{"id":16653,"date":"2011-10-31T05:55:14","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T05:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=16653"},"modified":"2011-10-31T05:55:14","modified_gmt":"2011-10-31T05:55:14","slug":"former-judge-bellas-sues-client","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/former-judge-bellas-sues-client\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Judge Bellas sues client"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By Ferdie de la Torre<br \/>\nReporter<\/div>\n<p>Former Superior Court associate judge and now practicing attorney Timothy H. Bellas is suing a client in a paternity case for allegedly refusing to pay attorney&#8217;s fee and costs amounting to $8,024.14.<\/p>\n<p>Bellas wants the Superior Court to order Ray S. Tenorio to pay him the attorney&#8217;s fee, costs, and interest.<\/p>\n<p>Saipan Tribune tried but failed to contact Tenorio.<\/p>\n<p>Bellas stated in the complaint that Tenorio entered into an agreement for legal representation with him in May 2005 in connection with a then pending paternity action.<\/p>\n<p>Bellas said the matter is now done but Tenorio has yet to pay him for his legal services despite receipt of monthly billing statements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ferdie de la Torre Reporter Former Superior Court associate judge and now practicing attorney&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}