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Part 10:

In my last entry, I mentioned how on May 8, 2006, was the very first court case appearance my mother and I had to attend to. That was by no means the last….we were to have several more, one on May 25, June 27, August 10, August 31, October 8 with the last one being October 19th. The last ones I didn’t attend with good reason, but I’ll get into that another time. It sound silly but I had a “method” for preparing me at each court appearance, and it may sound daft, but I think when anyone is going through a rough time, one clings to “something” to get them through…it may be a song, a movie, an inspirational book, whatever. I know one person who had gone through a rough time, and she used the first three Star Wars movie (actually the last three but the ones filmed first in the late 1970s and early 1980s)…she said the whole concept of the “force” gave her encouragement.

Well, with me, it was a movie, Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe that pulled me through. Haven’t a clue why it worked for me, but it did. The day before a court appearance, I would watch the entire movie, then just before bedtime I would re-watch the battle scene…well when you think of it, my mother were in a “battle”—a battle to keep from being evicted.

On May 9, 2006, the next day after our first court appearance, my mother and I were visited by the woman who would be our lawyer. What a wonderful person, and she had her hand full in dealing with our case, since technically speaking we had breached the stipulation agreement my mother had signed during the first court eviction case against us in 2001, in which she had signed on June 11, 2001. In other words, the landlord and his lawyer were out for our blood in a way. Also, no wonder as I understand since that first case had to be re-opened and from what I’ve heard a lawyer will charge his client $10,000.00 to re-open the case, not of course that he couldn’t afford it but no doubt NOT a happy camper about the expenses and fees.

Along with our lawyer, I was assigned an Adult Protective Service representative, since technically speaking I wasn’t really legally represented. Since the legal firm was JASA-Legal Services of The Elderly, it represented people 62 or older, so I didn’t qualify, yet I wasn’t as you can guess totally ignored as I was like the package “deal”. Also, I was the one, the lawyer usually dealt with, as my mother’s frame of mind just wasn’t up to dealing with anything at that point.

Well more about my “epic” tomorrow. I rather do shorter entries than longer for easier reading from you folks. Lets face it, some people are turned off by really long readings on a webpage. I tend to be like that myself as I’m not a good computer reader and I think that due to years and years of being a book reader rather than reading off a computer. Also, I confess to being very under the weather lately and have for awhile now.

©~Melanie Neer aka pyewacket

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