Tearing out hair!!

[Steve.r]

Hi guys, just looking for a bit of advice please

Background: My girlfriend lives and works in Siingapore, she has been seperated for over 2 years from her husband. She has paid a lawyer in Phil to get her annulment, cash up front. He told her to go back to Phil from Singapore last week for a hearing but after she shelled out to go back to Phil, there was no hearing. He keeps lying about everything and seems to have done nothing in the 2 years since he was paid towards her annulment. She is devestated after going back to find this. She has now gone back to Singapore not knowing how to go forward. She is thinking of getting another lawyer, but how does she find a good one, or get the old one to do the work she paid for.

Any advice on how she should go about this would be great. I did contact the Phil embassy in London, who suggested she contact the embassy on Singapore, I don't know what else I can do.
Please help

Steve

[GaryFifer]

I recall this has been discussed in the forum before. Pete put up an article about this which you can read carefully here.

http://filipinaroses.com/showthread....ight=annulment

[IainBusby]

Hi guys, just looking for a bit of advice please

Background: My girlfriend lives and works in Siingapore, she has been seperated for over 2 years from her husband. She has paid a lawyer in Phil to get her annulment, cash up front. He told her to go back to Phil from Singapore last week for a hearing but after she shelled out to go back to Phil, there was no hearing. He keeps lying about everything and seems to have done nothing in the 2 years since he was paid towards her annulment. She is devestated after going back to find this. She has now gone back to Singapore not knowing how to go forward. She is thinking of getting another lawyer, but how does she find a good one, or get the old one to do the work she paid for.

Any advice on how she should go about this would be great. I did contact the Phil embassy in London, who suggested she contact the embassy on Singapore, I don't know what else I can do.
Please help

Steve

I'm afraid this sort of behaviour is just par for the course when it comes to attorneys in the Philippines in general. It seems that finding an honest one is like finding genuine rocking horse sh*t. As Gary says this has been covered before and in many different threads on this forum, so if you use the search function you will find lots of useful info and tips on how to deal with these sharks. The more you read, the more you'll learn.

Iain.

[belfast_dude]

if this is the case. can anyone recommend any good lawyers they have used in the past...i think this wud be a good idea....maybe even some philippine lawyers wud benefit this way...win/win for everyone

[KeithD]

Make the most of it and enjoy your holidays in Singapore

[Steve.r]

Ok ,thanks, I'll do some reading. I like the suggestion of a list of non-bent lawyers though. Certainly user recommendations will go a long way

Steve

[IainBusby]

Ok ,thanks, I'll do some reading. I like the suggestion of a list of non-bent lawyers though. Certainly user recommendations will go a long way

Steve

I don't think it would ever become a very long list.

[Steve.r]

I don't think it would ever become a very long list.

Ha ha.... you are probably quite right

[Florge]

if this is the case. can anyone recommend any good lawyers they have used in the past...i think this wud be a good idea....maybe even some philippine lawyers wud benefit this way...win/win for everyone

you can always hire my sister/her law firm.

[KeithD]

you can always hire my sister/her law firm.

...and if it goes wrong we can have you stoned

[Northerner]

...and if it goes wrong we can have you stoned

In Manchester, that has a completely different meaning to the biblical meaning....

[Steve.r]

you can always hire my sister/her law firm.

Hi Florge,

Maybe you can pm me some details please. I seem to not have enough posts to be able to contact you via pm.
thanks

Steve

[Florge]

...and if it goes wrong we can have you stoned

no.. you can have me banned from this forum!

[Florge]

Hi Florge,

Maybe you can pm me some details please. I seem to not have enough posts to be able to contact you via pm.
thanks

Steve

Hi steve,

i can't pm you either... you still have restricted access

[aphrodite78]

Ok ,thanks, I'll do some reading. I like the suggestion of a list of non-bent lawyers though. Certainly user recommendations will go a long way

Steve

hi steve,

i have been thru the process before and paid 2 private lawyers to do the job (one working at the senate and one working for a big firm in the phils) but in the end i approached PAO (Public Attorneys Office) recommended by my mum co-teacher. I think she is better off approaching them when she is in Manila, I have used them and they are brilliant. Whereabouts is your gf in the Phils anyway?

[klsl_forever]

Have you thought about your lady becoming a widow? It does and can happen you know.

Not that I'm advising it but life is valued so cheaply compared to the Western world.

[IainBusby]

Have you thought about your lady becoming a widow? It does and can happen you know.

Not that I'm advising it but life is valued so cheaply compared to the Western world.

It can happen for real and it can happen in theory as well with the presumptive death thingy...... only in Phils....

[scott&ligaya]

Not kidding about the widow thing, normally the "service provider" is a moonlighting policeman or serving soldier, ensures little or no investigation.

[Steve.r]

Thanks for all the tips guys. I am not sure I want to go down the 'widow' route.... Not just yet anyways

My Gf lives in Singapore right now, but has a house in Jaen near Gapan, where her family live.

aphrodite78, what were the PAO able to do for your situation, or what can they do for my Gf?

thanks
Steve

[Florge]

DON'T go down the presumption of death route.. it is not a ground for annulment...sheesh!

you'll have bigger problems if you use this and then the guy shows up..

[Florge]

hi steve,

i have been thru the process before and paid 2 private lawyers to do the job (one working at the senate and one working for a big firm in the phils) but in the end i approached PAO (Public Attorneys Office) recommended by my mum co-teacher. I think she is better off approaching them when she is in Manila, I have used them and they are brilliant. Whereabouts is your gf in the Phils anyway?

you mean that PAO lawyer was the one who attended the hearings? or just giving you an advice?