Isabela's adoption sage; we learned something new recently.  Baixino (shorty), the toerag that is holding up her application, has taken court cases up to the Supreme Court before.  We learned this through going on to the Supreme Court website for Isabela's case.  by the way, quite remarkable how well the Brazilians seem to able access to info.  Not sure whether this is done so well in the Uk or the US.  Anyway, he had some claim regarding compensation or a pension claim some six years ago.  Our Portuguese is not good enough to understand all the legalese but it seems that it was also a case without merit which he was able to pursue at no cost to himself.  I am all for access to justice for all.  But there has to be a limit.