The "Dark Cloud" Releases The Rain

  In the spring of 2010 D contacted our immigration attourney David regarding his becoming a citizen of the United States. David informed D that with the child support arrears, it would most likely be problematic. He wanted D to be able to show that he had commenced some legal action to settle this debt.
  D spoke to his BK trustee Doug regarding details on his discharge and the sale of the marital home. No news yet. D made contact with an attourney, Reagan who knew his case all too well. Reagan advised "let a sleeping dog lay". D opted to wait a little longer.
  By August, the trustee informed D that his ex-wife had dropped off a $90K cheque to his office and that a full accounting would need to be done. He broke the news to D that there would not likely be anything left for D. Not ever wanting money for himself, D at least had hoped for some cash to put toward his child support. Here is what it was looking like at a glance...there were no final figures. Doug stated that it would take a few months to reconcile.

D's attourney fees from 11 yrs prior                                        = $30,000.00
D's creditors for personal debt 11 yrs prior                       =    $5000.00
Interest x 11 years                                                                                = $12,000.00
Trustee fee                                                                                               =   unknown
Lawyer fee that trustee hired for the opposed BK      =   unknown

   I was hopeful that maybe D would have had $30K left to go toward his arrears for child support. This would leave approximately $12K for attourney/trustee fees. Remember, this BK sat suspended for 11 years. This was his hard earned equity from his house that he had single handedly paid down to less that $10K when he was told to leave the home.
   I was beyond distraught. My emotions were so out of control and I sobbed. This man that I loved so much was yet again being stomped on. I could not wrap my head around the fact that this seemed to be something so trivial to the trustee. I was so hurt for D.
  He was so calm and reassured me that none of it really mattered to him at this point.
Thank goodness one of us was strong on that day. The table would turn. More rain was in the forecast.
(I am chuckling as I write this as there is nothing left to do but shake my head in disbelief...the course of events seemed comical at times due to the absurdity)

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