The wheels of justice are grinding me into pulp.

So, monday I called my lawyer and told them all systems were go on our end and we can go ahead and get ahold of the insurance company and get this over with.

Then, yesterday, I got a call from her, telling me she'd called the insurance company and....

wait for it.

Someone had ALREADY FILED A CLAIM!

Does anyone want to take a guess as to whom that may be? My late father's wife. See, she has her own lawyer. And he filed his claim, but we have to wait for him to get back from vacation in two weeks, before we go any further with it. This lawyer (who sounds rather questionable, if you asked me) also went into other subjects in reference to what he's been doing for my step-mother. Including live insurnace claims (plural!) and other various things. Tiffany told me it would probably be best if any further communication between us and my step-mother be done through our respective lawyers.

I'm not happy.

I'm not happy in that we were including her in our settlement. We were going to keep her informed once we got things started. I had planned to call her today to let her know what was going on. But, it seems she beat us to the punch and then didn't bother to tell us. My brother's been getting smoke blown up his ass I think. She never wanted us there in her house since they were married. I don't see why she'd want to share any of his settlement with us.

I'm smelling a fight coming on. And I'm seriously ready to put on some hurt.