Divorce advice needed badly

Please help me, and sorry for not typing Chinese. My Chinese typing skill is really bad, and I did spend one hour typing this in Chinese, but everything is gone because I accidentally press CTL-w.

My sister married to my brother-in-law 16 years ago. Even they sometimes argue with each other, but they are pretty happy most of time. Especially my brother-in-law always said he is a kid originally from the countryside, and how luckily he married to my sister, a beautiful girl with high education, and from a professor family. And he will love my sister forever, blah, blah, ... I always felt sick when he said such thing, because I thought he don't have self-esteem, and also not respect his family and root by saying such thing. But both my sister and my mom are pretty happy with what he said, and pleased with his sweet talk. Anyway, they lived in UK at that time, both had jobs, and owned two houses there.

Eight years ago, my sister had a serious post-pregnancy depression after she gave birth to their only son. After that, I noticed that my brother-in-law did treat my sister as nice as the usual even he was still doing the sweet talk. Because of the disease of my sister, my mom went to help them out by taking care of their son for a couple of years. I didn't mention my feeling to my sister at all, but I did slightly mention it to my mom. My mom didn't want to believe it because of those sweet talks. Even my sister tried very hard to fight back the disease, she still had to quit her job. Then my brother-in-law lost his job, and couldn't find one he want for a long time. He refused to do those labor works, because he thought he is a PHD. Even my sister still suffered the depression, and she is also a master, she went out doing several labor works to support the family. Finally my brother-in-law found a job in Australia. They rent out those two houses in UK, and moved there. My mom still stayed with them helping them with kid because my brother-in-law asked for my mom's help.

Two years ago, my mom went back to China since their son was big enough to go to school. This time my mom finally told me she was worried about their marriage. She said my brother-in-law treated my sister pretty badly, and he might not go home for a couple of days all the sudden. Recently we just heard that my brother-in-law want a divorce. All the sudden, we found he already sold their houses in UK several years ago, and transferred all the money to China. Also they transferred most of their banking saving to China a while ago too. Actually he cheated my sister to get her signature to sell the houses when her brain is not clear (my sister still needs those pills sometimes). He claimed he used up all those money for his father's illness. We don't believe that. He also tried to convince my sister giving up the right of their son because she didn't have a job, and have the depression some times. I heard that my sister almost agreed with it for the sake of his son's future. Their court date is June 23. My sister didn't tell us until recent because she didn't want us worrying. Also she said she don't have money to afford a lawyer. Her English is getting worse and worse these years because those pills, staying home as house wife, etc. Also that guy may be thought my sister would agree with the divorce, he already disappeared for a couple of month without any notice. My family are very very worried about her, since her brain was damaged by those pills, especially she is fighting with such evil guy.

Could someone who is familiar with the divorce law in Australia help us? Please give some suggestion. If you know any good Chinese lawyer, please share with me. I am in California, I will call those lawyer personally. Please, please help us! Thanks!

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• never trust a man, i got burnt myself several times, -PrincessGr- ♀ (955 bytes) () 06/06/2007 postreply 04:54:59

• Feel so bad to hear this kind of story, -jojo1971- ♀ (650 bytes) () 06/06/2007 postreply 05:46:36

• I would go there to help my sister immediately and at any cost i ---Z--- ♂ (4 bytes) () 06/06/2007 postreply 08:03:43

• Take care of her case now, it is not too late for you if you rea -freecall- ♂ (0 bytes) () 06/11/2007 postreply 19:05:11