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week in review
May. 20th, 2007 10:34 pmIt was a busy week. Monday the Ex and I were supposed to meet at the new attorney's office to discuss the mediation process, but the attorney rescheduled on us, so I had a free night. (Which is why Monday's was the only lj post I did this week with real content.)
Tuesday was my test in my German class. I did better than I thought I was going to, but not 100%.
Wednesday I had scheduled an upgrade of our SAN system. I can't do the actual upgrade, an engineer from the Vendor has to. Except he was a no-show--he had the date wrong. So I had another free night. I also got a new paper in my court case, a "request for interrogatories and documents". It's semi-ridiculous, so I suppose I should be semi-grateful and only semi-annoyed. According to the Rules of Procedure, any party can make 25 interrogatories, including multe-part questions. So naturally his attorney asks 46. I have 30 days to reply, so I'm taking a little time to consider my responses.
Thursday was the rescheduled meeting with the attorney. Lots of good information. The downside was she wants $235 an hour for her time, and $135 for her paralegal's time.
Friday I went out to eat, caught-up some with a friend I've not seen a couple of months, and had an early night.
Saturday was the regular errands and driving Mike around. I was supposed to work at 8, another Vendor-driven upgrade. And again, the engineer was a no-show, so another free night.
Today the Ex came over and we talked. We decided to shop around for a new attorney, but in the meantime work on the financial affidavit the State is going to require regardless of whose services we end-up using. She's going to find out about life insurance and I have to find out about health insurance for her for after we get divorced. So, progress on several fronts, even if only of the decision-making type.
I've been researching for my next motion to file in my court case. I have to learn about the doctrine of spoliation of evidence, as that's what I want to bring-up next. I have found the Federal case which defines the currently accepted litmus test for the application of the doctrine One of the best explanations of it's application that I found was a Canadian web site which discussed the US application in some detail, as that has become the basis for the doctrine in Canadian law.
I don't have class this week, so tomorrow and Tuesday nights will be spent reviewing what I've found and drafting my motion. By the time I have that ready, I should be holding the copies of documents from my insurance company that the contractor had sent them to substantiate his requests for more money--requests he made by going around me and directly to them and then not paying the subcontractors with the money. I want to send copies of the documents with the motion to his attorney along with a letter asking if they would like to settle. If I can set this up right, this may go very well. If I don't it'll annoy the Judge.
Nothing like a little drama, eh?
Tuesday was my test in my German class. I did better than I thought I was going to, but not 100%.
Wednesday I had scheduled an upgrade of our SAN system. I can't do the actual upgrade, an engineer from the Vendor has to. Except he was a no-show--he had the date wrong. So I had another free night. I also got a new paper in my court case, a "request for interrogatories and documents". It's semi-ridiculous, so I suppose I should be semi-grateful and only semi-annoyed. According to the Rules of Procedure, any party can make 25 interrogatories, including multe-part questions. So naturally his attorney asks 46. I have 30 days to reply, so I'm taking a little time to consider my responses.
Thursday was the rescheduled meeting with the attorney. Lots of good information. The downside was she wants $235 an hour for her time, and $135 for her paralegal's time.
Friday I went out to eat, caught-up some with a friend I've not seen a couple of months, and had an early night.
Saturday was the regular errands and driving Mike around. I was supposed to work at 8, another Vendor-driven upgrade. And again, the engineer was a no-show, so another free night.
Today the Ex came over and we talked. We decided to shop around for a new attorney, but in the meantime work on the financial affidavit the State is going to require regardless of whose services we end-up using. She's going to find out about life insurance and I have to find out about health insurance for her for after we get divorced. So, progress on several fronts, even if only of the decision-making type.
I've been researching for my next motion to file in my court case. I have to learn about the doctrine of spoliation of evidence, as that's what I want to bring-up next. I have found the Federal case which defines the currently accepted litmus test for the application of the doctrine One of the best explanations of it's application that I found was a Canadian web site which discussed the US application in some detail, as that has become the basis for the doctrine in Canadian law.
I don't have class this week, so tomorrow and Tuesday nights will be spent reviewing what I've found and drafting my motion. By the time I have that ready, I should be holding the copies of documents from my insurance company that the contractor had sent them to substantiate his requests for more money--requests he made by going around me and directly to them and then not paying the subcontractors with the money. I want to send copies of the documents with the motion to his attorney along with a letter asking if they would like to settle. If I can set this up right, this may go very well. If I don't it'll annoy the Judge.
Nothing like a little drama, eh?
