Originally Posted by
quickwillow
Hi KeithAngel,
The word nightmare springs to mind is it has been a lengthy and costly affair with 2 Attorney’s the first done some of the work like filing the case, arranging a psychology report, submitting this to the court along with arranging a notice in the news paper as her ex is working in the US.
It seemed to be going along Filipino style slow and steady but it gave me no cause for concern at this point until it all went quite.
My fiancée was told for months to wait, what for I kept asking but she couldn’t tell me, I started to realize that it was all going wrong when he wouldn’t return her calls. I told her to ask her father help, I wanted him to go and speak to the judge and find out what the problem was. He came back to me and said there was a lack of evidence for get annuled, the judge wanted proof that her ex has kids in the US he wanted the kids birth certificates huh !!! I kept thinking how crazy this was, is she on trail here? What was her crime? Did I miss something?
She has had no contact with him, and even through his family he didn’t reply to the Attn. about the case.
Then it dawned on me, the last payment I sent to the Attn. for the judge it was never given to him.
I was aware right from the start from a family friend who was an Attn. that the judge needed paying (corruption hmmm?) this was also verified from another guy I met in her home town who had gone through the process.
Both guys had been accurate with the charges for the psychology report, newspaper notices, filing of the case etc. except the last payment that never got to the judge so the case stopped.
Anyway I told her to go and speak to another Attn. for advice. He got the evidence together quickly most of it already done, the new judge wanted 25,000 and the attn 30,000. She was had a court appearance within 3 weeks of payment.
She gave her side of the story and it was adjourned for another 2 weeks for the psychologist to be called to give evidence. I think she had to go back 1 more time for questioning then the annulment was granted. You know all this really made my fiancée ashamed and embarrassed to go through the court questioning when she hasn’t done anything wrong apart from marrying a stupid guy that left her with a baby. All said and done it’s been about 16 months. There is just 1 more catch she is still waiting for the paperwork waaaaaaaa but she should have it by 15th May. I wont be too surprised if there is another charge grrrrrrr but no more delays please!!!
You can be almost certain that there will be another charge. Don't be surprised if you fiancee hears nothing from the court or her attorney because they will want her to think there is a holdup and when she does eventually contact them, they will say their has been a problem and she'll have to pay for some other ficticious administrative procedure or other. I think you'll find that when it comes to the end game, that she is not only fighting the court, but also the greed of her own attorney who will also be scamming her and they are usually quite practised at this sort of thing when they know that a foreigner is involved. In fact in some cases, it is not even the judge but only her own attorney who is holding out for another bung.
