I wonder what GAS will say when he discovers @Inigo-montoya and @Seeker1 ‘s COTH posts over the last week or so?
What a total nightmare for an attorney to deal with. Not only does he have a deeply challenging plaintiff to represent in a complex case… her parents seem to be creating unnecessary headaches at every turn.
He’s going to be happy he’s not representing them. I’ll bet we get more “my client insists” language or if him too. Poor guy, i hope he’s getting paid…
Sorry, 400 comments behind AGAIN, but just have to throw in that you can’t just decide to move to another country to live, it doesn’t work that way - and it certainly wouldn’t for a family each with their own criminal history.
As much as folk might like to think they can up sticks and start again in another country, that’s just a dream. Unless you’re buying a “golden visa”, which is still active in some countries, though less so since Russia invaded Ukraine, you have to be sponsored in by an employer and have the required visas - visas which go through your criminal and medical history (along with everything else).
Similarly, in return, people can’t just decide to come and live in America, that’s not possible unless you get sponsored in by an employer and go through a huge amount of legal/visa paperwork. Getting a green card to live in the USA is an astonishingly difficult process, and if you’re sponsored in by an employer and have to then leave that job or get fired - you legally have to leave the country within a month or so (e.g. current drama with Twitter sacking so many of their workforce who are immigrants on H-1B visas that are suddenly cancelled with loss of that job).
If you’ve got a clean criminal record, you can get a visa and holiday most places for certain amounts of time, but actually living and working in a different country is a whole different kettle of fish.
And now back to our scheduled “Oh my god, did they really just say that?” programming.