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
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