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What is the name of your state? SC
Some of you may remember me
- please read entire post for whole story including update -
I am the crazy mom that wanted their kids to stay at their present school even though their father
had moved two counties away and had enrolled them in a different school than they had ben going to since 1999 - k4 and k5 and now going into 6th, 3rd, and k5 grades....
READ BELOW - on new info....
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Should I wait on the judge?
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Thinking of not letting kids go to father's until there is an answer due to their father making them go to 'new' school they don't want to go to... and I could lose case due to 'fait accompli' - meaning if they start school there, then I lose by the mere fact they started school there and then I don't have an argument. Judge hasn't said one way or another....
"If the judge doesn't come back with a decision before the public school starts in his new town, should I make them go to this new school - (they don't want to go to school there) or should I wait on the judge?"
What is the name of your state? SC
What would you guys do? My ex has moved to a different county and heas enrolled the kids in the school close to him so he doesn't have to get them to school where they have always gone to school - although he works over here and commutes to work every day this way. He wants the kids to go to school where his new wife's kids go to school so they dont' have to be bothered with the trouble of getting kids to different schools.
I asked the courts to look at this case but the judge hasn't gotten back to us on his answer. My ex's school starts this Thursday, whereas the school they have been attending doesn't start until August 25th - 3 weeks later.
If the judge doesn't come back with a decision before the public school starts in his new town, should I make them go to this new school - (they don't want to go to school there) or should I wait on the judge?
I have them enrolled here and he has them enrolled there.
I've told him that I would take them to school and pick them up eavery day if he would just allow them to go to school where they have been going but he says no. What I don't understand is why he is so against them going to school here where they have been going for so long. He works here and can drop them off at my house every day and I can get them to school. His new wife works 10 mins from my house and I can pick them up from her if not from him, but he still refuses. He has the address for school purposes clause in our 50/50 legal and physical custody because he lived in a better school district than me at the time but now he has moved. the kids can still go to this school because it is a private school - so it doesn't matter where you live - you can still go there - but if they were to go to public schools, that is where the clause in our custody agreeement would matter so that they could have gone to the better of the 2 schools.
He is not paying for the private school, my mom and I are. He doesn't pay for the school tuition and he doesn't pay child support.
He is just being difficult. He and his new wife work over here but choose o live in a town 40 mins away - they can live where they want to - but they both work over here - and they can get the kids to school over here too but choose not to.
What should I do?
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WE WON! WE WON! WE WON! WE WON!!!
The temporary decision came in 3 and a half hours ago....
Temporary order states that joint custody - 50/50 physical and legal custody stays the same but that the kids don't need to change schools at this point - THEY GET TO STAY AT THEIR OLD SCHOOL!!!! YES!!!
NOW WHAT????
Some of you may remember me
- please read entire post for whole story including update -
I am the crazy mom that wanted their kids to stay at their present school even though their father
had moved two counties away and had enrolled them in a different school than they had ben going to since 1999 - k4 and k5 and now going into 6th, 3rd, and k5 grades....
READ BELOW - on new info....
-------------------------------------------------
Should I wait on the judge?
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Thinking of not letting kids go to father's until there is an answer due to their father making them go to 'new' school they don't want to go to... and I could lose case due to 'fait accompli' - meaning if they start school there, then I lose by the mere fact they started school there and then I don't have an argument. Judge hasn't said one way or another....
"If the judge doesn't come back with a decision before the public school starts in his new town, should I make them go to this new school - (they don't want to go to school there) or should I wait on the judge?"
What is the name of your state? SC
What would you guys do? My ex has moved to a different county and heas enrolled the kids in the school close to him so he doesn't have to get them to school where they have always gone to school - although he works over here and commutes to work every day this way. He wants the kids to go to school where his new wife's kids go to school so they dont' have to be bothered with the trouble of getting kids to different schools.
I asked the courts to look at this case but the judge hasn't gotten back to us on his answer. My ex's school starts this Thursday, whereas the school they have been attending doesn't start until August 25th - 3 weeks later.
If the judge doesn't come back with a decision before the public school starts in his new town, should I make them go to this new school - (they don't want to go to school there) or should I wait on the judge?
I have them enrolled here and he has them enrolled there.
I've told him that I would take them to school and pick them up eavery day if he would just allow them to go to school where they have been going but he says no. What I don't understand is why he is so against them going to school here where they have been going for so long. He works here and can drop them off at my house every day and I can get them to school. His new wife works 10 mins from my house and I can pick them up from her if not from him, but he still refuses. He has the address for school purposes clause in our 50/50 legal and physical custody because he lived in a better school district than me at the time but now he has moved. the kids can still go to this school because it is a private school - so it doesn't matter where you live - you can still go there - but if they were to go to public schools, that is where the clause in our custody agreeement would matter so that they could have gone to the better of the 2 schools.
He is not paying for the private school, my mom and I are. He doesn't pay for the school tuition and he doesn't pay child support.
He is just being difficult. He and his new wife work over here but choose o live in a town 40 mins away - they can live where they want to - but they both work over here - and they can get the kids to school over here too but choose not to.
What should I do?
------------------------------------------------
WE WON! WE WON! WE WON! WE WON!!!
The temporary decision came in 3 and a half hours ago....
Temporary order states that joint custody - 50/50 physical and legal custody stays the same but that the kids don't need to change schools at this point - THEY GET TO STAY AT THEIR OLD SCHOOL!!!! YES!!!
NOW WHAT????
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