Steven Miner explained in court filings that if he couldn’t dissuade his adult children from suing his ex-wife, he’d just have to be their lawyer. So in 2009 he filed a complaint against her for negligent and intentional infliction of emotional distress (“bad mothering” in the language of the children’s appellate brief). But there’s nothing wrong with that, because, as the Chicago Tribune reports:

Steven A. Miner wrote [in court filings] that the case is no different from a patient suing a physician “for bad doctoring.” The children “do not view their (lawsuit) as an attack on mothering, but rather on accountability,” he wrote. “Everyone makes mistakes, but … there must be accountability for actions. Parenting is no different.”

The mother’s lawyer responded:

Everything … shows that these children, orchestrated by their father, will stop at nothing to embarrass and financially harm their mother. In the process they have embarrassed themselves and left a public record blogged about on the Internet that will shadow their every future relationship.

Miner has since been suspended, but not disbarred, from the practice of law for misconduct in an unrelated matter. This is his second suspension since 1998.