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The bullshit never ends. Need feedback…again :(

msg1986's picture

So when Dh took Bm to court (for VERY standard requests which will end up costing us roughly 6 thousand dollars because BM refused to agree to anything outside of court) he requested to pick up Ss every Friday at 5pm from Bm's home and for Bm to pick Ss up from our home every Sunday at 5pm. Well Bm had some bullshit story about how her fiancé had to work every other weekend from 6am to 6pm thus she just couuuulllllddddnn'tttt do any of the exchanges. Well the Judge said tough luck, you need to figure something out because she needed to do half the transportation. So she pushed a little and ended up asking the judge if she and Dh could change it to 4oclock every drop off/pick up to accommodate her fiancé and instead of Dh picking Ss up-Bm would drop Ss off every friday at 4 at our house and Dh would drop Ss off at 4 on Sundays at her house. WELLLL yesterday when Ss arrived Bm walked him to the door and told Dh that her Dh's schedule is changing so and she said she can't drop Ss off at 4 anymore because they only have 1 car…HER car, mind you, and asked Dh to work with her. Well this chick is asking to drop ss off at like 8pm on Fridays. Dh told her "I don't think I can do that" and Bm responded "well it's either that or I can't bring him" and Dh looked at her said "Um, you HAVE to bring, that's what in the court order" he said she seemed to get nervous and was like "oh well.. I mean.. I know, i have to bring him, I Just don't want to have to ask my mom for help" She then started trying to say the court order didn't have a specified time and Dh corrected and "Yes Bm, the time in the court is 4" and then she started saying that judge said that they need to work together and that he has to agree. Dh didn't want to argue with her and so he kind of left it at that and didn't really give her answer.

What do you guys think of this? Dh isn't happy at all that she's wanting to change the drop off time from 4pm to 8pm. The kids go to bed at like 8:30 so she's heavily cutting into his time. I just don't understand why she can't figure it out and wake up and take her husband to work, I mean she doesn't work so what the fuck. There were times when she told Dh she couldn't take Ss back on a Sunday and demanded that we take Ss to school in their town almost an hour away. What did we do in order to avoid her threatening to withhold Ss for the next visitation? I woke my ass up at 6am and took that kid to school in the middle of winter with my newborn so that my husband could go to work. This is the same girl that when Dh asked if she could just please meet him at the mall that was 10 min from her house so we could avoid driving even further down the long dirt road to where she was living at the time-her response was "Yeah, give me 20 dollars and I'll do it" pssh.. and NOW she wants to him work with her AND take away from his visitation? I don't even know what to think. Dh says he doesn't want to change the drop off time but he doesn't know what will happen. What if he tells her no and she just drop Ss off at 8 anyway? Do we file a police report? It just pisses me off because that's why we went to court-for structure for consistency and what's going on now? This bitch is trying to alter things left and right in her favor. She didn't want to work with Dh before the court but now she wants him to work with her? What do we do? Is there really anything he can do to make sure she still drops him off at 4? What does Dh even do if she starts showing up at 8pm?

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msg1986's picture

Do you know if it's difficult to file a contempt charge? how do we prove she really is dropping him off late? Do you know if we have to get our lawyer involved. It's so stressful. We are already on a payment plan with the lawyer and it's aggravating to think about how much that will cost if we need to get her involved.

msg1986's picture

Okay! Thank you! I'll have Dh ask the lawyer this month when he goes to make a payment.

lol I guess you're right about that. Do you have any idea how they would handle this? I mean it would be different if she was asking to alter an hour but to 8pm? that's not cool… not at all. He'd pretty much be missing somewhat of a day with Ss.

