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Lim Wei Xiang
LLB Yr 2 Tsinghua University
email: sephiroth_blue88@yahoo.com / xiaoxiang88@gmail.com

 

 

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From: "GAOT@aol.com"
To: sephiroth_blue88@yahoo.com
Sent: Sunday, August 30, 2009 1:55:00 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: zhangxiaojing inheritance

Wei Xiang,

 

Thank you for your email reply. I agree that I will cap the fee and costs at $. I will later send you a retaining letter for the client to sign, and also provide you with the attorney's trust account information for your client to wire the payment.

 

I still need to figure out the exact pleadings and format of the documentation that we need to prepare, including the documents required from China. Now there are something that I think I should write in Chinese:

 

美国法院在决定是否承认外国判决时, 比较注重看被告是否经过有效送达,是否有合理机会到法庭应诉及提出陈述, 以及是否就法庭的管辖权有争议等. 如果法院判决书中明确写明这些情况 (诸如"被告经合法送达,本人或律师或委托人何时到庭应诉,就法院对该案的管辖权没有争议",等等),就会一目了然,这边会好办一些.但目前的判决书中没有这些确认性的词句.有可能更改吗?

 

Please let me know. I Will update you later on the development of this side.

 

Regards.

 

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In a message dated 8/28/2009 10:52:31 P.M. Central Daylight Time, sephiroth_blue88@yahoo.com writes:

Mr Gao,

We received your email and had already hand over to Mr Sun.Mr Sun is satisfied with the progress now and he did contact with his client.

Regarding to the documentation to clarify both the defendant and plaintiff had a fair trial with due process, our clients are willingly to give their testimony to prove that, the whole procedure is legal and fair.Our concern onwards will be, how the format will the US Court required? Are there any formats we can follow?

Secondly, Mr Sun  and his client are agree with the legal fee which you mentioned last time, around USD 2000.But since we discuss with our client , the maximum amount they can afford for this lawsuit would be USD 3000, which means that this $3000 should include everything within this lawsuit.Regarding to the payment, we will pay in installment, $3000  will divide into 2 stage, 1st stage will be $1000, once you sign the letter of authorisation, we will soon TT the money into your bank a/c;the rest of amount will be pay once we get the judgement and been executed.

For the letter of authorisation , we hope that ,whether you have a sample or you can draft for us.

Many thanks.

 

Lim Wei Xiang
 Tsinghua University
email: sephiroth_blue88@yahoo.com / xiaoxiang88@gmail.com

 

 

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From: "GAOT@aol.com"
To: sephiroth_blue88@yahoo.com
Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 1:06:46 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: zhangxiaojing inheritance

Wei Xiang,

 

I did have a chance to discuss the issue the Deputy Commissioner (Judge) of St. Louis County. She indicated that since the stocks are the personal property, her probate committee (court) will not have jurisdiction over the issue. Therefore, the foreign judgement needs to be registered with the St. Louis County Circuit Court according to the Hague Convention procedure and requirement.

 

I did some preliminary research and found that Missouri has universal code in registration of a judgement of foreign country. A key evidence will be the due process issue that defendants had a fair change to present them in the court. I look through the judgement again and it does expressly state that both parties were in the hearing, although I believe both the plaintiff and the defendant were there in the court. I wonder if you can ask Mr. Sun to obtain some documentation clearly indicates that the defendants were properly served and they were in the court to argue their case.

 

I will need further dig out the detailed registration format in order to prepare for pleadings. In our region there are not many such cases so the procedure is not commonly used.

 

By the way, I have never mentioned to Mr. Sun about the legal fees and court costs in the proceedings since I did not have the information and did know how much time I have to spend on this case to solve it. Now, I think I have some idea and I estimate that my legal fee will be around $2,000 and the court costs should be additionally a few hundred dollars. I think Mr. Sun should advise his client about the costs to see if they would like to further pursue.

 

Also, down the road, we might also need a notarial copy of the judgement with English translation (wait until I figure out the exact requirement from the Circuit Court).

 

I will update with you once I get more concrete information.

 

 

Tony T. Gao

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In a message dated 8/27/2009 8:35:05 P.M. Central Daylight Time, sephiroth_blue88@yahoo.com writes:

Dear Mr Gao,

 

Is there any latest news?

 

Lim Wei Xiang
 Tsinghua University
email: sephiroth_blue88@yahoo.com / xiaoxiang88@gmail.com

 

 

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From: wei xiang lim
To: GAOT@aol.com
Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 12:56:34 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: zhangxiaojing inheritance

Received.And thanks for your reply.

 

Best Regards

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From: "GAOT@aol.com"
To: sephiroth_blue88@yahoo.com
Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 11:37:39 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: zhangxiaojing inheritance

Should be able to give you a definite answer this week. Hard to get hold of the commissioner of the county court for a preliminary opinion...

 

Tony T. Gao
Attorney At Law
8011 Clayton Road, Suite 200
St. Louis, Missouri 63117
Tel. (314) 725-6788 Ext.11
Fax (314) 725-6677

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In a message dated 8/23/2009 9:01:24 P.M. Central Daylight Time, sephiroth_blue88@yahoo.com writes:

 

Lim Wei Xiang
LLB Yr 2 Tsinghua University
email: sephiroth_blue88@yahoo.com / xiaoxiang88@gmail.com

 

 

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From: wei xiang lim
To:
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 10:35:06 AM
Subject: Re: zhangxiaojing inheritance

Dear Mr Gao,

 

I am Danny Lim, the guy who had sent you the email about XiaoJing Zhang, heritage inheritance case,I was wondering wthether there have any new progresses and update news.

