Jennifer Grant

I am fed the fuck up. I have been victimized my whole life. It started with my first (of many) sexual abuses and assaults in first grade, continued for 40 years through my children's kidnapping and other crimes committed by Misty Runyon and her husband Kristopher Runyon, and a half dozen collateral theft and property damage crimes by them and their co-conspirators. Below are photos of many of those kidnappers and many of their criminal co-conspirators. Misty Runyon and Kristopher Runyon are former clients and employees of my deceased ex-husband—a man who assaulted and abused me throughout our marriage and allegedly solicited my murder for hire in late 2016. I use the term "allegedly" because I do not have firsthand knowledge of it, just what I was personally told by the man who he solicited. I believe it though because I heard him tell me more than a few times, "I wish you'd fucking die." The solicitation was reported to Houston Police Department in 2017 by both me and the man he solicited. All the abuse I suffered compounded when criminal charges were not filed for either his solicitation or the physical assault I reported in 2014. All I got was a bunch of photos of my bruises and report records I had to subpoena during my divorce. Charges were never filed. These criminals effectively kidnapped my children while I was hospitalized in a coma with traumatic brain injuries. Their weapon wasn’t force—it was perjury, manipulation and litigation gamesmanship enabled by the malpractice of attorney Michael Krocker, his supervisors at The Bowen Law Firm, PLLC and Judge Angela Lancelin’s inexperience, then further compounded by her refusal to own or correct her erroneous findings and abuses of discretion. Lancelin had been on the bench for less than a month when the Runyons filed for sole custody of my daughter without my knowledge, consent, or requisite legal standing. The audacity of their actions is staggering and it has taken every ounce of willpower I could muster not to have seen to their demise. These individuals were entrusted with temporary care of my daughter while she awaited an available bed for hospital admission after I caught her in possession of first degree felony drugs and learned later that same day that she had been snorting oxycodone at her dad's house before he died. Unbeknownst to me, they interfered with my daughter’s hospital admission by causing the hospital staff to cease efforts to secure a bed for her admission and then filed a lawsuit for her sole custody—despite having no familial ties and no legal right. I was completely unaware of their machinations. I believed the hospital was still working on getting her admitted but did not yet have an available bed. Because her room and the entire second floor needed to be renovated and scoured of the filth and destruction my children were living in with their father, when a bed did not materialize immediately, I allowed my daughter to continue staying at their house so I could renovate her bedroom. A month to the day after my ex-husband died, on February 5, 2023, and more than two weeks after they filed their suit for custody of my daughter, I was in an ATV accident which left me in a coma. At the time of my accident, I still had no clue about their filed suit for custody of my daughter. There was never any mention of it, nor was I served with their lawsuit. Aside from the fact that it was never discussed, nor would I have approved had they requested my permission to retain her custody, two weeks is more than ample enough time to have someone served with a lawsuit—especially when that person is easily found. Also unaware of their legal maneuvering, my parents allowed my youngest son to join his sister at the Runyons’ home agreeing they could stay there from February 5-12, 2023 because they were out of school for a coincided holiday break. My parents trusted the Runyons’ promise to my parents that they would return my children on February 12. Obviously, they lied. When the time came to return my children to my parents, they refused and claimed they had “a shit ton of rights,” based upon purported language in my ex-husband’s will which allegedly nominated Misty Runyon as an alternate guardian for my children. In the recorded phone call with my parents, several times she mentioned her work as a paralegal obviously hoping to imply that her "knowledge" of her "rights" to my children was trustworthy and accurate. Spoiler Alert: That cunt has zero skills as a paralegal because she has repeatedly overstepped both her ethical obligation against providing legal advice or opinion and she has repeatedly given incorrect legal advice and opinions. Very simply - although my ex-husband's will remains un-probated, there is zero scenario under which a court would choose her over a living parent who has not had their rights terminated - especially not in favor of an unrelated person who had not had any contact with the child for at least a year until two months before she filed for custody. Furthermore, the portion of the will she moronically claimed imparted to her a "shit ton of rights," only triggers when there is no other living parent or managing conservator and it is merely a standard will provision intended to contemplate parents who die at the same time (i.e. in a car accident). Fucking Dummy. Of course, had I not been in a coma and had heard such a preposterous claim made by anyone, I would have immediately dressed down its idiocy. Children cannot be bequeathed—nor can adults. I was blindsided after my release from the hospital to discover the Runyons had filed for sole custody of my children. They filed perjurious pleadings and managed to convince a brand-new judge—inexperienced in and unfamiliar with contested family law—that they had the requisite legal standing to even seek custody of my