Thanks for your prayers, Jack. We might need them. BTW, my rag about the UK doesn't include our great PDML members, including Bob, Mike, Cotty and others. They in fact advised me some time ago in regard to this situation. Paul On Mar 25, 2007, at 8:12 PM, Jack Davis wrote:
> Damn it!! Will be praying for the absolute best outcome. I think we > all > feel as parents to your beautiful Grace. > > Jack > --- Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > ______________ > Now that's room service! Choose from over 150,000 hotels > in 45,000 destinations on Yahoo! Travel to find your fit. > http://farechase.yahoo.com/promo-generic-14795097 > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