 

Looking forward for your reply. 
 

Danny Lim Wei Xiang
LLB Yr 3 Tsinghua University
email: sephiroth_blue88@yahoo.com / xiaoxiang88@gmail.com

 

 

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From: wei xiang lim
To: GAOT@aol.com
Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 1:29:24 PM
Subject: Re: zhangxiaojing inheritance

Looking forward to your good news.

Many thanks.
 

Danny Lim Wei Xiang

email: sephiroth_blue88@yahoo.com / xiaoxiang88@gmail.com

 

 

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From: "GAOT@aol.com"
To: sephiroth_blue88@yahoo.com
Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 12:17:37 PM
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Denny,

 

Thank you for your email and reminder. I did not forgot Wei Heng law firm's case and I have been checking with the local court to see if we can local probate procedure and directly get something from the judge to facilitate the transfer of the stock accounts. I will probably another week to know for sure.

 

Thank you for your patience.

 

Tony T. Gao
Attorney At Law
8011 Clayton Road, Suite 200
St. Louis, Missouri 63117
Tel. (314) 725-6788 Ext.11
Fax (314) 725-6677

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In a message dated 8/11/2009 7:54:28 A.M. Central Daylight Time, sephiroth_blue88@yahoo.com writes:

 

孙长刚律师,

 

最近一直在与本地法院接恰,上周五终于约见到继承庭首席法官,作了相当具体的交谈,我向他介绍了中国法院判决的大致内容及原,被告双方都正常出庭的证明. 法官也意识到遗产数额相对较小,恐不值正式的美国遗嘱检证程序, 所以他同意我可将中方法律文件译出,他看后可作出本地法院承认中国法院判决的文书, 这样SCOTTRAD可依照行事.

 

我知道此案已拖得很长, 当事人想必着急. 但这种遗产案 (当事人从未到过美国,财产是通过互联网取得,且资产所在地只是在拟定的交易所电子帐户中) 本地法院是第一次遇到. 所以几经交涉才愿意作出上述"特殊"处理. 希望当事人理解.

12/28/2009
邓x继承案转移SCOTTRADE帐户一事已有定论. 美国密苏里州圣路易郡法院遗产继承庭本月15日给SCOTTRADE公司发涵(见附件), 确认北京朝阳区法院2009年5818号民事判决应在本地给予完全的法律效力. SCOTTRADE 今也来信确认其法律部已悉,并嘱国际部遵照执行(详见下面英文部分).

 

请告知继承人还须作以下行为:

 

1. 邓x本人在SCOTTRADE已有帐户,请他确认是否要将他本人所继承的和由他监管的子女所继承的证劵转入他现有的帐户, 还是他要另开新帐户转入? 他是SCOTTRADE现有顾客, 他可直接与SCOTTRADE海外部联系.(联系人张伟民信息见下)

 

2. 继承人桑xx必须开设新帐户方能转入她所继承的现金及证劵. 请她到下列网址下载并填写两个申请表, 签字后将原件直接寄SCOTTRADE,并附上她的护照照片页或身份证影印件. http://chinese.scottrade.com/formscenter/PDF/CForApp_W8Exp.pdf

 

 

 

一并附上遗产帐户的最新报表给当事人. 如有问题请随时联系.

 

此致.

From: wzhang@scottrade.com
To: GAOT@aol.com
CC: jyao@scottrade.com
Sent: 12/28/2009 4:06:05 P.M. Central Standard Time
Subj: RE: Deceased Scottrade Accounts of Xiaojing Zhang No.88987828

 

Dear Attorney Gao,

I submitted the letter to our legal department and obtained approval that we can proceed to division of assets according to the court order.  

Per the Order of the Court, the cash and three securities DGC, HMG, INS are awarded to Sang Huizhen.

Securities ARTW and DCZI are awarded to Deng Jiean, securities GBR and OBCI are awarded to Deng Jiesi. Deng Hua shall have custody and control of all securities awarded to Deng Jiesi and Deng Jiean. All securities not previously mentioned in said account 88987828 are awarded to Deng Hua.

We will need your clients to establish new accounts to receive the assets. Our record indicates that Mr. Hua Deng does have an account with us. We want to know whether he plans to open another account or use the current account to receive the assets. Ms Huizhen Sang will need to open a new account with Scottrade. Please click the link below to download the “International Brokerage Account Application Form” and “W-8BEN form”. The two forms must be received by Scottrade in original.

http://chinese.scottrade.com/formscenter/PDF/CForApp_W8Exp.pdf

We also need a photocopy of her passport or resident ID card.

 

Among the securities mentioned above, the following have undergone reorganization:

 

Old symbol         New symbol

DGC                      DGSE

DCZI                       GLDU

The new cash balance in the account is $6385.55. I am attaching the latest statement (11/2009) for your information.

 

According to the court order, we will transfer all cash and three securities DGSE, HMG, INS to the new account for Huizhen Sang. All the rest will be transferred to Mr Hua Deng’s account because he has custody and control to all securities awarded to Den Jiesi and Den Jiean.

 

Please let us know if you have any objections to the process.

Thank you,

 

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