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[Oceanjones]

I've been searching for pro bono legal representation. There are a lot of different resources for this....supposedly.

I definitely meet the income requirements being on public assistance.

Neighborhood Legal Services just told me they do not handle anything that comes up in front of a judge.

Legal Resources for Women get me a free 15 min consult over the phone but then regular rates apply. I was approved for their reduced fee program but that just knocks off about $50 bucks and gives me paperwork for the attorney to file pro se for me.

I see websites touting awards for their pro bono work but when you cann these places to get help they act like they don't know what you're talking about.

I'm getting VERY aggravated! : I have been doing so much research and have so much case law to support my position but without a competent attorney well versed in parent vs third party issues I'm basically screwed. No matter how wrong what they are doing is, if I don't have someone to shove it in the face of the judge that it's wrong then they will get away with it.

I wrote to Family Research Council after reading their Amicus Brief (quite impressive I must say) and contacted the Alliance Defense Fund. I just called FRC and the women was emailing the guy in charge of this type of stuff to ask him to please read my inquiry and contact me.

If I can't get any help with this I am going to lose. I'll end up running away to Mexico in the middle of the night if that happens. I better go buy a Spanish/English dictionary. HA! This isn't funny but if I don't laugh I'll cry...:

[Metta&Karuna]

Hang in there, mama. I know this is super hard.

[LankyLizards]

[pranamama]

HUGS AND MORE HUGS..... DO NOT RUN!!! I am really sad to see another WA mom who ran (don't know her or the situation) recently committed suicide. She had been in Australia when they found her and the child she'd been hiding out with.

Will your family give you any money to start with an attorney? Can you beg for help. Seriously I think some of us should stand outside the courthouse with a cardboard sign, broke and need legal representation.

[Oceanjones]

Oh that's horrible! That poor woman and her little one! Awful, just awful that is.

No, I won't run (as tempting as it may be at times) I won't put my daughter through that again or have the other two deal with it either. It's way too stressful!

My mom just spent what little she had for tickets to fly out here for my court date. If she could she would get an attorney to force the court to recognize HER "grandparents rights" ugh

I will say that because of this I am not going to put off any longer my dream to become an attorney. I'm going to start out slow and work up to it and just get a paralegal first and go from there. Then I plan to devote a good deal of time to represent other mamas going through this BS with grandparents and I'm going to do it pro bono. It's happening everywhere and I feel like I HAVE to do something to help. I've been wanting to do that for 10 flippin years but my ex didn't "allow" me to. He thought I'd be smarter than him then and also claimed it was just a way for me to meet "dudes" blech Doesn't matter. I'm living for me and my kids NOW.

My attorney will do okay. I'm prodding him along (with a hot poker in the you-know-where) plus he knows I could kick his butt

You guys have been great. All your support is really helping me get through and keep doing what I have to do.

[rubelin]

Originally Posted by Oceanjones

I will say that because of this I am not going to put off any longer my dream to become an attorney. I'm going to start out slow and work up to it and just get a paralegal first and go from there. Then I plan to devote a good deal of time to represent other mamas going through this BS with grandparents and I'm going to do it pro bono. It's happening everywhere and I feel like I HAVE to do something to help. I've been wanting to do that for 10 flippin years but my ex didn't "allow" me to. He thought I'd be smarter than him then and also claimed it was just a way for me to meet "dudes" blech Doesn't matter. I'm living for me and my kids NOW.

I was totally thinking the last few days that you should be a lawyer! as much as the reason you are doing so much law research sucks, it's really sounded like you dig that part of it. Best of luck to ya!