Sunday, May 26, 2013

The Evidence Is Here Part 5 First A Lawyer Then A Hostel


The Evidence Is Here Part 5  First A Lawyer Then A Hostel

B.C. woman may lose home over huge lawyer bill
Woman owes $180,000 despite winning lawsuit and being awarded costs

A B.C. woman stands to lose her home to her lawyer, who is moving to foreclose on her to pay his six-figure bill.
"My friends and family say this can't be happening. There's got to be a mistake," Dale Fotsch said.

Case dragged on
A decade ago, her common law ex-husband Leigh Wilson went after Fotsch, trying to get a piece of her property after their breakup. The case took nine years to resolve, which was years longer than her lawyer had predicted, she said.
"There was a three-week trial – three weeks! For my little place in the country. I mean, it just seems a little overboard and ridiculous," Fotsch said. "There were three tables of binders, with papers stacked sky high."
She said she had already paid thousands in legal fees when the case finally went to trial in 2007. As it advanced, her lawyer said he wouldn't continue unless she allowed him to secure a $100,000 mortgage against her property, at 18 per cent interest per year.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2012/11/30/bc-legalbills.html


 
Ron Payne 
Welfare Legal 
Hamilton, Ontario 
Email welfarelegal2004@hotmail.com
Blog http://welfarelegal.blogspot.ca/

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