Does anyone have any advice on coping?

I know that my family is SO not alone in having a small business that looks like it will close but that still doesn’t help how I’m feeling.

I don’t want to go bankrupt. That would screw over a lot of people and taxes still fall on the individual corporate shareholders so even if we go under, we’ll just get absolutely raped by the city, state, county, and fed.

Everything keeps going up and down. One day we are told that we’ll get dispatches for work then the next it is no news… The strike back in July really fu*ked us, we weren’t part of the union but everyone else on the job site but us was on strike so that meant no work for us either.

This b*tch that runs our newest customer has no idea what the hell she is doing and apparently doesn’t realize that everyone on a job site TALKS TO EACH OTHER so we know that yesterday, today, and tomorrow this one job needs 6 trucks but she is only dispatching 3 trucks to the site, her own trucks, and screwing the people on site AND us because they won’t get everything done on schedule and we don’t get a dispatch. We got this customer through another one that LLOOVVEESS us. Every crew specifically request us because we know what the hell we are doing but they are out of funds until the start of the next fiscal year so they CAN’T give us work. They were our reference with this new company so it isn’t as if they aren’t using us because we do sh*t work.

For the life of us we can’t figure out why this chick is screwing her own customers by only giving them 3 trucks when they NEED 6!

I did the billing for October yesterday and the grand total income for the month of October was about ,000.00. We have highly variable months but our "worst" month in the last two years, before October, was ,000.00 and at best ,000.00.

I have no idea how we will stay in business at all 2 months from now when we need to start thinking of plates and renewed insurance when we have ,000.00. I’m not even sure how we’ll pay for my father’s meds and rent come the ,000.00 month.

I’m just so worried and depressed. I can’t sleep, I wake up with panic attacks and I’m down to half of an alprazolam (xanax) and I can’t afford to go back to the doctor for a refill.

I’m just so not sure what to do or how to cope.

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….after you get sued for building a faulty house for someone. The judge is in favour of the plaintiff, whose house you built. He rules that you must pay them ,000 to compensate for the cracks in the ceilings & walls and various other mishaps. You then, like a b*tch, file for bankruptcy. Don’t know how to phrase this, but: your claim for bankruptcy is accepted.
Replace the you with defendant. What prompts me to ask this is that the defendant walked out of court saying "You’re not getting one cent" to the plaintiff. Which, for comedic effect, i will add that he got punched in the face :L
Questions:
1) How does the plaintiff get his compensation, in civil law or whatever area of law? Are there alternative ways to gain compensation for this issue other than suing? Obviously the suing did not work out? Like for e.g. in criminal cases you can go to the Victims Compensation Tribunal if suing civilly does not work in your interests.
2) Does the defendant (in bankruptcy) have to sell all his assets and every cent of his future income goes to paying the defendant the compensation? Its only fair..
3) Does he get off scott free?

Thanks in advance Would appreciate it if any lawyers on yahoo could lend a hand in releasing me from confusion and unknowledgability.

Ps. The jurisdicton is NSW, Australia.

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