Home     Law Advice     Insurance Advice     Community    
Go Back   FreeAdvice Legal Forum > FAMILY LAW > Child Custody & Visitation

Powered by Attorney Pages


  Find An Attorney In Your Area    
 

Reply
 
LinkBack Thread Tools Rate Thread Display Modes
  #31  
Old 11-06-2009, 12:44 PM
Junior Member
 
Join Date: Nov 2009
Posts: 13
Quote:
Originally Posted by mdgtfrmhll View Post
You say you are worried that dad's family would have him keep the kids, but if dad's family were so gung ho about having the kids, why didn't they have dad file papers the minute you left for divorce and temporary custody and ask to have the children returned? You might be saying you are willing to let dad have the kids for Thanksgiving, so gracious of you by the way, but your actions do not show the same.

If you are so worried about the children not being returned, but at the same time want dad to have access to the kids, why don't you ask for a few days off in a row, and accompany the kids to dads. By your own words you get along, you are still married, so take your kids, sleep on the couch and let dad spend the holiday with the kids.
My actions? I haven't done anything! Why should I be the one to make sure he gets them when he could come here. I have to work so I can support my children. That is a good thing! Why can't he come here? Why do I have to do it? If he wanted them then why couldn't he do something.
  #32  
Old 11-06-2009, 12:44 PM
Member
 
Join Date: Aug 2008
Posts: 239
Quote:
Would you want your children around that, no I'm sure you wouldn't
I wouldn't have had children with someone like that therefore would not have that problem (and don't)
__________________
That's exackly how I do it.
  #33  
Old 11-06-2009, 12:48 PM
Junior Member
 
Join Date: Nov 2009
Posts: 13
It all started after he came back from Iraq after we already had kids. So don't judge me!
  #34  
Old 11-06-2009, 12:49 PM
Member
 
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: California
Posts: 57
I don't get why you say I am trying to keep them from him. If that was the case then I wouldn't be taking them to him.

When are you taking them?

I just know how he was with out children while we were together. He is not a very good father, and has a problem with drinking at times.

You chose him to be the father. You even allowed him to adopt your first child. Now he isn't good enough?

I do think that is grounds for me to want to make sure that I keep custody of them. Would you want your children around that, no I'm sure you wouldn't.

You have allowed it. A judge will want to know why now that he isn't good enough, but when you had him adopt your first child you felt he was father material. You also had a child with him.

I could just keep them and not let him see them at all because of that very reason. I am not doing that. I do not feel it is a safe place for my children to be 24/7 365 days a year.

No, you couldn't do that. All he has to do is file for custody, and he will receive some form if it, regardless of how you feel. He is the legal father of those kids, and when you file for divorce in January, you can expect just that to happen, if he hasn't filed for divorce where he lives before that, which he can do.

If people don't understand that I am just trying to make sure they are safe then don't even reply to my post. I do want them to see their father and have a relationship with him. They do need that! I do not think it makes me a bad person to want to keep custody of them, which is what everyone here is trying to make me out to be. I come here for advice and get almost nothing but problems and calling me names.

You were given advice. The fact that you didn't like the advice doesn't take away from the fact that it was given to you. I don't recall anyone calling you names.

I am just thinking about the safety of my children. The same thing that everyone else here would do also! He suffers from PTSD and I don't think that is something they need to be with on a daily basis! Call me bad, or whatever I don't care. I just want my children safe and I think that makes me a great mother. If I didn't care then I would let them just go and not worry about it. So STOP saying I am keeping them from seeing him. He could have came here to see them if he wanted. I wouldn't have stopped him. I even asked him to come down back in August and he said he was way to busy.

You are the one who moved with the children. You should be the one providing the transportation, not him. If you honestly want the children to see their father, than take them to see him. You can tell everyone you want the children to see their father all you want, but until your actions actually show that, it's nothing more than hot air.

Last edited by mdgtfrmhll; 11-06-2009 at 12:59 PM.
  #35  
Old 11-06-2009, 12:58 PM
Member
 
Join Date: Aug 2008
Posts: 239
BTW if you do receive custody be prepared to pay all travel expenses for the children since you moved.
__________________
That's exackly how I do it.
  #36  
Old 11-06-2009, 04:15 PM
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Massachusetts
Posts: 14,041
Quote:
Originally Posted by Dogmatique View Post
I’m the dandy highwayman who you’re too scared to mention
I spend my cash on looking flash and grabbing your attention...


