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"Yea but to step back down as an associate; led out for that class action lawsuit lost that we took You knoas a technicality" He explained to the senior partner Jacob orried He didn't want to admit it, but he knehat he had to do If the senior partners insisted on de his salary, he would have no other alternative except to take out a second e on their home and cash in both of their term life insurance policies These were the only two options left for hie tuitions His and Louise's inco expenses and car notes

"Okay fine, I'll take the demotion but I can't deal with a fifty percent salary reduction…" He said feeling suffocated just thinking about his financial obligations Abruptly his eyes came to rest on his notice for child support payhteen yet he wondered silently as he listened to his boss He tried to remember what year was the boy born, but because there were so ht

"Twenty percent? Well I'm not happy about it… Do you think you can find another ten percent for ed the senior partner As he waited for Howard's response he picked up the child support notice and slipped it inside the shredder that was tucked on the side underneath his desk The shreddersound as the notice was literally obliterated into a thousand tiny pieces He figured the kid had to be eighteen by now and besides he had paid hty dollars a month meant that much to Marla and that kid, then she could take him back to court he decided

"Okay fine, I don't like it but I don't have any other choice" Jacob conceded glad that the partners hadn't voted him out of the law firm A temporary demotion was truly a slap on the wrist for him He could last for a year and make it all work out

"Fine I can live with another five percent…" Jacob reluctantly agreed At least it was better than losing half his incoed to retain seventy-five percent of his income and that was much better than the rest of the lawyers involved in that failed lawsuit had fared

January 1999