bonkers101
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Texas -
Ex had 7 yr old son for summer - May 26th to July 9th, this would have been their first full summer together.
Got a call from ex on Thursday at 8PM that I needed to come pick up son. Ex and new wife got into a fight and it got physical, ex took off with their two yr old son who they were physically fighting over (like tug-o-war), leaving OUR son standing on the porch watching the whole thing. Apparently ex had been drinking. 911 was called, but no report was taken except for an APB issued for ex as he was drinking with a toddler in the car and no car seat.
Ex's wife called and after talking to both ex AND his wife, it was decided a friend of mine would pick up my son who lived closer, so I could get him out of the situation faster. (we live 250 miles from each other)
Friend picks up son, brings him all the way home. Son is terrified, has never been around any kind of altercation. The fight was over his wife walking up on ex quizzing son about me and apparently bad mouthing me pretty bad. (according to her and son) Now son even feels somewhat responsible.
Ex has not called at all, it is now Saturday. I do know he did end up taking the baby back to his wife and she claims they are filing for divorce, though I have a feeling she will play the victim role for a while, she already sounded defeated by him and had back tracked on her decision to file the assault charges.
I emailed my attorney - we had a court date for June 22nd, so we are going to ask for a new trial at that time.
In the meantime she said I need to file for supervised visits until he undergoes a physcological evaluation.
Sorry - now for the questions....
1. Legally what good does an evaluation do? I personally think he is nutso, but I'm not sure an evaluation is going to find anything medical that would change his visits with his son. He makes very very poor choices but that doesn't make him insane.
2. We live 250 miles from each other, I didn't even think to ask how we would go about doing supervised visits? I will ask my attorney next week, but am hoping someone may know of a situation like this and could advise?
3. Any legal or even personal advice would help.....I'm at a loss. Dad and son have had a VERY difficult time building a relationship because dad is just not a very nice person and attacks me constantly. He has now started attacking son and son is terrified of going back. He was SO concerned about his half-brother and his step-mother. If this is going to be a long drawn out battle with nothing happening in the end except re-instating his normal visits, I would like to know what to do to facilitate a proper relationship between father and son. I don't know if this is the right decision to charge forward with supervised visits and evaluations etc....but i don't know how to protect son either....I CANNOT send my son back to such an unstable environment.
Ex had 7 yr old son for summer - May 26th to July 9th, this would have been their first full summer together.
Got a call from ex on Thursday at 8PM that I needed to come pick up son. Ex and new wife got into a fight and it got physical, ex took off with their two yr old son who they were physically fighting over (like tug-o-war), leaving OUR son standing on the porch watching the whole thing. Apparently ex had been drinking. 911 was called, but no report was taken except for an APB issued for ex as he was drinking with a toddler in the car and no car seat.
Ex's wife called and after talking to both ex AND his wife, it was decided a friend of mine would pick up my son who lived closer, so I could get him out of the situation faster. (we live 250 miles from each other)
Friend picks up son, brings him all the way home. Son is terrified, has never been around any kind of altercation. The fight was over his wife walking up on ex quizzing son about me and apparently bad mouthing me pretty bad. (according to her and son) Now son even feels somewhat responsible.
Ex has not called at all, it is now Saturday. I do know he did end up taking the baby back to his wife and she claims they are filing for divorce, though I have a feeling she will play the victim role for a while, she already sounded defeated by him and had back tracked on her decision to file the assault charges.
I emailed my attorney - we had a court date for June 22nd, so we are going to ask for a new trial at that time.
In the meantime she said I need to file for supervised visits until he undergoes a physcological evaluation.
Sorry - now for the questions....
1. Legally what good does an evaluation do? I personally think he is nutso, but I'm not sure an evaluation is going to find anything medical that would change his visits with his son. He makes very very poor choices but that doesn't make him insane.
2. We live 250 miles from each other, I didn't even think to ask how we would go about doing supervised visits? I will ask my attorney next week, but am hoping someone may know of a situation like this and could advise?
3. Any legal or even personal advice would help.....I'm at a loss. Dad and son have had a VERY difficult time building a relationship because dad is just not a very nice person and attacks me constantly. He has now started attacking son and son is terrified of going back. He was SO concerned about his half-brother and his step-mother. If this is going to be a long drawn out battle with nothing happening in the end except re-instating his normal visits, I would like to know what to do to facilitate a proper relationship between father and son. I don't know if this is the right decision to charge forward with supervised visits and evaluations etc....but i don't know how to protect son either....I CANNOT send my son back to such an unstable environment.
