My story began in the year 2003; my children’s father and his family came into my life.  My mother said that she had a funny feeling about the Rivera family.  She warn me not to get involve with them, nor should I follow them anywhere, but like most young people, I didn't listen to her.  Because I thought that I was mature enough to make my own decisions, I left with Jonathan and his family to Pennsylvania not knowing that I would not return back home that day. While in PA, Jonathan’s parents, Minerva and Robin, started to persuade to me, to believe that I was 19 years old and that I didn't need to listen to my parents anymore.  Because of my age at the time, I could do whatever I wanted.  They stated to me, that if I love Jonathan, I should married him, and that I didn't need my parent’s permission to get married. At that time I did not understand the ways of the world and just how important a role my parents played in my child’s life and mine.  You see the Rivera family had made many promises to both Jonathan and I, which one of the promise was to buy us a new house of our very own, and that I would be able to see my family again whenever I wanted, but being naïve, and not realizing that it was all a ploy to gain control over me, I was happy with everything they promised.

The moment I said “I DO” to Jonathan my life changed into a nightmare. Knowing, I did not know how to travel around on my own, his family kept me away from my family for some time.  While I was in PA with them, they decided among themselves that it was their right to go after a lawsuit, in which my mother had started.

(Please understand that an incident had occurred back in 1999 when I was in High School long before I met Jonathan and his family.  This situation called for my parents to find legal assistance to sue the Board of Education for their lack of responsibly with my welfare while under their supervision.)  

As you now begin to see, the real story is taking shape. Once they found out about the lawsuit which concerned my well-being, the Rivera’s went into action.  Their plan was to take over my mother’s lawsuit and make it their own, now that I was married to their son. "The smell of money was in the air."  I kept telling them that it wasn't my lawsuit for I did not file it, my mother filed the lawsuit, but his family kept saying that it was my lawsuit.  But, what they were really saying was that because I was now married to their son the lawsuit became their lawsuit, which as you now can see, it was not the case.   All they saw was the multi million dollar lawsuit.   Their concern was not for my child and me, only their pockets and they would stop at nothing until they got their hands on it.

The Rivera’s even went as far as to contact my mother’s lawyer and demand and threaten to report him to the Bar Association if he did not turn the documents over to them. Minerva wrote a letter and ordered me to rewrite it, so I could report my mother’s lawyer to the Bar association.   My mother’s lawyers explain to them that it was not my lawsuit, and that it belong to my parents, they had no rights to any document pertaining to his client.

“The nerve of these people.”

When I was born, the doctors informed my mother that I would have some learning challenges due to the lack of oxygen to my brain during the time of Birth.   As much as I hate to admit it I don’t realize that people are taking advantage of me or are using me to get what they want.  After learning of the pending lawsuit Jonathan’s father had taken me to the Social Security Office and immediately made himself payee of my SSI benefits, and the next day he taken Jonathan and I to be married without the consent of my parents.

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