dude.
some stories are not to be believed unless you live them.
today i had to go to court because the ex still hasn't followed one of the orders that is now almost a year old. try as one would like nothing but threatening the man with court will get him to budge.
and after a whole week of beautiful weather it decided to snow.
when the contempt of court was first filed ex's lawyer requested an extension because ex was going on a "personal vacation." um. no. work? yes. personal no. sorry pal you've received several lawyer written emails to comply with the words 'if you don't we will file contempt.' what part of those words did you not understand?
however, let it be known that in the past 2 years anything i've ever said to ex he hasn't believed. he's still banging his head against that wall. i'm over it. hope your head feels better.
anyway. ex has gone through 3 lawyers and is now assigned to the partner of the firm. let me say that does make me smile. paying those fees? yikes.
so. we show up to court 10 minutes late due to snow...of which EVERYONE except my ex and his lawyer is late because of snow.
side bar. last night i decided that today i was going to be the person i wanted to be. fighting for my rights in a proper manner but not ugly, bitchy or...yeah, whatever.
we walk up to ex and his lawyer and i extend my hand for introduction. because, you know, he's new to the game. he ACTUALLY look down at my hand and ignored it..me. huh.
then said "so WHY are we here?" and "we showed up on time".
six hours later i have all these wonderful comebacks. 'because i wanted to stick needles in my eye one more time.' 'because driving in this town in snow is wonderful.' 'because i haven't had a break from my job in weeks.'
seriously. we are here because your client is in contempt of court. did you not read the order?
more blathering.
i asked ex if i could talk to him. 'you don't have to talk to her.'
nice. we do have children together butt face. 'it's nothing legal.'
after just a few short sentences we had to go into court.
and boy howdy was the judge in a bad mood. there was a 3 minute rant and rave about how come this all isn't settled after almost 2 years? why all these motions? why are you wasting the courts time? why are YOU SITTING HERE IN MY COURT WASTING MY TIME WHEN THIS COULD HAVE TAKEN FIVE MINUTES?
crickets.
oh wait. he actually expected an answer.
ex lawyer all apologetic and of course giving all the excuses that the order wasn't fulfilled although this was only a hearing of guilty vs not guilty..and that his client had drove 17 hours straight to be here in court this morning....
the judge read the report and then reads the consequences out loud.
it's quite heady hearing a judge say "if found guilty you will possibly face fines and jail time" out loud. to the whole court.
and he didn't ask for a verbal guilty or not guilty. slammed the books closed and said "i want to see you in two weeks."
1 may was the first slot.
so. i showed up and was who i wanted to be.
the world is just full of assholes tho.
dance on people.
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