Fell4ItAgain
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What does it take to protect a child from Nparent?
Here's my story in a nutshell. Xndil is trying to get custody of 5 year old daughter. Granddaughter has lived in my home with both parents since she is 4 months old. Mother (N) left in January after she had meltdown from being caught stealing from her employer. She sees child at her sister's home on weekends.
In the last 10 months, she has started working as a stripper, using the child's name as her "stage" name, married a soldier whom she knew for 4 weeks, found a boyfriend 2 days after the soldier deployed to Iraq, has slept with new bf in same bed as with child, has been caught shoplifting with child in tow, leaves child with relatives so she can work while she has child on weekends, defied court orders by bringing child to her new apartment. The court also has letters from her brother and sister stating that my son should have custody of the child because she (mother) is unfit.
Now she wants the child Mo-Fr so she can get child support and have her weekends free. The case finally went to court on Friday, after she had it delayed 3 times...and the judge said he needed extra time to decide.
WTH does it take to see this child should not be in the custody of her mother, unsupervised? I will pop a vessel if the judge rules in her favor.
Can anyone shed some light on this???
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Oct/25/2009, 8:32 am
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Re: What does it take to protect a child from Nparent?
Oh, my gosh--Thank goodness that little girl has you and her dad in her life.
I can only imagine how frustrated and upset you are. But I would try to take the judge's delay as good news. The courts are very reticent to take a child away from its mother. So it could be that the judge just wants to make absolute certain that the mother won't have a leg to stand on if she tries to appeal his ruling.
Waiting is so hard, but hang in there--Best wishes.
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Oct/25/2009, 9:50 am
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Re: What does it take to protect a child from Nparent?
Thank you...yes, I am trying to take the delay as positive, it's just frustrating that something so concrete (all backed up with evidence) could be in question. My hope though, is that the judge will issue even a harsher ruling for the mother than we are asking for!
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Oct/25/2009, 9:00 pm
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