This is all so frustrating. I mean I don't understand why she thinks we care what her schedule is or what transportation she has. When we have had issues in the past we figure them out. Dh never went to her begging her to help him out or anything. Ughh.

msg1986's picture

OH yeah she's very nervous about the CO… she seems very nervous in general. Before the CO she would get in Dh's face and scream and insult him or blow his phone up with nasty calls about how horrible of a father he was and ever since the CO was set she is very quiet and her hands tremble whenever we have to see her… like she gets visibly nervous. It's very odd.

msg1986's picture

Thank you Step for reaffirming what I already felt… I Just didn't know if we were being assholes.

msg1986's picture

Omg you're so right Tausha! In court the judge DID say that it would be in the best interest of Ss for them to work together in regards to co-parenting but I think she's misunderstand that. That doesn't mean whatever Bm says goes and if Dh give push back that he's not co-parenting-it means he cannot do it. The very first day that Bm had to drop SS off at our home she text Dh a nasty text message about he "Better" be on time (lol I don't know how he could be late to his own home but whatever) because she would not be waiting for him and she would withhold Ss . SO right off the bat she started trying to throw her weight around but now suddenly she wants Dh's sympathy and for him to work around her husbands schedule. Um no, sorry lady. We went thru absolute HELL for nearly 4 years because of her immature ass and now that there is a CO, she all of a sudden wants to "work" together. You're so correct when it's not our Dh's problem. She should have thought about that when she went out and fucked some other dude right after giving birth to Ss. kwim?

You're correct, maybe he should suggest that she reimburse him the 6k and then he'll work with her, otherwise she will need tp put on her big girl panties and figure it out. I almost feel like a bitch for saying that BUT she only has herself to blame for what's going on now. When she and her now husband got together they had not 1 but 3 cars but they sold 2 of them for God knows why and now they are working off of her car. Not our problem. I just wonder what would happen if he has to keep filing contempt charges?

ChiefGrownup's picture

A. BM, I'm very sorry about your transportation issues. SS will stay at our house until you find some transportation to fulfill your obligations as a parent. The good news is you'll have so much free time to solve this problem. Child Support can resume when you are able to pick him up per the CO and ss resumes visiting your house.

B. BTW, BM, that 6k you made us spend could have bought a used car. Or started a dang good college fund. Or braces. Maybe think about where the money could have gone and how many problems it could solve before you think about being obstinate again.

WTF...REALLY's picture

Like everyone is saying. You NEED to enforce the CO. If you don't, then you just taught BM she can do anything she wants, even with a CO in place.

Just stick to it. You can file contempt without a lawyer. Hubby went to court two times against BM with no lawyer. All the paper are on the internet.

DH teachers her how to treat him....so...what is he going to teach her?

Maxwell09's picture

We had this problem. BM wanted 6pm but then came back later saying she would be late because she works too far away go make it. Well if she would have agreed to Sunday as dropoff/pickup in the Summer work wouldn't be a problem for anyone. But of course DH can't hold out and argue with her for too long so he eventually gives in. He gave in to this one thing and that means changing things here and there to accommodate everyone. It's madness and all about her having control of the situation. I would say just give in because it's not worth a court battle and she probably won't let it go or agree to anything. Save yourself the time and headache my husband didn't save us from and just agree. If anything we hope it shows that we accomadate her but she never compromises ever. Plus a year from now looking back you'll know it wasn't really a hill to die on.

Flying.Purple.Step.Monster's picture

^^^^ This... stay strong and enforce the court order. Make her pay the attorney fees if you have to bring her back to court. The time for 'playing nice' ended when he had to spend 6K for something so simple!

oneoffour's picture

So she asked for the change in time in court. And now she wants to change it again to suit her schedule?

Well you tried to work with her the first time. So tell her if she feels so strongly then she needs to take this back to court herself. And you will ask for your attorney fees to be paid by her. She is getting exactly what she asked for. And she still isn't happy.

I.hate.cats's picture

Ugh,I seriously hate BMs like this. You can file contempt here on your own as well but it takes 3-4 MONTHS to get in front of a judge for anything, which makes it all but useless because you're forced to suffer in the meantime when these CUN(ext)T(uesdays) refuse to be reasonable.

misSTEP's picture

Tell her that if she wants the CO changed, she will have to file with the courts. Until then, 4 p.m. stands. Then document in whatever way the lawyer says is best and take her to court for contempt after a few times.