Back to the business at hand, contempt charges....

Rumors of a settlement?

The rumor of a settlement of sorts was true, or so it seemed.

As mentioned, all week we had heard rumors of an offer of sorts coming from the David Symons camp concerning the contempt of court charges being dropped, and our counter motion to sue for damages and costs.

So we showed up in Judge Fred Borchards court room early Monday morning the 29th of January for what we expected to be a tumultuous day, and surprise surprise, we were not disappointed.

For the first 2 hours the judge, and the attorneys met behind closed doors, coming out occasional only to clear up a minor issue or two. Finally it seemed an agreement had been reached.

Mother, Joey, Betsy, Bill Street and I met in a back jury room to go over their proposal. David Symons would withdraw his motion to find mother in contempt in exchange for us to agree to a confidentiality agreement and I would not publish anything relating to his offer on "The Red Door Journal".

We discussed the offer and agreed to it with one exception, David Symons was to pay the $7,000.00 yes seven thousand dollars is what it cost mother to hire an attorney to defend herself against this bogus charge. We broke for lunch thinking that this was almost behind us and we ate well.

Imagine our frustration when upon our return after lunch........

The counter offer was rejected and they walked out. This makes it the third time David Symons has walked out. But on the bright side, I can blog unimpeded from the courtroom since they provide free wifi access!


Game on, lets go to court!