I do wonder if you are willing to devote the time and money to this if it can be overcome. It would seem that you are outside of do it yourself territory. Do you have a good lawyer and the money necessary to pay them
for a long time? If not, when interviewing I’d ask if they had ever dealt with a case like this and had a successful outcome. If you can’t find a lawyer that had success with this issue you are probably wasting your time and money. Please keep us informed, this issue seems to come up, but we don’t hear back from people.