(that is all)
I actually LOVe that song.
__________________
~A 8 a.m. bus-stop conversation~

"So Lil'Blue...Did you like the DVDs I got for you at the library?"
"Yes...I did!"
"Did you learn any interesting facts about the animals on the movie (Nation Geographic)?"
"Yes...I did learn interesting things!"
"Would you share with me an interesting fact?"
"Wellll....I learned that Naked Mole Rats are WICKED naked!"

~~~~~~~
  #37  
Old 11-06-2009, 04:21 PM
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Weigh a pie...
Posts: 6,692
Quote:
Originally Posted by Blue Meanie View Post
I actually LOVe that song.
Somewhere there exists a photo of me, prancing about a la Adam, resplendent in flamboyant highwaywoman garb....and with a white stripe painted across my face. I kid you not.

I will use anything within my means to make sure that one doesn't resurface

(and don't even get me started with Jolly Roger....)
__________________
*****************************


When you can't bear something but it goes on anyway, the person who survives isn't you anymore; you've changed and become someone else, a new person, the one who did bear it after all.
— Austin Grossman

Quote:
Salagadoola mechicka boola bibbidi-bobbidi-boo
  #38  
Old 11-06-2009, 04:39 PM
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Nov 2007
Posts: 8,542
Quote:
Originally Posted by Dogmatique View Post
Somewhere there exists a photo of me, prancing about a la Adam, resplendent in flamboyant highwaywoman garb....and with a white stripe painted across my face. I kid you not.

I will use anything within my means to make sure that one doesn't resurface

(and don't even get me started with Jolly Roger....)
i really REALLY wish i was a cartoonist......that would be such an awesome picture!
  #39  
Old 11-06-2009, 05:17 PM
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Massachusetts
Posts: 14,041
Quote:
Originally Posted by Dogmatique View Post
Somewhere there exists a photo of me, prancing about a la Adam, resplendent in flamboyant highwaywoman garb....and with a white stripe painted across my face. I kid you not.

I will use anything within my means to make sure that one doesn't resurface

(and don't even get me started with Jolly Roger....)
I'm gonna sue you for the pain and suffering that visual gave me...Really. I am on the phone with my therapists answering service, hoping she will call and prevent me from slitting my wrist from the brain movie of your comment...Shame on you. SHAME!
__________________
~A 8 a.m. bus-stop conversation~

"So Lil'Blue...Did you like the DVDs I got for you at the library?"
"Yes...I did!"
"Did you learn any interesting facts about the animals on the movie (Nation Geographic)?"
"Yes...I did learn interesting things!"
"Would you share with me an interesting fact?"
"Wellll....I learned that Naked Mole Rats are WICKED naked!"

~~~~~~~
  #40  
Old 11-06-2009, 05:17 PM
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Iowa
Posts: 1,741
Quote:
Originally Posted by IsabellaSoriano View Post
i really REALLY wish i was a cartoonist......that would be such an awesome picture!
If I [comic] strip for you will you [comic] strip for me?


Don't worry, Bella...I'm not actually propositioning you. I've just had that song stuck in my head since Adam Ant was mentioned.
__________________
It's not a slam at you when people are rude -- it's a slam at the people they've met before.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Last Tycoon

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
-- Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride
  #41  
Old 11-06-2009, 05:19 PM
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Massachusetts
Posts: 14,041
Quote:
Originally Posted by proud_parent View Post
If I [comic] strip for you will you [comic] strip for me?


Don't worry, Bella...I'm not actually propositioning you. I've just had that song stuck in my head since Adam Ant was mentioned.
Staaand and deliver...Your money or your life...

