Did friendship play role in Holey custody battle?
The attorney for a local family that is fighting to adopt Jennifer Holey s two children suspects a friendship may have played an inappropriate and possibly illegal role in why custody of the children has been awarded to an Oakland County couple. Attorney Stuart R. Shafer said the friendship is between a partner in the law firm representing the Oakland County couple and Nannette Bowler, the director of the state Family Independence Agency. Bowler took the apparently rare step of not defending in court the agency s recommendation that the children be awarded to a Dewitt couple that had been the children s foster parents.
