My dad easily got 50/50 custody in the late 80s. You want us to believe in "biased courts" in 2003? You're deluded. |
Of course she does cause the other option is that her husband didn’t want his own children. She needs to believe this fantasy to justify being with such a horrible person. |
Does that make you feel better? Is that how you justified it your kids? When you denied them a relationship with their father so you could collect your child support check |
I’m not divorced, never received an alimony check… never abandoned my children like your H did. |
Girl what are you talking about. I’m a lawyer. Here’s my experience. Moms: do anything, move heaven and earth to be with their kids; find the money for a lawyer, move into a weird living situation to stay close to them and keep them in their school/minimize disruption. Dads: give up before there’s even a fight, claim they can’t take the kids when they have work (meanwhile working moms figure it out), miss court dates, blow off visitations. Not all dads! But any dad who doesn’t have 50/50 custody, he didn’t do the very bare minimum to get it. I’ve seen dads get custody with DUIs, history of DV, just out of drug rehab… If they’re willing to go through the motions (often with their mom as puppeteer making sure they make their court dates) they get it. And this is from 2000 on. If your husband didn’t get custody, he didn’t try. Period. |
Why are you so hostile and nasty then? No one's husband's abandoned the kids if they were refused contact by the mother? Maybe your Dad abandoned you or maybe your mom refused contact. Either way, time for you to move on. |
Maybe Dad's give up because they get lousy attorneys like you who don't fight for them and they know it's a losing cause. Ever think you are the problem? Or, maybe attorney's like you will not fight for basics like Dad getting his visitation - that was our experience after calling many attorneys. Very few would fight for visitation. None would file contempt. |
There’s no such thing as refuse contact by the mother. Dads who care go to court and get custody. I’m sick of man we find 50-50. It’s too much work, and then blame lives for keeping their children from them.. you fell for it hook line and sinker though |
This sounds 100% made up. I don't know a single lawyer, even the most bottom barrel quality, who would have refused to fight for visitation and file for contempt if it were justified. But besides that, since family lawyers always charge for consultations, I find it not credible that you paid "many attorneys" consultation fees then walked away from the money, "many" times, because they wouldn't do what their client wanted, when what the client wanted was perfectly ethical and even routine. |
Courts don’t change custody like that. You go to court, judge tells the other parent to follow the order, they don’t, go back to court and same thing. You sound like a very unhappy person. |
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OP, this thread has turned into a dumpster fire and many of the comments seem to be from people not in your position. I have BTDT (I posted way earlier in the thread). You can be happy if you want to be. Your family is changing, whether you want it to or not. You can embrace that change and be part of your new family or not. It’s up to you. I have really enjoyed having my “baby” brother in my life. My advice is for now, be positive and see how things go. If the new dynamic becomes a problem for you, you can step away for a while.
And as to inheritance, I am not expecting anything from my dad. I will inherit from my mom and i have a full time job (thanks to my parents paying for my college) and can support myself. My father is more to me than an inheritance. |
NP here. He might have been an absent father to his first set of kids and he's an involved father to the second wife's kids. Biologically, a man's bond with his children is very much influenced by the relationship with the mom. We were in a very different situation (my dad was a widower with two kids when he married my mom) and he's much more involved with us, even as adults. |
I'm sorry. Sending hugs as that has to be incredibly difficult. I would not be pleased, that's for sure. |