EXs and court threats.
HIs Ex is at it again. Telling my SD that she saving money to get the best lawyer she can get to get primary residential back of her. Quick back story. 2019 she didnt win primary residental back of her son. So, in 2020 she sent my SD to live with us on verbal agreement. After several threats of taking her dauhgter back, in 2022 my Husband filed to make it court orderd. The judge granted it. Its joint custody with father 75 and mother 25 So now that my SS turned 18 and moved to his moms. their mom is saying she wants her daughter back. Of course she has to have substanial change. She going to try to use a school incident to say my SD is not safe. My SD is 15 and we found out she was messaging a 18 year class mate at the time there was nothing inapropriate. She was told she not allowed to communicate with him unless its in their class they have togeather. She said ok. Not even month goes by and my husband found inapropiate messages and photos. My SD then said durning lunch time her the boy and other students were hanging in a class room. Her and this boy moved desk close togeather and apperantly he put his hands down her pants and she told him to stop. My husband notified the police and also went to the school. A no contact order was placed and they switched her out of the class they shared. My husband did everything he could do. We talked to my SD and she declines going to cousalor or therapist so we made sure she know that door is always open. HIs exs imidate response was you need to send her home now that she will be safer going to school here. Shes in Montana were in Nevada. She will use this incident against my husband to paint him in a bad light. My SD has lived with us for the last 5 years and there has only been this one incident. She has good grades she is well taken care of. With only 2 years left of her child hood youd think her mom would rather save the money for a family trip shes been promising for 11 years now. Wh19 en she took my husband to court in 2019 that case took 1 year to finally go to trial. At this point i dont think it has anything to do with her daughter i think its revenge on my husband. According to my SS who lives with her now she claims she said she would take his dad back to court just to make him have to pay money. Its stressful to have to live this way because as soon as we get good on finances here she comes with the potential of going to court and wed have use all our saving. She will definatly open a can warms tho. She gave my SS weed gummies at 16 we fileda cps report but of course it was unsubstained but we can still use that in court. also video of My SS vaping under age and there mom bought it. Also texts from my SD that she was vaping as well. She breaks the custody agreement even by telling my SD she wants to take her dad to court. My SD said she heard her brother said their dads first name for the first time. We asked her why would he do that. SHe said her mom said its becasue how your dad handled the school incident. This is also her breaking the custody agreement because she not supposed to let anyone around her say things that could alter the childs perspective on the other parent. Her allowing my SS to call their father by his first name in front of SD is so disrespectful. My husband called my SS and confronted him. Apperantly hes was going off his moms story and she didnt give the full story of the school incident. Also he thinks my Husband should have went to the 18 year olds house and beat his A**. Therefore, he thinks mu Husband didnt handle this situation correctly. I swear two years cant come soon enough.
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First, she is saving for a pit bull attorney. So what?
Take them all off the table for her by scheduling and having an initial consultation with the top pit bulls in her area of residence. That takes the best off of the table and minimizes the chance that she will have top representation if, and it is a big if, she ever saves the money for a quality lawyer. Depending on the attorney, initial consultations may be free. Even it they are not, a couple of $Hundred per to take the quality of the table for her may be a good investment.
Start smacking her with contempt motions for violating the CO. No need for a lawyer to photocopy the CO, high light the parts she is in contempt regarding, get it notarized, then fill out the required documents and file the contempt motion.
To minimize our legal costs we kept an absolute pit bull on retainer and would have short consultations with them to prepare our strategy and then would go to court pro se after that. We won. With an attorney representing us, and when using our pit bull as a guide and consulting legal expert and then representing ourselves.
Keep her on the defensive until the youngest ages out and you can get on with a BM free life. Sadly, this type rarely completely crawls and stays under their slime covered rock. The SpermClan in our blended family adventure certainly didn't until SS launched into his adult life and ended up writing them off for their never ending crap.
Develop your strategy, work that plan, and cut the opposition off at the knees early any time she crawls out from under her rock.
Keep in mind that SS-18 is now an adult and can be called to testify under oath about BM's crap. Whether he wants to testify or not.
Good luck.
Take care of you.
Step life is hard enough
With out this nonsense. BM is unfortunately crazy, and it's hard to fight craziness. BM most likely has no rules at her fun home. No bed time, no rules on internet, unlimited cell phone time. Then when the kid does something she doesn't like, she wants to give him back to BF,
Follow the CO, to the period. The kids are ageing out, becoming adults. And will have to make there own adult decisions. Unfortunately you are not the only one of us in this place in life. Hopefully things will get better. Vent on
My response to exes and court threats
"..... see you in court!!!" ... insert smiley face emoji and pictures of all the evidence I've collected on them dropping the ball as a parent over the years
FYI If she has to save money to hire the top attorney then most likely she cannot afford to maintain the top attorney and will lose steam quickly....you must also consult with or hire the top attorney to avoid having to pay any of her attorney fees.
I personally think the woman is calling a bluff because if you're going to sue someone you just sue them. The more abrupt and off guard the better. You don't scream out how you're saving money to sue.
If she is really serious about suing then by the time she's saved up you will have had plenty of time to plan a successful counter sue
.... see you in court... is absolutely the right move IOE.
Though it was not a master plan from the beginning, when SpermGrandHag filed a custody suit (forging the SpermIdiot's signature) my then single teen mom college student GF took out supplemental school loans and hired her own attorney. That set the tone for the next 16+ years. For that first legal battle SpermGrandHag held the income/money big stick but that shifted when DW and I married 5days before the custody hearing.
From then on we had and continued to grow the size of our financial big stick. When she so much as started saying the words "lawyer" or "court" , or twitched out of line with the CO, your mantra was our immediate response. "See you in court."
She learned to hate those words. "You always want to go to court!" No cognition that her banshee ranting raging manipulative crap would only stop when we smacked her in the face with a letter from our attorney, or some escalated legal communication.
People teach you how to treat them. Listen to them. Treat them accordingly.
The blended family tournament is a long game that is won by those more committed, more ruthless, and more informed than their opposition is. The winners usually are the ones with the advantage in legal knowledge, resources, and social tools to apply as weapons.
Of course if everyone is reasonable, there is no need for it to be contentious. Though rarely is it that both sides are reasonable.
So... game on.