Calling For Help (for legal aid & my family )

Hi ,

This is super awkward and I hate it but here goes.

I am doing a fundraiser for myself

(Susan Snow) which truly goes against every single fiber of my being. I hate to ask others for help, especially money help but at this point I don’t know what else to do.

I didn’t want anyone else to do this for me since I feel like if I am in need of help it is on me to ask.

I am trying to raise money mostly for legal fees to hopefully find a lawyer to represent me in court. Also for bills and costs involved in keeping a roof over myself and my daughter’s heads during this court case..

I have been dealing with court situations involving my daughter and home most of last year and now a new suit ( if that’s the right wording) was again filed against me just this past Thursday.

Since I don’t have a lawyer at this time I am afraid to say too much as I don’t want to be accused of slander or defamation of character by the party suing me.

I will say that the court case last year dragged on and on and was affecting my health as well as my daughters health and mental well being. I did not have a lawyer (while the other party did).

As of yet I still do not have a lawyer to protect me or offer me legal help this time and after last year’s debacle I know that I very much need one.

I have reached out to any and all leads for affordable legal aid or help and only hit brick walls & nice, sympathetic people that could not help. My resources are more than depleted and I just can’t do this alone.

Many people already knew that I have faced some major traumatic events in the last couple of years.

Without writing a novel …

starting in 2020 I lost my brother to suicide, this was at the very beginning of the pandemic and the shut down and it was an extremely hard and disturbing time for me. I struggled emotionally and financially and my income was enormously affected. Months later I randomly drew the attention of a stalker through a quick sighting at a gas station, this person showed up at my home several times and continued to harass me, trespass and obsess over me causing me to have to involve the police and eventually get a protective order against them. The next major event was that my furnace broke and while I scrambled to find a way to get a working furnace we had a house fire ( do to an overheated space heater) . The fire destroyed my daughter room displacing us from our home. Since this all happened during the pandemic the repairs were greatly delayed in beginning and slow and choppy to be completed. My daughter Aurelia and I stayed in one room of an annex of an inn and then a hotel room for over half of the year. During this time we had no kitchen or access to cooking. We had to eat every meal out and I paid out of pocket for all meals which was wicked expensive. The home insurance did reimburse a portion of the cost but initially all of the meals were out of pocket, proving quite financially difficult as a single mom.

During all of this behind the scenes I was facing a court case ( which was not dropped despite the dire circumstances that we were in). This caused incredible stress to my daughter and I.

I was financially impacted and I had to close my small antique shop as a direct result of the financial and other negative affects of the lawsuit as well as the house fire.

I am writing all of the above to give a small glimpse into the events of the past few years. There were also cars that died and so many other added stresses and costs.

As an example: I still have a dumpster in my yard that was filled with damaged items from the fire that I have yet to have the extra money to get removed.

Through all of this I resisted publicly asking for any financial help, probably quite foolishly as I very much needed it.

I hate hate hate to do this but after finding out last week that I was going back to court yet again I am at a loss for any other options.

I wish that I could say more about what the actual court stuff is about but I dare not as I have someone that has been taking me to court and I do not want to say anything that could be detrimental to me keeping my home and family intact.

Keeping my home and family intact is my number one priority in life and apparently I will beg and grovel ( not going to steal) to do it.

I am sorry to do this, sorry to ask, sorry to need this help but I do need this help.

Forgive me for being so wordy yet vague and needing this in the first place. At this point I am truly frightened and scared for our future. Taking care of my daughter and her emotional well being is my biggest concern. Through out all of this I have tried to do damage control, stay as positive as possible and hope for a light at the end of the tunnel but we are hanging on by a thread and I now need help.

Thank you,

Sue