I am telling you guys! I should write my life story for a soap opera! We got a thing in the mail saying that our federal refund was going to be given to my husband's ex girl friend who has been scamming us for child suppor since he started working at Cingular. Now we've been doing the beaurocratic crap and trying to jump through the hoops with public aide and what not, but I've had my fill. In fact it's a very good thing that I am a rational person or I would have already hunted this chick down and done some very mean things. Well, anyways I've had my fill. In fact I've really really really had my fill. You see, before today we were fine wtih just making the child support stop, now we are suing for every single cent she has received from us, and we have filed a complaint with the department of public aid to expose the welfare fraud that she has been conducting. I have checked and since she is receiving assistance from the state of IL in collecting the child support she had to do as I did and submit to an interview with a case worker in whcih she was to answer any and all questions about the paternity of her child, even though Floyd had already signed the birth certificate. Well, she lied and told her case worker that he was without a doubt the father, and two days earlier she had written a letter to him stating that he was not and took the child from his custody. Now we wouldn't know all of this, had I not signed up for my POS 201 class. I have that class with a young lady who I used to manage at Taco Bell, and with whom I became very very good friends. Well her parents owned a house that Floyd rented and 2 weeks ago she stumbled across a box with letters from the mother to Floyd. Guess what was in those letters. So, according to public aid any lies, or purposefully omitted information (oh and there is so much of that) is grounds for purjory. So now we have proof that she not only doubted the paternity of the child, she tricked Floyd into not questioning the timing of the pregnancy.

So I have been forced to take drastic measures. I remember when my parents were going through their divorce, my father hired the most horrible, corrupt, and crooked lawyer that I can recall ever coming across. It's pretty bad that even an 8 year old saw him for the money and power hungry man that he was. He made my mother's life a living hell. Well, he's taking our case. I swore to myself that I would never stoop so low, but she's not fighting fair, so neither wil we. This guy found a way to twist the law to keep my father from having to pay my dental bills even after he had agreed to pay all medical expenses for me in their divorce decree. This S.O.B is the entire reason why I am paying for my invisalign now instead of having gotten braces as a child, so I figure, it's time I put him to work for me. You know, I'm really not that worried about all of this, granted if we don't come to a resolution we will owe H&R Block about 7000.00 for our taxes since we got the money up front from them, but I highly highly doubt it will come to that. I have looked up Illinois precedent in child support and paternity fraud and as it stands right now we have a very strong case. The beauty of the whole thing is that Narmont can force her to submit to the paternity testing we have been trying to get for the last 2 years, and if she resists any futher she more or less loses the case before we even have to go to court. I don't know how he plans on doing this or if it is even totally and completely on the level, but I like it.

You know I'm actually enjoying researching all of the laws, the precedents, and all this good stuff. In fact I'm enjoying it so much that I might scrap the journalism and communications and go for law. According to my student advisor, all I'm doing right now is getting my Associates in Liberal Arts, then the classes transfer over to UIS at which point I actually work toward a major/Bachelors. Crap you learn something new every day hehe. Luckily for me they just opened a law program up at UIS. Oh heck I'm so pregnant and crazy I don't even know what I'm doing from one day to the next, but I do know that I'm actually quite good with the law, and I have oddly enjoyed researching all of this stuff. Someone has to stand up for people in our situation, and it's a shame that they have to result to hiring a crooked lawyer to get some relief. Hmmm maybe I could make a difference as a lawyer. Instead of making people's lives hell though, I would specialize in cases like ours. One's in which someone has been taken advantage of and is desperate for help.

Anyways I'm rambling now. If you guys have any good advice for me/us, I'll take what I can get. Thanks for listening to my bitch fit!