Man, imagine being the lawyer/process server who agreed to that. I wonder if he knew he was being brought to a funeral.
The only bright side is that people like that are their own punishment. As time goes on he'll only grow more isolated and alone.
Believe me, the man knew exactly what he was doing. He could have left at any time and chosen another method. People were asking me, "Who is that guy?" and I was saying, "I don't know, I think it's a friend of 'asshole' (named changed to protect the dead!)" When I figured out what had been done from the daughter I was like going through emotions. Outrage, disbelief, and then angry again. Who the fuck does this kind of shit??? Shyster lawyers, obviously.
When I had annulled my marriage to a scam/con artist her attorney was calling around all the time checking on my whereabouts and seeing if I was in town so he could file motions I wouldn't be able to attend. Haha, I had my attorney do things for me when I was out of time on projects. So he gave up that tactic and said they would give me back all my personal stuff the "wife" had stolen if I agreed to not go through with the annulment and instead let her have a divorce. This is pure extortion! Steal my personal belongings, gemstones, artwork, and my rifle and then say they'll give it back if I agree to their terms! My own attorney included the offer in my documents but I missed seeing it and only knew about it verbally. I mentioned this was extortion and I would be wanting some evidence in writing they had made such an offer. Stupid me, I didn't know I already had the evidence in the many papers I had gotten from my attorney. Then, at our next meeting with the "wife"s counsel my attorney demanded to have a private meeting with her attorney so they went into a room with soundproof windows.
I was suspicious as hell so I watched through the windows very closely. Being a construction worker we often can't hear each other and learn some basic lip reading. Not expert of course, but enough for some simple understanding. I clearly watched her speaking to him about extortion, warning him off. Ok. Professional courtesy. My greedy attorney had also fucked me by challenging the "wife" before proceedings were even really started. Clued her in enough she dumped her lame attorney and went and got a real shyster. Shyster vs. Shyster. For two years my own attorney refused to pursue my annulment as I requested until I was in her office and we were literally screaming at each other as her assistant ran out of the room in alarm. She suddenly realized I wasn't playing around with their games and I had just cause for an annulment and started taking notes. At that moment I breathed a sigh of relief. I had already won and knew it. However, my attorney still refused to do the paperwork to get my personal things back. The furniture and other household goods I didn't give a damn about. I mean, yes, it was shitty the woman just emptied out my condo but I can always get furniture. Personal stuff that means something to me takes years to replace. The artwork I lost, I can't replace. My rifle was an heirloom rifle I had paid for work on it to make it even better. My gemstone collection, well, I have better stuff now but I still kind of miss the other gems because of the work I put into the collection and where I found them. Like a very nice rough garnet I found in a used car I bought. A gold ring with diamonds I just chanced on in an abandoned house. It was just hanging on a nail.
Anyway, I got even with the attorney. She refused to file the papers to get my things and then had the nerve to ask about my final payment of $5,000.00. I told her to not worry, I'd pay her before I even paid my mortgage. The condo was crap, I was tired of the HOA fining me several times a week on made up crap, doubling my association fees and the HOA stole $7,000.00 from a repair account I had set up. I had set aside $14,000.00 per agreement and the bill for the first major repairs was half that. When I got paperwork they had taken the entire amount I was of course outraged.
I had already planned to walk away from the entire deal after months of issues. Attorney also never got paid off but I did win my annulment, so there's that. One thing I know about attorneys, they will always screw you for money, just like any whore but you won't like it. If you can get over on an attorney, it's a good day.
Damn, that sounds like a rough ride. And that's not the first time I've heard about lawyers cooperating with each other to screw over one side or another. Sorry for your troubles but I'm glad you got out of it.
Ya, the win in court was epic. Really dramatic. This woman had played me good but right after we got married I began to be suspicious when her demeanor instantly changed the next day. I was like, "Huh? What did I just do". I called the "friend" who set us up a year before and complained. He'd say something like, "just give her time, she'll calm down, she's nervous" etc. About every month I'd start having severe misgivings on her behavior and attitude and call this guy and he would make excuses for her.
Finally, when I'd had enough and started adding things up in my mind I realized I'd never have peace with her, never make her happy and she would of course enjoy making me miserable the entire time. I can't live like that. I like peace, calm, cooperation, understanding, etc.
Sure, I was stupid at first and I got played and felt like I'd been a fool but then if you know that, own up to it and start playing smarter. I started paying attention but I still didn't know the half of it.
Because she was Russian I had purchased a condo right in the middle of a heavily Russian community in Sacramento. Stores all around us catered to Russians and even her kid got to go to a mostly Russian school. It was ideal for her. Turns out, she got involved in prostitution while I would be out on construction jobs and though I had no hard proof, my spider sense was tingling. I went to a PI who followed her around for a couple days, then he interviewed her associates which scared the hell out of them and some of them confessed what was going on.
She was part of an association that she paid into in order to get advice on how to get me to beat her up so she could get "Battered Wife" status and a permanent green card and permission to stay here without being married. Basically permission to void the marriage requirement on her visa.
When that didn't work she faked injuries by gouging her skin while I was out of town. Dumb ass bitch took fotos that had time stamps clearly showing I had been out of town for days but the marks were fresh and bloody. That pissed the judge off. She offered to take my papers to an accountant I recommended but had him file me as single and her as single and head of household with her son as dependent even though she'd never worked a day in USA.
So, in the end, the judge was happy to rule annulment on account of fraud. What really got him against her was that I had her phone on my account and was able to capture her voice mail and put it on a flash drive. My attorney had him listen to it behind closed doors. LOL. Is that legal? Don't know but the judge alluded to it in court. It was then I realized he must have heard the recordings.
But get this, my PI told me he'd had a similar case a year or so before where the Russian wife convinced her husband to leave his pistol in the house for her protection. He came home and she shot him dead with his own pistol when he came in the front door. She claimed it was mistaken identity and she thought it was an intruder. The family tried to pursue justice for a time but eventually gave up because they were emotionally traumatized and didn't want to deal with it anymore.
So, yes, I got off lucky. The worst this woman did to me was put some shit in my food thinking to make me sleep while she entertained some guy. Instead I got really sick for a couple of days. I thought it was just a case of bad food until while complaining to my coworkers they put events together and I realized I'd been medicated/poisoned. Still no proof until a year later when I was cleaning the condo of every trace of her. I found the bottle hidden away in some of her stuff, carefully wrapped up in a towel. All Russian lettering so I took it to a Russian pharmacy place that sold over the counter herbal medicine. They told me it was an herbal sedative but you only need two drops in a glass of water. She'd dosed me with half the bottle. All it did was give me severe stomach cramps for a couple of days.
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