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I am hideously behind again in my email due to divorce stuff. My lawyer told me

that all I had to do was to come down and sign these papers and the divorce

would be final probably next week. YAY!

So yesterday I went to sign the papers and, boo, hiss, there was a place that

said I had to use ALL the money from the retirement fund to pay off credit cards

and I already spent $3600 paying off a credit card (as some may remember from

January/February). But I used my tax refund which was supposed to pay for some

important house repairs.

Yikes! No house repairs! Granted I'd have better credit perhaps, but

still...and anyway it seemed unfair as I had paid that money considering it was

part of the mediation agreement. My lawyer was not there; it was assumed that I

would have no problem signing as we had discussed it all before, but that had

been in January when I still hadn't paid for the credit card bill and I expected

to pay for it with funds from the retirement account. SO naturally I did not

balk at the language.

Then all these delays came up, Lou being in jail included, and suddenly it looks

as if I might have nothing left for house repairs (I am not exactly sure how

much money will come from the retirement fund as it is not certain if they will

take out the taxes now or later....) My lawyer told me to meet her this morning

at 9:30. I feel as if I totally screwed up and got myself into something by

basically counting my chickens before they are hatched. I spent yesterday

worrying, woke up at 3:30 a.m., worrying, spent all the time before the

appointment worrying.

The appointment took all of fifteen minutes and some of that was chat. She

simply added a line that said that I was to reimburse myself first to the tune

of $5000 for money applied to credit card debt since mediation. It all seemed

incredibly easy and she said she did not think anyone would object.

So all that worrying for nothing.

Salli