I hired an attorney named Theresa McGehee in Durant, Oklahoma to take on the case as I believed minor children should remain in school until age 18 or until they graduate from High School.  I had sent all the documents you have read above to her.  Her assistant read the documents but apparently Theresa McGehee never did even though she charged me $2,500.00 to do the case.  Her assistant filed the following papers through the Pushmataha County Courthouse with the understanding that again, I did not want Lowell R. Burgess Jr., to be the presiding judge.  I was assured he was no longer a judge but in private practice in Antlers, Oklahoma.  I did not send Theresa Katijo's last e-mail with Vernon Alfred Cole as read above but her first e-mail where she got scared for her mom.  Also I did not send her the actual Court Transcripts of the case, but scanned in images of it that she refused to read but her assistant did.  They filed the following papers.

According to the main office downstairs of the Pushmataha County Courthouse, on Thursday, June 20th, they had notified every attorney that court will not take place as Doyle Blythe was removed from the bench and there was no judge to hear the case.  Theresa McGehee failed to tell me on Thursday June 20th after being notified, failed on Friday June 21st, and on Saturday, June 22nd before I caught my plane to Oklahoma on June 23rd.

I met Theresa McGehee in her office on Monday June 24th at 17:00 hours CST in Durant, Oklahoma with my Aunt Roxanna C. Jones 222 N. Kentucky St  Atoka, OK  74525  Phone (580)  889-1995.  Again she did not tell me that court would not take place.  Instead she made it where I was to meet her at 13:00 hours (1:00 p.m.) CST at the Pushmataha County Courthouse on the second floor.  I gave her my aunt's phone number and left.  I had told her secretary that I would be leaving Oklahoma on Saturday June 29th to go to Graham, Texas on U.S. Highway 380 and spend the night with family there before catching my plane the next day.

On Tuesday June 25th, I left Roxanna Jones residence at 12:15 p.m. and drove straight to Antlers, Oklahoma.  I arrived to the courthouse at 13:10 hours (1:10 p.m.) where I was ten minutes late and went upstairs.  On the bench in the hallway I saw Kathy, her sister Billie and a blond headed girl sitting.  Finally by 1:10 p.m. I went into the court clerks office and asked if she had seen Theresa McGehee.  The woman told me to wait just a minute, stepped into the hallway and spoke to Kathy, her older sister Billie and the blond headed girl.  All three females rushed downstairs as fast as they could and the woman came back into her office and told me I needed to call my lawyer.  I was very shocked and surprised.  I then went downstairs and the people told me they had notified every attorney listed on the court docket the Thursday prior that all court cases had been cancelled.  I used their phone and called Theresa McGehee's office in Durant.  Her assistant answered then put Theresa McGehee on the phone.  Theresa then told me she did not learn till that morning that court had been cancelled, claimed she tried to call me and for me to get out of there as fast as I could.

According to the answering machine on my home phone in Franklin, North Carolina; Theresa McGehee then called my house and left word that court hand been cancelled at 1:20 p.m. which was after I got off the phone from her.  Then based on the caller ID on the phone of Roxanna Jones, Theresa McGehee called her number at 1:24 p.m.  So I had to wonder why she would make those phone calls after I got off the phone from her at the courthouse?????

I went back to Atoka, Oklahoma and called Theresa McGehee back.  I was told she was not there but in court in Durant, Oklahoma but that I was wrong, according to Oklahoma law, a child can drop out of school after age 12 for any reason and it was none of my business.  That night Carl Jones called his attorney Larry Grant in Atoka.  Larry Grant said Theresa McGehee's office was wrong in making that statement under Title 10 of the Oklahoma State Statutes.  That they must remain in school until they graduate from high school or turn age 18.

The next day I went to Larry Grant's Office and talked to him.  I then was quoted his price for handling it would only be $1,500 as compared to Theresa charging me $2,500 for not doing a thing.  He told me to go to Theresa's office and get my papers back and dismiss her from the case.  I did and kept word that I would not tell her who was taking over.

When I got to Durant, Oklahoma Theresa was there.  I told her that based on this experience and she not telling me Thursday, Friday, or Saturday before flying to Oklahoma that court was cancelled, that she was off the case and I wanted my papers back.  She stated that she expected to be fired and handed me the documents back to include the Official Court Transcripts I brought with me after asking her assistant if I needed to bring any of the actual papers with me and she said no, they had everything and then on Monday, the day before the hearing, Theresa said yes to the transcripts.  Again, a professional trained attorney who graduated from law school, well trained, should have answered that over the phone before I made the trip.  Not me playing guessing games with her assistant.