What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Indiana
My husband has a son (10) from a previous marriage. His mother makes it almost impossible to see him, especially if we aren't catering to her. She moved 45 minutes away a few years ago without notifying us, we didn't find her for 6 months. After finding her, she expects us to do all of the driving, to and from visitation. As long as my husband complies...she's ok with letting us see him most of the time. He has court-ordered joint legal custody, yet she informs the school to not allow us access to any of his information and has listed her boyfriend as his father. He has also been granted summer visitation...she always starts withholding visitation around Spring Break so as to not comply with the summer break. Whenever we go a long time without seeing him, she blames her son for not wanting to come over. She tells us that she lets him make his own decisions and that she can't force him to do anything. Legally, she has to force him though, right? We know that it is her, not him that is the one against him seeing his dad. She forces him to call her boyfriend "dad" and my husband by his first name.
Yesterday was my stepson's birthday. My husband called him to tell him Happy Birthday. His mother wouldn't answer the phone and eventually sent a text telling us that "___ doesn't want to talk to you". Isn't that a violation?
She has done so many things over the 2.5 years that I've been in his life that are just down-right asking for trouble with the law. We need to file contempt charges on her. I feel that this is the only way that she will finally do what's right. The problem is that there is no way, through any means, that we could afford a lawyer. Is there a way to file contempt charges directly through the courts?
My husband has a son (10) from a previous marriage. His mother makes it almost impossible to see him, especially if we aren't catering to her. She moved 45 minutes away a few years ago without notifying us, we didn't find her for 6 months. After finding her, she expects us to do all of the driving, to and from visitation. As long as my husband complies...she's ok with letting us see him most of the time. He has court-ordered joint legal custody, yet she informs the school to not allow us access to any of his information and has listed her boyfriend as his father. He has also been granted summer visitation...she always starts withholding visitation around Spring Break so as to not comply with the summer break. Whenever we go a long time without seeing him, she blames her son for not wanting to come over. She tells us that she lets him make his own decisions and that she can't force him to do anything. Legally, she has to force him though, right? We know that it is her, not him that is the one against him seeing his dad. She forces him to call her boyfriend "dad" and my husband by his first name.
Yesterday was my stepson's birthday. My husband called him to tell him Happy Birthday. His mother wouldn't answer the phone and eventually sent a text telling us that "___ doesn't want to talk to you". Isn't that a violation?
She has done so many things over the 2.5 years that I've been in his life that are just down-right asking for trouble with the law. We need to file contempt charges on her. I feel that this is the only way that she will finally do what's right. The problem is that there is no way, through any means, that we could afford a lawyer. Is there a way to file contempt charges directly through the courts?