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Angelica G. Hale 3175 S. Sepulveda Blvd. #303 Los Angeles, CA 90034 (310) 503-7717 Angelica G. Hale, In Pro Per

ENDORSED
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Clerk of the Napa Superior Court By: J. OLIVER
Deputy

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SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF NAPA

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) Case No.: 26-57190 Conservatorship of Christian Angelo Vassell ) ) ) ) ) )

DECLARATION OF NORA JENSEN Date: December 7, 2011 Time: 8:30 AM Dept: B

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I, NORA JENSEN, declare that I am over 18 years of age and am not a party to the above-entitled

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action. 1. I am a long standing friend of Angelica Hale, Melvin Hale and their children Taylor Vassell"and Christian Vassell. 2. My home is in the city of Fair Oaks California. 3. The following facts are within my personal knowledge and if sworn as a witness I can and will '

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truthfully and competently testify thereto. 4. On or about April 16 of2010, I my son Ryan and I planned a surprise PartY upon Angelica's request for Christian's brother Taylor. Angelica had been attempting to contact Lloyd to see ifhe
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would give her permission to have visitation with Christian. After a series of phoning and emailing to get an answer from Lloyd, Angelica was finally able to get a definitive answer on Friday afternoon to pick up Christian. She left my home and picked up Christian in Napa and brought him back to my residence to spend time with Taylor, his mother, me and my sons. I have

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known Christian and his family since he was 2 years old, and we have had many years of good times together.

5. My son Ryan decorated the guest house where Angelica has regularly spent time to bring the
boys to spend with my family. As usual, Christian and Taylor had a blast with their mother and my sons. I took pictures of the festive party on my cell phone and emailed them later to Angelica.

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The photos are prima facie evidence of her visit to my home the weekend of April 16, 2010. 6. The North Bay Regional Center and Lloyd Vassell's claim that Angelica has not seen Christian since 2008 and has not been actively involved in their lives for the last 12 years IS NOT TRUE. 7. I was also with Angelica when she needed to attend Taylor's graduation in June, 2009. I was the person who drove her to the event. She was not allowed to see Christian and was not able to

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spend more than 5 minutes with Taylor at the graduation. Lloyd told Angelica that he had other plans for the boys, so she returned back to my home in Fair Oaks and spent the rest of the weekend with my family before returning home to Palm Springs. This was not the fust time she had difficulty keeping a relationship with her sons either by phone or in person. 8. She also would talk to me about her relationship with her parents. She told me that I was lucky that I had such wonderful parents who were supportive in my times of need, and to be grateful

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that I can come to them for help unconditionally. Contrary to Lloyd Vassell's claim that Angelica is unable to have family relationships, her parents were upset because, Melvin' asked Mr. Lewis (Angelica's father) to help them to stand up to Lloyd's threats and his withholding of the ,children

due to money Lloyd wanted from Angelica for child support. I know that the Hales had recently lost their retail store and their home was in foreclosure during the economic downturn that started occurring in 2008. 9. Angelica told me that Mr. Lewis sent an email to her stating that he was upset at the fact that

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Melvin asked him to stand up for Angelica to Lloyd and his harassment for money. Angelica shared with me that Lloyd owed her parents ten thousand dollars for a loan they gave him to buy their first home in Sacramento. She told me that Lloyd never paid any of the loan back, and over the years, she was left paying back her parents whenever she could. 10. At the same time, Angelica was involved in a car accident when she was hit by another driver and

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she told me she was also asking her parents for help. Angelica told me multiple times that she was no longer talking to her parents because in the email, her father told her that he was going to send her money to go see a doctor, but he changed his mind and told her that he would not help her. She said that the fact that she had a serious medical need and was turned away from getting help from her parents to see a doctor was the final straw. Angelica said that she told her parents

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that she would no longer be in contact with them. 11. Angelica is a wonderful mother and advocate and she should be able to have. her relationship with Christian protected and enforced by the courts against continued interference with Mr. Vassell. 12. Angelica represented my family as a special education advocate and won services on behalf of my son Eyan Jensen who has a disability. She was known in the Sacramento area by professionals, organizations (such as FEAT - Families for Early Autism Treatment) and families as a pioneering parent working on behalf of children with autism spectrum'disorders, including her own children.

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I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of California that the forgoing is true and correct, executed at Fair Oaks, CA.

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DATED: November 22,2011

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