children. They did not. To have standing, my children must have lived with them for six months, and I must have abandoned them with no intent to return. Neither condition was met. Of course, that did not stop them from filing perjurious pleadings to that effect. Judge Lancelin allowed their case to proceed. Worse still, she granted them an illegal default judgment against me on March 7, 2025, based on a prima facie false affidavit of service presented by Krocker (with full knowledge of its falsity, I add). The reason I know that he and his criminal clients knew it was false is because I had notified each of them immediately upon receiving an incomplete set of documents—something I recognized instantly after 20 years in family law because they failed to serve me with the ACTUAL petition required to accompany a restraining order. I was only served with the restraining order they obtained from Misty Runyon's perjurious affidavit and their perjurious petition. When I finally obtained a copy of their lawsuit, I was stunned to read among their many false claims was their false allegation that I had voluntarily relinquished primary care and control of my children to them. The affidavit of service upon which Judge Lancelin allowed them to take a default against me was false on its very face. Any judge worth an ounce of salt would confirm its veracity before allowing a petitioning party to obtain a default judgment—this is usually done via live testimony by the person who signed the affidavit if the affidavit has not been on file for at least 10 days. Regardless, the affidavit was obviously false because the documents it stated were served upon me DID NOT EXIST on the date the process server stated she had received them. Judge Lancelin either failed to verify the affidavit or chose to ignore its falsity. Neither is acceptable. Despite being presented with irrefutable evidence including the criminals’ history and motivation, cited applicable statutes and legal precedent, Judge Lancelin refused to correct her erroneous ruling of default. In fact, on May 12, 2023, at the first court hearing finally granted to me, rather than hear any evidence or argument that would have alerted her to the obvious falsity, she had the court bailiff place me into handcuffs—twice—for attempting to talk to my lawyer. After three months without relief from court or even being able to see my children, I was forced to file a petition for writ of mandamus with the Fourteenth Court of Appeals to compel her to vacate the illegal default and dismiss the Runyons' case. Appeals move slowly. My mother’s cancer did not. Diagnosed in July, she passed away on December 6, 2023, never having seen her grandchildren again after that fateful week in February. My mom was their only living grandmother—indeed the only grandmother they had ever known. My mother and my children were each robbed of their goodbyes with her death and the pain of this impact can never be erased. Our peaceful goodbye is one of many collateral casualties of the crimes committed by Misty and Kristopher Runyon, and by those who aided and abetted them. Their violations of numerous Texas Penal Code statutes and resulting harms were compounded by judicial failure and legal malpractice. Watching my mother die was traumatic enough. Watching her die while my children were virtually kidnapped was unbearable. Their motive? Revenge. Misty Runyon sought retribution after I exposed her attempts to illegally obtain and supply opiates to my ex-husband during our divorce—leading to yet another CPS investigation in 2017. She had a long history of CPS involvement, including allegations of physical and sexual abuse, drug use during pregnancy, and neglect that led to the loss of custody of her own children. As if the kidnapping were not already traumatic enough for me, my children and our family, I recently learned that Assistant District Attorney, Jennifer Keith, an intake prosecutor for the Harris County District Attorney’s Office inexplicably declined to press charges against the criminals who unlawfully interfered with my exclusive right to the custody of my children for two solid years. There is zero excuse for such a decision because the numerous crimes committed by Misty Runyon, Kristopher Runyon and all their co-conspirators were clearcut violations of the Texas Penal Code’s black letter law—specifically the following statutes: Texas Penal Code: § 15.01(a-b), §15.02(a)(1-2), § 20.02(a), § 25.03(a)(1) and (b), § 25.04(a), § 25.06, § 28.03, § 31.03, § 32.53(b), § 37.02, § 37.03, § 37.08, § 37.081, § 37.09(a)(2), and § 37.10(a)(1). Having spent the past twenty years fighting to protect the rights and safety of countless legal clients in nearly every area of practice, it galls me to no end the failures of Justice I have personally observed and personally experienced over the past ten years. To be explicitly clear, for the past twenty years I would be accurately described as a specialist in family law and criminal defense. My trial experience rivals and surpasses many 20-year licensed attorneys (along with my yearly continuing legal education). I have spent, literally, thousands of hours in courtrooms for cases ranging in areas of law practice but the majority being in family law and criminal defense, so my statement is not just an opinion, it is a factual assertion backed by exceptional practical experience and legal training. This blog is to catalogue each of the failures of Justice because I am in the process of filing a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, a federal statute allowing individuals to sue state and local government officials for violating constitutional rights—and a whole bunch of government officials violated my children's rights as well as mine. I will not abide anyone escaping their culpability. I demand full accountability.