Paul, I'll be thinking of you and Grace. Neither of you deserves to deal with this. I wish and hope that your lawyer friend will deal with this issue swiftly and painlessly.
Boris Paul Stenquist wrote: > The nightmare had become reality. Late Friday a United States > Marshall came to our front door with legal papers served for Grace's > father. He's an unemployed alcoholic, part-time drug dealer who lives > near Edinburg, Scotland. But like all citizens of the Uk, he's > entitled to free legal aid. So when my daughter, who was tired of > being beaten and locked in an apartment, fled Scotland with Grace, he > sought legal aid. He doesn't really want Grace. He wants to punish my > daughter for leaving him. But the UK legal aid system is monstrous. > They were able to retain the best law firm in Michigan to represent > him. The law firm evidently was able to pull some strings. We weren't > served papers until Friday night for a Monday court appearance. The > first lawyer my daughter talked to wanted a 20K US retainer just to > show up. Luckily, I have some friends in law as well. I eventually > found a very aggressive young woman lawyer who will represent us > tomorrow. I still have to come up with a six K retainer, but that's > better than twenty K. I think the Brits and their social welfare > state should go directly to hell. > Paul > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net