motion to change custody

[greendog999]

this is wisconsin. in july of this year i went back to court and got sole legal and sole physical custody of my son. i have been divorced 3 years. ex-wife got drunk and hit child on a visitation, and police got involved. many years of documented alcoholism.
1 month later after a few weeks of sobriety i got an affadavit to appear in cout again. she wants joint legal custody and visits back. what i am wondering is if she can continue taking me back to court until she finds a judge or court commishioner to give her what she wants or is there a law stating that there has to be a specific time frame before the court will entertain another motion?

 

[kuiperinc]

in new york state, at least 8 years ago, a person could file for custody every six months, or until the judges got tired of hearing the case. good luck!

 

[jeanine]

Really Kuiperinc?!

I'd be interested in hearing more about those cases in NY. My hubby is considering going for custody after 8 years of denied visitations by ex who is a PSYCHO! Please let me know of any additional info you may have or where I can look this up! Thanks....

 

[kuiperinc]

jeanine

jeanine,

1st i'm not a lawyer. however what happened in orange county, ny in 1992. my now x of 3 yrs, where handed over his 2 children in 1/2 hr notice. Mother continuously arressted on drug charges.
anyway, they lived with us for about a year., in and out of the courts while she was in and out of jail. The childrens ages were 8 and almost 13 when they left. the mother had raised them with and without my now x for most of their life at that time. they missed 98 out of 180 school days. NYS dropped the ball on finding her unfit. She got out jail and filed for custody. NY gives children their own attorney. They of course loved their mother and their 3 other siblings from the mothers previous marriage and wanted to return to her. Our attorney, out of goshen ny told us that, because the state didn't find her on fit. She could file for custody in ny state every six months, eventually the judge could get tired of hearing it and tell her to stop, however she has the right to file. In the end, to make it short, the children have been basically in and out of foster care since then because she's so messed up and my x wasn't a fighter.