What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? WI
I have full custody and placement of my son. His mother has supervised visits.
We have a trial coming up in a few months. We had to announce our witnesses yesterday. My attorney said he will be calling me, my wife, my son's therapist, and the family court counselor who wrote the recommendation after the home study.
My son's mother is calling her two sisters, her mother, her mother's husband, her father, and her father's wife.
All of her witnesses are her family members, and based on past experience they have absolutely NO qualms about lying under oath. She's going to turn this thing into a circus.
My question is: these people, as her family members, are really only character witnesses right? I mean, I could parade my whole family through the courtroom to say wonderful things about me and scandalous things about her, but really how much weight is given to any of that?
On the other hand, should I have one or two family members as character witnesses for myself to "balance" things out? And no, I'm not saying I'm going to have them get up there and lie for me, they would purely be character witnesses. My son's mother's family has concocted stories about me breaking down their doors, punching their cars, and beating them up. There is no evidence of any of it, as none of it ever happened, but I don't want the stories to taint the judges opinion of me. My family could testify that I am not and have never been a violent person and that I have always tried to get along with my son's mother for the sake of my son.
I have full custody and placement of my son. His mother has supervised visits.
We have a trial coming up in a few months. We had to announce our witnesses yesterday. My attorney said he will be calling me, my wife, my son's therapist, and the family court counselor who wrote the recommendation after the home study.
My son's mother is calling her two sisters, her mother, her mother's husband, her father, and her father's wife.
All of her witnesses are her family members, and based on past experience they have absolutely NO qualms about lying under oath. She's going to turn this thing into a circus.
My question is: these people, as her family members, are really only character witnesses right? I mean, I could parade my whole family through the courtroom to say wonderful things about me and scandalous things about her, but really how much weight is given to any of that?
On the other hand, should I have one or two family members as character witnesses for myself to "balance" things out? And no, I'm not saying I'm going to have them get up there and lie for me, they would purely be character witnesses. My son's mother's family has concocted stories about me breaking down their doors, punching their cars, and beating them up. There is no evidence of any of it, as none of it ever happened, but I don't want the stories to taint the judges opinion of me. My family could testify that I am not and have never been a violent person and that I have always tried to get along with my son's mother for the sake of my son.