Letter to Attorney detailing Don’s recent history and mine

When I was originally looking for counsel last September I had spoken with Mr. Hearn but never met with him personally.  I wish I had.  Instead I chose a firm where I knew someone and eight months later I was in worse shape than when it all began.  Enclosed are the letters that resulted in my Attorney quitting, so that you will know what I want in representation up front.  I went back to interview Steve Hearn, Esq. last week and he said that my opposition had come to him and that as a result, he could not represent either of us.

 

I have already consulted with Al Cazin (the second husband to Debbie Ponton.  Her previous husband was Gene Holloway who owned the Sea Wolf restaurant and faked his own death for the insurance.  Debbie is an exotic cat owner with a pet black leopard.  Her brother, Lance Ponton, later became a substantial donor to our sanctuary in his business name of Cordoba) and Fletcher Belcher who both said that they think this case would be too difficult and time consuming for them to take on.

 

I want dedication.  I want someone who is interested in doing what is right and not just lining their pockets.  I want someone who knows the law and knows what they are doing. In this present case I am involved in, the children of my missing husband, by a former marriage were afraid that their dad was spending all of their inheritance on caring for the 200 animals that we have here at WildLife on Easy Street.  They sided with their mother to accuse their dad of dealing dishonestly with his wife during their divorce in 1989.

 

In court, the girls, who were all book keepers for Don until our marriage, said that their father had hidden assets from their mother and that he was worth much more than he represented to her and that therefore she was entitled to another million dollars.  She had asked for the divorce when she fell in love with another man and she had told Don she wanted a million dollars and no contest and Don complied.  We waited over a year to be sure she would be happy in her new marriage before Don and I were wed 10/10/91.  When we married I set up a Trust for Don’s children for all of his assets that were his alone.   Four years later Don’s ex-wife had run out of money and with the help of her daughters sued Don for more.

 

Don has an adopted son who spends most of his time in jail and drug rehab and Don had disowned him in 1992.  When his daughters did this to him he disowned them and had barely spoken to them in two years.  Don and I have been working in real estate together since 1981 and I have done his evictions, foreclosures, quiet title suits and replevins since 1987.

 

I’ve completed 84 Circuit Civil cases in Hillsborough County alone.  I am not an attorney.  In fact I only have a tenth grade education, but I study other people’s work and then piece together from the best work I find.  Don and I began WildLife on Easy Street in 1992 because we wanted to give back something for all that God has given us.  When we modified our Trusts in 1995 we added to the successor beneficiaries WildLife on Easy Street so that when we both died the sanctuary would always be well funded.  By this time Don didn’t want anything to do with any of his children nor his ex-wife so he removed them as successor beneficiaries from all of the trusts, except for the  PSRL Trust that I had originally set up for them in 1992.

 

In September 1996 Don asked me to dissolve the children’s trust because he didn’t want anything going to the people who had lied about him for money.  I did not dissolve their trust, nor amend it, because I was raised with strong family values and believed that Don would get over it one day.  He asked me several times to write them out of his Will.  Because he was so against lawyers he didn’t want any part of his money going to probate attorneys so his Will was a very simple document that basically shifted all assets to the Trusts.  Each