Me too...
__________________
~A 8 a.m. bus-stop conversation~

"So Lil'Blue...Did you like the DVDs I got for you at the library?"
"Yes...I did!"
"Did you learn any interesting facts about the animals on the movie (Nation Geographic)?"
"Yes...I did learn interesting things!"
"Would you share with me an interesting fact?"
"Wellll....I learned that Naked Mole Rats are WICKED naked!"

~~~~~~~
  #42  
Old 11-06-2009, 05:21 PM
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Weigh a pie...
Posts: 6,692
Quote:
Originally Posted by proud_parent View Post
If I [comic] strip for you will you [comic] strip for me?


Don't worry, Bella...I'm not actually propositioning you. I've just had that song stuck in my head since Adam Ant was mentioned.

Adam Ant was NOT responsible for that "strip for me" monstrosity

(That would be Man Parrish)

Adam has done some dodgy things in the past but c'mon...give the dude a break
__________________
*****************************


When you can't bear something but it goes on anyway, the person who survives isn't you anymore; you've changed and become someone else, a new person, the one who did bear it after all.
— Austin Grossman

Quote:
Salagadoola mechicka boola bibbidi-bobbidi-boo
  #43  
Old 11-06-2009, 05:21 PM
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Weigh a pie...
Posts: 6,692
Quote:
Originally Posted by Blue Meanie View Post
I'm gonna sue you for the pain and suffering that visual gave me...Really. I am on the phone with my therapists answering service, hoping she will call and prevent me from slitting my wrist from the brain movie of your comment...Shame on you. SHAME!
I plead the 5th.

(with tonic and a slice of lime, thanks!)
__________________
*****************************


When you can't bear something but it goes on anyway, the person who survives isn't you anymore; you've changed and become someone else, a new person, the one who did bear it after all.
— Austin Grossman

Quote:
Salagadoola mechicka boola bibbidi-bobbidi-boo
  #44  
Old 11-06-2009, 05:34 PM
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Iowa
Posts: 1,741
Quote:
Originally Posted by Dogmatique View Post
Adam Ant was NOT responsible for that "strip for me" monstrosity

(That would be Man Parrish)

Adam has done some dodgy things in the past but c'mon...give the dude a break
I beg to differ. I don't claim to know who gets the songwriting credit (or blame, as the case may be), but I know that Adam Ant did record a song titled "Strip" and released it as a single. I've got it on cassette tape somewhere, MTV: Class Of 1983.

Maybe you've blocked it from memory because the BBC banned it. Prudes.

ETA: Googled Man Parrish. Definitely not the same song. The Adam Ant one is positively cerebral by comparison.
__________________
It's not a slam at you when people are rude -- it's a slam at the people they've met before.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Last Tycoon

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
-- Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride

Last edited by proud_parent; 11-06-2009 at 05:42 PM.
  #45  
Old 11-06-2009, 05:46 PM
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Weigh a pie...
Posts: 6,692
Quote:
Originally Posted by proud_parent View Post
I beg to differ. I don't claim to know who gets the songwriting credit (or blame, as the case may be), but I know that Adam Ant did record a song titled "Strip" and released it as a single. I've got it on cassette tape somewhere, MTV: Class Of 1983.

Maybe you've blocked it from memory because the BBC banned it. Prudes.
PRUDES?! Honey you know that's not true - heavens we have topless page 3 girls! You get "fried eggs" with your fried eggs in the morning newspapers!

Good heavens

Quote:
ETA: Googled Man Parrish. Definitely not the same song. The Adam Ant one is positively cerebral by comparison.



*Snort*
__________________
*****************************


When you can't bear something but it goes on anyway, the person who survives isn't you anymore; you've changed and become someone else, a new person, the one who did bear it after all.
— Austin Grossman

Quote:
Salagadoola mechicka boola bibbidi-bobbidi-boo
Reply



Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
 
Thread Tools
Display Modes Rate This Thread
Rate This Thread:

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is Off
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are On
Pingbacks are On
Refbacks are On
Forum Jump

All times are GMT -5. The time now is 10:23 PM.



IMPORTANT NOTICE
THE VIEWS EXPRESSED ON THIS PAGE WERE NOT REVIEWED BY THE EDITORIAL STAFF OR ATTORNEYS AT FREEADVICE.COM. Thousands of professionally prepared and reviewed questions and answers in 130 legal categories are to be found at the Question and Answer pages at FreeAdvice.com.

F
reeAdvice Forums are intended to enable consumers to benefit from the experience of other consumers who have faced similar legal issues. FreeAdvice does NOT vouch for or warrant the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any posting or the qualifications of any person responding. Use of the Forums is subject to our Terms and Conditions which prohibit advertisements, solicitations or other commercial messages, or false, defamatory, abusive, vulgar, or harassing messages, and subject violators to a fee for each improper posting. All postings reflect the views of the author but become the property of FreeAdvice. Information on FreeAdvice or a Forum should not be relied upon and is not a substitute for advice from an attorney licensed in your jurisdiction who you have retained to represent you. To locate an attorney visit AttorneyPages.com. Copyright since 1995 by Advice Company. All Rights Reserved.