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My husband is currently sharing 50-50 custody with his ex-wife. We are considering taking her back to court to try and gain primary custody of the son, with her paying support. This is in the state of California.
We are planning on basing it on the fact that over the last 1 1/2 yrs, we have had full-time custody of the son for about 14 of those months. We have only had support from her of $40, during this entire time. During the holidays and his birthday, she did not bother to call, send a gift or even a card. During this time, she was living out of state. Now, that she is back in California, she only sees him every other weekend, and does not call during the week to see how he is. She is currently living in a 2 bedroom apt with her parents and brother, her other son (from another marriage) and herself. She does not have a car of her own, but is able to borrow one of her parents usually. She has a job that she claims that she makes good money, eyt when we ask her to help out, she keeps claiming that she has responibilites to pay her parents back money she needed to borrow in order to hire an atty in Michigan. When she moved back to California, my dh told her that they needed to get their son enrolled in school asap, since school had already started...she told him that their son's education was not her priority and that he could wait to start...needless, to say we found a school and got him enrolled. The original court custody battle was rough, but things seemed to be going good, as long as she lived out of state...however, now with her back, we got along pretty good, and still try too. I have helped her out by babysitting her other son and getting her advice on her ongoing custody case back east. We are trying to keep things amicable between so since we do not want the sonto any problems between us and her. His life has been an emotional rollercoaster since birth, and it has been hard on him.
Another thing that has been going on, is that she is currently going through a custody battle back east, regarding her other son...she moved his residence to California, without the fathers permission or any court orders that ok'd it. I have asked about this on these boards before, here is the link to it....
http://bbs.freeadvice.com/ubb/Forum7/HTML/004553.html
If you look at my 2nd or 3rd post, it gives you some better insight than the first post! Would this have any bearing on a custody case going on in California, since it is taken place in another state??
My other questions are: I am wondering what you think the chances are of us getting it, custody and support??? Also, would you recommend an us getting an atty???? Or could this be something we could do on our own???
[This message has been edited by crc9998 (edited October 24, 2000).]
We are planning on basing it on the fact that over the last 1 1/2 yrs, we have had full-time custody of the son for about 14 of those months. We have only had support from her of $40, during this entire time. During the holidays and his birthday, she did not bother to call, send a gift or even a card. During this time, she was living out of state. Now, that she is back in California, she only sees him every other weekend, and does not call during the week to see how he is. She is currently living in a 2 bedroom apt with her parents and brother, her other son (from another marriage) and herself. She does not have a car of her own, but is able to borrow one of her parents usually. She has a job that she claims that she makes good money, eyt when we ask her to help out, she keeps claiming that she has responibilites to pay her parents back money she needed to borrow in order to hire an atty in Michigan. When she moved back to California, my dh told her that they needed to get their son enrolled in school asap, since school had already started...she told him that their son's education was not her priority and that he could wait to start...needless, to say we found a school and got him enrolled. The original court custody battle was rough, but things seemed to be going good, as long as she lived out of state...however, now with her back, we got along pretty good, and still try too. I have helped her out by babysitting her other son and getting her advice on her ongoing custody case back east. We are trying to keep things amicable between so since we do not want the sonto any problems between us and her. His life has been an emotional rollercoaster since birth, and it has been hard on him.
Another thing that has been going on, is that she is currently going through a custody battle back east, regarding her other son...she moved his residence to California, without the fathers permission or any court orders that ok'd it. I have asked about this on these boards before, here is the link to it....
http://bbs.freeadvice.com/ubb/Forum7/HTML/004553.html
If you look at my 2nd or 3rd post, it gives you some better insight than the first post! Would this have any bearing on a custody case going on in California, since it is taken place in another state??
My other questions are: I am wondering what you think the chances are of us getting it, custody and support??? Also, would you recommend an us getting an atty???? Or could this be something we could do on our own???
[This message has been edited by crc9998 (edited October 24, 2000).]