CHAPTER 8
"This will be easy," Nelda assured me with a smile after returning her phone to her purse. "You can use the complaint the Department filed as a template."
"If it's so easy, why don't you--"
"--I can't, Jamie, this is your area. You know how to set up the paternity test."
"You're being a bit optimistic, Nelda. We have to serve him first. I had a case where a guy was being supported by his mother and I needed to depose her, but every time the process server got close she took off running. Spry old lady."
Nelda looked rattled. "Did you get her?"
"Eventually, but we had to trick her." I laughed. "Not me, of course. It's better if I don't know the details. Plausible deniability," I said. "Plus I don't run that fast."
"Do you have a process server we can use?'' she asked. "Someb
