2. I'm asked to submit all the financial docs from 2007+ which took me a long time to gather- I have lots of accounts from transferring money and securities from one to the other over time. However, several accounts don't allow access to beyond 24 months or even 12 months in some cases. So the paralegal's pushing me to contact these banks and ask for those docs. I'm like no...this is all I have access to period. I don't have a problem giving STBXW access to these accounts if there's a question. If they want something older that I don't have access to then they can get it themselves or show cause for them. I don't know...so that's a monkey on my back these days and we're running out of time. Then we have to set a mandatory pre-trial conference and then get a court date for trial.
I hate the legal BS...
These are discovery requests, they have a right to ask for it, and you have the responsibility to provide it. Even if it costs you money to obtain it (it did me too), you've got to get it to them. The Judge will look down on you if you don't. Remember that you can ask the same invasive information from her too, and she has to provide it also. I'm not saying this crap is right...I'm just saying you gotta do it. I had to do it, and it felt like a huge invasion of privacy. It also provided to me, in some strange way, the realization that this crap is really happening...it IS for real!
The legal part of this crap is scary and intimidating, I know, but you realize that, as you get deeper and deeper into it, that it's not gonna kill you. At worst even, it's not gonna kill you!
"Always go straight forward, and if you meet the devil, cut him in two and go between the pieces." - William Sturgis, clipper ship captain, 1830's.