NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The Perry March case didn’t end with his being found guilty of killing his wife Janet. He has filed a handwritten lawsuit in federal court hoping to get his children sent back to Mexico.

March is in jail after being convicted of killing his wife Janet March in a much publicized trial that concluded in August.

The papers reveal how much he paid his attorneys, whether he’s hiding money in Mexico and other foreign holdings and also how his former father-in-law, Larry Levine, feels about what has transpired.

March has asked a federal judge to send his children Sami and Tzipi back to Mexico to live with his wife Carmen.

He is trying to use the Hague Convention -- an international law that helps parents retrieve their children from another country.

He has asked to do this as a man too poor to pay a filing fee; March told the court he only has $230 to his name.

The Levines answered the lawsuit by claiming that March is lying.

Some of the recorded phone conversations between March and family members while he was in prison didn’t make the trial, but are now part of public record.

The recordings challenge March’s claim that he is a pauper.

Homicide detective Bill Pridemore’s transcript of a conversation between Perry March and Carmen March reveal that Perry March told Carmen March that she would be happy when he told her about his family’s finances “because it will take a lot of pressure off of you …”

In other conversations, Perry March talked about trying to transfer property into Carmen March’s name. He also mentions $16,000 in a bank account and a condo he sold for $80,000.

March told the court in his lawsuit that Ed Fowlkes represented him for free in the theft trial and also that the murder for hire trial was for free and that he gave the money he made from the condo to Bill Massey and John Herbison for the murder trial.

Pridemore said he heard Ron March tell Perry March that “John Herbison and Bill Massey are taken care of. We are paying enormous sums of money every day on all the cases. John Herbison and Bill Massey are the ones that have $100,000 sitting around in their accounts."

Kathy Breitowich, Perry March’s sister, said, “Dad called, Carmen (March) got $10,000 for that Ed Fowlkes."

The Levines said Perry March kept the $80,000 condo money and that he's not poor, he mentions a $16,000 bank account, and some other big things he can't talk about.

They contend that the lawsuit should be thrown out for that alone.

The Hague Convention has never been used when the kids and parents are living in the same country.

Carmen March is a stepmother if the marriage is legal.

Sami is now 16 and too old for the Hague Convention.

Levine's statement in this suit is one of the more personal statements he has made.

“After the trial, Carolyn and I were spent -- physically and emotionally exhausted. After the verdict we were looking forward, after 10 years of fighting brutality and destruction, to finally going on with our lives; To properly mourning for our daughter, to buying a stone for her at the cemetery even though we do not have her body to bury under it and to working hard at healing two scarred but amazingly resilient and happy children, freed forever from the demands of an unrepentant sociopath,” he said.

Larry Levine continues to say he’s retired, saying that he only worked four hours last year.

He said he needed relief from someone who has nothing better to do than sit in jail and cook up different ways to sue him.

The judge has not made any rulings on the case.

She said she may allow Perry March a couple of weeks to respond to these latest filings.