how long can divorce be delayed?

[av8r]

My fiance's ex is fighting their divorce. she started proceedings abt 18 months ago but it still hasn't gone through as he is contesting it. He called me the other night as she is moving in with me and tried to tell me a bunch of lies about her saying that they are not legally seperated or divorced and he will never allow it to happen. He won't let the son visit his mother when she is with me and told me that the four year old said "I can't wait until I am olderr so I can get my dadies gun and shoot pooh (which is what he calls me) so I can get my mommie back.

The guns reportedly belonged to his father who died 15 years ago.

The father served five years in prison in the '80s before he and my fiance met. He has finally admitted to it and says it was for raping his first ex wife but others say it was for raping his foster children. He also owes over $30k in back child support to his two natural children.

He claimed that his lawyer has drawn up a lawsuit against me for $250,000 supposedly for joining my fiance on a vacation to visit her family that she had already planned.

I now have a PI looking into his background and preliminary results show that he has been using at least four different social security numbers to hide income from debt collectors, IRS and those he owes child support to. By claiming he doesn't have any income he avoids makeing payments.

My questions are:

• Does he have the right to sue me?
• How long can he delay the divorce?
• Does he have a right to prevent the child from seeing his mother?
• How did he get a passport to travel over seas with a felony conviction?
• Why is he allowed to have guns if he is a convicted felon?
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[LegalBeagle]

My fiance's ex is fighting their divorce. she started proceedings abt 18 months ago but it still hasn't gone through as he is contesting it. He called me the other night as she is moving in with me and tried to tell me a bunch of lies about her saying that they are not legally seperated or divorced and he will never allow it to happen. He won't let the son visit his mother when she is with me and told me that the four year old said "I can't wait until I am olderr so I can get my dadies gun and shoot pooh (which is what he calls me) so I can get my mommie back.

The guns reportedly belonged to his father who died 15 years ago.

The father served five years in prison in the '80s before he and my fiance met. He has finally admitted to it and says it was for raping his first ex wife but others say it was for raping his foster children. He also owes over $30k in back child support to his two natural children.

He claimed that his lawyer has drawn up a lawsuit against me for $250,000 supposedly for joining my fiance on a vacation to visit her family that she had already planned.

I now have a PI looking into his background and preliminary results show that he has been using at least four different social security numbers to hide income from debt collectors, IRS and those he owes child support to. By claiming he doesn't have any income he avoids makeing payments.

My questions are:

• Does he have the right to sue me?
• How long can he delay the divorce?
• Does he have a right to prevent the child from seeing his mother?
• How did he get a passport to travel over seas with a felony conviction?
• Why is he allowed to have guns if he is a convicted felon?
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  I have a question for you... what on earth is the mother doing through all this? Why does he not have an attorney and have the child living with her? With his record, there is no way the child should be in his care..

 

[av8r]

I hired a private investigator to document and find out the facts last night. Once that is done she will give it to her divorce lawyer. While I was there the PI discovered the four SSN's and I am having her check county records for two counties in New Jersey and one in Virginia.

When I showed what I had to my fiance last night she almost went into shock. She knows so little about who and what this man is. All she had before was hearsay and suspicions. She couldn't figure out how he got a passport to go to asia and marry her if he was a convicted felon.

 

[LegalBeagle]

Then her route is clear, gather the evidence and then hand it over to either her attorney, the SS office and/or the police. Forget about what the husband wants or is telling her, she should be filing for immediate temporary custody and proceding onwards with her attorney.