x-sender: governor.haley@sc.lmhostediq.com x-receiver: governor.haley@sc.lmhostediq.com Received: from mail pickup service by sc.lmhostediq.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 17 Mar 2016 01:04:24 -0400 thread-index: AdGACnkmPfswGgPORGS53zAklkxGuQ== Thread-Topic: Response via eform 100002 - Help with a State Agency From: To: Subject: Response via eform 100002 - Help with a State Agency Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 01:04:24 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft CDO for Windows 2000 Content-Class: urn:content-classes:message Importance: normal Priority: normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.1.7601.17609 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 17 Mar 2016 05:04:24.0326 (UTC) FILETIME=[79483A60:01D1800A] WORKFLOW 344 Mrs Misty W Shook 1526 Pine St Lot 3 West Columbia SC 29172 shook_misty@yahoo.com 803-760-9665 Everywhere I turn for help I run into walls and I am at the end of my rope! In 2013 I made the second biggest mistake of my life by going into Family Court without an attorney to represent me - i couldn't afford one and I had been referred to a local one by the SC Bar Referral Line. She took my $50 fee, basically chewed me out and did everything but call me a whore to my face and told me that I could not afford her fees and she could not take on another pro bono case. I didn't have enough time to get another referral before my court date. My now-ex-husband had an attorney and Judge Newton took advantage of my ignorance and so my ex has primary custody after I had spent the previous 9 years as a stay-home mom. I am now re-married. My ex still has primary custody. I had major surgery in July 2014 and my employer would not accept my doctor's note to return to work in October 2014 so I lost my job through no fault of my own. Since then I have been applying for jobs that I can do with my bad ankle/leg (desk jobs). I cannot stand on my feet for long periods due to the extreme pain and swelling that it causes. Due to my employment history & the fact that it is my previous employer's policy not to provide references or to confirm/deny employment, I get passed over in favor of other candidates and have been unable to obtain new employment. I am going back to school taking online classes at Piedmont Tech to better my education and chances of employment. In August 2015 my ex husband needed a co-signer for a personal loan for school and his mother agreed to do it but only on the condition that he take me to court. He agreed and so I received a summons on 12/22 for court for 2/2/16. Because I am unemployed and I can only pay a partial amount of the child support I am supposed to pay each month Judge Seigler (Lexington County) seems to have already decided that I am willfully guilty of nonpayment and is ready to throw the book at me. I use a cane to walk all the time and sometimes a wheelchair. My father died in NC on 2/3/16 and the Judge acted like I was making up a story to get out of being in court and it took me faxing copies of my dad's obituary to prove to him that I was telling the truth. I had to go back to court on 3/8/16 with doctors reports and proof that I have applied for disability, which I did. The judge acted as if he was angry that I provided the documents that he requested - I think that he really wanted me to come in without them so that he could give me the maximum punishment. I have been ordered to return on 5/17/16 at 9:30 am with another doctors report and updates on my disability applications. I applied to SC Legal Services for legal help and was denied only because no attorneys are available at this time to take my case. Every time I call the SC Bar and get a referral to talk to an attorney I am told the same thing - if a judge knows that I am paying for an attorney they are going to rule against me and the best thing to do is represent myself or get pro bono help. There is no pro bono help. I can't afford an attorney and I swear that Judge Greg Seigler is out to get me for some reason and I don't know why. I am honestly doing the best that I can. I am in a desperate situation for help somewhere and I don't know where to turn. I would rather die than go to prison. My physical and mental health would not be able to handle it - I am in treatment right now at LCCMH for a Major Depressive Disorder and have been since 9/2015. Judge Seigler sits there and rolls his eyes, sighs, is rude and interrupts; he refuses to look at any documents that I have prepared or brought in except for the physician's report and then he nastily remarked that he couldn't read it. It was legible to everybody else except him. I have diabetes, high blood pressure, thyroid disease, asthma, fibromyalgia, chronic migraines, depression, polyarthritis, and my ankle injury. I take numerous prescription medications everyday that I could not afford if it was not for the Welvista program. Every place I turn for help with this situation they tell me that they can't help because there is no more money in the program for the year or no more attorneys are available or I need to call somebody else and when I call those people they tell me to call the first folks I talked to that couldn't help. I just don't know what to do or where to turn anymore but I know that if I don't do something that Judge Seigler is going to throw me underneath the prison in May because he is just plain mean and nasty and has already made up his mind about me before he ever saw me. I saw in a Report from the SC Bar dated Oct 2015 that he is considered to be Unqualified overall for his position and that scares me even more. I am more terrified of Judge Seigler than I am of my ex-mother-in-law and that is saying volumes! 75.182.1.191