Hello everyone. My name is John Ramirez and I am in dire need of support. My life has taken various expensive turns since July 2024.

In July 2024, my now ex came home and said he didn't want to be with me anymore. This was shortly after we had a discussion about our future and how he was allowing me to pursue a career of working part-time somewhere and creating art, whether through teaching musical theatre or performing it. Since I wasn't working full-time, I was left with almost nothing and forced to move from our condo in San Jose back home to Fremont.

Since then, I've struggled to find steady work. Finally, in April of 2026, I found a temporary full-time job that seems like a perfect fit for me and they seem interested in my career growth. Unfortunately, here lies my personal struggles. I opened a divorce case in Santa Clara County hoping to not have to use a lawyer and just use mediators to help us. This option would have proven to be the most cost-effective for both of us. Instead, a second divorce case was opened up by him in Los Angeles County, forcing me to find a lawyer to fight it. I don't know anything about law and I clearly didn't have the money to fund the lawyer, so I unfortunately had to take a few personal loans from companies and my own mother to help pay for the initial lawyer fees.

Since the Los Angeles case was dissolved, we still had our Santa Clara case to contend with. The lawyer fees kept piling up and now I owe an extreme amount of money for a case that just now got extended through June 2026. I'm simply trying to move on with my life, but this financial burden is weighing heavily on me. I don't make a lot of money in my current jobs, even working full-time. I'm hoping for support from my community to help me pay my lawyer, get my loan debt cut down, and, most importantly, pay my mother back for her support in my job hunting and dealing with the lawyer since October 2024. No amount is too small and even sharing this would help make a world of difference. I simply wanted a happily ever after and sadly it was cut short and now I'm left with a tremendous debt and a broke heart.

Thank you for taking the time to read this and god bless.