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My Little Fight

Family, Friends, and Everyone Else reading this, recently I have been in and out of court to help secure a good future for my 22-month-old daughter. I am trying to raise fees to secure an attorney, take co-parenting classes, attend mediation and other court related fees not covered by the courts. I have spent over $8000 in attorney fees in less than a year for this custody battle. All my financial resources have been drained out. I am currently working full time and attend college full time as well (currently applying for a second job). However, even with the extra job I will not be able to continue to afford an attorney. I am reaching out for further assistance to ensure a better future for my daughter. Things have been getting extremely difficult in the courts for no reason. I simply am trying to have equal rights with my daughter and asking nothing more. For some reason the courts do not see it the same way and have given the mother majority custody since we have been in court beginning last year. I have loved my daughter before she was born and was in the delivery room to hear her first cry. I was the first to feed her and the first to hold her. I was by her bed every day for the first 6 months until we went to court at which point the “system” began to control how often I get to see my daughter. I really need some help from the community and am asking you to please donate what you can. I know we are all in our own struggles in life and we each have our own financial problems we need to take care of. I am asking that you donate what you can, $1 or $100 every bit will help. I never thought it would come down to money for me to see my daughter, but I am fighting to see my daughter by representing myself at this point in the courts. My daughter’s mother has an attorney that charges $350 an hour and I am being run over by this attorney in the court room. Lucky, I have found an attorney of my own who is affordable and willing to cut his costs. He charges a low hourly rate and doesn’t bill me for all the small stuff like phone calls and emails like most attorney’s. I could really use some help so I can fight back with an attorney of my own. Our first court hearing cost over $3500, shortly after we had another court hearing that cost another $2000, this was just in the first few months. I had drained out my savings quickly without a thought; I have maxed out my credit cards and borrowed money from my amazing mother who has fully emptied her savings as well. I am asking for $5000 today to help pay for the attorney fees that are to come in the next few months. We have another court hearing in Novemeber. This will be about another $1500 in attorney fees. The money earned will also go towards mediation that the courts will not pay for and co-parenting classes that are mandatory for us to take. Over 1,000 people have already visited this page and if each of those people donated just $4 I will have reached my goal. $4! That is less than the price of an average movie ticket or your next coffee from Starbucks. I am asking that you please look under your couch or in your car for any loose change that you can find and donate. If you cannot find anything to spare at least like, share, and repost so that someone who has a few extra dollars may help my precious fight!

Organizer

Kevin Coughran
Organizer
Orangevale, CA

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