Fundraiser for Christy Sweet’s Legal Struggle to Claim an Inheritance, And Support for a Pony and Cat Sanctuary
Please donate via PAYPAL to SidSinatra (at) AOL.com as I cannot link my Thai bank account to Pay Pal and so cannot get funds - or use Payoneer or WISE transfer to ChristyKSweet (at) GMail.com
EDIT 04 01 23 Stable fell down last night , it is unbelievable how it fell, ( see pics ) missing Pony boy by inches but now it wil take at least $500 in materials, including 16 posts and framing wood and new tin roofing and labor to replace it completely. Rainy season is coming very soon and the ponies have tohave a shelter - for once it's a good thing I am out of hay and only had a bale of straw to deal with.
WHY I AM ASKING FOR HELP My informal Phuket Horse Rescue and Bang Tao Cat Preserve located in Phuket, Thailand depended on a $6000 a year stipend from a family fund that evaporated when my Mom died in 2020 and her Las Vegas Nevada estate is still in probate hell-court- limbo 32 months now pending appeals which can be viewed as Docket # 83342 in the Nevada State Supreme Court website.
The estate battle was with Mom’s husband but he too has just passed last January reportedly also without a valid US will, and I need to procure a will he made in Portugal that disposes of a condo there. It could be possibly applied to his USA assets- and if he prevails in the court case he will get the total of Mom's estate but his will names me as an heir. I could not write this in a script and sell it. It’s a big double- probate hellscape.
I am also suing the cruddy lawyers who tanked the case AND mom's husband ( now his estate) for wrongful death, all on my own. I want to file in US District Court against the probate commissioner who violated the 14th Amendment in denying me due process.
I simply do not have the funds to travel to Las Vegas where the home and probate are located. Nor should I necessarily for I do not have access to her house as of yet, and may never - and have no money for a motel.
More importantly is I have no one I can trust who is competent AND reliable to care for the ponies and cats and the eccentricities of the property and house for the weeks or months all this paper chase might take. Las Vegas has ONE probate Commissioner and it takes months. (Clark County has an operating budget of $1.3 billion USD ) so I really should just stay where I have a safe home.
Who knows, Probate in Las Vegas might be the sort of hole in a desert type of justice one sees in movies. It can all be online anyway IF I can find reliable people in Las Vegas, so looking for a home manager.
I charge her husband defrauded the Court in a criminal conspiracy and CHANGED a FOREIGN WILL’s translation that was only meant to apply 'in Portugal' I am involved now in three lawsuits including a wrongful death lawsuit against Mom’s husband. I am pro se, self-representing except for the Supreme Court Review #83342 which has appointed pro bono attorneys. Everyting pivots on that decision.
There is a condo in Portugal I am named in both Mom's and her husband's PORTUGUESE wills. But, getting her husband's hard copy Death Certificate from Nevada will be expensive, involving proving family connection, etc. , and the accompanying required ‘Apostille’ certification insignia, certified translations, , to just get the original will copied and the registered mailings to and fro to Portugal and pay a lawyer to just begin searching for his will is going to take $500 at least.
Fortunately I qualify for fee waivers in the Nevada Court System- and I enterd his estate into Probate,- making poverty work for me !!
It takes $350 a month to run the sanctuary, see Facebook.com/PhuketHorseRescue and FB/ BangTaoCats. Two ponies and 18 cats. The property is a caretaking situation, so pay I no rent but need cat food, horse feed, hay, straw, supplies, medications, fencing repairs, vet care, etc. and does not include my personal living expenses which are very low about $250. I pay $14 for electric and about $40 for phone and internet which is a great deal.
Meanwhile I do all the chores with the ponies, cats, the home and the 2 acre property. I do my own cooking, cleaning and laundry. I have not eaten a fancy restaurant meal since about 2016. Netflix at $ 6 a month (cheap living in Thailand) is my one splurge and entertainment.
I can be contacted at ChristyKSweet@Gmail.com My phone is ( 66) 94 807 0376 and I am on Facebook as ChristySweet.18 but I find messenger there is unreliable I can take PAy Pal, Wise or Payoneer transfers to the above email.
ABOUT THE PONIES
Pony- Boy, ( yes, an ode to S.E. Hinton, about 17 yo is a pure ' Thai Breed' pony, obviously his heritage is the Mongolian Pony of the north Asian steppes. He is very stout but has IR and issues with laminitus, aka hoof degradation. As long as he is managed and not allowed to gorge on green grass ( which is not very good for horses actually,) he does fine.
Lamburg in the stable, really just a shelter that is long past its sell by date on it’s third leaning migration to the north and needs replacing which will take at least $500 but is not a priority now - still can be propped up. I store the hay and straw there too.
I was tutoring English online, a part time job that evaporated in 2020 from the Covid downturn and influx of over- qualified tutors. Thailand prohibiting foreigners from being paid by Pay Pal as of last December is very prohibitive in finding online work, most of which now pays on a third world scale like less than $1 an hour.
While I have a TESOL Certificate, am skilled in English and taught horse riding, I have no degrees and Americans in Thailand have a minimum salary requirement of 55, 000 baht a month to obtain a work permit. I am NOT going to work illegally as incarceration is immediate, deportation is swift, personal belonging are confiscated and the ponies would go to the local BBQ restaurant. No one is going to pay a 62 yo woman in a country where it is legal to stipulate age restrictions ‘ female, not over 35… picture needed’ for applications.
Lamburg is 27 and is half Thai Breed / Thoroughbred. Long legs and short neck shows his mixed heritage. Lambsies ( Lamburger when he is bad) has COPD and so needs strict dust management. He also has a penchant for biting so is not a good candidate for adoption. Territorial in his shelter, he’s a dream to lead and was quite reliable as a beginner rider pony for lesson, he’s 13. 2 hands so his weight limit is 60 kilos and he only accepts bitless bridle and of course is barefoot. No metal on horses please . I have brought him out of a home once already in 2017 as they simply did not see to his dust abatement needs which essentially requires just dunking his hay in water and not sweeping around him. And he’s allergic to bananas which is NOT appropriate food for equids
Lamburg worked hard at a beach-ride rental place for his first 12 years so as long as I can reside on the property I am happy to care for him as we grow old together.
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