I do not write about celebrities because honestly, who cares? However, the saga of Pokwang and her American ex-boyfriend Lee O'Brian is certainly worth writing about because of the nasty and all too Filipino turn it has taken.
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| https://entertainment.inquirer.net/492714/pokwang-braces-for-legal-battle-vs-ex-lee-obrian-taps-high-profile-lawyer |
Actress-comedienne Pokwang appeared to be taking her domestic woes with estranged partner Lee O’Brian to court over the custody of and child support for their daughter Malia, after she tapped a high-profile law firm to represent her.
While she did not specifically disclose the case she would be filing, Pokwang was in fighting form when she appeared before the Calinisan Domingo and Beron law offices, where public interest lawyer Ralph Calinisan was a founding partner.
Calinisan is also the boyfriend of actress Dawn Chang, who Pokwang met during the 2022 presidential campaign for former Vice President Leni Robredo.
(Thank you, Atty. Ralph Calinisan. The fight for our future continues. I am not going to give up for you, my daughter Malia. If I can raise my eldest daughter alone, I will continue to work hard and be courageous for you and your older sister.)
Pokwang also uploaded a photo of herself posing with Atty. Calinisan, and her daughters Malia and Ria, on her Instagram Stories.
“Thank you, Atty. @ralph_calinisan lalaban tayo! Bansa ko ang [Pilipinas] so sino ang mag-aadjust? Para kay Malia di ako susuko t*h ka! Wooh! Ang saya sayaaaa,” she wrote on the photo. (Thank you, Atty. Ralph Calinisan. We will fight. The Philippines is my country so who will adjust? For Malia, I will not give up. I’m so happy.)
While the comedienne has yet to reveal the details of their meet-up, it seems that she is aiming for a legal battle for custody against O’Brian, as seen in the comments of her post, where she responded to one of her supporters.
“File child support here [in the U.S because] he’s a US citizen,” one @susan_bq pointed out. O’Brian, who’s currently based in the Philippines, is noted to be a citizen of the U.S.
Pokwang responded, “Tamaaa!!!! (Correct!)”
Calinisan also uploaded the photo of their meet-up on his personal Instagram account, which appeared to have occurred last March 17.
“Alam na this. Salamat po ma’am,” he said in the caption. (You know this. Thank you, ma’am.)
Earlier this month, Pokwang became emotional after a Philippine Airlinesflight attendant approached her to commend her for being a strong mother, during a trip to the U.S.
She also revealed that there’s no stopping her from pushing back against O’Brian, noting that the latter never said sorry for his supposed wrongdoings against her and her children.
What's all too Filipino about this is rather than treating the lawsuit as something serious, somber, and private she is beaming and proud about it. She has even included her children in these pictures with her lawyer.
Years ago I wrote about the lawsuit happy nature of Filipinos and also noted that the same was observed 300 years ago by an Augustinian friar.
50. They are revengeful to an excessive degree—so much so that they are vile and cowardly; and the ministers have great trouble in reconciling them with their enemies; and although they do it through fear, it is never with the whole heart, for this passion has great influence over them. And since they need magnanimity and manliness to overcome it, and these virtues are foreign to them, hate generally forces its roots into them so deeply that it is impossible to eradicate it in a whole lifetime.
This is the reason why they are so inclined to litigation, and to going before the audiencias and courts with their quarrels, in which they willingly spend their possessions for the sole purpose of making others spend theirs and of causing them harm and trouble. For that they are even wont to pledge their sons and daughters.
http://www.philippinehistory.net/views/1720sanagustinb.htm
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