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[quote=Anonymous]My cousin has a DS13 with ExBF. They broke up during the pregnancy. They have shared 50/50 custody from the beginning. A few years ago he got a girlfriend who is a successful attorney with a lot of $$$. ExBF and attorney GF decided they should have full custody of DS13. My cousin went through 18 months of court and the judge finally dismissed the case and said my cousin is a fine parent and kept the arrangement at 50/50.

The last custody battle bankrupted my cousin and strained her current marriage which is still salvageable. However, now the ExBF and his attorney GF are doing this again!

DS13 tells my cousin that his dad and the GF fight and call the police on each other. Once, attorney GF was kicking in the bedroom door during a fight and his dad called the police. Cousin was getting this documented with the child psychologist but Attorney GF got the psychologist's license revoked over the way she billed services.

ExBF and Attorney GF have managed to thwart every attempt my cousin as made to get her DS to a psychologist through the usual means. So my cousin told the school principal she needed a psychologist for DS. The principal arranged for a state psychologist to meet the family at the school. ExBF let my cousin think he would be at the meeting. But at the appointed time, he refused to come inside the school. He sat outside in his car and insisted by text messages that DS be dismissed from the meeting. Then he sent a teacher into interrupt the meeting to say he was calling the police if his son did not leave school and get in his car. My cousin's attorney later told her she should have let him call the police. Cousin regrets caving but she is intimidated. At the time she was afraid of having the police show up. She now knows there's nothing the police could have charged her with.

DS13 doesn't want to go over to his father's home anymore but he doesn't have a choice. There is a new judge in this second custody battle. My cousin's attorney told her that he's not likely to give DS13's personal preference on the matter much weight.

There's all kinds of psychological abuse going on here. Her DS13 is miserable. His father drug tests him without cause. Imposes severe restrictions on his activities and diet. His father lies to judge that my cousin has said and done things that she is not. He has lied that she is diagnosed with a specific mental illness that she does not have. They know she cannot match their income for legal fees.

I told my cousin she should document everything and take it to another attorney to see if she has a cause to sue ExBF and GF for emotional distress, defamation, or bring perjury charges against either of these miserable people?

There has to be a way. What type of evidence should my cousin gather/document? How should she go about finding an attorney for this kind of thing? This is extreme and very damaging to my cousin and her DS13.[/quote]

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