Of course! Best luck to you, Grace and your daughter. I think usually the mother has far better chances to keep the child than the father, even when there's no true reason for that. In your case, the father should truly be hopeless.
Dario ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Stenquist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 1:51 AM Subject: OT: Wish Me Luck > 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 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
