contempt based on an allegation that Jamshid had not signed the release for the information at Washington Mutual Bank. The papers filed for the OSC for contempt identified the “citees” as Jamshid and his attorney, Joseph Daneshrad. The papers filed for the OSC for contempt alleged as to Jamshid that he had not signed the Washington Mutual Bank release form as ordered by the family court. In other papers, Ferial’s counsel expressly…