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I received a show cause summons (crimminal) WTH help
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Anonymous
Not likely. You received notice you were being evicted and unless its a very rare situation, you knew long before the notice that it was going to happen. For example, if you don't pay your rent for a couple months or you violate the lease by moving another person in or getting a pet you aren't allowed to have, etc and so forth. Further, you aren't going to be able to come up with a very valid reason as to why you were not able to find housing in the location you were legally supposed to stay at per the agreement OR provide adequate notice for your move. |
Anonymous
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OP,
Did you make progress on finding a lawyer today? |
Anonymous
| P.S. OP I have been suggesting your call the family court in the county where the hearing is since yesterday and requesting free counsel. If you show up with a $300 lawyer, the judge is going to have a hard time believing you are broke or don't have someone helping you foot the bill. Also, if you ask for a continuance, the judge is going to ask you if you did everything possible since last Thursday to find counsel. This is a very serious situation and it's Tuesday evening and I am not getting the sense that you are any closer to having legal counsel than you were when you first posted. Keep us posted. |
Anonymous
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17:57 what was the retainer fee ?
thanks I was at work all day Im calling in the morning to talk to more lawyers and return calls left today |
Anonymous
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Can you call in sick? Tomorrow is WEDNESDAY.
What is the custody? Do you have primary or is it joint physical? |
Anonymous
I called the court house and they told me I am supposed to wait until the hearing to request a public defender  thsi is where my confusion is I thought I could request one ahead of time
and really Ive been working for a couple months here so I have some money saved up so I could pay a lawyer but it would eat up the little Ive managed to save since starting to work and Im afraid to do that the judge is going to ask you if you did everything possible since last Thursday to find counsel.- this is going to be my primary goal tomorrow. I cant really explain my situation any better with out outing myself and I cant really say what evidence I have regarding the situation I know its not helpful but its one thing to out myself and another to say what my "recourse is and give him time to try and come up with BS to get even with me) |
Anonymous
I already have WEdnesday off... |
Anonymous
| Did you speak the the family court clinic? |
Anonymous
what is this? ive called the legal aid office? |
Anonymous
| Call the Family Court and ask if they run a clinic for custody matters. DC's Superior Court does. I know there's something in Montgomery County, too. I would think Fairfax would have something. |
Anonymous
Anonymous
I think it may have even been $250, but it was a couple of years ago. I paid her for the initial hour, she explained what I could do by myself and gave instructions. She then told me what the other things would cost me. We ended up coming to an agreement and she wrote it up and went to court with me. She was totally willing to work with me, even though I am not loaded. There was no retainer, I just paid her for what I asked her to do when she did it. |
Anonymous
Who the hell are you and why are you such an asshole? Goddamn, OP has been evicted, is stressed out, and then you come along with this message. Did your mother tell you not to kick a man while he's down? OP, I'm not a lawyer (but this yodeling fool above is definitely not, either) but I do know about being evicted. In any case, do NOT use my advice as a substitute for talking to a lawyer, but here's my layman's advice. Calm down and think this through. You're getting a show cause summons. That means you have to explain yourself. So when you go to the courthouse, bring the eviction notice with you, bring bank statements that showed you weren't able to avoid eviction (if relevant), bring everything you have that you think is relevant to this. You should also show any evidence (if you have some) that your move is temporary and was taken only out of the sheer necessity. Can any of the lawyers at least tell this woman whether or not it's likely that the court-appointed lawyer she meets at the hearing can move the hearing date back so he has time to prepare? Is that even going to be necessary? This really just doesn't sound that unusual. There must be many cases like this, with the economy being so bad... Good luck, OP. |
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you know what the hell Im sure my kids dad knows this all
re filed with CPS on me and I have CPS report where he told the worker during a meeting we had that he did not care how my child was provided for as long as they were, that he was okay with my friends and people he didnt know bringing me diapers and medicine for my kid, etc... its in the report he admitted he hadnt helped financially in months. has admited in emails to me that he knows " you are, and have been, in dire financial straits " hes evened refused to buy prescription medicine for our child that is needed on a monthly basis.... told me in writing and in the social workers ofice that "I said I could do it on my own to go ahead and do it" I have letters from churches and other area agencies that I looked for housing help through them but beyond us going to a shelter for a period of time the only choice left was to take my child and go to my family. I have NO family int he state of Virginia or DC period. Ive offered him various pnew plans that would give him visits a couple times a month and maintain/encrease the time he has with our child. Im not refusing to come back Im saying I need to come back with money in my pocket, child support comming in, and a plan Im training for a program now and within 6 months could come back with a career for our child and I to live on am Iinnocent in it getting this bad NO but he is not either and while I am not claiming I didnt know Id be evicted I Have NEVER in my life been there and I was told it would take months.. it took less than 30 days to get a summons go to court and have to be out.... so no I didnt understand and I had less than 2 weeks from the court date to the move date..... I was left with no choice other than leave or be homeless with my child I was not going to drag my kid to a shelter when I had family offering me housing (plenty of room individual room for my child and myself) daycare is half the cost here, lots of jobs got into the training program a couple weeks after arriving, we are for the first time in almost 2 years THRIVING and I refuse for us to suffer anymore because hes an ass... I wont let my child live in such a degree of proverty that we have to go to food banks or I have to go hungry to feed our child and give them medicine when there IS ANOTHER CHOICE. I cant in a million years see a judge saying you should stay here and live in a shelter and struggle when theres another choice it just seems wrong to me ... |
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I have email after email of my begging , asking, pleading with him to help me with basic needs for our child.
If our child relationship has to change so that they can thrive in every other area in their life then Im sorry Ill fight for that change ... I thought it was so important for my child to have both of us that I dealth with poverty and tried and tried but I hit rock bottom and now that Im digging out I refuse to go back to the life we had enless Im dragged there by the court Ill do everything in my power to maintain my childs relationship with their dad, phone calls, skype, driving down to visit often etc, I have a preschooler |