DH and I met with an attorney this afternoon concerning the non-existant visitation that DH has had since the RO was put in place on March 18. After reviewing the RO and BM's original application for the emergency RO, it was clear to him that this was a "bully move" on BM's part to change the visitation schedule without having to set up an actual custody hearing (because she wouldn't have gotten far) and was done with "thin evidence". The attorney also made it known that it's clear from BM's application for the RO that this whole thing is because DH and I are back together ("SM has mistreated skids", etc). We were advised that this would have no merit in court, as BM had never called the police/CPS to report any mistreatment or abuse of skids while in our care.

Our attorney is confident that he will be able to have skids removed from the RO, but DH will still not be able to have contact with BM (who the heck wants to anyhow?). He believes that he will be able to have DH's unsupervised visitation restored as it has been since their divorce in '06, since taking the children out of a situation that they've known for so long and away from their dad is doing more harm than good at this point. And only for a small fee of $1,750 (note sarcasm!)!

DH's only worry at this point is that this will tick BM off and she will try to raise the CS. Here's hoping she's not that smart, although she did manipulate a judge into obtaining an RO, so who knows?