[Magdalen] your ongoing prayers, please

[Marion Thompson]

I'm glad to read this for myself and am taking the papers to my lawyer 
with whom I spoke last night.  In effect they have made a preemptive 
strike, filing their Application within a day of receiving our last 
response in which we suggested arbitration to resolve the impasse.   Jim 
has been in England for a couple of weeks and returns in a week or so.  
Even dropped off a birthday card before he left.  Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

Marion, a pilgrim
On 10/8/2014 1:52 PM, Lynn Ronkainen wrote:
> In the USA each state can vary GREATLY in how it handles divorce... TX 
> is a 50/50 state and initially the two parties contact each other 
> through their attorneys unless they have decided upon the decision to 
> divorce on their own.  There is not much 'dickering' on the 50/50  if 
> one goes to court here or if there are attorney's involved. Until 15 
> years ago there was no alimony in TX, and now it is only in the case 
> of underage children, if at all. California for instance (12 year old 
> info), mandated an alimony payment based  on a % of the income from 
> the larger salaried partner to the smaller salaried partner for a 
> period of years equal to one half the amount of the length of the union.
>
> In the last 20 years, having known a number of friends divorcing, I've 
> never even heard of the 'percentage' approach to charging. Perhaps 
> that is reserved for the more wealthy among us.
>
> I would imagine that Marion may have ended up reading 'the papers' is 
> so she can see what she is up against, either because it might be the 
> law to provide them to her, or her attorney felt it important for her 
> to read them. I certainly would want to read them for myself, if it 
> pertained to me.
>
> Lynn
>
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>
> When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have 
> not a single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You 
> gave me." attributed to Erma Bombeck
>
> Thomas Merton writes, “People may spend their whole lives climbing the 
> ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the 
> ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.”
>
> "What you seek is seeking you." - Rumi
>
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> From: "Jim Guthrie" <jguthrie at pipeline.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2014 8:40 AM
> To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] your ongoing prayers, please
>
>> From: Roland Orr
>>
>>> This is how US lawyers make money? and why there are so many of them ?
>>> Who pays all the legal costs ?
>>
>> Not necessarily. Some cases involve hourly rates, some are flat rate, 
>> some involve a percentage of the judgment.
>>
>> In the U.S., if this involves a substantial amount of money, Marion 
>> would find a lawyer who'd take it for a percentage -- maybe 30% or so.
>>
>> Don’t know about how these things get charged in Canada, but Marion 
>> receiving these papers directly leads me to believe she does not have 
>> a good lawyer.
>>
>> Jim Guthrie 
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