Litigation File

I finally attended my "to be filed" stack tonight. It is never a good thing when you realize that you need to create a litigation file.

I thought that the U.S. was over-litigous but we had to move to Germany to get sued.

Back in January, I received a bill for the swimming pool membership. Since I didn't want to have a membership once Sabine was born, I ignored it. In the U.S. when you join a gym, they are meticulous in going over what the member's obligations are to cancel the membership. In this instance, it was a community gym and I filled out a form that had my address and name on it to join. I must have missed the small print at the bottom of the page. I've learned my lesson that I must translate everything I sign. I guess as a lawyer that is something I should already know. Thankfully, one of our German friends is about to take his bar exam and was able to help us clear up this little misunderstanding.

This past month our landlord also threatened to sue us. We've been fighting with him over how much to reduce our rent due to the repairs being made to our winter garden i.e. storage space off of our bedroom. This process has once again proved that Germans may know how to make cars but building repairs aren't their thing.