I am in a situation that I don't know how to get out of and it’s devastating my family and I. My ex step-father is a criminal defense lawyer. My mom and him separated in 2001. He bullied her into accepting whatever settlement he wanted her to take. He threatened her with everything he could think of. She wasn’t in a situation that she felt able to fight. He left her for another woman 14 years younger than her. He's now with his thrid wife who is 14 years younger than the second one. Since then he refused to provide financial information in which support for my two brothers (his children) would be paid according to. Within the last few years when my mom would ask for the information he would insist that it would be detrimental for her to have it as his income is significantly less than he was paying support for. This kept going on. He left his second wife who is now in battles for child support for the two children they had together. She has not received any support whatsoever for the last year. The family responsibility office is slow. He is now on his third wife who just turned 21. He will be 54 years old this year. My mom and him also had property together that they planned to subdivide and make some money from which never happened since they separated a year after it was purchased. In their separation agreement, she was entitled to a certain amount. He sold the property and falsely signed a declaration stating there was no one with any interest in the property. He knew that my mom did have interest, and when she asked about the property he said it was all gone. He seems to have no compassion at all and will stop at nothing to hurt us all as much as possible. During the middle of 2012 he decided to cut support completely for one of my brothers with no basis for it. I began paying my mom as much as I could to help bring her back up to where she was financially which is never in the positive. My real father passed away in December (suicide). He left his life insurance policy to me and it is only for that reason that my mom is finally able to afford to take legal action against her ex for child support for my brothers. Now that we have a lawyer, he is retaliating and in his terms “waging war”. Which I don’t understand because you would figure any good person would just do what they are supposed to do, especially when it comes to the well-being of their children. His recent threats which he sent to my mom’s lawyer were to sue me for the majority of my dad’s life insurance money since he “supported” me for years. I can’t tell you how difficult it was to read that. He is fighting with everything he has just to not pay child support? I don’t understand how someone can be that way. I assume he is trying to burn through our money until there is none left and threaten to take the rest of it. I am terrified of what he is capable of and I don’t know what to do. Our lawyer can only suggest so much and the legal fees are significantly over and above what I expected them to be. I don’t know where to turn.

