A Manhattan mom is fed up with all the delays in her three-year child-custody battle — so she’s suing the judge.
Public-relations exec Maggie Rhee Karn claims in her $10 million federal lawsuit that Manhattan Family Court Referee Marva Burnett has been stringing out the case for more than three years, costing the mom more than $200,000 in legal fees while allowing her ex-husband to control major decisions about their 9-year-old’s schooling and religion.
The Catholic mother’s case against her Jewish ex, Kenneth Karn, a financier, has taken more than 1,200 days — even though state law requires custody proceedings to be complete within 90 days.
The judge awarded Kenneth, 48, temporary custody of daughter Sarah, allowing Maggie, 44, to see her only on alternate weekends, according to court papers.
Maggie’s attorney, Susan Chana Lask, showed The Post a redacted copy of a 2011 report by the Administration for Children’s Services.
It says that even though she “likes spending time with her father,” she “doesn’t want to live with him.”
Kenneth was given temporary custody after a court-appointed attorney for the child expressed concern to the judge that Maggie would relocate to a third apartment, according to a partial transcript.
“This is the worst case I’ve ever seen,” said Lask, a veteran family-law attorney.
A Westchester dad fighting for custody of his 2-year-old son sued Burnett this past March, claiming she left a motion pending for 474 days.
Maggie has been in court 40-plus times since 2009, when she filed for full custody and her husband countersued to have his daughter half of the time.
The couple is also involved in divorce proceedings.
A chief judge allegedly refused to investigate Maggie’s case because she threatened litigation. Maggie claims the judges are “acting above the law” by ignoring her pleas for timely due process.
“This case has never been about the best interest of my child, but appears to be a financial profit to everyone Referee Burnett appoints,” Maggie wrote in a letter last February to Administrative Judge Edwina Richardson-Mendelson.
Kenneth’s attorney, Cheryl Solomon, told The Post that Maggie is partly to blame. Solomon noted that the mother has switched counsel twice and filed appeals that have slowed down the process.
A spokesman for the court and Burnett declined to comment, citing the ongoing litigation.