Please help me to face the price of trusting

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About ten years ago I started an small business of software development with some close classmates of the university, we were young, unexperts about business, just ending our studies and trying to start our final project prior graduation. At the beginning the idea seems to be good, we were proud of our skills and we were happy to start, but after just a few months people understood that it was going to be hard and and most of them left, just a partner and me decided to stay hopping to give us a chance to do something by ourselves.

For two years we were working hard, sometimes we could start some projects that gave us an average income, but some other times we wasn't able even to get for the transportation ticket. Those were good but hard years of my life, we kept the faith and we continued working hard till one morning we arrived to the office and found that it was empty! Thiefs broke into the night and robbed all what we had, we didn't had any assurance service so I think it was the end for me.

After that sadly moment I looked back and see that all what I worked for was gone, the time to end my degree project was expired and I lost the chance to get my professional title and to make it worst I was broken. I started to search for an employment at a company, time later I found it and then I talked to my partner, I told him that we needed to close the business by laws; but at that time he wasn't so lucky as me, he was still unemployed and was trying to keep the business alive, he asked me to let him manage it, to be able to work and find an income, so I understood it was also hard for him and I accepted.

For years I asked him how it was going and he always told me that it was ok, he found a job too and was doing some extra money working on some ocasional projects on the name of our old business. All that time I never received any cent for it and I thought it was fair because it was his effort, not mine. For a long time I was only worried that by laws obligations were ok and everytime I asked him for it, he said that it was all in order. A few days ago I received a notification and found that things was not like he said, his taxes declarations of our old business was not well done and we must inmediatly pay a huge penality. I always thought that he was saying the real status, but the price for that trust for me is the fine of about 5000 USD that I must get somehow, even when I havent received any cent for years, and still I will need to hire a lawyer.

For years I have been fighting against my own bills, actually my own debts are almost killing me but I face them working hard and paying them with almost all my salary, even when sometimes the remining money is not enough to buy anything else than coffee. Now that I received that notification I don't know what I can do pay everything, salary will not be enough, I live alone, I have noone close to help me and I have not goods to sell, just my car that if sell it will also not be enough to pay all what I need.

A month ago I also tried to deal with university to resume my career, go back to the classroom and start a new project to get my degree. I will need about 2000 USD more to do it, It is also going to be hard to get the money needed but I was trying to be prepared to face this too. Now with that fine notification, I don't know what to do, maybe I will have to leave my degree dreams once again for maybe 2 or 3 years till I pay all that money.

As you can see, to pay that fine and to not say goodbye to my dreams of a professional degree I need about 7000 USD. I'm not looking for money to pay my old bills because I will do that with my salary as I have always done, I'm just trying to get some help to face that unexpected bill that came to me as result of trusting someone else and to get my professional degree...

What can i do now? I don't really know, I feel frustrated, disappointed, desperated and sometimes honestly wishing to met the end. It is terrible when there isn't anything else to do than sit and wait, see what happen and hope that a miracle come  to my life.

If anyone can help, if anyone wish to support with even a single cent, believe me, it will be totally helpful for me. If you know someone who can help and you want to share my story then feel free to do it. I will never forget the help I receive, and when I end my degree project I will include my special thanks to everyperson who supported me in this moment (just let me know your name).

By heart, thank you all in advance.

Guillermo Hurtado