Here’s an update, after consulting an attorney…
I’m going to handle this myself, since hiring an attorney this short notice will be VERY expensive… SO, don’t send me money unless you just really WANT to! ^_^
I’m going to respond to the serious accusations as best I can, and I feel pretty okay doing that. What I would love to see is some HUMAN SUPPORT from you, my friends and readers, because it’s really hard right now, I feel so attacked and beaten up and smacked around, emotionally. But, I’ll be okay. I think once I’ve written my Response (I can file it for free), I’ll be feeling a lot better. I’m a lot like my mother in the sense that I’m pretty tough…
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I wrote a post the other day about family stuff… Today I could be in very serious trouble.
I need someone, alright… an attorney. And ANY support from any of you would be very much appreciated. This is hard for me to ask, but this is the nadir of my life so far, or so it seems right now.
Yesterday a Deputy Sheriff served my mother and myself with a Notice for a hearing next Monday. It has to be very soon, because when there is a vulnerable adult involved, it just has to be. Oddly, my father is barely mentioned in this. I can’t go into a lot of detail now, nor can I sit here and pretend I am able to know what goes on in my brothers’ thoughts and hearts; they clearly believe they are capable of this regarding myself, and so we must involve a judge, and I am forced to defend my actions, my intentions, my relationship with my parents, and the essential quality of my nature, to a stranger.
The pain this has caused my parents, particularly my mother, who is portrayed by my brothers as a feeble old woman who has lost her wherewithal, is huge. When my mother called me early yesterday morning over something entirely else, I went over there. Upon arrival, I found a Deputy Sheriff’s card left tucked into the door, and we waited all day for the delivery of this paper. My mother agonized all day long, because we both suspected something like what came… Her distress was clear. At last, around 3pm or so, the Deputy delivered the documents, to my mother, and to me. While the one brother is back in Kansas, the other one, who lives in my parents’ house, was upstairs and wouldn’t answer his door when my mother knocked. I went home in the evening, sat down and read the document.
In the Notice are the reasons for my brothers’ action. What is there, written about me and included in the public records of the Superior Court, is so incredibly defaming, maligning, and outright bizarre as to be almost funny, if it weren’t so deliberately hurtful. I am still in shock— I wouldn’t call it character assassination, I’d say more like a very violent character RAPE. I never would have thought my brothers would ever say such things about me as what I read last night. I can’t understand how they can even think of me the way they apparently do.
My brothers have been preparing for this for, I don’t know, years? Months, at least. I get one week to figure out how to defend myself. Even if I do a good job of it, there’s no guarantee the judge will agree with me. But my parents are not happy with this whole thing. All I can do is TRUST the Divine to show me the way and do what is best for me, whatever I might think that is.
The post from last week is EVIDENCE Jaan. Print it out and submit it as evidence in court.
https://jaancarter.substack.com/p/family-cries/comments?s=r
I can only sympathize. Plainly you were needed where you are. I hope you can get some good lawyer to help.